On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:37:27 -0700 (PDT), Novel <harri85274@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 28, 6:01 am, Audie Murphy's Ghost <takebackamer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <vqna14d0cuil0flnsv3p0t6j78998fk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Rob Jensen
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>> <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:35:08 -0400, Audie Murphy's Ghost
>> > <takebackamer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > >> 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.
>>
>> > I think that JWH is wrong and Beth and Mick *will* consummate their
>> > relationship -- and sooner rather than later. The show already
>> > skipped the obvious "when will Lois find out that Clark is really
>> > Supervampire" trope entirely by the third episode.
>>
>> > Similarly, the will theywon't they thing is entirely played out. We
>> > know they will, they know they will. So with that issue *and* the
>> > fate of the show being on the bubble, I'm kinda expecting them to
pull
>> > the trigger on Mick and Beth sleeping together *and* Mick turning
>> > Beth. If they do, then I figure that they might otherwise have held
>> > off until the end of the second season, but I think that they really
>> > are headed toward skipping ahead to the post-coital/post-honeymoon
>> > issues, conflicts and metaphors, which would really take it into very
>> > different territory than most, if not all, other vampire series have
>> > gone.
>>
>> This all makes a lot of sense to me. They may let Mick and Beth sleep
>> together before much longer, but I don't know if they'll have Mick (or
>> somebody else) turn Beth. That might be even worse than letting the
>> two of them go at it.
>>
>> > OTOH, I don't expect the show to go totally post-modern, either. No
>> > Moonlight(ing) for this show. Other than perhaps the occasional
>> > comedic episode done to break up the pacing, and even then, the
fourth
>> > wall would likely be Beth's cameraman at Buzzwire. (Jeez, I wish
>> > they'd make Kevin Weisman a regular!)
>>
>> I've wound up liking this show a lot more than I thought I might when I
>> first heard about it. The actors have brought it off, there's the
>> romance stuff and the super-powers stuff, and (most important) they've
>> avoided drawing out the more obvious payoffs. That part is why I think
>> you might be right about Mick and Beth becoming a couple. It's not the
>> obvious thing for the show to do, so early on.
>
>Well, i do like the show....BUT, if he doesn't remain a vampire than
>there is no show. Obviously, he is going to come in contact with evil
>characters of all sorts...humans he may be able to handle as another
>human, but when it comes to evil vampires...how does he cope?
Didn't see the first new episode back from strike-induced hiatus did
you? Well, (SPOILER NOT-WARNING), he had Jozef sire him when Beth and
a new detective guy were being held hostage (for later eating) by a
vamp plastic surgeon. Mick is a vamp again and as Beth points out at
the end of the episode, she's learned from Jozef that Vamps and humans
*can* have relationships and *can* have sex, so the only thing holding
Mick back from her is Mick.
Also, FTR, Mick is kinda scared because he "tends to bite" during sex.
The cases that Mick and Beth work on together are currently fun to
watch because Beth is clearly so into the new-ness of it and feels
like she's building some sort of connection with Mick that he won't
consciously start with her. Detective work as a metaphor for sex --
okay it's already closer to Moonlighting than I thought it was. But
cast-of-the-week-as-sublimated-sex clearly *also* can't last too long.
Hence, the next convention-bender is turning Beth and making it about
a romance between two heterosexual vamps.
Cut to the chase: Mick turns Beth (or Beth has to be turned by Jozef
or someone else close to Mick to save her). Does Mick resent Beth for
being turned, does Beth resent herself for having wanted to be turned
without really intellectually or emotionally understanding the
consequences. Does Beth miss food more than Mick does? Does a vamp
contingent come up whose goal is to change Beth back into a human
because of her blood type? Oh, yeah -- amd how would Beth being a
vamp change the dynamics of how she and Mick investigate cases?
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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