Definitely a Rip Off...

Spoiler and a mild rant below the fold. This Friday's Moonlight had something that really had to have been ripped straight from Forever Knight. It's too distinctive not to have been.


Coraline, Mick's former vamp wife, comes back and somehow she's become human. Of course, it took the entire episode to be certain of this. I actually figured that Coraline had found a human ringer and deliberately set things up so Mick would meet her, but, no, the human is, in fact, Coraline.

There's only one other place where I've seen a vampire suddenly return to humanity, and that was in one of Fred Saberhagen's books (I forget which one). A newly turned vampire desperately needs to get into a place where she hasn't been invited, and by sheer force of will, manages to turn herself back human so that she can. In Forever Knight, Janet fell in love with a human, and loved him deeply enough to turn herself human for him (completely out of keeping with Janet's character, btw).

While the plot device was borrowed, they're using it in a novel way. Coraline brought Mick over against his will, and he never forgave her for it. In point of fact, he tried to burn her alive and thought he'd succeeded. So now she's back, and human, and so far just playing with him. It's an interesting use of the device, but it still bugs me to see it lifted wholesale. *shrugs*