Lacroix with appendicitis?

Someone who found my "Bright Knight" website this week emailed to ask if I could recall a story about Lacroix going to Natalie after being attacked by Nick, and developing appendicitis.  This didn't ring a bell for me.  Does it for you?  People often talk about how difficult it is to injure or sicken FK's vampire characters for stories -- hurt/comfort is hard to render with all that supernatural healing going on! -- so I'd suppose that accomplishing a convincing illness for Lacroix would be memorable.  Whatever the story is, I must have missed it the first time around.

Over in oldschoolfic ficathon news, my first draft is complete.  ~9,000 words.  FK's first season.  Now for polishing diligently until the deadline this coming weekend.

In recommendations project news, I've procrastinated requesting permission to feature the desired story to the last minute again.  Why do I do this almost every month?  Procrastination isn't even a standard Knightie personality flaw! ;-)

Flavors of First Season

[Crossposted from forkni-l.  In Saturday's digest, a long-time listmember reminisced about running dual VCRs to discover the differences between the Canadian and US cuts long ago, and pondered doing it again now to pin down what's missing from the DVDs, in response to what wiliqueen and I discovered missing from "I Will Repay" on the DVD.]

That would be a great favor to the fandom!  I would follow your progress eagerly.  But I'm afraid it might even take three TVs this time: US cut, Canadian cut and the DVDs.  Four if we can circulate the first-run German cut.  (Is it lucky or unlucky that only first season comes in quite so many flavors?)

When the first-season DVDs came out, I checked "Last Act" to reassure myself that no footage was missing, even though the run-times clearly indicated the first-run Canadian cuts.  I picked "Last Act" because it's peculiar in having some footage that aired only in the US as well as some that aired only in Canada (and, besides, it's so good! ~g~).  ( Read more... )

I should have checked more episodes, obviously. :-)  Why, why, why would anyone cut Nick and Lacroix's exchange about souls from the flashbacks of "False Witness"?  Madness!

Golly, but I love first season.  I rewatched "Fatal Mistake" recently, and kept thinking that while it was perhaps the least admired episode of first season, and surely suffers two painful script burbles as well as arguably one of the worst necks-of-the-week ever, it is nevertheless smart, well-constructed and satisfying.