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FORKNI-L Digest - 17 Apr 2002 (#2002-117)

Wed, 17 Apr 2002

There are 9 messages totalling 327 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Had to Share!
  2. Interests dying -- NOT!
  3. Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests dying -- NOT!) (3)
  4. Aging Nick (was  Technical aspects of serial movies)
  5. A More Permanent Thought
  6. Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests dying --
     NOT!)
  7. Slow Motion Now???

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:28:02 -0700
From:    "Brooks, Julia A." <BROOKJU@m.......>
Subject: Re: Had to Share!

>From: Lisa Luksus
>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:30 AM
>You mean the Knighties were *organized*?
><grin, duck, run>

Ahem - you better be fast woman!! <BG>

Katrinka did a *wonderful* job of organizing the Knighties in War 11 - that
is why we weren't (to paraphrase the War Mistress) 'spineless' and yet
remained "nice" until the end!!

Knighties - group hug!!

Julia B. (aka Brooksie) and Allie's Brook
forever Knightie crusader, Les Chevaliers de la Nuit
War 11 Leader-in-Training
member of Nick Slacker's Biker Babes

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:44:55 -0400
From:    Janine Fozzard <jfozzard@h.......>
Subject: Re: Interests dying -- NOT!

----Original Message Follows----
From: Sandra <nitelvr@v.......>

>>>I wish there was new FK to watch (there was so much left
>>>to tell).  Or at least pro tapes or DVDs.


Or a series of movies, like Star Trek :-D

As ever,

Cousin Janine
DK, LC, DT
Die Hard

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:38:58 -0700
From:    Carla Martinek <copper6500@y.......>
Subject: Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests dying -- NOT!)

--- Janine Fozzard <jfozzard@h.......> wrote:
> Or a series of movies, like Star Trek :-D


Oh, yes, we would all certainly love that! Sigh... one
can only hope and dream and write to TPTB begging...

The only problem is that most likely we would *not*
see our favorite and original characters in the parts.
 Let's face it -- people age, and that includes all
the FK cast members.  (I don't want to talk about the
wrinkles and gray hairs that have been mysteriously
appearing on me in the last year or so... I blame it
on my children!  Thank heaven for Clairol... but I
digress.)

*IF* we were to ever get serial FK movies, or a new
series altogether, we would in all likelihood see a
completely new and much younger cast, if only for the
technical aspects.  It's much easier to make younger
actors look older than go the other way.

While Nigel doesn't seem to have changed much in his
appearance, Ger definitely did even during the three
seasons.  There is a marked difference between Season
1 Ger and Season 3 Ger.

Of course, it could all be explained as a "mysterious"
virus that has hit the vampire community once again...
this time, they seem to be aging at the same rate as
humans.  No more immortality.  Who's going to solve
the crisis this time???? :-)

OK, I'm done rambling.

-Carla
copper6500@y.......


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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:22:17 -0400
From:    Janine Fozzard <jfozzard@h.......>
Subject: Re: Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests dying -- NOT!)

----Original Message Follows----
From: Carla Martinek <copper6500@y.......>
>It's much easier to make younger actors look older than go the
>other way.

Hey, TPTB can handle it the same way they handled Highlander: Endgame.
Connor was supposed to be immortal, and he certainly aged :D Seriosly
though, I really think age adds character, rather than takes it away.

>>There is a marked difference between Season1 Ger and Season 3 Ger.

Yes, not to mention the hair lengths :)

>>Of course, it could all be explained as a "mysterious" virus that has hit
>>the vampire community once again...

Actually, that gives me an idea for Fanfic. I usually don't do Nick very
much (no PUN intended folks, lol) I'm definitely a cousin, but it sure would
be interesting. . .

>OK, I'm done rambling.

Yeah, me too :)

As ever

Cousin Janine
DK, LC, DT
Die Hard

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:52:09 -0400
From:    Portia Eins <portia1@m.......>
Subject: Aging Nick (was  Technical aspects of serial movies)

I've seen some fic explain the changes in "Nick" as being a result of Nat's
"tampering" or his poor diet -- a sort of "ill health," that was also used to
help explain "Last Night."  "He just wasn't himself...."  I intimated at that
idea in one or the other of my stories.  Not to say that I pictured Nick as
being any less handsome in the last season as I found him in the first, just
changed.  LaCroix would have certainly found it confounding, since it would
indicate an interruption in his eternal gift.  I figured that perceiving that
change is what caused him to lighten up on his boy towards the end; he was
worried about him.

Portia

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:38:58 -0700 Carla Martinek <copper6500@y.......> wrote:

While Nigel doesn't seem to have changed much in his appearance, Ger definitely
did even during the three seasons.  There is a marked difference between Season
1 Ger and Season 3 Ger.

-Carla

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:03:56 -0500
From:    Tim Phillips <Timp@d.......>
Subject: Re: Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests dying -- NOT!)

> > Or a series of movies, like Star Trek :-D
> The only problem is that most likely we would *not*
> see our favorite and original characters in the parts.
        I don't see that as necessarily bad.
        Star Trek has proven that a concept or idea can survive over
30 years and hundreds of shows produced with 5 different casts.
        At its core, FK is often a morality play about good and evil.
        I think if you stuck to that - and included some really good
writing - you could make a go of   "Eternal Night".
        There is potentially a whole vampire community that was
barely shown to us.
        The characters of LaCroix and Janette survived Last Knight
and could easily make guest appearances if the actors involved were
interested.
        The rest of the cast could make guest-appearances via flash-
backs to the era before Last Knight (if nothing else).
        I liked/like the cast of Forever Knight, but I also liked the SciFi
miniseries called UltraViolet for its cast of people.
        If some of the folks from FK wanted to be involved in
something new, great.  I wouldn't mind Catherine Disher as the
vampire-savy ME in Baltimore for Eternal Night (for instance), but I
also won't force the series to only happen if those folks are involved.
        The people who did FK have moved on to other things.
        Capture the essence of the show and I'll watch a sequal at
least a while.
        Who knows, maybe you get a situation like the StarTrek shows
where some of the sequels are actually better than the original..

                        Tim.
 Tim Phillips
 timp@d.......

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:04:50 -0700
From:    Viv <viv11374@y.......>
Subject: Re: A More Permanent Thought

--- Lisa Williams <mystykblue@e.......> wrote:
***Snip***
> Also I don't know if anyone's ever noticed that the windows in
> Nat's bedroom appear to be closed all of the time...and the door
> is locked, so how did Spark get in?
> That has always puzzled me.

From what I remember, after Nat tried to change her mind Spark
decided to whammy her into taking him to her place. Either she
came out of it or she was just pretending until they got to her
apartment.
By the way, Nick stakes him with one of Nat's bedposts.

Sorry to be replying to this so long after it was sent, but I'm
still catching up on the email that started piling up over Passover.

=====
Viv

Don't annoy the crazy person

Life's a witch and then you fly

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:32:38 -0700
From:    Sunny LaCountess <countessa2000@y.......>
Subject: Re: Technical aspects of serial movies (was: Interests
         dying --              NOT!)

--- Tim Phillips <Timp@d.......> wrote:
> I think if you stuck to that - and included
> some really good writing - you could make a go
> of  "Eternal Night". There is potentially a whole
> vampire community that was barely shown to us.
> Who knows, maybe you get a situation like the StarTrek
> shows where some of the sequels are actually better
> than the original..
>
Great idea, I'd like to see sequels too, but...
Ok here is the 'but' : We have to remember that although
it is the fandom that knows the concept the best and has
lived with it all these post LK years, if the show is
ever to be revived, it'd be TPTB who'd have control over
it. And that doesn't necessarily mean James Parriot. I
noticed that some of the most interesting episodes of FK
were directed by Ger or Nigel, and that proved to me that
they, along with the rest of the cast, were a major
reason that the show worked so well. If the show is to be
produced again, by new people, with a new cast, and new
characters, with LaCroix and Janette making occasional
guest appearances and flashbacks of Nick and Natalie,
would it be what we want? I don't speak for everybody and
I'm definitely not in the Star Trek fandom to know how
they felt about the changing cast and the sequels. But I
know one thing about myself: I am a knightie, first and
foremost. If there's to be a new Forever Knight show, I
'd like to see *Nick*, trying to find a cure, running
from LaCroix, angsting over his existance and flashing
back to good old days. And yes, LaCroix and Janette too
(I'm DT as well.) That's a definite must for me;
otherwise I can watch 'Vampire High' anytime and won't
owe TPTB any thanks.

My 2 cents of course.

Sunny


=====
Countess -- Twilight Knightie,IB,DT,UF,Cotk

"Trudging through enternity, hauling my homemade horrors, do you think THAT was
my dream when I was young and evil?"

                           -Mommy Fortuna, The last Unicorn

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Date:    Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:45:07 -0500
From:    Kristin <kris1228@s.......>
Subject: Slow Motion Now???

Tell me you guys saw this today...

During "Father Figure," as the 2 guys in the car drive off and then we see
Nick and Nat, with Nat taking out Nick's bullet, there is a new defect....
slow motion. Oh how lovely of Sci-fi... ~growls~ This is located 31 min
through the show. Even people with low-quality connections should have seen
it. Of course the regular lines showed up at 34 min, as always...

Any ideas on what we can do about this??

~extremely frustrated~
Kristin
http://knightvision.4ever.cc
"When you only have eyes for the Knight..."

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