earts of Darkness

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Does Tracy think Natalie is blind or stupid? Didn't she find it odd that Nat didn't pick up on the bite marks and ask how that could have happened? Or what happened to all the blood. I would think that Tracy would be real worried about what Nat would think after examining the body.

-- Tina Mailloux

What I found interesting was how they had Ellen, Monica and Jacklyn (sp?) able to be violate the "vampire" limitations because of a mental disorders. I think the idea that your mind is able to alter your physical condition is interesting, and has been known to happen with people who has multiple personality disorders (MPD), but nothing to that extent. Its still a fascinating approach. Talk about mind of matter.

-- Andrew Livathinos

What in the world was going on? A vampire that wants to die (why doesn't she just sit and wait for the sun? A vampire they all thought (Nick included) was dead...how can a vampire die by jumping out of a window? Nick's inane remark "I could have saved her". Give me a break!! Without a doubt the worst episode I've seen. What was your take on it? Did like Nick and Natalie at the end and her little display of playfulness. I agree with you that she's been far too moody lately.

-- Karen Landers

I can see why some people didn't like the episode, but I did.

I also found it strange that Tracy would know to look for Vachon at the Raven. I find it hard to believe that Vachon would tell Tracy that he hangs out there. Esp if he wants to protect her from the community.

I kind of liked to way the vampire community was being portrayed last season. It seemed more mysterious and romantic. This season it seems like all the vampires are from some weird punk group. Maybe I just don't like the change in the atmosphere of the Raven.

-- Tina Mailloux

IMHO, the writing has gone to hell this year. This episode proved it to me. Don't get me wrong, the plot was great -- FK gives us the most interesting twists on the vampire myth in a long time -- but the characterization is crap. Lucien is my prime example. I'm sorry...no. Lucien may not have the elegance that Janette had (and I'll debate that one for Lucien for hours), but he would not turn the club into a strip bar. It seems to me that the writers have forgotten the core characters (Nick, Nat, and Lucien) and concentrated everything of Vachon. I can't be alone in thinking this...can I?

-- Jeremy L. Thomas I

Like Nick, I had forgotten that the vampire that was Ellen/Monica/Jacqueline would not die just because Ellen thought jumping out the window would kill her. The morgue shot was therefore eerie (and a nice touch when her toe started wriggling!). I wonder what will happen to her now? Did suicide really kill the "Ellen" personality? Did "Monica" survive? What will be done about Jacqueline? Is anyone planning to write a sequel?

-- Brenda Bell

I would hope that Nat realizes that taking on an alternative personality isn't a real option for Nick. I don't believe you can just "create" a new personality conciously. So why is she saying that it's something to think about?

And Nick is right. It wouldn't be his whole person being "mortal" with a new personality. Part of him wouldn't remember, and if he did manage to split off the part of him that wants to see the sunrise etc etc, wouldn't that leave the killer unchecked?

-- Reidan Fredstrom

In the critique of Hearts of Darkness you question how Tracy knew about the Raven, you forget...

Tracy met a man at the Raven in the episode where she became a call girl under cover after her first kill as a cop. Vachon was at the Raven and recoginzed her (and blew her cover by hypotising the prospective "John") so she did know of the Raven, and maybe thought she could find Vachon there if he was not at home. There IS a thin thread there.

-- Barb Green

The writers have entertained Natalie's view of "positive thinking" with Nick more than once. In this episode, she is able to point out the possiblity once more. I don't necessarily agree with her, I think its going to take alot more than Nick waking up one night and thinking happy thoughts, but he has accepted his condition as fact and I wonder if any cure Natalie comes up with would work because he truly doesn't believe.

I relly enjoyed this episode because it did give more insight into Vachon and Urs. By the way, did anyone notice the fear, I guess is the word, in Vachon when Nick found Tracy after she was knocked out by Monica? I think Nick really has him where he wants him.

-- Karen

I can answer one of the questions you asked in your review. You asked why Vachon didn't recognize that Ellen and Monica were the same person in the pictures he was shown. Simple: Tracy showed him a picture of Ellen, and Nick showed him a picture of Eckhart. Also, he opened up to Nick because Nick was an older vampire who said the killer was one of them. Tracy was a human who had just found out about vampires -- he didn't take her claim seriously. Nick also saw that Vachon knew Eckhart, he asked better questions, and was much more persuasive in his arguments against finding the killer. Vachon knew hunting a vampire killer was dangerous for Tracy, but didn't have to worry about Knight. Perhaps when Nick held him up against a wall by his collar in "Black Buddha (part 2)", Vachon had learned not to cross him.

-- Caia

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