shakatany | Moonlight Still Sucks

Saw the second episode of "Moonlight" and I'm still not impressed. I discovered that one reason might be that I think Alex O'Loughlin's voice is sort of wimpy. I find that an actor's voice is often a reason that I like or dislike a character. I never liked Magnum P.I. as I thought Tom Selleck's voice had a whiny, irritating tone to it and I have adored characters like Michael Coldsmith Briggs III ("Airwolf"), Neroon ("Babylon 5") and Spike ("BtVS") partly because Alex Cord, John Vickery and James Marsters used their voices so effectively. It's said Vickery has "a voice that could melt the underwear off a cloistered nun at 50 paces" and I believe it.

Now in addition to it being a lousy show I might have to boycott it as Warner Brothers' president of production has announced that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead" due to the poor box office returns of "The Invasion" and "The Brave One", neither of which were really womens' movies but simply a casting trick having actresses in the roles originated by men like Kevin McCarthy and Charles Bronson. If this boycott comes to pass I may also have to stop watching "Without a Trace", which I'm only watching it while James Marsters is on it, and "Supernatural", which I watch because so many on my flist like it (so I won't be too traumatized if I decide to boycott WB). Once upon a time true women's movies were the big box-office earners for the studios. It really seems like things are going from bad to worse for women :(

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I like Moonlight its kind of one of those things I like to watch because while its on I can make fun of some of its aspects. I like to have one thing or so to watch that is not a die hard fandom and I don't care if I miss an episode or 2. Moonlight is that for me this season and last season it was csi new york which I have not watched one episode of yet this season and probably won't as I have found my new folly.

boycotting the wb probably won't fix the problem with its broadcasting issues but if it makes you feel better I say go for it.

You really don't like supernatural???? Hum...

I have noticed that you tend to be more of a space adventure scifi person rather than a traditional tv show person. I love Scifi sometimes and it really depends for me what it is. IM not a big space adventure scifi person I like more things like twilight zone, ray bradbury theater, the dark side, btvs, dark shadows, and ghost whisperer those kinds of science fiction. I never understood the star gate tv show enthusiasts as I loved the movie but the show never appealed to me. I did love star trek and next generation but couldn't get into any other of the sub treks accept for enterprise. I did love enterprise. I never cared for any of the Star trek movies except first contact but I was always a big borg fan and data fan.

Oh well enough about me... LOL

Dol

I probably won't boycott the WB as the movie division is separate from the TV division but it makes me so mad that the guy considers "The Brave One" and "The Invasion" to be women's movies and that the reason they didn't take in the big bucks was simply that they had women as the leads, not that they were lousy movies and would have been so even with males as the leads.

When I was a kid there were all these male buddy buddy TV series with no women regulars. Women were there usually for one ep for the hero to fall in love with and often die tragically at the end. I mean all of Ben Cartwright's wives died as did Little Joe's, Captain Kirk lost Edith Keeler and Miramanee and there were countless other shows in the same vein. These shows made me, as a female, feel left out and that's how "Supernatural" makes me feel - all the women are unimportant. Supposedly they're adding a new female character named Ruby (she of the demon-killing knife) and so I'll watch and see how they'll make use of her. My other problem is that I've been watching Jensen Ackles since "Days of Our Lives" and he's almost too pretty.

I love science fiction but here's so little good science fiction on TV - most of the stuff on the SciFi channel is drek. Aside from anthology series the only shows I've truly loved have been "Doctor Who", the original "Star Trek", "Blake's 7", "Alien Nation" and Babylon 5". The rest can vanish into oblivion as far as I'm concerned and unless they have vampires I'm not very keen on fantasy either. I'm picky, picky, picky (to quote the late Billy deWolfe)*g*

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Moonlight Still Sucks

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