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The past few months, I haven’t happened to see any FK discussion, so I thought I might try to share something I’ve been thinking about. Perhaps some of you might like to share your own very different takes on your own journals? It’s risky, though. This is an opinion, and a less than popular one, at that. Um. Please don’t hurt me? Or each other!
I love Forever Knight. Let’s start there! That’s not controversial. FK is my all-time favorite television show. History, mystery, metaphysics. Its first season is by far my favorite of its three seasons. And Nick, its protagonist, whom I see as both an essential everyman struggling toward salvation and a noble hero in the undertow of a dark night of the soul, is my favorite of its characters. FK at its best is brilliant, supple, satisfying storytelling, rich in overlapping genres, metaphors, and lessons. And, at its best, it’s amazingly, unusually, insightfully pro-woman (not just for its time and genre, but especially considering those). All these years later, I never cease to be delighted, comforted, and grateful to all of you who love FK along with me -- all, no matter how we each individually see our FK.
And that’s always been a thing, hasn’t it? FK fandom has disagreed on how to fundamentally interpret the show since at least the second-season premiere, when the series tone shifted like a tectonic plate. It’s not just that some of us prefer the history to the mystery, or the mystery to the horror, or the horror to the metaphysics, or the metaphysics to the romance, or the romance to the adventure. It’s not just that we have different favorite characters, seasons, episodes, and themes. It’s also that some of us feel that Nick is right to save lives, atone for his sins, strive for humanity, and turn his back on vampirism, while others… don’t.
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I love Forever Knight. Let’s start there! That’s not controversial. FK is my all-time favorite television show. History, mystery, metaphysics. Its first season is by far my favorite of its three seasons. And Nick, its protagonist, whom I see as both an essential everyman struggling toward salvation and a noble hero in the undertow of a dark night of the soul, is my favorite of its characters. FK at its best is brilliant, supple, satisfying storytelling, rich in overlapping genres, metaphors, and lessons. And, at its best, it’s amazingly, unusually, insightfully pro-woman (not just for its time and genre, but especially considering those). All these years later, I never cease to be delighted, comforted, and grateful to all of you who love FK along with me -- all, no matter how we each individually see our FK.
And that’s always been a thing, hasn’t it? FK fandom has disagreed on how to fundamentally interpret the show since at least the second-season premiere, when the series tone shifted like a tectonic plate. It’s not just that some of us prefer the history to the mystery, or the mystery to the horror, or the horror to the metaphysics, or the metaphysics to the romance, or the romance to the adventure. It’s not just that we have different favorite characters, seasons, episodes, and themes. It’s also that some of us feel that Nick is right to save lives, atone for his sins, strive for humanity, and turn his back on vampirism, while others… don’t.
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