SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E4: Fever

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Welcome back, Snowflakes! I actually remember this episode a little, so I’m looking forward to this one. As I recall, it is very silly, and of course includes the must-have trope for all vampire television ever: The Vampire Drinks From The Human and there are CONSEQUENCES. Let’s get started!

We open on a tight closeup of Mick’s face, eyes yellow, head all sweaty. The camera is doing this weird pulsating thing that makes it difficult to watch if your eyes or brain are weird (I have both!), and we get Mick’s signature useless voiceover about drinking blood: “What if the one thing you needed to survive is the one thing that would make life unbearable?”

“I’d do it so much better.” We know, Meredith. We know.

Obviously, he bites Beth, and then we’re going to work back to this moment, I assume. Though somehow next thing Beth is gone and there’s just Mick, in a bathtub full of water and plastic ice cubes (like, super-obviously plastic, no one was caring on set that day), doing the Record-Scratch, “I bet you’re wondering” trope. He bets we’re wondering how he found himself “near death in no-star motel hell”. I mean, I read the summary on the DVD box, so I’m not really, but I know that’s how the meme has to go, so continue.

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SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E04: Blackwing: WTF Edition

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It’s snowing, Snowflakes. I mean, I know it’s snowing in a lot of places, and yes, it snows in Denver, but it’s been snowing like every other day and it hasn’t gotten warm and nothing’s melting. Blech. I need my 50-degree days between snows, okay? I’m used to them!

Anyway. Recaps don’t take snow days – and neither does MiniWinters’s school! – so let’s get to it!

An old man – I want to say Native American, but I believe in Canada it’s First Nations? – is performing a ritual, with chanting and smoke. There seems to be a vision going on? of two First Nations people meeting in the woods, a young man and a young woman. The woman calls the man “Grandfather”, and he ends up dead, just as the old dude does, and this wakes the woman in the vision from the vision? Or it was a dream? Anyway, dude’s dead, and granddaughter is crying in bed. Continue reading