G was kind enough to watch the two-part pilot to "Forever Knight" with me last night, even though he thought it was slow and boring.
The premise is a lot like "Angel" (and a number of novels), which it of course predates: vampire detective seeks redemption and his humanity. "Angel" is much smarter, slicker, sexier, wittier, and all things better. But I was still (unlike G) interested, if only academically.
The one FK mythology aspect that really bothered me was that if you were bitten by a vampire you (a) might become one or (b) you might die. It seemed a little too much of a wild card. Maybe it had to do with how much blood was taken, but that wasn't clear either. It should take more of a ritual than that.
Werewolves, sure. If a werewolf bites someone, that's one valid mythology tact for turning someone. But werewolves don't exist by biting people.
Vampires do. There would be way too many vampire running/flying (they flew!) around.
Also, the vampires-can't-fall-in-love thing seemed like a gratuitous conflict tossed in to generate UST. I felt the same way I did about it in Superman II. Why not?
In other news, yesterday, I bought devastatingly goddess-like, dangling pink earrings from Emeralds and had a lovely lunch with A on the breezeway at ZTejas.
