y Boyfriend is a Vampire
y Boyfriend is a Vampire
I haven't seen an episode I enjoyed more in a long time! I loved the way Nick was being light-hearted and joking around. We don't get to see him like that very often. I also liked the character play between the two women and the two vampires. Although I didn't get what Tracy was trying to say to Nat. She starts off saying that Nick is a great guy and then compares him to Vachon and ends up talking about how she doesn't know what kind of a relationship she's got with Vachon. What was her point and what did it have to do with what little she knows about Nick and Nat's relationship?
I guess now we know why Nat's been acting the way she has so far this season. I thought it was just the actress having problems but not it looks like they set it up so that this fit she had wouldn't come out of nowhere. Although I have a hard time believing that Nick didn't know what was wrong and what she needed to hear. I thought that she was the one who wanted to take a step back from the relationship because of the ending scene in "A More Permanent Hell". I guess that wasn't really what she wanted.
It is full of injokes. For example, the host of the Jerry show was the same person who used to Play Alexander Lucard in "Dracula: The Series"! Second, the girl who died bears a resemblance to one of the members of a comedy troop called the Chumps. The Chumps are the ones that fooled the Jerry Springer Show last year with the false story of sleeping with the babysitter!
Besides the murder aspect of the show it deals a lot with relationships sort of like Seinfeld. Shudder! Anyways the show works out as someone relates to another and how to deal with those relationships are susposed to be worked out. I.E.:
The whole story is a supernatural relationship crisis. The way they conveinently work it out sounds so cliche and that in itself seems like an injoke for the entire episode.
One last seeming coincidental injoke here. I mentioned Seinfeld Shudder! earlier. When Seinfeld parodied his own show in his series it was called "Jerry". The talkshow in this episode is called The Jerry Show. I have to wonder if this is ment to be a coincidence or not!
-- David Riches
The first scenes in "Boyfriend" smack Tracy and Natalie in the face with their own dilemma; the whole show lets the major characters deal with their relationships through third persons (the director and celebrity).
I like the way Nick is easing Tracy into their new partnership, although I would call it avuncular instead of paternal. He treats her a little protectively (she is less experienced, after all) but teases a little as one does an equal (and he teases about her believing in vampires or watching tabloid TV, not something sexual). He respects her and her boundaries, and thereby perhaps reassures both her and Natalie that although he intends to have a close working relationship with his new partner, he isn't abandoning his close friendship with Natalie.
-- Anne Winters
I just rewatched that last episode (Okay, so I rewatched it twice, it was the best new eps I've seen in a while). :)
I really wished they wouldn't have shot the last confrontation scene between Nick and Nat the way they did. With the light coming through the blinds and the way the shadows were being cast, you couldn't really see the expression on Nick's face when Nat told him there was nothing nore to say. Body lauguage suddested that it really struck him, but I couldn't really read his emotions without seeing his face.
I enjoyed seeing a lighter side to Nick, the actor has wanted to lighten the character up for a while now and it looks like he got his wish. The constant moping did get old after a while.
I was thinking about the whole vamping out near an attractive mortal thing. I think that maybe it's the lust that makes it happen. Attraction like that might cause the "vampire" to react, but maybe true feelings of love and affection keep the human side to control. It might explain why sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. Vachon had a reation to Tracy in the first episode and he didn't know her well enough to actually care for her. Or maybe love and lust have nothing to do with it and I'm just grasping at straws.
About the last line in the episode, I was reminded of the episode "Be My Valentine". I never figured out if Nick re-thought his decision about having a relationship with Natalie or not. Maybe he doesn't want to get to close to her because he wants to protect her from LaCroix but he still really cares for her. Even if that's not it they are going to have to address the LaCroix issue at some point if Nick and Nat are ever going to have a real relationship.
I did have some comments on your spin on Nick and Nat's relationship. Maybe you just need a woman's spin on these things. While I would never kick Nick out of my bed for eating crackers, Nat feels that she simply isn't appreciated. Nick needs to be more attentive to her needs instead of being a melancholy bonehead.
-- Heather Bradstreet
I really liked this episode. There was more humor in this episode than before. The plot was fine, but I did not like what happen between Nat and Nick. Nat I think wanted to hear those three special words that every girl want to hear when they are in a relationship. I don't know what Nick said in the card. It may have said those three words (I love you), but I have a feeling the card did not say it. I think meant by the last line that is love was very deep for Nat and he does not want her to be put in danger if the community knew they were lovers. Also if Lacroix found out you know he would either kill her or make Nick kill her.
The scene between Nat and Tracy where Tracy realizes that Nick and Nat are not speaking to one another. Tracy describes Nick as having a lot in common with her "friend". You think she would put two and two together and figure out that Nick is also a vampire. Especially in that scene were both Vachon and Nick are holding the guy who was snooping in the dark!!
-- Michelle Mantion
Why didn't Nick at least KISS Nat at the end of this episode? Telling her that she would never really know how much he cares for her is something you might tell your sister or mother! We don't see anything more than a hand on the arm or slight closeness. At least hug her...caress her face or hair. Let's see some "romance"--ok to be professional with Tracy (even if she's a kid) -- but not with Nat!
Has anyone noticed the fact that Nick is playing the "veteran" vampire role now (and Nat is like "Mother Hubbard") -- while Vachon (and Tracy) are playing the "kids"? Seems like it to me....
After watching the "My Boyfriend is A Vampire" episode, I began to wonder where the Enforcers are. In this episode, there are two women,Nat and Tracy, who not only know about Vashon and Nick but also know where they gather with other vampires. Isn't it the duty of the Enforcers, who we have not seen in a while, to protect the Vampire race. Now that both Nat and Tracy know about Nick, Vachon, and the Raven this would appear to be a serious breach in security.
This has got to be the first time that I have ever been offended by an episode of this show. What an incredibly crass, nasty, misogynistic script! Nat suddenly becomes whiny and possessive, Tracy invents a relationship with Vachon out of thin air, and Nick acts like an insensitive schmuck. As for the supposed plot, can we please stay away from the cliched psycho bitch plotline, please? How could the murderer have been the producer anyway, given that all hints were leading to a *man*! Not to mention Tracy's ridiculous "makeover" (she looked like a vice cop doing undercover hooker detail.) Why would Vachon agree to appear on camera?
What was the point of Vachon's nasty little flashback? Why, when we finally get Nick, Vachon, and Lacroix in one room together, is the only topic of conversation how you used to be able to treat a woman by the three F's: find 'em, fang 'em, and flee, and how much of a bitch it is to have to make a commitment? What were the writers on when they had the first murder suspect (I forget his name) babble on about "kinky chicks" and why did Tracy make a Lorena Bobbitt joke in response? A thoroughly nasty, vile episode.
I believe the reason Nick told Nathalie that he doesn't think she realizes how much he really cares, was because as much as he wants to be with Nathalie, he restrains himself around her because he DOES care enough not to have her for himself, and thus hurt her (either kill her, or turn her into a vampire). She may be interpreting his lack of advances, and lack of progress towards becoming more human/mortal, what-have-you, as a sign that he doesn't care enough about her.
Nathalie is aware of the risk, if she and Nick were together. She is also aware that his slow progress towards becoming mortal is not really very much within his control (although Nathalie is convinced that medical science can help him, I do not think that Nick is convinced of that as well). However, in this episode, Nathalie's emotions were getting the better of her.
-- Elena Plotkin
I have to agree with Daniel Ben-Zvi's comment, although I wasn't as outraged by the "old-fashioned" male attitude as Daniel was. I can quite understand that for men who have enjoyed the traditional male privilege of considering any women they fancy as theirs if they can get her, I don't think the modern woman who protects herself and can say yes (or no) if she likes would have given them *more* dalliance than *less*. And Screed's declaration that vampirism is the best kind of life for a guy emphasizes that attitude -- no babies, no commitment, and lots of variety. In a way a vampire is the inevitable result of a stagnating and polarized culture: pure sexual predator, pure nomad.
-- Anne Winters
I like this episode so call me a romantic. I believe that Nick isn't as friendly with Nat as he would like to be because of what he is. He knows his limits and he'd rather not push it. Also, if Nat's cure doesn't work, he's got to leave so maybe he's trying to make it easier on her when he does. I didn't say he succeeded, but it's the thought that counts. That's what love is supposed to be, right? Putting other's needs before yours -- self-sacrifice.
-- J. Adamson
This episode was the best episode. It was nice to finally see Nick chasing around Natalie instead of the other way around. Natalie and Nick are the only reason I watch this show.
-- Meaghen Capello
This is by far the best episode of the new season. It shows that Nick is beginning to have human feelings and emotions. It lays the groundwork for Nick and Natalie's relationship to go farther, and in the end gives the hope of romance.
This episode is definetly a romantic's show. It should have been released on Valentine's Day. It showed how thick in the head men (mortal or immortal) can be when it comes to relationships with women. Both Tracy and Natalie are questioning which way things should be going, when if only Vachon and Nick would show a little caring, those concerns would be gone.
I think Nick was reaching out to Nat in the last scene the only way he knew how. Both keep the other at an arms distance because of Nick's affliction. I think if he acknowledged all his feelings for Natalie, he fears he might hurt her irreparably. Remember "Be My Valentine". Nick, I beleive, lied to LaCroix to protect Natalie. Someone thought Nick was buckling down to LaCroix, but I think it was just the opposite -- Nick was showing his strength against LaCroix by not letting him read his true feelings for Nat.
Anyway, I think this was one of the more romantically written episodes of the series.
-- Richard Gross
I am a Forever Night fan and have watched the show for a long time... but this episode was especially cool because I am also a Geordie Johnson fan! It's hard to keep up with the work he does, because he's everywhere, so you all can imagine my excitement... even if I thought he should have had a better role, which keeps him coming back for more episodes.
This was one of my favorite episodes of the third season. I was glad Nat finally made Nick realize they were growing apart. There was such lightheartedness and freedom of emotional expression between them in the previous seasons. Nick seemed to be withdrawing from her. I don't think she was comfortable with that type of relationship, especially when she seemed to be carrying the relationship, emotionally speaking of course. I think the situation of the talk show guest just made her (Nat) feel as if she was being used. She had become more his moral conscious that he did seem to want to listen to at times. I think this was apparent as indicated by Nat's facial expression as she was listening to the TV psychiatrists definition of "wellness vs. unwellness love" I think Nat began to identify with the unwellness aspect, believing maybe her relationship with Nick may be caused by a need to fill a void in her life, pretending there was more to the relationship than there actually was. Hence the confrontation with Nick basically making him declare what it was he really wanted from this relationship. It was his wake-up call! Although I loved the episode, I think the ending shoud have been a little more clear about what Nick actually meant. I was a little put out with Nat for running to him when he should have showed up at her door with the note and flowers instead of her coming to him.
-- J. Aldred
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