Dark Knight I/II

[ithildin]

Welcome to Forever Knight Episode discussion. We're starting at the beginning, and depending how it goes, we'll do one to two eps a week. Please feel free to pass the link on to any fellow FK fans!

Dark Knight, Air Date: May. 1992

Someone is killing a number of homeless people and draining their blood. Then a museum guard is killed the same way and a special artifact is stolen, a Mayan cup that Nick believes can help him become mortal again. Nick suspects that his old mentor Lacroix is in town and behind the murders. Forced into a partnership with the unbearable Detective Schanke, Nick has to face both Lacroix and the Homeless Killer while trying to protect his friends.. ~ via tv.com

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'For I Have Sinned' will be up on Tuesday.

Comments

Re: Beer Fridges!

[havocthecat]

So...elaborate? On the take on LaCroix differing from those of us who started watching in s1, that is.

*started watching with the Rick Springfield movie but doesn't want to admit it*

Re: Beer Fridges!

[sharpiesgal.livejournal.com]

Are you a rick springfield closet whore???

(I mean that in the nicest fashion, 'cause I am.)

Re: Beer Fridges!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I love him on General Hospital.

Re: Beer Fridges!

[sharpiesgal.livejournal.com]

me too....and he's back...Noah Drake is still to dies for!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!

Re: Beer Fridges!

[havocthecat]

Hee. Sadly, I'm not. I like his music, actually, but I'm not a huge fangirl of his stuff. :)

Re: Beer Fridges!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Well, the first ep I saw was "Close Call", then "Curiouser and Curiouser", and 'Stranger than Fiction". I started out with a LaCroix who wasn't the devil incarnate like he's presented in a lot of season one FBs. If I'd seen the series from the beginning, while no doubt Nick would still have gotten on my nerves [g], I may have been a little more in his corner and less inclined to have LaCroix become my favourite character. Maybe!

Lacroix No.1 and Lacroix No. 2

[midnight-reader.livejournal.com]

I can't remember what Lacroix I came across first... I remember having watched the movie and thinking it was ok but when the show started, it took me a little while to realise that I had seen the pilot/movie before.
But the thing I've noticed with Lacroix is that he always sent this vibe that was 'don't mess with me sweetie, I know fifty ways to torture you without touching a hair on your head'. It didn't really matter if he was playing nice or demented, that vibe was always there with the lift of an eyebrow... it's part of what makes him so attractive as a character, the aura that NB was able to give him without camping him up to high heaven.

Luicia

Re: Lacroix No.1 and Lacroix No. 2

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, NB played the role so well. He was never really totally bad nor totally good. He just was. In fact he was the most human to me. Yes, I know how that sounds, but think about it. He wants what is best for his "children". He works to protect them from their own folly, pushes them, punishes them, and sometimes lets them fall and get hurt to learn. He also beats the C*** out of them when they piss him off.

His motives are more human than anyone - even Nick who to me was basically is a rebel child through most of the shows.

Roberta

Re: Lacroix No.1 and Lacroix No. 2

[havocthecat]

See, I loathed LC because I always felt that he tried to keep Nick and Janette from developing their own independence. My personal feeling is that he was a control freak, which, well, fits with his history and his mortal life, really. (IMO, YMMV, etc.)

I'm totally aware that there's a large segment of the fandom, however, that's just not going to agree with me. :) But I'm NatPack, and our general distaste for LC is fairly well-known. Or at least it was when I was more active in FK fandom.

To me, Natalie and Don were the most human of the characters--they had human lives, human concerns, and looked at people as more than playthings. And that last part is the real dividing line (again, imo) between LC and anyone else. I felt that he viewed everyone else as a plaything, and not even Janette took it to that extreme. (I adore Janette, and she's the second most inhuman of the characters on the series, next to LC. But LC's habit of treating everyone as a toy for his own amusement is what really gets to me.)