FK Recently: What You All Have Been Up To (3/1/22-4/3/22)

For the month of March, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest elected prompts for common use and comes due 5/28 for reveals starting 5/30. See the optional reader-request post or the gameplay post.
• genprompt_bingo opened its Round 22. As always, prompts are gen; fills may be anything.
• story_works is hosting a month-long April Fools flash challenge.
• unconventionalcourtship, the annual challenge where the prompts are Mills&Boon/Harlequin plots, has sign-ups through 6/14.
• 3weeks4dreamwidth will celebrate Dreamwidth's anniversary 4/25-5/15.
• domaystic has a domestic tropes prompt challenge. The AO3 collection will be open 5/01-5/31.
• fancake's April round's theme is "comfortfic."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 2 of the 1,161 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Absence and Desire" by PJ1228 (M, m/f, ~16K words) (part 2 of a series)
• "The Way Back" by Cyllene (T, m/f, ~9K words)

FK news & conversation
3/10: pj1228 shared that Lisa Ryder had a guest role in the latest Murdoch Mysteries. Read the post.

What are your least-favorite FK bits? Why?

What are a couple of your personally least-favorite episodes or scenes of Forever Knight? Why those?

Define "least favorite" however you like! Worst executed. Worst concept. Best try that fell flattest. The one you watched when you had food poisoning and can't think of without feeling ill again. ;-) But if a particular episode element -- a scene, a trope, an omission, a logic failure, a contradiction, a missed opportunity -- especially bugs you, that's really what I have in mind today.

I'm brainstorming for FKFicFest. I've found over the years that arguing a point is often my personal readiest spark. For example, the story I wrote last year came completely from cringing my way through a re-watch of "Trophy Girl," which I see as not just an illogical mess, but a wasted opportunity that could have been great if only it had taken its own investigation seriously and not wallowed with the irrelevant imprisoned character (Nick doesn't need anyone to tell him how serial killers think) (also, "Crazy Love" did it better) (and so did "Love You to Death"). For another example -- not mine this time -- "Be My Valentine" launched a thousand fics arguing passionately against its apparent supposition that Natalie could be hypnotized despite the evidence of "Only the Lonely" and "A More Permanent Hell" (and thus it's become deep, wide fanon that Natalie was drugged and/or faking).

I'm curious what comes to mind for you! Thank you!