3.22: Last Knight

[EmilyH]

I think it was this LaCroix quote (as the Nightcrawler):

Love. It warps our senses, twists our souls...can take us past hope, past cure, past help. I know about love: it's suffering, it's anguish, it's pain. Heaven makes means to kill our joy with love. And yet we must have it, at any cost. But are you so enamored that you'll overlook your love of life? And you do love it. I've seen you smell the sea, gaze at the stars at night. Are you willing to sacrifice one mistress for another? Look into your heart and tell me that you're willing to make the choice.

It was from Last Knight. Which reminds me, as sad as it was, it was also one of the more romantic eps in a way. I mean, not the whole depressing thing but Nick's love for Natalie. The directors originally wanted it to be like Romeo & Juliette.

I heard through the rumor mill on forkni-l that Catherine Disher tried to move, to let the audience know that Natalie was still alive, and that was edited out. There was a conflict because James Parriott's vision wasn't the same as Ger's, who was directing at the time. So they compromised by ending with LaCroix holding the stake, but we never see Nick die. Which, of course, lends itself to all sorts of interesting possibilities with fan fiction.

[Highlander II]

Okay - just to let you know how unimpatient I am - I've had this ep on tape for like a year ---

I just watched it the other day - and let me just say I was severely disappointed.

I knew what was going to happen as soon as they said that Natalie was friends with the woman who had killed herself. Lame ending. What's the point of ending a show by killing off all the characters?

And doesn't what Nick did at the end completely deny everything he's been working for for like a few centuries? Does this then mean he never beleived it? Or that LaCroix convinced him, finally, that vampires can't be good, despite the crazy bit w/ Janette becoming human by feeding on her lover? I was just mostly disappointed by the ending. It wasn't dramatic to me, it was more like a cop-out. Like the writers couldn't come up with anything smashing, so they just did this ---

[EmilyH]

Last Knight didn't happen. It was a dream. That's my theory, anyway. Why else go through all the trouble of making it seem so surreal? There was no need for the weird slow-motion effects otherwise.

I also remember hearing on the e-mail list -- there's a mailing list for the fandom -- that Ger (Nick) directed it, and had done everything he could to make it seem like the characters were still alive, but the scenes got cut when James Parriott found out. He was very upset at his show being cancelled, I think.

Even if you interpret LK as not being a dream, there is still a chance -- a very small chance -- that Nick could be alive if LC had changed his mind at the last second. IIRC, we never saw the stake go completely down. The scene goes black before we see it. At that moment, someone could be waking up from a dream. But we don't know. Besides, in fanfiction, anything is possible. There are countless fans (myself included) who hated the ending and wrote alternate endings.

[Highlander II]

Yes - fanfic can make things better --

but that still doesn't excuse a really bad episode - this was one of the WORST final eps I've ever seen. It's running neck and neck w/ the final ep of Highlander --

What is with these ppl? If the show's gonna get cancelled, it's gonna get cancelled, so don't do a half-@$$ed job on the last show -

It didn't seem 'dream-like' to me - it seemed like a 'retelling' - almost like someone was talking about the whole thing in the past tense ---

[EmilyH]

Yeah, that's another theory. Nat survived, is now a vampire, and was retelling it, partly through the images she got from Nick's blood and partly her own memories. Or it could possibly be LaCroix also.

[Smitty]

I had been ruminating over my own theory as well.

I've bben working on my own story, as it relates to what happened after LK.

Of course in my story the third season never happened.

In my version Nick had entered some form of a fugue brought about by blood deprivation.

He was only in it a few weeks but he had created a state similar to his guilt hallucination in Curiouser and Curiouser.

Of course Schanke was still alive but in the week Nick was out of it Cohen had been transferred and he was made the new captain, hey it could happen.

Janette had styed with Nick and she decided to make another attempt at a lasting relationship with Nick. Nick wished for that too.
Sorry N+Ners.

Nat had decided to move on and planned on practicing medicine, on the living.
Again sorry N+Ners.

But I did create a new type of doctor character to help Nick with his condition, but now Nick no longer wishes to be human but still find a way to deal with what he is.
Oh and this doctor is a vampire that treats Vampire and mortal alike. But his treatment of vampires is another aspect of his work, what you think Nick's the only one to seek a means to help their condition. He actively researches his kind and deciphers the mysteries that he and his kind represent.

LaCroix is still around, thanks to his show peaking the interest of a rep from a radio network.
The Nightcrawler is being syndicated! :aliengray

But it's just an idea.

Oh and hey I'm back.

-cs

[EmilyH]

Long time, no see!

You are going to post this story, right?

[Smitty]

Sure, when I get it written down and somebody can proofread it for me.

My sentence structure leaves a lot to be desired.

-cs