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Moonlight: The Mortal Cure

 

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9.6 Superb
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Air Date

Friday January 18, 2008

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3T6962

Episode Summary

Mick investigates Coraline's disappearance from the hospital and finds that she got help from an old friend. He finds the answers he's looking for, along with a surprising link to the French revolution and some shocking information about Coraline. Meanwhile, while putting Josh's affairs in order, Beth discovers evidence leading her to believe Josh was cheating on her.

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    Mortal Cure Delivers hide show

    This episode was not intended to be the season finale but was made one when the writer's strike didn't end. This show was awesome how it showed, Mick's desire to be human while at the same time we saw Beth dealing with Josh's death. Each on their own yet still intertwined. It was awesome near the end how Mick acted the way any of us would, eating everything he could find from every delivery place. Then the way he enjoyed the sun light and the quote that their can't be love w/o mortality. Thats Good stuff.

    Also, the introduction of this mysterious sire and brother of Coralines. I never liked Coraline, cause face it I want Mick with Beth but this made her a bit more interesting and charismatic to me. I still want Beth and Mick together but at least Coraline has grown from a thorn to a very interesting plot twist. What powers does this sire have, and what will he do with this unwanted addition to his bloodline.

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    Both Beth and Mick are left disconnected from one another after the death of Josh and Mick seems even more determined than ever to find Coraline and the "cure". hide show

    I really enjoyed this episode although the enjoyment was tempered by the fact that this was going to be the last episode until the writers strike is resolved. While the characters of Beth and Mick have evoloved quite a bit from the first few episodes there is defintely room left to grow and I can't wait to see where the characters will end up once we start getting more new episodes. This episode also very interestingly sets the stage explaining where Coraline and her "bloodline" comes from and hence where Mick comes from. Who knew that the French Revolution was really a vampire genocide! This opens the door for all kinds of interesting storylines what with the introduction of Coraline's creepy brother Lance and possibly more siblings in future!
    Hopefully after his taste of mortality Mick's "quest" for a cure will be resolved or at least but on the backburner for awhile.

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    Beth discovers Josh was going to propose, she wears the engagement ring to the funeral :( Coraline resurfaces and lets Mick in on the secret to her mortality she gives him a taste. We find out info on Coraline's family history, and it is a Royal mess ; ) hide show

    I LOVED loved LOVED this episode... very good. It was a good touch the proposal Josh intended, it so hard because he was such a sweety pie, but honestly who does business with their Jeweler at a restaurant, in the evening??? Not very realistic of the writers in my opinion. Ohhh... Lance was a very good addition to this episode, and his abilities are awesome, who needs an elevator when you can simply jump off the building and do it with style!!! And his black eye, nice touch. I also liked seeing Josef, hadn't seen him in a while, wish he could have more participation in the show in general though. he is such a fun character, always trying to persuade our honorable Mick into ceding to the powers of temptation. Naughty little minx, but he knows how to enjoy life. I felt sorry for Beth, she must of felt bad for knowing Josh loved her so much he was going to propose, when she wasn't really sure of her feeling at all... however she wore the engagement ring to the funeral, so mixed feelings or not?
    Coraline resurfaces, and Mick saves her from Lance... who turns out to be her brother. But even more shocking is finding out her bloodline is royal, and date's back to Louis XVI and the French revolution.
    She shares with Mick her secret to becoming a mortal, it is temporary, but she gives him a taste of it, not exactly at the best time though. Hated seeing Mick take that beating from Lance, loved seeing him gorge on food.. But maybe now our boy can go to the beach get a tan, and possibly we can see him there, with a little less clothing, he he. Hope to see some more moonlight coming soon, i love this show!!!

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    Who could believe that beth found out that her dead boyfriend was going to ask her to marry him. And that mick had a helping hand from his ex wife to finally get the cure. hide show

    This was such a thrill ride in watching this episode. where can i start. beth shouldn't of ignored mick when they pasted each other the first time. she does have to understan that mick did what ever he could of done to save josh. but she was all you could make into a vampire, you could have had him live. that to me was not fair at all. she made him seem like he was the bad guy. which i don't understand why she would have wanted josh to live. because 1. josh never knew mick was a vampire.
    2. josh never liked mick in the begining. he always felt like mick was a threat,because beth was always hanging around him.
    3. if josh became a vampire he would have killed mick him self and used his vampire abilitys maybe to use them on beth to turn her or maybe sleep with her.

    anyway i did like how beth slowly seemed that she wanted to to forgive mick. i was happy that she and him were able to sit on the couch and talk about how josh was going to pop the question. i think that the reason mick was so supportive of that was because maybe he didn't want to let her know how much he loves then having her change her mind about josh.

    the old vampires are very creepy but i did like understanding about the old 16 hunderedths it was a site to see how it went for vampire back then. i thought if it was that hard to live as a vampire then how could they survive all these centuries?

    the only thing that bothered me was earlyer in the year of last year mick told us that vampires couldn't fly. well in the ending when lance steaked coraline and grabed her and looked at mick then leaving off he looked like he could fly that to me did not look like leap. so now i am thinking that if you are an older vampire you could fly but if you are less than 200 years old you can't fly. that might be a good thought. now here is what cbs sould read please i want beth and mick together but before we could see them again we need to............

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    A great season finale! hide show

    "Moonlight" has been one of the truly pleasant surprises of this unpredictable season. Despite an endless array of negative reviews and portents of doom, the series managed to correct its early mistakes. Now the series is delivering strong content with every new episode, and it closes its first season with a strong finale (assuming the writers' strike keeps production from resuming).

    This episode is packed with a lot of information, but it never gets bogged down in Exposition Hell. Instead the revelations feel like the logical conclusion to the story that began in the pilot. Mick has wanted to restore his mortality, and thanks to Coraline and her "family history", he has hope for a true cure. In turn, that complicates his relationship with Beth, as one would expect.

    Setting that relationship aside for a moment, I must commend the writers for keeping the "cure" in play. It would have been easier to expose the cure as a fraud, thus maintaining the status quo while reaping all or most of the short-term dramatic benefits. Instead, they chose to make the "cure" an important part of Coraline's personal history with a clever side trip into the French Revolution. It explains a lot about Coraline and adds depth to the vampire mythos of the series.

    That family connection puts Mick in serious danger in this episode, but more than that, it sets the stage for future confrontations. Coraline's family doesn't want the "cure" to be available to anyone else, it seems, and Mick's intentions will face that obstacle. It could also make for some interesting conflicts with Josef. Mick could be in a position where development of a "cure", however temporary, could leave him unable to defend against future attacks to destroy it.

    For now, Coraline made the decision to leave Mick for his own sake, granting him a taste of mortality in the process. That gives him a unique opportunity to connect with Beth, but things were left unsettled between them after Josh's death. Beth's subplot seemed to be about acceptance, forcing her to admit her feelings for Mick and the resulting troubles with Josh. Josh was going to propose, but he never had the chance. His death relieves Beth of the burden of making the choice between Josh and Mick, and that realization helps her come to terms with Mick's actions.

    The result is a meeting at Josh's funeral that serves as the beginning of a new chapter for Mick and Beth. If this series has felt like the television equivalent of a paranormal romance novel, then this would be the end of the first volume. Mick has hope for a permanent cure, however slim that hope might be, and Beth must decide what that means for their future. Will Mick's possible restoration be enough for Beth, or will she continue to be tempted by the vampire world? Hopefully the show will be given a second season so we can all find out.

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  • Goof: Mick and Coraline were married in 1952, yet the marriage certificate for Mick and Coraline shows a ZIP code of 90065 for Mick's address. The line on the form is titled ZIP CODE, yet ZIP codes didn't start until 1963. It should say Postal Zone, and just be 2 digits, 65. []
  • What we know:
    • As vampires age their scent becomes more potent with decay.
    • There are some vamps even Josef won't mess with.
    • Coraline is a vamp again.
    • The Reign of Terror was really a vamp genocide and the guillotine was the weapon of choice since only decapitation and burning could kill vamps.
    • There is something called "the compound" which masks the traits of vampirism temporarily. []
  • When Mick comes to visit Logan, he's playing the single "School's Out" by Alice Cooper on the game Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock. []
  • International Air Dates:
    UK: Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 on LivingTV
    Denmark: Saturday, June 14th, 2008 on TV3
    Sweden: Sunday, August 10th, 2008 on TV3
    Germany: Monday, September 8th, 2008 on ProSieben
    The Netherlands: Sunday, December 28th, 2008 on Net 5
    Poland: Friday, March 20th, 2009 on TVP1
    Turkey: Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 on CNBC-e []
  • Featured Music:
    "Your Guardian Angel" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
    "Gone to My Head" by Crawlspace
    "School's Out" by Alice Cooper
    "Wrap Me In Dreams" by Deep Sounds
    "Hope for the Hopeless" by A Fine Frenzy
    "Quicksand Thievery" by Natalie Walker
    "Ice Cream" by New Young Pony Club
    "Goodbye" by Jessica Lowndes
    "All Fall Down" by One Republic []
  • This was the last episode completed before the Writers Strike. Had the strike not ended soon enough, this would have been the final episode of the season. []
  • Lance: (to Mick) Welcome to the family. []
  • Mick: (voiceover) I've wanted to feel human for a long time, but I forgot how painful it can be. []
  • Mick: (voiceover; about Coraline) Stabbing a vamp with a wooden stake is the equivalent to putting a human in shackles. I can see the fear in her eyes; it is not the fear of the stake. But the fear of where Lance is taking her. []
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  • The French Revolution:

    From the history of the French Revolution we know that King Louis XV had exactly SEVEN children. But none of those children ever took the throne, one child even moved to Spain. The throne passed instead to his grandson, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. We can assume the writers have taken liberty with French history and those seven royal children were all turned into Vampires. []
  • Louis XVI:

    It is alluded that Louis XVI and some of his court were vampires and that the French Revolution and its use of the guillotine was actually the cover for a mass vampire genocide. Louis XVI was the last absolute French monarch who reigned from 1784 until his execution by guillotine in 1793. His wife, Marie Antoinette was executed ten months later. The French Revolution lasted from 1789 to 1799. The Reign of Terror lasted for nine months from September, 1793 to July, 1794. In the last six weeks of the Terror, nearly 1400 people were guillotined in Paris, alone. []
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