FORKNI-L
Digest - 1 Jan 2008 to 3 Jan 2008 (#2008-2)
Thu, 3 Jan 2008
There are 3 messages totalling 126 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Episode Discussion: Bad Blood
2. Episode Discussion Scheduling: Forward Into The Past
3. CD and NB on The Border (CBC), January 7
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:50:32 -0500
From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......>
Subject: Episode Discussion: Bad Blood
1) Inspector O'Neal works really quick. He hears of the killing,
crosses over from Scotland with an introduction to Cohen and is in place
before the witness statement reaches the Homicide offices.
2) I like the nuance of how the writer handled O'Neal not having a
pistol on him during the show. Nick offers and O'Neal turns it down
because he is not sure a gun would be of any use against the person they
are chasing. Given how calmly O'Neal says that, it does heighten the
sense that something really dangerous is afoot in Toronto....maybe
something Nick even should be wary of.
3) where the heck did Schanke see "a guy who was hit by a combine"???
His dad was a sewer worker...so I've always figured he was a city boy.
I suppose he might have spent summers in highschool or college working
at an uncle's or aunt's farm...
4) Schanke's my kind of guy...a pile of meat and potatos for
dinner...and "balances" it with a diet soda.
5) ahhh, I see Natalie is also a graduate of the "Nick Knight Remedial
Driving School - We Use All Lanes, Plus the Sidewalks, Pedestrians are
expected to jump High as we wizz past". Nice scene though. I like how
O'Neal suspects what Nick is and thinks Natalie knows and pokes her to
see how she will react. I don't think driving into oncoming traffic
was the reaction he was after, however.
6) Why does Nick keep the coffee under the sink (aside giving him and
Natalie a funny set of lines to bat around). You'd think he'd keep
certain basic non-perishable things around just because Natalie does
stop by and spend time.
7) "Did everybody forget how to drive all of a sudden!" from Schanke.
Amusingly, it looks like they shot the near-misses seperately (they
didn't reuse the film from the first instance for the
second)....'course, they probably just started reusing earlier episode
near-misses at some point.
8) was it ever stated definitively that Miklos was a vampire? His
reaction to O'Neal putting that crucifix against his head is so mild in
comparision to Nick's "drive into oncoming traffic, smoking at the
seams" reaction...that I think Miklos is human. A strong, scary mortal
that Janette hired so there was a bouncer at the club who could deal
with troublesome mortal clients without anyone wondering at his
"superhuman" abilities. Do any of the list elders know Miklos's
human/vampire status for certain??
Tim
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:12:13 -0500
From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......>
Subject: Episode Discussion Scheduling: Forward Into The Past
The next episode up for discussion is Season 2's Forward Into The Past.
I think this is the last episode on the 1st DVD of that season (if you
are working from the box sets).
Date is January 15th, 2008.
Tim
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:41:43 -0600
From: Roxana Elizondo <roxeliz@h.......>
Subject: CD and NB on The Border (CBC), January 7
On Monday, January 7 the CBC will premiere a new series called The Border that
features two FK alums. It's a 24-esque show that deals with the Canadian
Immigration & Customs security and concerns like human-trafficking, drugs, and
terror threats. It recently completed shooting it's 13 episode season order.
Catherine Disher is a series regular and plays Superintendent Maggie Norton,
the second in command of Toronto's Immigration & Customs Security (ICS) squad.
"...the Squad's unofficial mother, Maggie's a wise-cracking Newfoundlander who
loves to bake and has a mind like a steel trap. Her interrogation skills are
legendary--she once reduced a vicious serial killer to a sobbing six year old,
begging her forgiveness. She's also a dead aim with a gun.
She's raised two girls as a single mother--one's a surgeon in Vancouver, the
other lives in a trailer park near Niagara Falls with a born again biker."
I know I want to see CD make a grown man cry ::grins::
Nigel Bennett is at the very least a recurring character. When the show's
official website launched he wasn't included but it's since been updated to include
his character and actor bio. His character is Agent Andrew Mannering "a
high-ranking agent in Canada's spy agency, CSIS. In Mannering's vision of the
world, an epic battle is being waged between good and evil for the future of the
planet. The United States is the champion of freedom and democracy, and Canada
must do all in her power to assist her neighbour. If human rights are trampled,
and a few innocent lives sacrficed, that is a minor price which must be paid...
If Mannering had his way ICS would answer to CSIS--it galls him that, technically,
their mandates are separate but equal."
The official site has a flash intro with images of the actors and in it CD and
NB's images are right next to each other. That brought a big smile to my face.
I posted a screenshot of them both on photobucket.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/roxeliz/fkalums_border.jpg
Both actor's bios had some nicely worded things to say about FK. "Nigel Bennett
created the powerful and seductive Lucien LaCroix in Forever Knight winning
the 1996 Gemini Award for his role."
"Fans of the cult classic Forever Knight will forever cherish her as Dr.
Natalie Lambert. For this role she received two Gemini Award nominations for Best
Performance in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role (1994, 1996)."
I sure hope Nigel and Catherine get to have some good scenes together. We got
so few of them in FK but those they did have were so memorable. I'd love to see
them go head to head.
Also, for those of us outside of Canada the official site says that they'll be
posting the episodes online the day after they air. I'm really excited for this
show and was seriously bummed that I might not get to watch it so that's a
very welcomed move from the CBC.
http://www.cbc.ca/theborder/
Roxana
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