# Moonlight - the dumbest tv show ever made? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888 "2007-09-29T01:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/1 "2007-09-29T01:53:00Z")
Okay, so I’m watching the pilot of Moonlight. It’s a show about a reluctant vampire who continued his job as a Private Investigator after he was bitten, and apparently only uses his powers to fly into people’s windows and surprise them, and to only work at night. He also gets his “food” from his buddy at a blood bank, who he refers to as his dealer…and he drinks the blood out of a glass. It also has Veronica Mar’s Logan Echolls as a 400 year old vampire who is the “boss” vampire of the city. I knew everybody said this show was going to suck (pun intended), but my god… and similar to how Buffy always had vampires making the Butthead face when they make their reveal, this show has their eyes losing their pigmentation. My vote for first show to get cancelled this season. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/2 "2007-09-29T02:02:19Z")
Nowhere near the dumbest show ever made. Not great but it didn’t suck. Nice shout out to VM, having the college named Hearst. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/3 "2007-09-29T02:05:06Z")
I’d rather have _Angel_ back on. ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/4 "2007-09-29T02:08:26Z")
[Already a thread about Moonlight on this forum](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438253) ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/5 "2007-09-29T04:07:45Z")
While it wasn’t brilliant, it wasn’t the worst TV show debuting this _season_ let alone ever. I only made it halfway through _Journeyman_, for instance, and have already taken it off my DVR. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/6 "2007-09-29T20:14:15Z")
I kinda liked it. It sorta had a NightStalker feel (the new one, not the original.) It wasn’t great, but I’ll give it another try. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/7 "2007-09-29T20:22:05Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Not great but it didn’t suck. [/QUOTE] Sounds like a major failing in a show about a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/8 "2007-09-29T20:36:06Z")
I watched a little, but it didn’t catch my interest. You have to work pretty hard to make vampires interesting to me in any way; if it weren’t for teenage girls, I guess the genre wouldn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/9 "2007-09-30T02:40:52Z")
Teenage vampire girls… **drool** What, she’s actually like 100. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/10 "2007-09-30T03:04:52Z")
It reminded me of _Forever Knight_, only the vampire in _Moonlight_ was much cuter. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/11 "2007-09-30T03:59:53Z")
You know, I’m getting really tired of how “in” vampires have been lately (by "lately, I mean in the past 10-15 years or so. Sure, there are some good examples of the genre- Buffy, Angel, Lost Boys- but for every good vampire story, there’s like fifty of 'em that bore me to tears. Have you taken a look at the sci-fi/horror section at your local bookstore lately? Do we really need that many bloodsucker books? Grrr. [SUB]ARGH![/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/12 "2007-09-30T15:25:22Z")
In order for the classics to be truly considered classics, don’t they need to be considered “influential”? Thus, all of the spin-off vampire shows are merely building the legacy of Buffy, as all of the crappy pulp fantasy build up the legacy of Lord of the Rings. … (well, think positive, you know :)) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/13 "2007-09-30T15:31:23Z")
Okay, am I the only one who got two or three posts into this thread before they fully realized that we weren’t talking about _Moonlighting_? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/14 "2007-09-30T22:08:54Z")
Well, it follows the **breast whisperer** and fills the slot once held by **Close to home** which was almost as interesting as watching your dog sleep. Combine that with the fact that it leads **Numb3rs** , a show were Santa’s head elf catches criminals with his pocket calculator, and I think it can last pretty long in its place. ---
**Author:** ![XaMcQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@XaMcQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XaMcQ)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/15 "2007-10-01T00:07:23Z")
The worst show _ever?_ Were you around in the 70’s? Do you know what we used to suffer through? It was incredible. Awful stuff. Moonlight is just a bit mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonlight-the-dumbest-tv-show-ever-made/420888/16 "2007-10-02T07:18:57Z")
I thought they made a vampire crimefighting show…it was called Forever Knight.