There are 7 messages totalling 260 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Chiller Marathon & Alternatives 2. Episode Discussion: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire (4) 3. Episode Discussion Scheduling: Hearts Of Darkness 4. Ben Bass on ABC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 01:47:04 -0700 From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......> Subject: Chiller Marathon & Alternatives The marathon was very nice. I even enjoyed the commercials; that made it seem even more like a real broadcast tv show. A question: did Chiller use remastered tapes or something? In some of the episodes, the color and clarity were superb. Or, do I just have a better tv than I had 15 years ago. :-) The DVDs are still available. Some of the nice things about the DVDs are that you can stop the action when a little one suddenly starts screaming. If you miss some of the dialog, you can back it up and replay it, or you can turn the subtitles on. Anyway, if you don't have the DVDs nor do you have access to Chiller, many of the episodes are available on Hulu. You have to put up with a few commercials, but they are shorter than on the cable broadcast. Hulu has most of seasons 1 and 2. I presume they are working on getting season 3. It would seem the best way to see more FK on Chiller is to let it know that -- although they haven''t made contact very easy. :-( Walt Doherty wdoherty5@c....... Phoenix, AZ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:55:15 -0400 From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......> Subject: Episode Discussion: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire 1) I like how Natalie nearly spit up her coffee in the opening scene when Jerry says that vampires don't really exist. 2) This episode has such a wonderfully crafted opening. Neither Natalie nor Tracy are saying anything...you are reading their thoughts about the discusssion that Jerry has purely through their facial expressions...and you are very quickly orientated as to how each of them sees herself in the conversation...and how disquieting she finds it. 3) Tracy is such a smooth liar. She was ready for Jerry asking her what she thought about Maggie Dwyer in the opening scene...ready for Nick when he asked her about vampires. Of course, Nick is lying just as smoothly back to her...the scene where Vachon and Tracy are talking and she tells him Nick is such a skeptic about vampires and Vachon deadpans "know him that well do you?" is proof of that. 4) I like the actor who plays Jerry. he reminds me a little appearance of Rutgar Haur...one of my favorite actors...in his role in The Osterman Weekend. 5) I suppose some might find it a trifle "cute", but I enjoy the cat-and-mouse dialog of some of the characters as they dance around the questions of vampires and who knows what about whom. 6) "A little less of a man." Ticking off Tracy is something Vachon does at his own peril. 7) I think that adding Tracy to the mix encouraged the writers to lighten Nick up just a shade. He'd pulled Schanke's chain and grinned at it from time to time, but in this season, we actually getting him laughing with his partner. Nice to see the King of Angst is sometimes so human. 8) Amusing to watch the conflict between Jerry's concepts of what police work is like and Tracy's actually fairly realistic statement of the real unHollywood life of a metropolitan police detective. Far fewer gunfights and high-speed pursuits...far more trying to figure out what the heck went on and who did what to whom. 9) Clearly Vachon enjoys the concept of "babe cop" 10) Do I remember correctly that Vachon is doing The Maltese Falcon when he acts as Tracy's "snitch" on the street corner. 11) is this episode's scene in The Raven, the only time Nick, Vachon and LaCroix are together on screen? I want to say that it is. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:56:26 -0400 From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......> Subject: Episode Discussion Scheduling: Hearts Of Darkness Next Episode up is Hearts of Darkness Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 is the date. Tim Coordinator Of The 2009 Forever Knight Virtual Syndication. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:39:26 GMT From: Jean <jmtof@j.......> Subject: Ben Bass on ABC FYI - Ben is in the new fall series "Copper" that will be shown in Canada and in the U.S. on ABC. The series is currently filming in Toronto. Jean ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:51:18 -0400 From: Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......> Subject: Re: Episode Discussion: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire >4) I like the actor who plays Jerry. he reminds me a little appearance of >Rutgar Haur...one of my favorite actors...in his role in The Osterman Weekend. That's Geordie Johnson, who played Dracula in Dracula: The Series, the modern-day comedy in which Ger played Klaus van Helsing, once described as "Klaus, the unstable vampire." Ger told a con that when he read the script, which he directed, his first thought was to cast Geordie Johnson as the younger male lead. Then, he said, "out friends reminded me that we're not 25 anymore." He gave a theatrical grimace. So he offered him Jerry instead. McLisa mclisa@m....... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:11:04 -0400 From: "S. Babbitt" <sbabbitt@b.......> Subject: Re: Episode Discussion: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire Tim, you do such thoughtful episode analyses! I always enjoy reading them, even when I don't have anything particularly insightful to add. >2) This episode has such a wonderfully crafted opening. Neither >Natalie nor Tracy are saying anything...you are reading their >thoughts about the discusssion that Jerry has purely through their >facial expressions... I have a copy of the script for this ep, and would you believe, the only direction it gives at that point is "Close on Natalie's reaction." Unless the episode's director had a lot more instruction to give, which I kind of doubt, that genius bit of "silent story" there is all Catherine. It's no mistake that she's gotten so many Gemini nods. (It helps, too, that she's lived in this character for two whole seasons by this point and probably knows what Natalie will do before she even reads the next line of script.) >4) I like the actor who plays Jerry. he reminds me a little >appearance of Rutgar Haur...one of my favorite actors...in his role >in The Osterman Weekend. Ever seen Hauer--along with a number of FK's secondary-role actors--in "Bone Daddy"? I highly recommend it, if for no other reason than to see Blu Mankuma do a totally different (read: wussier) character than I've ever seen him do anywhere else. >9) Clearly Vachon enjoys the concept of "babe cop" Vachon takes enormous pleasure in laughing at foibles, be they mortal or immortal. Anything that anyone else takes too seriously, he's going to have fun mocking. Not only does he know quite well that Tracy's dressed waaaaaay out of line for her professional role, but you know he's delighting in how miserably uncomfortable she is thusly tarted up. >10) Do I remember correctly that Vachon is doing The Maltese Falcon >when he acts as Tracy's "snitch" on the street corner. Indeed he is. I've often wondered to myself whether his reference point is the book or the movie; he strikes me more as a reader than a TV watcher, because books are easy to come by, free or dead cheap if you're willing to go to libraries or buy used, and highly portable in the event of a need for a sudden move. But of course, I'm sure he's whammied his way into plenty of movie theaters over the years without paying a dime, either. :D What I love most about that particular scene is that he remembers, even in the heat of anger, that he's being filmed and can't break his cover. He gets ragged on so much, but he didn't survive 500 years of being chased by the Inca by being careless. This ep has its weak spots, but it's a Vaq's dream. And isn't this the one that ends with the fabled greeting card which prompted one of the most hilarious fic challenges ever on these lists? (The Lurkers still rock my world for that one.) -- -------------- Stephanie Babbitt (sbabbitt@b.......), Atlanta, GA Vaquera (Because I Can), MadNatter, N&NPacker Nobody Dies. Nobody Ever Died. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:06:55 -0700 From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......> Subject: Re: Episode Discussion: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire > 2) This episode has such a wonderfully crafted opening. Neither Natalie > nor Tracy are saying anything...you are reading their thoughts about the > discusssion that Jerry has purely through their facial expressions...and you > are very quickly orientated as to how each of them sees herself in the > conver= The teaser that opens the show is almost too good. I actually remember, what, 15 - 16 years ago now <sigh!>, the very first time I saw it. I very nearly turned it off. I mean who needs another Jenny Jones knock off, right? I thought it was real and that the local station was broadcasting something other than FK for some reason. The topic does seem to be a natural for Springer or Maury or whoever does these shows today. Captain Reese mentions Jones's show at one point (one of FK's few topical references. Jenny Jones was a talk show host with a show on from '91 -- '03. It was a Jerry Springer like noise fest as I recall. The Wikipedia has a short araticle on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jenny_Jones_Show. Jones has an active website. Walt Doherty wdoherty5@c....... Phoenix, AZ ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 8 Sep 2009 to 9 Sep 2009 (#2009-151) *************************************************************
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