Whenever I rewatch first season, I fall in love with FK again.

[brightknightie]

I love first season Forever Knight. :-) Especially that sweet middle block from "Dying to Know You" through "Dying for Fame," but really all of it.

Not that we don't all know this about me as an abstract intellectual fact, but I mention it because I was just re-watching "Cherry Blossoms" and feeling the delight of one smart scene after another, in the freedom of that canonical moment. Sure, yes, the episode has its costuming, continuity and script fumbles; it's not perfect. But it's really, really, really good. Like first season as a whole.

The second and third seasons present problems to be solved; they need us! The first season is just about just right exactly as it is.

Comments

[senmut]

"Cherry Blossoms" is possibly one of my favorite stories in the series.

[brightknightie]

"Cherry Blossoms" is one of my favorites, too! It's a really wonderful episode, with such internal congruity, and great moments for all the characters.

[greerwatson]

Well, I didn't see Season 1 until two years after the show was over, barring a few episodes that were shown before CTV started showing Season 2 in the fall. And those I didn't tape at the time, and couldn't rewatch.

Fortuitously, the first show I taped was "Killer Instinct" (and that was simply because I was going to have dinner with my mother at the same time). For me, therefore, it is Season 2 that provides the base line from which I judge the rest of the series.

[brightknightie]

You are of course welcome to like what you like. :-)

[greerwatson]

Oh, I like all the seasons. :)

[havocthecat]

First season is the best season, in my opinion, because of the undercurrent of hope that runs through everything. There are things I like about seasons two and three, but season one is my favorite for the sense of hope and freedom that, well, dies away slowly (for Nick, but quickly for Janette) in season two with the return of Lacroix.

[brightknightie]

There's so much to praise in first season, and the pervasive hope is at the top of my list! First season understands that a heroic journey is toward the right thing, not the easy or pleasurable thing, so challenges don't get confused with failure.

I love second and third seasons, too, in their ways, of course. But they... forget from where they came.

[greerwatson]

LaCroix, of course, would say that it is the first season that forgot whence Nick came—and thereafter he did his utmost to remind us.