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Still shaking my head

posted 9 years ago by LadyCatherine
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Thanks to a friend, I have all 3 seasons on a hard drive. Been enjoying the first two seasons a lot. As I struggle to watch Black Buddah, I'm transported back to when it first aired and the "Oh this doesn't look good for the series" feeling. They shot themselves in the foot royally on the 3rd season. They cod have gone several more years if they hadn't screwed up the recipe.

I refuse to be outwitted by a 2-dimensional character in a cheap romantic thriller!

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[–] LadyCatherine 9 years ago

Watched it when it first ran. Just hadn't seen it again since then, and had forgotten how dreadful it was. I didn't care for Tracy--she was, in my opinion, wooden. The whole flavor of the show was gone. The Captain was okay, but no great shakes. The ending was a disappointment. He's been a vampire for how long and, whoops, no control and he kills Natalie. After seasons 1 and 2, 3 was such a disappointment. I've seen other shows end on an uneven note, but that's usually when they've been on longer than they should have: MacGyver, X-files, Monk to name a few. (Remington Steele was spectacularly dreadful.) Forever Knight was a new show, it could have gone on for quite a while--except they decided to shoot themselves in the foot. Or put a stake through their own hearts.

I refuse to be outwitted by a 2-dimensional character in a cheap romantic thriller!

[–] lexyladyjax 9 years ago

Nick had been starving himself for years on the wrong food. Instead of drinking freely donated human blood, Nicholas insisted on drinking cow blood and not enough of that.

Who knows the effects of that on a vampire? Remember that Tracy's death had everyone reeling with emotions. It was the wrong time to make decisions about anything. Unfortunately neither Nick nor Natalie realized they were making a mistake...

Many fans feel the same way as you. There's a lot of fanfic about what happened next at the FK Wiki. You should read some of it. It made me feel better.

Remember, Nat had some of Nick's vampire blood in her morgue fridge. She knew he had a habit of taking too much. Why wouldn't she give herself a jump start on going across? Nat's too smart to let Nick kill her by accident. I think LaCroix whacked Nick in the head, brought Natalie the rest of the way across and Nat found Nick a shaman to heal his spirit. Nat could provide them with all the blood they needed to survive from her profession.

Bored now.

[–] realart 9 years ago

Agree 100%. I remember when Season 3 first aired, my reaction was identical to yours. If felt like they just threw out the first two years.

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[–] lexyladyjax 9 years ago

James Parriott, the guy who owned the show and shepherded it through three different networks, had enough. He decided to kill it because he was through waiting and wanted it to be over. It was his decision and he'd been through six years from the pilot through waiting through two years for renewals.

We would have preferred it to go on but no network or cable group picked it up. There it is. It died and remained dead. We loyal fans took out ads, ran campaigns for ten years afterward but it didn't help. We did our best but it wasn't good enough. It's too late now.

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