Is Moonlight a Rip Off of Buffy or Angel or Blood Ties or Forever Knight or Whatever?

Posted this on the IMDB board:

Having seen most of the shows now, Moonlight seems less of a fantasy and more akin to magical realism. What if vampires did walk among us- real vampires in the real world?

I think this is a first for the vampire mythos and a first for vampires on tv. I'm not really learned in the genre, but I find, that if you look at Moonlight from the perspective of magical realism, everyone's behaviour and reactions to wondrous elements seem intensely real. The show makes vampires possible and believable, and an integral, not alien, element in the world; and in fact, an element that makes the world that much more charged with mystery and meaning.

So, I'd argue that Moonlight is nothing like any other vampire show. It's in a (classy) class of its own!