This one goes all the way to the top! Forever Knight-athon s01e11
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It's also fasinating that they addressed the at least 40% of all domestic abuse is cops long before it was known.
I think you’re probably well-intentioned, but this is a misreading of the data. It is not that 40% of all domestic abuse is cops, but rather that 40% of cops self-report “marital conflicts involving physical aggression during the previous year.” policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/files/original/5528df2d5b5c33cfeaa930146cfe20ccb5cad0cd.pdf
Pretty sure it's 40% of Cops self-identified as being perpetrators of IPV, but close enough🤷🏽♂️
I am growing increasingly distressed by the fact that I USED TO WATCH THIS WITH MY MOM.
Damn... I didn't expect a silly vampire cop show to go so hard.
Fun fact: There was an original pilot from 1989, made in America, that was filmed as a 92 minute TV movie, and was meant to lead into a series, but it was never picked up.
It was called 'Nick Knight' and starred Rick Springfield in the lead role.
Then in 1992 CBS decided to do the series, but they retooled it and produced it in Canada with a completely new cast (except for the actor that plays Schanke), they reused the movie plot for the first two episodes, and changed the name to 'Forever Knight' ...and the rest is history!
Nick Knight is such a massive downgrade from Forever Knight that I'm forced to believe that the execs looked at the pilot and passed solely because the title had no juice.
@@surpriseandterror9698 😆
Forever Knight will forever be my knight
Schanke is Picker from Justified too
Suddenly I understand what the modern TMNT movies are missing. They don't have enough lizard dangling bad guys.
What is even the point of being a bad guy if you don't get a dangle lizard?
@@goddessoftransitory2038 Every DS9 fan just sent you a lightyear long stare.
edit: ...on account of that giving a Very Different Mental Image than you probably intended.
I just need to say that the guy in the bowtie (aurther) pronounced Schanke reasonably well as if it were German. But since his name is 'skanky' instead, its great because Schanke is being condescending to someone smart enough to pronounce the name how it should be on his first attempt. Great writing imo, for characterizing Schanke as an ass further. Love it, I see why you missed it.
As a German guy I missed it too. Since he didn't truly say it in a German way, which would include an "e" at the end. Where Arthur said "shank", like shanking someone. I dunno why I wrote this, must be my leftist brain
Yeah, definitely not how it's pronounced in German. Would habe been neat though 😊
"Hey, it's past 1 pm, where's the new Forever Knight review?" *refresh* "Oh there it is"
The gubbins thing reminds me of the episode of psycho pass that has a character named spooky boogie, and every time someone says the name out loud you’re completely taken out of the serious tone of the show to laugh at how funny it sounds
the world would be poorer without the spooky boogie supercut
You are SO right
😂
"Spookie Boogie" sounds like some kind of s3xual innuendo between Halloween enthusiasts
I also thought that Arthur, the forensics guy Schanke hassles, was going to turn out to be a more significant character. Then I saw that Arthur is played by a George Kapelos and this is his only credited acting role, so I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that someone behind the scenes just thought it would be fun to give John Kapelos' brother a bit part. In hindsight, I can definitely see a family resemblance.
It’s great watching this series and recognizing coral lamp shades and floral couch covers from my childhood
I like to imagine that all of us who are liking your comment are not just appreciating the fun weirdness, but all actually had the same coral lamp shades and floral couch covers...
@@ssatva I'm sad to report it's not all of us.
How I dread the end of January, and the endless kdawn to follow
Dreadful
I gotta say this, buddy. You must be living in my head to have known that this series of videos doing recaps of this TV show from the '90s was exactly what I needed to see. You just don't know, my friend!
Fun fact: The random guy Arthur is John Kapelos' brother in real life. No wonder he was picking on him. 🙂
Oh and another bit. That wasn't just some random painter dude, that was Bosch. He of the scary and sexy fantasy paintings of yor. Honestly this episode did him dirty
Yes, he's specifically painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Yeah. I guess not much is known about Hieronymus Bosch and he probably doesn't have any known living descendants who might have taken legal action against the producers of Forever Knight, leaving the writers free to take whatever creative liberties they liked. Still, it doesn't sit right with me that they'd take a real historical figure and based on nothing, randomly decide to portray him as a r@pist.
I looked Bosch up because this got me so curious why they picked him. He is from Brabant, which later eps will reveal that is Nicholas' original home. (The character's original name is Nicholas de Brabant, and changes slightly throughout the centuries to be Nick Knight in the 1990s.) And Bosch lived in the mid 1400s to the early 1500s, so Nicholas could have met him at about the age of 275.
This kind of daily exposure to Mildew is much better than the daily exposure to mildew that comes with living where I live
Furthermore fuck landlords join a tenants union 🏴
That's so Gubbins!
I feel like the cop aspect of the show is a much bigger part than the vampire stuff
When you started this series I did NOT expect to actually get invested
Maybe not in Canada, but in the USA cops will answer your phone.
At least 20 years ago when more folk used land lines.
Like a vampire, if invited in they can do what they want.
Now, with cell phones, if it rings they can tell you to answer it and if you don't you're not complying with the law.
This could be spun as "I am conducting an investigation and suspected this to be a potential lead", right?
That and sometimes people would want their landline phones answered whenever it rings, and given there was about a 60 second chance to do so until you missed the call forever, you maybe would be cool with anyone in your home answering, so you could get to it in a few minutes. Kind of depended on the situation though, my 90s household got on the answering machine/caller ID bandwagons early for reasons.
Lacroix Ratio: 7:11
Nicks dead love interest ratio: 7:11
I'm loving these recaps. It's a bummer this show wasn't available in my country when I grew up cuz it's definitely the type of shit I woulda've been into!
You can kind of see the sign outside The Raven club when Nick leaves in the first episode. It's a blink and miss it type of shot.
How many of these must we be subjected to without Bobby Duke, star of the channel, taking his rightful place?
This show's shameful secret, the one neither Bobby nor Mildread will ever admit to, is that Bobby actually never watched Forever Knight and doesn't really know what Mildo is talking about.
Highlight of my January
Gubbins is also the name of a phone game Hank Green bought a percentage of. It's okay, I think I definitely got my $6 or so out of it.
DFTBA friend. 🖖🏻🖖🏻
I really hope we get a long form video once you're through with the series and get some over arching theme analysis, episode ranking and the like.
I didn't know I needed this series but I'm personally fine with 2024 being the year of the Knight.
2:40: Neither pornography nor lizards deserve to be associated with this kind of cartoon evil.
"4evar 90s: good knight"
The Forever Knight-athon has been my after work ritual all month. I come home; I watch. Great work, Milred, and Bobby Duke, star of the channel!
The painting they were modelling for was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', by Hieronimus Bosch. I have no idea why that particular piece would require actual human models. Does anyone else find this weird?
I'm guessing that artists would have needed actual humans, as there weren't reference photos back then. Even though the humans in Bosch's paintings tend to not take up a lot of the canvas, he'd still need models.
I am so invested in this series
I'm sure it's quite a pain to do one of these videos a day and I just wanna say that I'm loving and really appreciating the effort!
I really love how thoughtfully you analyze the show. It holds up so much better than I thought it would be.
goddd i love this series. Thank you so much!!!
I looked up the painter mentioned in this episode, called Heironymous Bosch, because this got me so curious why they picked him. He is from Brabant, which later eps will reveal that as Nicholas' original home. (The character's original name is Nicholas de Brabant, and changes slightly throughout the centuries to be Nick Knight in the 1990s.) And Bosch lived in the mid 1400s to the early 1500s, so Nicholas could have met him at about the age of 275.
edited because I got the dates wrong for a lil bit there.
Moral of the story: keep your Gubbins to yourself
It would have been pretty easy to have Nick kill the painter in the flashback, but a previous episode was very focused on vigilante vampire murders being bad, so good on them being consistent with that.
Sounds like a well written very special episode.
I am so here for it
Love this flashback
I don;t know why, but every time you do that dumb 'who will forever be my knights' outro bit I smile amused. Its a good bit.
Wasn't expecting that.
Mildred, you are missing an episode! I've been watching one per day (with your daily recap as the chaser), and my playlist gave me an episode called "Hunters" for episode 11 (also as per IMDb). Please let us know if you need a link xoxo
I have the DVD sets, published about 15 years ago. According to the Part One episode guide, the episode described in this video is the 11th episode.
Hunters is the 12th, so it'll be tomorrow's video.
@@dkecskes2199 Well, guess I'll be spending the evening trying to find that boxed set for sale... or call my ex to see if he still has my VHS tapes from when I was recording them off Showcase in the 90s 😅
@@kathleensavoy1736It may be possible to check it out from your local library, even if your local ones don't have it they can borrow it from another that does through an interlibrary loan. I've also seen that the series is available to stream on the service named for the rainforest.
It's interesting a character who is an immortal vampire from a MUCH more conservative era grows into a more progressive person. Is it because he's been separated from humanity? It's it because he's lived long enough to see all the changes and realize his upbringing was wrong? If either is true, why aren't all vampires like him? Was he uniquely progressive prior to being turned? He does seem to care about humanity more than other vampires. A lot of great thought-provoking concepts on display throughout the series, but especially in this particular episode.
There is also a TV movie called Nick Knight from 1989, I think that the movie TV that began this whole show.
I don't think you've ever done horror games on here but I think you'd have a lot to say about Phantasmagoria 2. In a mostly good way.
Great episode!!!
I get that this is deep and stuff but my brain is stuck on the lizard guy now, like I need to get a black leather jacket and hand a lizard on myself and walk around evilly or life wouldn't make sense
Am I crazy or does Nick look thinner in this episode? I feel like his head-to-neck ratio is different than in past episodes.
I know you say you're only doing season 1 but I really hope you plan to do the rest sometime!
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You need to do Kindred the embraced, seasons 2 and 3, and Moonlight
YES, all of this!
As a Stankstan, I must point out Artie deserved the insulting treatment. Most of those guys are Dexsters.
That's not what episode 11 was about in the yt playlist I'm watching along on... I feel cheated (by the playlist, not Mildew).
I pulled out my DVD set of this series, and the one that the host is describing in this video is the 11th, titled Dead Issue.
@@dkecskes2199 the one the was 11 on this list has Schänke's ex partner being shot and Schänke being the next target. Any clue as to which one that should be numbered as?
@@KarolMarcjan I am thinking that is "Hunters", accoding to the episode descriptions in the guide. It should be the 12th episode, likely covered tomorrow on this channel.
@@dkecskes2199 thanks, that eases my worry - it's probably just a local issue on the playlist I'm using, since the next ep after that is numbered 13 (acc to the list).
@@KarolMarcjan Ah, good to know, I'm now curious which playlist that is, and why it dropped this episode. All I can think of is that Ep 10 is called "Dead Air" and Ep 11 is called "Dead Issue" so the compiler could have skipped over the second, given that both start with the same word.
I didn't realize how much misogyny was in this show
Yeah, I'm watching through the series and mostly enjoying it, but I am a tad uncomfortable with all the objectification. I think Natalie is the only female character who doesn't exist to have sex and violence inflicted on her.
You better not be recapping and reviewing every single episode of season one of the 1990's Canadian police procedual, about a vampire detective taking a bote out of CRIME when I get there
Me: *the loosest shirt imaginable and a truly unacceptable wig*
It just goes to show that your favorite vampire cop show has some meat on its bones....that was a weird way of saying it has substance. I am very sorry....Also, keep up the good work!
Wait, is Stonetree Gary Farmer?
I think you underestimated how radical this episode is. You caught the feminism angle extremely well, but I think you missed the ACAB angle. This is an episode of a TV police procedural in the early 90s where a cop is not only the villain, but also shown as a domestic abuser while still be in a place of power and being extremely respected by his peers. It shows how even "good cops" like Stonetree's assumptions of their fellow officers allow for systematic abuse of the system.
Also other than the police being domestic abusers & systematic abuse of women, a lizard owner letting their pet hang out of their shirt is the most realistic thing in the episode.
i´ve been greatly enjoying this forever knight-athon
looking forward to more
Heather, you've ruined spooky scary skeletons for me. I wish you no ill will for this, just wanted you to know.
It’s great watching this series and recognizing coral lamp shades and floral couch covers from my childhood