My Sweet Alex O'Loughlin

Moonlight is a beautiful and unique show, but according to an article posted on TV Overmindn "It was ahead of its time"

CBS was "out there first with vampires", but they were the first which cancelled a vampire's show...

... Vampires didn't really hit it big until late 2008, with the premiere of True Blood and the release of the Twilight film. Moonlight ended its run in May 2008, barely missing the craze that would later make The Vampire Diaries a hit.

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... In fact, they've been looking to see what they can do to fix their mistake — and that means talking to the cast.

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...CBS wants to keep O'Laughlin on the network, and bringing back Moonlight is definitely a possibility on that agenda. “We love [Alex] and want him to stay around for a long time,” Tassler confirmed.

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But is the Moonlight comeback a possibility? Possibly. Tassler stated that Moonlight's executive producer Joel Silver has discussed a potential return of the series with her, "but we talk about a lot of things," Tassler told Fancast. And even if the decision is made to bring back Moonlight, it wouldn't be immediate. "We’re about to pick up all of our [2010-11 season] pilots,” Tassler stressed, insinuating that Moonlight wouldn't be back before the end of 2010.

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Of course, the big question that remains from that is: will that be too late? This vampire craze — some might call it a fad — has already lasted a year and a half, but how much staying power does it have? Will we be looking at a possible vampire recession before Moonlight has a chance to regain its footing — or even come back at all?

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Moonlight is a beautiful and unique show, but according to an article posted on TV Overmindn "It was ahead of its time"

CBS was "out there first with vampires", but they were the first which cancelled a vampire's show...

... Vampires didn't really hit it big until late 2008, with the premiere of True Blood and the release of the Twilight film. Moonlight ended its run in May 2008, barely missing the craze that would later make The Vampire Diaries a hit.

...

... In fact, they've been looking to see what they can do to fix their mistake — and that means talking to the cast.

...

...CBS wants to keep O'Laughlin on the network, and bringing back Moonlight is definitely a possibility on that agenda. “We love [Alex] and want him to stay around for a long time,” Tassler confirmed.

...

But is the Moonlight comeback a possibility? Possibly. Tassler stated that Moonlight's executive producer Joel Silver has discussed a potential return of the series with her, "but we talk about a lot of things," Tassler told Fancast. And even if the decision is made to bring back Moonlight, it wouldn't be immediate. "We’re about to pick up all of our [2010-11 season] pilots,” Tassler stressed, insinuating that Moonlight wouldn't be back before the end of 2010.

...

Of course, the big question that remains from that is: will that be too late? This vampire craze — some might call it a fad — has already lasted a year and a half, but how much staying power does it have? Will we be looking at a possible vampire recession before Moonlight has a chance to regain its footing — or even come back at all?

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Here are Alex O'Loughlin's comments on the last episodes of my beloved Moonlight

Episode 13

“Fated to Pretend”

Written by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Worksman

Directed by David Barrett

Mick is enjoying the idea of being human again, but when Beth is threatened by the killer of her BuzzWire boss Maureen, he feels he has no choice but to ask Josef to turn him back into a vampire so that he can rescue her.

“I remember reading that scene with Mick and Josef in the loft when Mick is going off to be the hero, and Josef slaps him around a bit and says, ‘You’re out of your mind,’ and Mick realizes what he has to do,”says O’Loughlin. “So he reluctantly asks Josef to turn him back. I thought it came out great and I thought it was an evocative scene.That’s one of the things I’m intrigued by about these creatures –there’s such ambiguity to them, which this scene played in to sexually.”

Episode 14

“Click”

Written by Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl

Directed by Scott Lautanen

Whena member of the paparazzi takes photos that could expose the truth about Mick, Beth does the unthinkable: she goes to Josef to get him to take care of the “situation,” creating a pact between them and that Mick knows nothing about. Meanwhile, Mick and Beth decide to start pursuing a romantic relationship.

“What I like about the episode is the fact that it showed the risk that Mick faces on a daily basis in terms of possible exposure,”O’Loughlin says. “Between this paparazzi guy and the fact that D.A.Talbot has a file on Mick, you start to explore what could happen if this part of the lives of these creatures were exposed public. And with Beth going to Josef – wow! Knowing what her request will mean for this photographer shows a bit of ruthlessness on her part, but also the depth of her feelings for Mick.”

Episode 15

“What’s Left Behind”

Written by Jill Blotegovel

Directed by Chris Fisher

Flashbacks illuminate Mick’s past when the rescue of a kidnapped youth suggests that the boy may be the grandson of a woman Mick had had an affair with back during World War II. For Beth, life is changing as she quits BuzzWire and is offered a position of “civilian investigator” for the DA’s office.

“The subject matter in this episode is pretty great, and there’s a lot of potential for storytelling dealing with Mick’s past,” notes O’Loughlin. “Think about it: you’re looking at this guy who looks likehe’s twice as old as Mick is, but could be his son. I felt like this was the strongest of the four that we did when we came back from the strike. I enjoyed playing this different version of Mick and this different side of him. Sometimes you wonder if this guy has the capacity to feel anything above and beyond what we’ve seen, and I kind of wanted to look a little deeper. Essentially he was faced with the things he wants most: his humanity back, his mortality and the chance to grow old and die. Which is a strange thing to want, because it goes against what we as humans think we want. We want to stay young. But he faces that in this one, and he has the hope that may be his bloodline is carrying on. That was really fun to play. There was no shortage of drama or stakes in that episode.”

Episode 16

“Sonata”

Written by Ethan Erwin

Directed by Fred Toye

In the series finale, an exploration of the vampire culture and vampire justice is explored when a female vampire threatens to expose every vampire in Los Angeles. Towards the end, Beth wants to call there lationship off with Mick, but he declares his love for her and the two of them kiss passionately as they embrace the future.

“It felt like we did some pretty cool stuff in this one,” says O’Loughlin. “It was great seeing the different vampires together and have us out on this mission. Some very nice performances in it.”

The standout moment for him, naturally, is the climax when Beth says they can’t be together – largely because of the codes governing the vampires — but he nonetheless comes back into her apartment and the two begin to kiss.

“He’s trying to keep the boundary there and the reality is that he can’t allow, despite what his heart says, this human girl to dictate the moral code of something that’s been around for thousands and thousands of years. So he will always have boundaries there; he is a vampire. But then there’s the thing that he’ll always love her, too.That’s always been the great quandary of that character. Then he leaves and what followed just came out of the moment. I was walking away from the apartment and I stopped outside the door and stood against the wall for a moment before going back inside. I wanted to continue that thread in the series, that feeling, that there is a wall between them that will always be there no matter what. But in that moment he decides he’s still gonna have a go at it. The love is too strong, he’s not going to walk away and he’s still going to try and make it work.”

Despite its premature cancellation, this final moment in Moonlight at least fulfilled the promise of the show’s premise, having these two characters from different worlds uniting.

Alex O’Loughlin’s Guide to Moonlight, Eps 13-16 - October 26, 2009 by RetroEd

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Episode 9

“Fleur de Lis”

Written by Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman

Directed by James Whitmore, Jr.

Mick ends up working with Morgan, the photographer who looks like Coraline, on a case, and as the two are drawn closer together he discovers that she is indeed his former love, somehow rendered human – a point made when, Beth, having discovered the truth on her own, shows up at Mick’s place and stakes her – unaware that the woman is no longer a vampire.

O’Loughlin admits that when he initially read the script he was a little skeptical over the fact that Mick apparently was accepting the fact that Morgan wasn’t Coraline. “I tried to find as many moments in the script where we can see he still believes she’s Coraline; that something wasn’t right,” he says. “I liked that tension that was all the way through the story. I like that it’s hardcore.

“And Beth staking Coraline! Incredible. There’s also a moment when Mick is looking at Coraline, and you can tell he’s feeling big love. He hates to admit it, but he wants her back so bad and, ding-dong, Beth is at the door and, oh my God, what a shit fight! She sticks that chair leg straight into that kid’s chest. It’s a pretty radical ending. The last 10 minutes of this episode are incredible, and where we leave it – Coraline in Mick’s arms and him screaming to Beth, ‘You idiot, she’s not a vampire!’”

Episode 10

“Sleeping Beauty”

Written by Trevor Munson & Ron Koslow

Directed by John Kretchmer

Josef is nearly the victim of an assassination attempt, which is tied to a human woman in a coma, the love of Josef’s life who went into that state when he tried to turn her into a vampire.

“An important episode for Mick,” observes O’Loughlin. “There’s the shot when Beth is in the cab and he just walks away, which pulls back to a wide shot. That isolation, in a sense, is the way he feels through a lot of this episode. Also, Josef has kept all of this from him. He’s supposed to be his best friend and his only real ally in life, and he’s been keeping this huge secret. Beth has gone back to Josh, because she’s gotten a sense of what her future could hold, and I think Mick is feeling more isolated than ever. Very strong episode.”

Episode 11

“Love Lasts Forever”

Written by Josh Pate

Directed by Paul Holahan

Josh asks Mick to protect Beth as he wages legal war against a powerful gang, which goes disastrously wrong as Josh is shot, dying in Beth’s arms and Mick refuses to save him by turning him into a vampire, fully aware that there are some things worse than death.

“This is a tough episode,” states the actor. “Wherever it comes from, he has affection for Joss. Mick sees death all the time. In fact, Mick participates in death often, but this death, when it’s as wrong as this is, does something to him. I mean, it’s the whole build up to everything that’s going on, when he’s had his hands in the stomach of this guy, trying to keep him alive. The aroma of blood, the need to feed breathing down on him, this wrongful death and loss of innocence. At the end of the episode, he weeps for the loss of innocence in this room, and essentially what he’s crying for is the loss of his own innocence, because he truly is a victim of circumstance. He doesn’t have a victim mentality, but he is a victim. I think it’s a metaphorical episode and the fact that we lost one of our leads was hard-hitting.”

Episode 12

“The Mortal Cure”

Written by Chip Johannessen

Directed by Eric Laneuville

Beth discovers that Josh was getting ready to propose to her. Meanwhile, Mick learns that Coraline is still alive but is a vampire again. She tells him about a cure and, in fact, administers it to Mick before she is whisked away by a powerful vampire, leaving a very human Mick behind.

Notes O’Loughlin, “Mick has been obsessed with a cure; the fact that there’s a way out. You know, there’s an important moment in episode seven when Josef says to Mick, ‘You’ve got to stop hating what you are. Accept it.’ And Mick doesn’t. Well, he does, but he lives in this controlled denial. He’s not a stereotypical vampire. He’s a reluctant vampire. In this episode he’s cured and he remembers how painful it is to be human. And there’s a gap between Mick and Beth, Coraline’s gone and we don’t know what’s going to happen to Mick. It was a pretty exciting place to leave us when the Writer’s Guild strike happened.”

Alex O’Loughlin’s Guide to Moonlight, Eps 9-12 - October 19, 2009 by RetroEd - Sci-Fi TV Zone

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I lmove the comments of Alex. They make me miss Moonlight a little more...

In this exclusive feature, SciFi TV Zone continues its episode guide to Moonlight told from the point of view of Alex O’Loughlin (vampire P.I. Mick St. John). And don’t forget to check out Alex’s Sunday night CBS series, Three Rivers.

Episode 5

“Arrested Development”

Written by Chip Johannessen

Directed by Michael Fields

Although Mick has been trying to avoid Beth since he fed on her, the two come together to stop a serial killer who’s actually a 200 year old vampire who looks like a teenager.

“Not my favorite,” O’Loughlin says matter of factly. “I felt like I could have cared about the kid more. I’m not sure if as the lead or the voice of the show I should be this honest, but there was just something missing. I’m not entirely sure why. It was more of a ‘vampire-of-the-week’ to me. People ask about this show being a purist of the genre, but I’m a purist of drama and the importance of drama has been burned into my frontal lobe. Drama is life with the boring bits cut out and I felt like that episode was a little pedestrian. It didn’t feel like an organic Mick/Beth storyline.”

Episode 6

“B.C.”

Written by Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl

Directed by Paul Holahan

An attempt to find a vampire that Josef has had an on-again/off-again relationship with for a century, leads Mick to the discovery of a group that sells vampire blood to humans for the incredible high it provides. At one point, Beth gets a taste of “V” and she goes through an incredible personality shift.

“I really liked the scene with Beth and Mick when she comes in and she’s all horny and wants him to do whatever she wants him to do,” he smiles. “I think it was a really obvious shift from the normal Beth to this, and I enjoyed watching Mick squirming around and his discomfort. It’s really clear how these two feel about each other, right? But it has to be unrequited, because nothing good can come of any other decision. I don’t think it’s a story that can be consummated. I think it’s a story about an unrequited love. It’s like Romeo and Juliet to me, so that integrity had to be maintained at all times.”

Episode 7

“The Ringer”

Written by Josh Pate

Directed by Chris Fisher

Mick is convinced that his vampire wife Coraline is back from the dead, but all indications are that she is someone completely different and that the woman (identifying herself as Morgan) is not a vampire. He seems to be bordering on madness in his efforts to prove his theory to Beth.

“This is where it starts to get interesting,” notes O’Loughlin. “Chris Fisher directed this episode and he created the time for me that I otherwise wouldn’t have had with other directors. He prioritizes around getting the best ouf the actors, not about his shots, the lighting or other things. I really like this one from beginning to end. I like the intensity. It’s the introduction of the next step of Moonlight, of the next big dramatic storyline shift. And we start to see the cracks in Mick St. John’s veneer. We start to see where his pain lies. Coraline’s the big love of his life. It’s different to Beth. Coraline’s the tempest, the tumultuous relationship. That’s the pain and the love all mashed into one. It hasn’t left him. He’s carried it for 60 years and it runs pretty deeply.”

Episode 8

“12:04 A.M.”

Written by Jill Blotevogel

Directed by Dennis Smith

Beth helps a kidnap victim escape from the clutches of a cult, the leader of which has been turned into a vampire. During the course of this case, Beth starts to relive her own kidnapping as a child and comes to discover that it was Mick who had rescued her back then.

“As strange as this sounds,” says O’Loughlin, “I think this episode needed a couple of more beats of violence. When you’re dealing with this extremely powerful creature and this guy is good at this, you think it’s going to be a big show down. But when it goes bang, bang, bang, it’s not a big showdown, it’s a medium-sized showdown. Which pulls the drama out of it a little bit. I’m a boy, I like to see things blow up, I like long fights. It wasn’t bad, but I felt that Mick and him, when they have their confrontation, it was a little lame.”

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Vampires still fascinate viewers and media...

"He was a tall, cadaverous old man with white hair and eyebrows so bushy they almost created a unibrow. His fingers and ears formed points; his palms were hairy. The breath, rank.

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Stoker's "Dracula" wasn't the first book about vampires — John Polidori's "The Vampyre" from 1819 is given the credit for that — yet Stoker's book remains the definitive vampire novel even as hundreds of similar books continue to be released. The hunger for vampire stories is so intense today that these new books are quickly spawning film and television adaptations.

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With each visual interpretation, the face of the vampire is changing. No longer does he look like evil incarnated, but instead can take on the form of the good-looking guy down the block.

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"Moonlight": This 2008 CBS series starred Alex O'Loughlin as the detective vampire with pouches of blood in the fridge who loved a pretty mortal (Sophia Myles). It lasted only a season, but has a nice cult following..."

Vampires uncloaked, from ‘Nosferatu’ to ‘Twilight’, by Toni Ruberto - October 10, 2009 - The Buffalo News

This really warms my heart: Moonlight is #1

MOONLIGHT

(CBS, 2007-08)

Number of Episodes: 16

CBS's Friday night vampire romp came just one year before the Twilight craze really sunk its fangs into America. Had Moonlight come just 12 months later, would viewers have devoured it? (And, subsequently, CBS, too?) No one can know for sure. But it's a pretty good bet it might still be around.

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Check out this great review of the First fourth episode of Moonlight with soulful comments of Alex O'Loughlin on each.

I bring there the whole article because I am not able to make a choice. All is beautiful in what I read!

Although Alex O’Loughlin has moved on to CBS’ Three Rivers, Moonlight, and his portrayal of vampire P.I. Mick St. John, is never far from his heart or the hearts of his fans. To this end, SciFi TV Zone is presenting a four part episode guide to Moonlight that features Alex’s comments on each of the 16 episodes making up the series. Look for parts two through four on Mondays for the next three weeks.

By Edward Gross

Moonlight should never have worked.

The critics hated it, dismissing the show with words like “anemic” and “derivative,” and deeming it nothing more than a genre stew consisting of such ingredients as Highlander (non-humans living among us in every day walks of life), Angel (vampire P.I. looking for personal salvation) and Beauty and the Beast (an impossible romance). Their cause wasn’t hurt by the fact that Moonlight’s original showrunner was Angel co-creator David Greenwalt, and its co-creator is Ron Koslow, who produced the Ron Perlman/Linda Hamilton live action Beauty and the Beast television series of the 1980s.

But the critics were wrong. The show deemed most likely to fail (and quickly) confounded everyone as it quickly began winning its Friday night at 9PM timeslot for CBS not only in the ratings, but in the even more important demographics as well. Just as importantly, it seemed to spontaneously give birth to the kind of cult fan base that most shows can only dream of having; a cult base that continues to thrive passionately despite the fact that the series only lasted a single season.

Alex O’Loughlin, who starred as vampire Mick St. John, was instantly embraced by the audience and remains one of the most popular members of the undead ever. The thrust of the series is the growing relationship between Mick and Internet reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles), despite the difficulties arising from their very different worlds.

For his part, O’Loughlin remains proud of what the show accomplished and what it represents. “I got to be a part of a story I really liked,” he says. “And I’ve always wanted to play a vampire since I was a kid, and that’s not something that will necessarily happen again in my life. It was just a great fit and a great experience. It was also a stressful experience. We were under budget, we were always fighting for everything we needed. We weren’t the golden child at all, we were the one that had to constantly present reasons not to be shut down.

“It was wonderful to fight for someting and keep it alive for longer than it otherwise would have been,” he continues. “It’s great to be a part of a success, even if it was for only a season. The thing is, we were able to tell some really important stories. It wasn’t just about these monstrous creatures and sexual romps. What we went for constantly is the big truth, for the human truth, the human story and that’s the reason we make films in the first place. We didn’t always hit it, but I feel that from time to time we did and that’s why we held on to the audience, because they sensed that truth.”

Episode 1

“No Such Things As Vampire”

Written by Trevor Munson & Ron Koslow

Directed by Rod Holcomb

Private eye Mick St. John and Internet reporter Beth Turner come together while investigating a murder that is the handiwork of a professor using vampire lore to seduce college students.

The episode was actually shot twice, its original pilot differing drastically from the final episode, particularly in the fact that with the exception of Alex O’Loughlin, the entire cast was changed.

“The rhythm, tonally, changed pretty dramatically,” says O’Loughlin. “You put new actors in and new stuff is going to happen. They also changed the age of the characters. For instance, Josef [Mick’s best friend, also a vampire] changed from 65 to 25, which is a dramatic shift. Plotwise, there were a bunch of ideas in the unaired pilot that we stretched across a couple of episodes.

“I think the final pilot episode felt compartmentalized,” he adds, “because we had to set our mythology up, to set up our rules. It couldn’t be 44 minutes of exposition and rule setting, so there had to be a story in there as well. But we had to set up this new myth of vampires, this new world of vampires and we had to introduce the primary characters. So we had a fair bit of work to cram into the first episode, which I think we did successfully.”

Episode 2

“Out of the Past”

Written by David Greenwalt

Directed by Fred Toye

A supposedly reformed murderer is freed from prison. Aware that Mick is a vampire, he goes back to his old ways and won’t stop until Mick turns himself into the police. In the end, while attempting to rescue a potential victim, Mick is shot with a silver bullet while Beth handles the killer. Later, she finds Mick trying to heal himself by feeding, discovering that he is a vampire.

“I really like number two,” O’Loughlin enthuses. “The end of the episode made it one of the favorites for me, because Beth finding out so early about Mick was shocking to me. First, as an actor. I thought, ‘Oh God, what are they doing? They’re going to ruin our show.’ But it actually works really well and sort of gets that discovery out of the way, allowing us to get down to brass tacks. So the show is not about, ‘Oh my God, is she going to find out?’ It’s about the relationship between these two people and the love that’s building between them.”

Episode 3

“Dr. Feelgood”

Written by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksmen

Directed by by Scott LautanenMick and Beth have to stop a recently turned vampire who was never “trained” by the vamp that sired him. At the same time, Beth is trying to cope with her knowledge of Mick’s vampirism, while he details how he was turned by his wife, Coraline.

O’Loughlin says, “I really like the idea of the rogue vampire. There’s a sort of sadness to it as well. The thing I love about this genre is that the metaphors are endless. It’s analogous to so many things. You look at what these vampires are struggling with and it’s exactly the same as the things we come across in our day to day lives. They’re animals trying to stay alive in this modern world. And there’s that ending where the other vampire says, ‘I understand; I see my place,’ and Mick says, ‘It’s too late’ and he has to kill him. It’s just very sad. I also felt like this episode was a little removed from the rest; it has a real standalone quality to it that separates it from the rest of the pack.”

Episode 4

“Fever”

Written by Jill Blotevogel

Directed by Fred ToyeProtecting a witness for Beth’s prosecutor boyfriend Josh ultimately leads to Beth and the witness trapped in an abandoned motel, where prolonged exposure to sunlight is killing Mick. Beth is called and upon arriving realizes that she has to let Mick feed on her if he’s to survive.

“There was a lot of location stuff in that episode,” O’Loughlin points out. “We all went out to the desert and shot out there for a few days. No new show has enough money, let alone an hour drama that has special effects, special make-up, is stunt heavy, shoots at night and is based in genre. This show was really shooting against all odds. To make it good can be difficult. In this episode, there are a couple of things that I wish we could have changed, but nothing in performance or storyline, just in effects and things like that. I really like the storyline and the acting. I thought the guest stars were fantastic, and overall I felt like I was watching a feature film. It was also an important episode for Josh and Mick. They were starting to get to know each other a bit more, and it was important to build that trust between them – despite the fact that feelings were developing between Mick and Beth.

“What happens at the end of that episode,” he adds, “was pretty radical. When I read it for the first time, I was, like, ‘Oh, yeah!’ That was something to write home about, and I love the way it was shot. And the fact that Beth lets him feed on her – she reaches this amazing place of comprehension. She understands his needs so clearly, and it’s evident that there’s a connection between these two.”

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Sep 30, 2009 by Joyce Eng on TV Guide

Sorry, Moonlight fans: Mick St. John will not be resurrected.

Despite valiant efforts from die-hard fans to bring the beloved but short-lived series back to life on the small or big screen, Alex O'Loughlin says that story is over.

"That's a [executive producer] Joel Silver question, but as far as I know, no. It's done. It's over. Mick St. John has been laid to rest," he tells TVGuide.com.

News: Alex O'Loughlin on his post-Moonlight "tailspin"

That doesn't mean the show's cancellation was painless, especially since Moonlight was "doing well" ratings-wise. "It's a bit of a sad situation, a sad story for me.  Of course, I love that show. I put everything into it. But what are you going to do?" he says. "That's what we do as actors. We put 100 percent into things from the screen test on. It's the most bizarre job in the world: You put 150 percent into it and then you walk away."

The Aussie hunk hasn't walked away from TV or CBS, as his new medical drama, Three Rivers, premieres Sunday at 9/8c. O'Loughlin plays Dr. Andy Yablonski, a preeminent transplant surgeon, on the series, and he hopes his Moonlight fans will hop onboard even without any vampire appearances.

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I saw this blog on "Red Room Salon" and want to post it on mine because it is the proof that Alex captivates the heart of whoever seeing him.

And over more, it talk about Alex O'Loughlin Rocks!, the site if ly friend mizzoH

I’ve been seeing billboards around town for a new show on TV, and kept seeing this face, driving me nuts as to who it was. I knew the face, I knew I had watched him perform in some previous TV show. As I was on my Sunday walk to meet with the friend’s niece, and I was staring at his face yet again on the side of a bus passing me by at Pershing Square, I finally remembered.

I remembered watching the actor had been a guilty pleasure,...

... Was he a bad actor and just eye candy enough to keep me riveted?...

... Alex O’Loughlin, that’s his name! Had to go to IMDb, just to figure that out. Apparently he has a huge following. Just in trying to find some images of him, there’s the Alex O’Loughlin Rocks! fansite,...

... In finally remembering Mr. O’Loughlin’s name and where I had seen him before, I discovered that I had missed the last seven episodes of Moonlight! There on IMDb it said, 16 episodes. Huh, I last saw Sophia Myles’ character stab in the chest the ex-wife (formerly a vampire) of the Alex O’Loughlin character with a wooden stake, and him protesting, but she was human now! What did happen after that?

After a night of watching all missed seven episodes, I now know. Phew. And all for noticing a face on a billboard. Gotta love the internet!

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