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I liked the story idea though, and I really like the new vampire and the new partner. I think the show will be much different this season. I'm looking forward to it. But I'm still going to miss Janette. Maybe fans can convince her to come back for a guest appearance. My overall opinion on "Last Knight" only reaffirms my dissapointment at seeing FK cancelled -- I truly and honestly believe that I'll see my buddies Nick and Nat reunited in a vampiric trilogy with LaCroix.
-- Nick
This episode totally sucked!
I was so disappointed by this ending, I couldn't believe they ended it this way. I searched the net hoping something would turn up on here to say it was all just a bad dream, but to no avail. Now the only thing I enjoyed watching has gone up in flames! I'm sincerely disappointed!
-- Stepharella
Just finished watching "Last Knight". Arghhhhh! This series-ending episode ranks right up there on the fan dissatisfaction scale with the final episode of "Blake's 7" (where all the continuing characters were supposedly killed in a gun battle).
From a pure production standpoint, I think flashbacks from earlier episodes were severely overused in this episode. And some of the camera work (particularly when Nick and Natalie were talking in the morgue) made me nauseous.
Comments on the season in general: What a waste of good characters! We lose Schanke, we lose Amanda, we lose Janette, we lose Natalie, and it's implied that we lose Nick. We also lose Screed, Vachon, Urs, and Tracy -- why create these interesting new characters, only to destroy them by season's end? (Kinda reminiscent of the treatment of Ilia and Decker in the first STAR TREK motion picture, and David in the second.) I would have been far happier if the series had been left open-ended -- at least then, there would have been a better chance for a revival at a later date. Is this the production company's overreaction to being cancelled? ("B'God, if we're cancelled, we're going to kill off everyone!") It just doesn't make sense.
And another thing ... where was Tracy's father while she was lying in the hospital, dying?
I just saw "Last Knight". I am devastated by the outcome of the show! I know that Geraint said in his AOL interview that there would be closure, but I didn't think it would be so permanent. I never thought I would become so enamored of a show or a character as much as I did this one, but I feel like I just lost my best friend.
-- Mary
Horrified, disappointed, sick to my stomach.
-- Ross Wise
I watched "Last Knight" May 18th. It definitely was not lame. Star Trek writers should be so bold!
-- Kim Bowen
I just got finished watching the series finale and I am very depressed. I can't believe they had to kill everyone off. First Vachon, then Tracy, then Natalie and Nick. I am an emotional wreck. I know everyone was upset that they were cancelled, but was it too much to ask that there be a happy ending? I know the very nature of the series doesn't lend itself to it, but I could still hope.
One word -- bummer.
-- M. Midkiff
I have just recently finished watching "Last Knight" -- my critique would be a 10 times infinity.....if that is possible.
And this is my review:
Here's to the new forever knights! Tracy and Natalie! And I still don't think Vachon is truly dead!
-- DocG
This was a really, really annoying episode.
Not only do they kill everyone off, as a "series finale"
they make it darn hard to resurrect it.
Boo to the authors of this episode.
Boo to TriStar.
-- William Harris
I felt that the ending was probably the cast and crew's way of telling the powers that be to forget about continuing the series in movies of the month or any such venue. I mean it was a Russian comedy -- everybody died. For me, it was all a bit too much German romanticism. I would have preferred a post- modern vampire tale where Knight brings Lambert across and continues his quest for redemption.. barring that, a redemption through love where Nick becomes a real boy. That would leave the door open for the aforesaid movies. He could have a relapse, you know, or LaCroix could drag him back, any number of possibilities. Ah me. It was fun while it lasted. And it is (was) only a tv show.
-- Eric Baldwin
I knew this was the last episode, and I was as ready as I ever would be to say goodbye. At least I thought so -- until the last 5 minutes. It is easy to see how the story could have gone either way, and really, knowing FK, I am not surprised at their choice, but I am surprised at how much I was caught off guard anyway.
I feel a hollowness inside, a pervading sadness. I didn't expect that. It is just a tv show. But it struck home more than once. And I will miss it.
This ending makes it that much harder to say goodbye.
-- Maya Wallach
I was very disappointed one that the show was ending. And if it must end, it should not end like that. First of all, killing off over half of the starring cast is not a good way to keep loyal watchers happy. Fans get comfortable with character, and become somewhat annoyed when their routines are disturbed. I think killing off Tracy, then Natalie, and then have Nick do some kind of mercy suicide is completed lack of respect for faithful fans. I'm hoping if the show is brought back that they can somehow salvage this complete distruction of the story plot.
-- Keith Polaski
I watched "Last Knight" last night and, though I wish it could go on forever, I thought it was a fitting end for the series. Even though I might have wished for an 'open end', I believe they did a very good job developing a 'closure' for the series. Though I may sound like a heretic, I hope this is the end, for I feel that anything done after this would do injustice to the memory of the series. (Besides, if they do another movie it might turn out like that horrid Rick Springfield thing!)
-- C L Wittmer
It is had to beleive that Forever Knight is really gone. Nick, I believe, is finally at peace (as long as LaCroix does his duty). He will be with his true love Nat. Part of me wished that they could have shared their live with both of their hearts beating. I could also have accepted Nat becoming a vampire. Although Nick would never put her through that at least they would have had the time so that they could find the cure. Forever Knight will be greatly missed.
-- Lou
I've never been active in the fan scene for FK, I always just watched. As I watched this final episode unfold, I was very surprised. I did not expect so many deaths. I did not expect to see the end of Nicholas.
I guest they were making sure that no "save FK" efforts would work this time.
-- Marvin Price
After watching last night I feared what I saw seemed suspiciously like a final episode (I know, now; hold on a sec). Now that I know it was, I am even more upset. I hated the ending; I am not a "religiously" spiritual person and I need more to tuck into that little place in my mind (now my own resting place for the series) than the possibilities of "heaven", etc. I strongly feel that since the show has been taken away from us, they should have ended it by having Nick take Natalie across or leaving him (albeit in agony, I known) in his immortal form with Natalie in the mortal life he was living. Even if they had to bail from their current surroundings, they could have gone somewhere else, Europe or whatever, and been left living, if only in my mind.
I am extremely upset about this cancellation.
-- Melanie Bates
This has been a really sad two weeks of episodes. I guess the producers wanted to make sure they would not have to do another season. The episodes were well done but ... really ... did they have to kill off everybody? The "Save Forever Knight" group must have gotten them mad or something. What a terrible way to end the series. I've watched it from the first movie ... followed it through all the different stations and bad viewing times (1:00 AM here), and this is what they do to the people we've come to know and love ... it just makes me sick ... sigh ...
-- Anonymous
I think this was easily one of the best episodes of the entire series. Geraint Wyn-Davies' direction was flawless, as he brought all the previous elements of the series together into a heart wrenching conclusion. LaCroix's presence as both a commentator and as Nick's voice of conscience was never more dramatic or telling. In the final moments it seemed as is a circle of darkness was gathering around Nick and LaCroix, as one way or another the end had truly come. My only disappointment was that, as perhaps with many other people, I wanted to know if there was a future for Nick and Natalie beyond all this. However, as LaCroix said, we can never know until we go beyond the brink. This was an appropriate ending for the series, and as much as I will miss it, perhaps it is best if it is left as is.
My husband and I got involved with this show during last season and I, personally, was hoping that the writers could have seen their way clear to avoid killing off off the entire cast and let Nick and Nat have a life together, whether as mortals or immortals. After seeing two main characters killed following the second season, the writers seemed to kill off a new character too frequently. It was extremely disheartening to see that they couldn't stop that killing frenzy when it came to the two main characters. I think Nicholas deserved a happier ending. I'm surprised they didn't have Divia kill off Lacroix in "Ashes to Ashes". She certainly did get her way, though. He ended up alone.
-- Robin Good
I just finished viewing "Last Knight". I am left feeling sad and disappointed. They have killed off everyone. Since it was established that vampires could become human again, they could have left us a "they lived happily ever after" ending with Nick and Nat human and in love and maybe even Tracy as the vampire cop, a reversal. Instead, they destroyed the hope that had been fostered and was the draw of the show for me.
-- Dane Smith
What a bloodbath!
All I can say is: the actors and staff must have been really sick of doing this show! I suppose it must have been a kind of vampirism for them in itself: trapped seemingly forever (if the fans had their way) in a dismal nocturnal world from which there could be no escape. Still, they might have backed out more gracefully. They are supposed to be interested in entertaining people.
While I found "Last Knight" both shocking and painful, I do not believe it was truly "sad" or a betrayal to FK fans and cast. Some have written that Nick deserved better. But exactly how was he ever going to achieve this? It seems to me that the physical demands placed upon him as a vampire along with his memories of past acts, could never hope to be reconciled with his desire to be mortal or to live to the highest moral standards.
Thus through his death, Nick does achieve the best he can hope for ... eternal peace. While tragic (even for me as a fan) it achieves for Nick what so many others have been calling for, that is, a "happy" ending. The end of torment, the end of an 800 year struggle.
As for Natalie, I agree that she didn't "deserve" death. However death did spare her two bitter cups. Had Nick left her, she would have mourned his loss, perhaps for the rest of her life. And if she had been brought across, then she would have faced the same difficulties as Nick. And it is highly likely that she would have gone the way of most vampires and accommodated her "guilt" for taking human lives as a means of survival.
So if Nick does bring her across, the odds for a happy long term relationship would have been quite low. Either she shares his torment for several hundred years, she accommodates her way of life and eventually moves away from Nick, or Nick and she both finally accommodate vampiric life and lose their morality.
I believe that the happiest long-term ending to the Nick/Nat love affair was exactly how "Last Knight" implies it ended.
As to those who imagine that Tracy and Nat get brought across and Nick survives, well this is a fantasy show and you are entitled to your own fantasies. But there is nothing in that last episode which really supports those interpretations.
One last thought. After 3 years of enjoying LaCroix but despising his outlook on life, it was masterful how the writers had us feeling pity for him in the end. He was one of the last characters in any show that I would have expected to feel pity for.
-- Dana
I though this episode was done with the sensitivity of an ice cube. No Nick/Nat touching flashbacks, no I love you's, a "making-love" scene that totally sucked. I could have handled the ending, if as much effort went into the "love" angle as went into the "desperation" angle. The only touching scenes were Nick getting Nat away from the suicide scene and Nick/Nat at the loft. Nat gave her life for Nick. She told him she wasn't afraid or death or spending eternity in darkness with him. She gave him a chance and a reason to finally be free of the vampire. He promised he would be with her whatever happens. They are both dead. This episode's moral lesson: Don't become too attached to a TV show.
I thought that the final episode of FK was beautifullly written, superbly acted, and that it held faithful to the characters' development and the premise of the show. Unfortunately, my heart hasn't accepted the significance of this critique.
This last episode was so heart wrenching, I knew what was coming, but I kept wishing for a different ending. That wish I'm sure I share with so many other fans. I've never been affected so much by a television show as I have been by FK. I seldom watch television really, except that I have never missed a single episode of FK in all its three seasons. Yet, like Nat and Nick, I still have faith that my two favorite characters can have a life together, that the show still possesses the possibility of being resurrected once again to continue to grow and develop the characters and story of FK, and that both current and new fans will always have a place in their heart for this show. Faith is something that is not solely reserved for the unknowable places of heaven and hell. I will love Nick, Natalie, Janette, all the other great characters of FK, and LaCroix (that evil but complex and poetic devil's advocate), forever.
-- Lynn Kuntz
I was left with a little bit of emptiness as well, regarding the series finale. It occurred to me though that it was fitting. Nick spent all those years searching for humanity and faith. In the end, he found the peace he was looking for. For me personally, Nigel Bennett outdid himself in the episode. I'm a professional actor as well and I was deeply moved by Lacroix's soliloquoys and his interactions with Nick. It was depressing, but I think we should be open minded to the fact that Nick had finally grasped his lost humanity. I think the creative staff had too much respect for the show to end on a "riding off into the sunset" type of ending. I will miss this show and I wish the cast all the best.
-- Paul Coffman
I have been watching FK since the latter half of the second season. It is the best show ever. I thought "Last Knight" was a truly remarkable ending for a truly remarkable show. I thought it was very interesting how it was all about faith. My only criticism was the a actress they hired to play the psychiatrist seemed a little too young. Anyway, now to the compliments. Great acting and directing. Geraint is amazing. He is so talented. Nick knew he and Natalie could never be together. In "Dead of Night" Alyssa told him "Because of what you are and what you have done we cannot be together". Thus, even though he knew mortality was possible because of Janette, he didn't have enough faith in himself to believe he could make Natalie happy. Natalie loved Nick. Just as a side note, Catherine Disher delivered the news about Tracy's death with a slight smile. Anyway Natalie had such faith in Nick. Lacroix even demonstrated he believes in the possibility of faith in Ashes to Ashes when he said he may even say a prayer. Last Knight showed how much Lacroix cared for Nick. Damn you Nicholas meant both that he hated Nick's choice and in a way, Nick for making him destroy his beloved creation. I thought Nigel Bennett made an interesting acting choice by also seeming about to cry. Geraint's eyes seemed to be begging Lacroix to put him out of his misery. Thus, in the end in the words of the Inca, he rejoined the sun. I'll never forget this show.
-- Anonymous
At first everything seems like a regular episode of forever knight until the scene where Natalie and Nick are talking and the camara starts rotating in circles then everything that is said and done is weird and unlike any Forever Knight episode I have ever seen.
I don't know if you have ever passed out, but I have, and the first thing that happens when you pass out is everything spins around for a few seconds. That's the exact feeling I get while watching that scene with the spinning camara. So in my opinion this whole episode was Natalie's sub-conscious dream as she lies passed out on the floor of the morgue.
A couple of other reasons I think this was Natalie's dream is because LaCroix would never pack up and leave, but Natalie might hope he would; Natalie said "I love you" to Nick at least three times in this episode but Nick never said it to Natalie, and that's because I'm not sure Natalie is 100% sure that Nick really loves her. LaCroix says something about a peach tasting sweet, but LaCroix has been a vampire for how many years (why would he make a reference to food?), but Natalie is a mortal so she might think that, and if it's her dream she would be making up the words.
There is a lot of talk about faith being a mortal thing. LaCroix is also very easy going about Natalie being dead at the end and that's how Natalie might view how he'd be; Nick isn't very upset about Natalie being dead in this episode, and look how upset he was when he thought she was hurt in "Let No Man Tear Asunder". You'd think he'd be a little more upset at her being dead then being hurt, which brings me back to this being Natalie's dream and if she is not sure if Nick loves her then she might think he would act so normal at her being dead.
-- Kristen-Ann
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! I can't believe my eyes nor my ears. What a killing spree. How could they killed everyone? I mean, it was a dark ending; kind of having more in common with the beggining of the series than this third (I still hope not final) season. Maybe I'm a happy ending type of person, what's wrong with that?
How come LaCroix is the only one left "alive" (or should I say "undead")? If Lucius' (LaCroix's) vampire daughter was reanimated after the seal of her tomb was broken, they can bring back Vachon and the other secondary vampire characters. I can't believe LaCroix stuck the stake into Nick. Anyway, if he did, he can always take it out. No problem there. As for Natalie, I can't believe in my heart that she would commit suicide ever, nor that Nick sucked too much blood as to kill her: no way in hell! Now, if Tracy's dad was such a dominating man (remember he wanted to govern his daughter's life as if she was his puppet), how come we never saw him? Her parents would have been by ber side at the hospital. She was badly injured, dying, alone? I don't think so.
-- Gloria Chavez
Why is it that Natalie would act so untrue to her character? I mean, come on, this is Natalie here. I don't believe that she would consent to a life of darkness. Nick and Nat never really seemed like lovers to me.
-- Chris S
I've watched this ep. several times now. The first time it left me very depressed. Someone said in their comments to rewatch it "...and see the beauty." So I did. The second time I was left feeling confused. The show didn't seem "real". The shots from outside the police station (and inside, for that matter), the repetition of LaCroix's monologue, and the circling effect all led me to question if this was someone's (Nat, Nick, LaCroix) nightmare.
So, I watched it again. I still believe it was more a dream than an actuality, but I pushed that aside to analyze the character motivation. This time I was mad. I don't doubt that Nat would push Nick to take her across or make love to her. Nor can I see her letting Nick leave without asking to go with him. But, until this show, I always felt Nick loved Nat, and now I don't. Before anyone says it, yes I know he asked to die rather than live without her, but so what? He has always been guilt-ridden and melancholy.
First of all, he's not willing to bring her across. LaCroix looked more disappointed at Nick's choice than Nick did (LaCroix even suggested a burial -- that really shocked me). If you love someone, aren't you supposed to love her in all circumstances? Nick didn't know she would drastically change or become evil, but he didn't want to try it. Why? He brought Janette across when she asked him not to, he was going to bring Tracy across, and finally, he did try to bring Allysa across -- he failed, but that was not the case with Nat ... she was on the brink, and Nick chose not to bring her over.
Second, there was no love in the love scene. Nick never says the words "I love you" not even once. Nat got one measly kiss, her wrist sniffed,and then he drained her. She was told in previous eps. that it was a beautiful, passionate experience, but all she got were painful,evil memories. There were no memories of her and him, and she didn't seem to enjoy it.
Finally, Nick told LaCroix in "Be My Valentine" that he was using Nat. Nat says in "My Boyfriend is a Vampire" that Nick is using her and that she needs to break away. Nick swears he isn't using her and "..that you will never know how much I care." But if we are to take this final ep. as true, which I still don't, then he was using her. He should have let her go then in "My Boyfriend is a Vampire" but he didn't. And when she asked for a real commitment, he killed her. It was his guilt at realizing that he had been using her that made him want to die.
All in all, it sucked dirty dishwater. Tell whoever is having this nightmare to wake up and roll over.
-- Amanda S
Sure the ending was lacking a happy-go-lucky-very-un-vampiric ending -- but there wasn't any other real way to end it "right". Besides, we still have LaCroix...
-- Sis
I have been torn apart by this! Why did they have to kill off the whole cast? Did they not have a cure for this?? They have broken all of our hearts, and they sit there just looking at us.
After reading everyone comments on Last Knight, I thought it was time to give my opinion. I have to say that I agree with Amanda S. and some other people who say that it must have been someone's dream or nightmare. Too many un-answered questions left in that episode which leads me to believe that we may be able to bring Forever Knight back.
The ending, while leading us to believe that LaCroix has put the stake through Nick, doesn't show it happening. We see him appear to stake Nick (and Nat?) but we don't see him actually do it. With all the other "bloody" shots in that episode. One would think that they would have shown that too.
If this was Nat's dream/nightmare then this would explain not seeing Nick actually get staked. Nat would have no idea of what would happen if he was staked, therefore she would not have that in her dream/nightmare.
LaCroix is too emotional in this episode, too. As if he is starting to see Nick's point of view, which we all know he never would. But again, Nat would want this to happen -- if LaCroix started thinking at all like Nick does, Nat would have an easier time (in her mind) of helping Nick.
-- Judy Perry
I watched the season finale and found it, like everybody else did, shocking. However, even though the conversation that is going on can be slightly confusing at times, I believe that doesn't have to mean an end to Forever Knight. In fact, it looks like it was written two ways. One for a sad ending, and another for a dramatic situation that can be renewed. Perhaps it's the work of one of the writers to express that Forever Knight is in the same situation in real life as it is within the show.
Also, it is very likely that Nick would move on if there was another episode. With or without Natalie. This could take care of the fact that the stages and props are being sold. The only characters who I think probably will have to stay dead are Tracy and Vachon.
Not much hope for them I guess.
-- Diad
I'm actually cheating and sending you a critique of Last Knight. I was pretty clueless, and watched it in rerun on Fox on Sunday at midnight and realized halfway through it was a season finale, but not until I cruised the Web did I figure out it was the finale of the show! I'm annoyed because I thought the show had a lot of story left... but as a season finale, I give it a 10.
It spiralled towards the shocking, yet inevitable denouement seamlessly. Grandly gothic. I don't see how the show can be resurrected now; it would destroy the integrity of the episode... (what, LaCroix actually knocks Nick out and drags him off to a new city next season?)
I loved Tracy's final line ("You could have trusted me"), and that final confrontation with LaCroix. I was still thinking about the episode the next day.
My caveat has to do with two things -- I guess as much as I liked Nick and Nat, they seemed more like good buds moving towards romance rather than a grand, doomed couple -- maybe I missed a lot of episodes, but I didn't really see why Nick would kill himself for her (I'm sure I'll get a lot of hatemail now). Also, I really hated "Human Factor" and the way that Janette allegedly became human. So Anne Rice.
Ok, I've had my say. I hope they rerun this episode so I can tape it for posterity. I'm sorry that Forver Knight is gone, it was a terrific show, and got treated very badly by CBS and USA. Maybe it will rise again, vampire-like, but I just don't see how.
-- S. T. Shimi
I think perhaps I wandered into Natalie's nightmare. That would certainly explain Nick's indifference to her. Perhaps in the next episode (we hope) Nat will wake up to discover Nick in her shower. Or, since we didn't actually see Nick get staked, and Nat wasn't quite dead, Nick will come to his senses and remember the hospital does these things called blood transfusions.
And drinking from Nat was a pretty stupid idea to begin with. Could he really have thought that he would be able to control himself when he hadn't had human blood for so long? Not to mention the added temptation of learning everything about Nat by drinking her dry (as explained in "Francesca").
Anyway, while the episode itself was well acted and directed, I just can't live with the fact everyone's dead!! Poor Tracy, we hardly got to know her. Many people have mentioned that the series ended on a realistic note. Well, who wants reality in a TV show? Where is our ray of hope against the darkness? Nick may have faith, but I want a happy ending I can see.
-- Mary Beth Fisher
As disappointing as the ending was, this episode was truly effective at bringing us into the real feelings of Nicholas, Natalie and Tracy. I admit I would have enjoyed the Hollywood happy ending of the return of Human Nick and happiness for all, except for LaCroix. He was the perfect foil for Nick's efforts and took great pleasure, and it was ours as well, of Nicholas' human efforts. As a matter of fact, in most flashbacks, Nick acted fairly human (as in "Blind Faith".
Anyway, I mostly wanted to say that I truly look forward to seeing the actors in new things. Thank you to all the cast and crew!
-- Jerry B
Like many others, I too have been a fan of 'Forever Knight' since the begining. And like many others I was not happy with the cancellation. I can understand them not renewing the series, but to kill everyone off? This are a two positive notes I'd like to mention:
-- Paul
I had no idea that the show was being cancelled. I was truly traumatized by the abrupt and bloody way it ended. Sitting down expecting a normal show, I was treated to a rather bizarre series of events culminating in the death of all the main characters. It seems that someone was trying to put a stake through the heart of the series itself.
-- Joe Carlton
I found the final episode to be very powerful as well as depressing. Tragedy is often central to these kind of stories, but so is redemption. I've always found the detective premise to be problematic, so if they do ressurect the series, it might give them the chance to come up with a more plausible (for a show about vampires) story. I think both Nat and Nick were a little reckless to not have Nick try to take the edge off his blood hunger before trying their experiment, but those who fail to learn the lessons of history...
-- Spyre
Forever Knight was one of my favorite shows and the had to end it. They should not have canceled the show. When I saw the last episode I was furious and I still am. All they did was kill off all the characters. The ending really sucked. Nick should not have died. After all these years of searching for a better way to live he has to die. I hated the ending; he should have lived even if he had to move to another city and start over. Also, all the other characters had to be killed so that the show can never come back on. That is very unfair. They should have let at least some of the characters live. The show needs to come back on the air. Even if it has to be with all new charaters.
-- Sarek
"Last Knight" was a poetic, disturbing, and perfect ending for the show. I hated to have to see it. I do believe that it was the only ending that is true to the characters and premise of the show, and even though I wished for a "happy" ending, I know that it would have sold out the show. The oncoming sense of doom was present from the beginning and it was very powerful. I will greatly miss it.
The sunrise at the end was perfect.
-- Alan
Actually, "Damn you, Nick" was because LaCroix was mad at Nick because he actually had to show some weakness and he hates that. See, the only thing LaCroix respected was love. He loved Nick's sister, and Nick convinced him not to take her because it would destroy the innocence in her that was what he loved. LaCroix said to Nick that he would make him feel the same pain of leaving a lover behind, someday. Nat was Nick's love and LaCroix tried to convince Nick to leave her. LaCroix kills Nick so Nick can be with her when he sees how much pain Nick is in over killing her. LaCroix's weakness is the love of his "children" and want for them to be happy, no matter what. He could not let Nick suffer what he had when he left Nick's sister.
Or something like that.
-- Nosfer
I don't know wether to hate or love this episode. Even though I only watched the show for one and a half seasons, I'd grown very attached to the characters, and was shocked about how they ended the show; I was crying for a week afterwards! Having Tracy, then Nat and then Nick die was a bit much for one episode, I was still getting over Vachon and Urs, for crying out loud!
But, it was a nice touch having Lacroix doing the deed, and seeing the sunrise as the final shot. But, did Nick die mortal or not? That was the whole premise of the show, and they leave you hanging. (I think he died mortal, because he wasn't crying red stained tears) I guess we'll never know... At least they ended the show with a bang! (Or a stake through the heart)
-- Crystalyn
After all these years of watching and following this show it is indeed sad to see it pass. This episode was indeed not what I had expected, though my wife was very happy to finally see the death of Tracy. It was wonderful to see the cops always get their perp (or at times others dispatching them) contrary to what cops actually get these days. I would have liked to see more especially along the story line of exactly what the "enforcers" (you remember those snappy black dressed gents who killed those who threatened to expose the vampire community) were all about, but, alas the mystery may die with the series.
-- Jim Strong
This was one of the best episodes of any T.V. show. True, I am sad to see it go, but in the end they all got what they wanted. Tracy is with Vachon, and Nick is with Natalie. In the end, I think Nick finally became human because of his faith in the love between he and Natalie. The cold heart that they talk about endlessly finally was warmed, and the doubt replaced with faith that a vampire cannot have as part of his nature.
I beg of all those "save Forever Knight" fans to let the show rest in peace. After all, all good things must come to an end.
-- Ann Kelleher
Does anyone know why the writers chose to end the series on such a sad note? It just seems that knowing how much the fans care about these characters they could have given us the happy ending we deserve.
-- Renée
Most people are complaining about this episode...and the fan fiction people are always trying to rewrite the ending... but I feel that it was the only ending that would work. It's kind of a "Romeo ad Juliet" type of plot. They both love each other, but because of what they are, they can't be together. And in the ends of both stories, they are finally together in death. This was the only ending that would work for the series. If Nick had succeded in his quest for mortality, the series would be over anyway. And his finding mortality would be too happy an ending, And this show has never been about happiness. It has been about pain, and loss, and loneliness. I'm assuming that most (or at least quite a few) fans of this show have seen "The Crow" The brief monologue at the beginning of the movie sum up my opinions about the topic. And as far as killing off all the characters goes, It was really, as I said, the only way. There are no loose ends, no possible way to ressurect the series. I never saw Forever Knight as meant for anything more than a television series. In movies, the plot always overwhelms the characterization. FK was always a deep show. It based it's following on characterization, rather than on action. And LaCroix; he finally shed the cold, taunting exterior, and did what Nicholas asked of him. That, in my opinion, is the greatest act of love that LaCroix ever showed to Nicholas.
Just the ravings of a Necrophiliac, but it's how I feel.
-- Leigh Robertson
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