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serynHuh. I watched that creepy Lie to Me episode more than a month ago, the one where the college guy is a serial killer and also sleeping with his psych professor. ("Beat the Devil") I remember thinking I should look up who that was because for a guest actor, he was really good.
It's, ready?, Jason Dohring. He's Logan on Veronica Mars. And absolutely my favorite character there. He was the vampire entrepreneur on Moonlight, and probably could have saved the show if he'd been the focus (not the actor per se; that character was just way more interesting than the loser Mick). So at least I'm consistent.
I'd stopped to look up whether there was going to be more Doc Martin and to check whether Veronica's dad and the police guy on True Blood were the same guy--- they're not, just kinda similar balding men. I would have been hugely HUGELY impressed if they had been the same guy because the True Blood guy (the one who plays Andy Bellefleur) has such a thick accent and the Keith Mars guy sounds like a regular person. (I live in California; I'm completely entitled to think that California-set show sounds "normal".) Weirdly enough, Louisiana show guy is from California and the California show guy is from Toronto. So maybe I should still be impressed with the True Blood detective because he must have learned that rube-ish speechifying from somewhare.
Thinking about the True Blood series, I have 2 problems. 1) Supposedly the author of the books wants the treatment of vampires to reflect the treatment of gays. But you can choose to be a vampire, it's not something you're born into. Some people are forcibly converted, as we're shown, but it reflects something that happened either by choice or victimization. And we as a society definitely blame victims of rape for being in the wrong place or wrong crowd or wrong outfit, even if we're acknowledging that they didn't mean for the worst to happen. Generally we believe bad people deserve the bad things to happen to them and the corollary that if bad things happened, you must have pissed Jesus off. And 2) my second problem is that again they're making the guy who doesn't like being a vampire the center of the story. I get internal conflict making a good layering for books and all, but looking at the situation, aside from living in Louisiana (which sucks for everyone, fanged or no, even if they don't always recognize it) seems like being a vampire would be an improvement.
Someone really should write a story about supernatural creatures who are pleased about it. I guess that's kind of what the first Twilight book was. But most of these shows and books with vampires whinging about wanting to be human again are really annoying. It's like reading Superman's diary where he spends pages bitching that he has to wear ugly glasses and can't get contacts or Lasik. I'd be like, "Um, dude. Bitch much? Either tell everyone or don't, but don't whine that your life totally sucks when that's your only issue."
It's, ready?, Jason Dohring. He's Logan on Veronica Mars. And absolutely my favorite character there. He was the vampire entrepreneur on Moonlight, and probably could have saved the show if he'd been the focus (not the actor per se; that character was just way more interesting than the loser Mick). So at least I'm consistent.
I'd stopped to look up whether there was going to be more Doc Martin and to check whether Veronica's dad and the police guy on True Blood were the same guy--- they're not, just kinda similar balding men. I would have been hugely HUGELY impressed if they had been the same guy because the True Blood guy (the one who plays Andy Bellefleur) has such a thick accent and the Keith Mars guy sounds like a regular person. (I live in California; I'm completely entitled to think that California-set show sounds "normal".) Weirdly enough, Louisiana show guy is from California and the California show guy is from Toronto. So maybe I should still be impressed with the True Blood detective because he must have learned that rube-ish speechifying from somewhare.
Thinking about the True Blood series, I have 2 problems. 1) Supposedly the author of the books wants the treatment of vampires to reflect the treatment of gays. But you can choose to be a vampire, it's not something you're born into. Some people are forcibly converted, as we're shown, but it reflects something that happened either by choice or victimization. And we as a society definitely blame victims of rape for being in the wrong place or wrong crowd or wrong outfit, even if we're acknowledging that they didn't mean for the worst to happen. Generally we believe bad people deserve the bad things to happen to them and the corollary that if bad things happened, you must have pissed Jesus off. And 2) my second problem is that again they're making the guy who doesn't like being a vampire the center of the story. I get internal conflict making a good layering for books and all, but looking at the situation, aside from living in Louisiana (which sucks for everyone, fanged or no, even if they don't always recognize it) seems like being a vampire would be an improvement.
Someone really should write a story about supernatural creatures who are pleased about it. I guess that's kind of what the first Twilight book was. But most of these shows and books with vampires whinging about wanting to be human again are really annoying. It's like reading Superman's diary where he spends pages bitching that he has to wear ugly glasses and can't get contacts or Lasik. I'd be like, "Um, dude. Bitch much? Either tell everyone or don't, but don't whine that your life totally sucks when that's your only issue."
