Re: 1st Season Moonlight - Fated to Pretend - 5 star poll - SPOILERS

Audie Murphy's Ghost wrote:
> In article <Lv-dnUB1tIpWu4jVnZ2dnUVZ_oudnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, jewahe
> <j.hanvey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps Josef is asking for forgiveness because he knows that Mick sees

>> vampirism as a curse, and he is responsible for bringing the curse
back.
> 
> Maybe, but it seemed to me more like Josef was finally admitting that
> vampirism *was* a curse, that Mick was right, and that Josef knew it.

Yes, I thought Josef knew how Mick felt about it, and though 
regrettable, it was a necessary action.

>> I also think that TPTB went out of their way to film the scene in as 
>> clinical a way as possible, specifically to downplay any homoeroticism.

>> This show is playing mostly to women, and they certainly aren't going
to 
>> allow their main male players to be gay or bi-sexual.

Oh I dunno... you'd be surprised at the number of women who might not be 
turned off by it....

> I agree that the homoeroticism was downplayed, but it was there.  I
> thought it was at the right level for two characters who (presumably)
> have no sexual history between them.
> 
> The earlier episode where Beth offers her blood to Mick in that desert
> shack by baring her neck to him was one of the sexiest things I've ever
> seen on TV.  Heteroeroticism, I guess you'd call it.

Ohhhhh yeah.
> 
>> As it stands, Beth and Mick will never consummate their relationship.
> 
> You're probably right about that. and I hope you are.  Moonlight should
> not become Moonlighting.