Scenes with Both Janette and Natalie
Friday, January 20th, 2012 10:36 amWhen celli kindly beta-read "A Hunt by Any Other Name," my
fandom_stocking Janette and Natalie stuck-in-an-elevator story, we chatted about the challenge of bringing those characters together.
The nature of Forever Knight keeps Janette and Natalie apart. Whether we diagram the characters as a linear continuum, or overlapping circles, or atomic shells, the story structure puts Nick in the middle and Janette and Natalie to either side (with Lacroix and Schanke a step beyond them), representing Nick's different worlds, his dual nature. Canon embodies some themes by physically anchoring Janette in her club and Natalie in her lab, while moving Nick between them (how much the club and the lab are respectively full of life and of death, and the thematic questions and reversals in that, is a fascinating topic of its own).
If I'm counting correctly, canon puts Janette and Natalie in the same scene in just 9 episodes (out of 70), for a total of 10-12 separate scenes (depending how you count scene interruptions). They're together in the Raven 6 times, the loft 2, and once each at the morgue and a crime scene. In aired order — which, in second season, is not production order, and not the order on the DVDs; grateful as I am for the DVDs, their order still irritates me — they are: ( list )
Did I forget any?
[Addendum: Per pj1228, I forgot "Close Call." It's now listed. Thanks!]