I mean making him eat human food, taning, and a few testings it just all seemed like a waste of time. Besides he still drank blood, cow's blood but its still blood nonetheless.
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shareI think she kept it up for so long because she saw it was working. Sure in the early days, Nick would still need transfusion of blood when getting too weak or had a big set-back like feeding from Nat's brother when having to sire him, but they had something gradual going. Nick would at times see his reflection, healing from bullet hits would be harder, he could endure sunlight and even a sun-tanning booth for further limited times. I'd have to watch through every ep to see if Nick had any more 'set-backs', but I think by the series finale, the two had just lost all patience with so much tragedy in their lives.
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SilentDues, it is never 'sire' in FK. Sired refers to horse parentage. It's always 'brought across,' a more romantic and appropriate term IMHO. Sired comes from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Please do use the proper terminology for the series under discussion.
There's something so evocative about being brought across from the living to the living dead. I have always loved this series from the beautiful language on to the wonderful stories it told. Such poetry speaks to the care that was taken in each episode. I loved it so much. I miss it still, so many years later.
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@lexyladyjax I don't think the vampires in FK are referred to as the living dead. My reasoning on this would be when Nick brought across Nat's brother. When the heart monitor showed his heart beat once, Nick said that would happen every ten minutes. The term "living dead" as I understand it means a person who is dead but even though dead, acts as if alive. I believe the term FK viewers use is "undead" which I have heard of defined as a person who is barely alive but able to act as if he/she is fully living.
If I'm wrong about this, I'm sorry.
Im362, Nick Knight referred to himself as dead when he met Natalie. That was the exact wording he used. No vampire ever used the term 'living dead' in FK. The term they used when they made someone else a vampire was 'brought across,' not 'sired.'
These are the terms that were used in the series.
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Yes, Nick did say he was dead, but Natalie said he wasn't and that was true.
shareSire refers to any reproduction. Humans Sire other Humans, andVamprie Sirign existed in 19th Century Penny Dreadfuls, so I doubt Buffy came up with it.
shareZarove, the point is that FK's nomenclature was different from that of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel No FK character ever uttered the word 'sired'. It's 'bring someone across' from mortal to immortality.
If you'd seen the seduction of Nicholas deBrabant Knight by the Lady Janette duCharme and Lucien LaCroix, you would comprehend the difference. How sad that you've never seen that masterpiece of manipulation.
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But that was the beauty and uniqueness of the show-That someone was trying to cure a vampire, which had not been really explored in any other movie or television show. And the few times it was shown that, before meeting Natalie, Nick had periodically tasted human food and drink(ep. 1966, among others) gave the viewers hope that he could be cured. It didn't matter to those who wanted him cured that a cure was possible or not. We knew this was fiction, a T.V. show, but just the thought, the hope was what kept us watching the show. And they did show that what was being done was working, but it didn't matter and we didn't need to know what had worked. Like I said earlier, the hope was there. That is what mattered.
shareNat couldn't do it. She clung too much to "science is the only answer" even when confronted with the fact that the supernatural did exist. She was too closed minded and therefore would continuously been of no use to Nick. That's why all her "cures" failed.
Had she just accepted that there are things science cannot explain, that there's a God, that there's a soul, that being a vampire is not a disease - not a curse - she might've found a cure.
Or she might've opened Nick's eyes and let him see his "curse" as the blessing it really was.
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Natalie did prove that it was a disease and at the same time, she never discounted the supernatural aspect of it. Having another vampire finding a cure really proved that Natalie did not need to be the one who found a cure for Nick and showed that one or more cures were available somewhere.
Really, having a cure be found was not really the point of the series. It was the continual hope that it would be found that made the series so unique and what drew at least some viewers to it. It was the fact that we who wanted him to be cured could look forward to what kind of "cure" would be tried. For myself, I cried when some almost worked and for the one that did work for another vampire, so that kept me watching the show.
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