I... I don't even know, man. Forever Knight-Athon S01e14
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this episode dropped the ball for not treating us to an actual woodstock flashback with nick having hippie hair
Imagine the wig!
I was immediately like "if mitski came out with an album called I hate my friends and want to murder them" I would buy that album
same
Mitski's album titles are already on that trajectory
No one will ever convince me that was Nick jumping and pumping his fist. That was Geraint Wyn-Davies congratulating himself on a good take; the camera happened to capture it; and someone decided that shot needed to be in the show for reasons that I assume are related to the consumption of white powder.
The magical era of a pre-toonie but post-loonie Canada. Those were some days.
Two dollar bill bringing me back to my youth lol
@@fizzplease6742 Right? My husband still has one or two of them, as well as a couple of dollar bills. He used to live and work in a town that got a lot of American tourists, some of whom would have these old bills and pay with them, so he just bought them out of the till.
I know it's not Mildred's most popular content, but I am absolutely loving this series. It's so fun and always brings a smile to my face!
How can this be episode 14? Mildred just started this series line 2 days ago I swear.
Please don't take this from us, we need this. We need a forever groundhog night. If scaredy catz just loops this forever it will be perfection
Running Tallies:
LaCroix Ratio: 9:13
Nicks Dead Love Interests: 7:13
I liked this episode as a kid. I kinda took Nick's hallucinations as like... a literal vampire acid flashback. He probably did a lot of drugs, or fed on people who did, at woodstock. So instead of a normal flashback, he has an acid flashback.
I think the reason I liked it is... it's one of the very few flashbacks where the flashback story has a positive ending? Usually Nick is remembering some regret or trauma. This time he's like... damn, Woodstock was cool. I had a good time for a minute there.
I've always assumed that Nick having all these hallucinations seeing happy people go on with their lives with family, friends and significant others is something he feels he can't and will never have because being an immortal vampire people will die and fade out of his life while he will continue on forever age after age but at the end of the episode Nick seeing Rebecca get free from her life as a rockstar gives Nick hope that one day he'll be free of his vampiric curse and then he can live a normal life among mortal society.
Thank you for helping other over-thinkers not feel so alone!
Also I think maybe Nick kind of wanted to be a rock star, but knew the exposure risks and moral landscape would be to tricky to navigate... no wait he became a cop, confused again.
@@ssatvayeah I most likely over thought this whole episode but it felt likw the writers were trying to be deep in thai episode like they were trying to dig deeper into Nick's psychology and yeah maybe Nick did simply want to be a rockstar but not exactly a good coverup for a vampire but also he became a cop so who knows what this episode was trying to say
@@roderick8167 Oh I think you did a great job of pointing out themes that seemed to be there even in the synopsis!
Well done, and I liked your take on it.
I should be careful about some jokes--I sometimes get accused of overthinking these things, and it's turned into a point of pride and a joke about a 'community' of over-thinkers.
@@ssatva oh thanks dude I really appreciate it and I mean it's pretty easy to overthink when it comes to this show because I feel like this show tries to be really deep in a lot of areas when really it's a vampire cop show lol
Someone on the writing staff just read Queen of the Damned and thought, sure, let's do that. But somehow, even weirder.
This whole episode sounds like it would be an amazing Kids in the Hall sketch.
Starring Bruce as the fan-hating rock star.
@@BrowncoatFairy perfect casting. No notes.
"Better dead than spread."
Does the "Good or Bad Forever Knights Episode" flowchart not take into account Hallucinatory LaCroixs?
I'm counting imaginary LaCroix in the running LaCroix count, so I'd imagine so.
The opening sequence of Fan Kill is burnt into my brain. Thank you for reviving an ancient memory and giving me life! As does the vision short order cook LaCroix
This entire episode is just one long Forever Knight-flavored "Mmm What'cha Say" SNL sketch.
The lyrics to “Fan Kill” are utterly captivating. “My fans must die.”
Lacroix is also extremely Master from Doctor Who coded 😅
He's every villain that low key wants to fuck the hero.
@@ScaredyCatsTV exactly! dont know about the lowkey part tho, he's not very subtle about it 😂(exhibit a: the literal first 10 seconds of this show) just started watching the actual show because of these videos and DAMN is it on the nose🫣
I also think he's Q coded (from Star Trek TNG)
My personal headcanon is that Rebecca's label, Black Sheep Records, is named after the hit single from the greatest fictional Canadian band, The Clash at Demonhead, even though that this is the 90s and that song didn't exist until 2010
The song was actually written and performed live by the Canadian band Metric before the movie came out! …in 2009, so still a bit too late 😅
He was at Woodstock. There's no mystery here. Acid flashbacks.
I liked the random hallucinations, they're like those bits in Scrubs when the main character daydreams but broody and ominous
I remember this episode!!! As a result, I thought that the grateful dead were like a vampire themed band until I was like 20.
The detail of Nick having been at Woodstock is so funny to me. Because, like, it was an outdoors concert, and a lot of it took place during day light hours.
Like, Hendrix literally played at like 5 in the morning when the sun was rising.
So, like, how did he handle that. Was he like just hiding in a blacked out van for most of it. :D
I can see it being like a person who is usually up during the day going to an overnight rave. Not sure what a vamp would take in as a caffiene replacement though. But yeah, he could park a van nearby and listen to the music in the daytime (must have been loud enough) and do stuff once the sun set.
Well he was high, therefore he forgot to be afraid of the sun, so everything was fine.
Yeah, very weird episode. I was an extra in it- one of the groupies back stage- paid better than most, and was catered! 😀
What about the backup dancer's family and loved ones? Does the singer just take over the dancer's life, or is the family just going to have to never say anything about their now-dead daughter?
If schankeface isn’t everywhere starting immediately I will make my own version of schankeface
This series is zany and random and i love it
Nick: This edible aint shit
*20 years laters*
At this point we can confirm that Nick is a Toreador. Their power sets include hypnotic presence and super speed and are prone to obsessive behavior towards works of are.
what?
Pretty sure at this point we can confirm he’s Malkavian 😂
@@joearnold6881 Lets be honest, as a cop... probably Ventrue.
One of my fav episodes of the series
God I love these
You know, I bet that this episode was written when the pilot was made, but the show hadn't yet been cast as it was.
Don't get me wrong here, I adore Geraint Wyn Davies' acting, he is legendary on the screen and stage. He has been a regular at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival for decades, and other FK actors have been in their plays too, do check out their channel if you want.
However it does seem that the rock music plot line, though, was made more for the person originally cast as Nick Knight, Rick Springfield.
...I'd say my dad likes his music, but my dad is more into folk storytelling stuff. And so am I. Give us some acoustic guitar and hammered dulcimer any day.
I didn't know about the pilot with Rick Springfield until I started digging deeper into the show after this review series kicked off. Some day I should give it a watch. It's probably here on UA-cam somewhere. But yeah, you raise an interesting point. This episode feels off in lots of ways. And that could be explained by being an early script from before the formula (or the casting) were properly ironed out.
Honestly. I love these dailies.
Instead of flashbacks they are fantasy/dreams. There are 5 fantasy/dreams in this episodes.
This episode feels like a producer saw twin peaks and was doing a bad job of emulating David Lynch
I guess it's kill or cure as far as his decision to jump straight to hamburger.
The little bit of the fankill song sounds almost like it could be a Lita Ford song.
4:49 ✨face touch✨
Milhew, my scardiest cat, what did you try to tell me here?
Becktel tested, viewer approved
because LaCroix is clearly not forever dead, i wonder if this is like foreshadowing that eternal slumber is not something Nick can ever attain, for all his attempts he is forever in the cell that is vampirism?
LaCroix isn't dead because as an elder vamp he has extra powers
I loved Fan Kill as a kid...it was such a bop...what was wrong with me.
"uwu murder me mommy"... one of those statements that captures the modern zeitgeist so succinctly
For the record yes, Calliope Mori, exactly as you theorized.
this sounds like the best one, i think
Beautiful
I am pissed there is no full version of Fan Kill.
Yeah, like they're not all going to be home runs.
I wonder if it's a different writer or director for this one... I'll check IMDB.
Writer Shelly Goldstein wrote this episode and Partners of the Month in season 2.
Director Leon Marr directed this episode...and no other episodes in the series
I'm with you on thhe whole. WTF with this ep in particular, it was so.... uhm.... yeah
Only Scorpius can do the Scorpius livin' rent free in somebodies head shtick, your reach is a bit over your grasp on that one there LaCroix.
I'm face blind so I assure you that I will never personally recognize Rebecca on the street. I think it's weird that other people would. Like y'all recognize each other outside of specific contexts? By each other's faces? I recognize height, race, hair style, hair color and clothes.
I agree, it's entirely likely she's going to go unrecognized given the amount of hair and makeup she was on and the fact she's apparently going to live away from people who know her.
5:19 Tentatively gonna call this recap "Swan Song Knightmare" given the death and music and scary ass hallucinations
Do you think aiming a gun at the audience is a reference to the 1992 Brit Awards, where the KLF's Bill Drummond fired a machine gun loaded with blanks at the audience before leaving the music industry?
You’ve got to use that schankface clip again. God that had me dying.
SHIT I FORGOT MUH CHILDHOOB
Ok ok, watching it on Roku as we speak.
They can't all be bangers, I suppose.
It would have made more sense if he kept having weird dreams instead of hallucinations. Maybe end the episode with him licking ketchup off a fry. The fist bump goes right over my head though. Did he think he was in the Breakfast Club? And I think that they didnt want to show him looking like a cheesie hippie but it would have made more sense....
ive seen a metal band a few times who's whole thing is they are all assholes and they hate their fans and are punishing them by inflicting their terrible music on them. Their fans are some of the most fanatical I've ever seen
But mildred have you not learned from anime gifs that Draculas love hamburgers
Nick is not a Dracula!!
And this wasn't a 2 parter? I have to wonder what the episode writers were on, and if it's still something used in writing today
(and maybe were I could get some)
Were they trying to rip off Basic Instinct for some reason? Because that's what it looks like. It was 1992. Basic Instinct was a popular movie in 1992, and only marginally less of a dementedly incoherent mess. Also Nick being at Woodstock would mean he was potentially there with Cassidy from Preacher- vampire crossover gold.
Well, that was a thing.
I did not know that Dethklok's "Fansong" was a total ripoff of a 1992 fictional Canadian musician who was framed for murder. And yet, here we are.
Ok, ok.
So, vampirism or just immortality is a prison. Easy.
Nick is conflicted about eating meat, but his vampirism is getting subconsciously mixed into it. Yeah, ok, Vegan Vampire isn't necessarily a new idea.
The fame bit, I dunno, La Croix is kinda Nick's Manager, like he has power over Nick because he made Nick what he is? Because being famous is just as much a prison as vampirism? I'm grasping at straws here, but that seems... kinda... coherent?
How does this only have three views?!
That's only like 1-2 views less than this episode of Forever Knight.
Those of you who are patrons of this channel can see these Forever Knight videos a day early, and they remain unlisted until Mildred (I do hope I'm spelling that the way they want) releases them general public. Unlisted videos are hard to get to unless you have the exact link, they won't show up in searches nor on the channel's page, but are uploaded and ready to be released publically whenever the channel owner wants. View counts would reflect how many people have access to unlisted videos.
Jeanette waitress looks tho 👌
Keep the videos coming, Mildred! I've missed this show. Does anyone know where it's streaming these days?
The Roku Channel seems to have all three seasons, at least in the US. Mildred's also mentioned you can find them in not so great (VHS I assume) quality here on UA-cam.
Thanks!
If I had a dollar for every time a vampire story included a famous singer with an identical double, and then one of them is killed and they are switching places, I'd have two dollars which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
(Two of Everything anyone)?
After forever knight could you talk about The Odyssey(?) Or whatever it was called cause that really messed me up as a kid. Any other Canadians know what show im talking about? Some kind of coma dream alternate reality dreamscape fever dream show? Kid falls out of a tree house and bonks his head and everything gets super weird
Someone was smoking some dope when they wrote this one.
I think Mildred is having a stroke while recording this.
Please tell me this isn't the last episode of the season. I need more Forever knight-athon and I don't see a new episode for today uploaded yet and I might die.
Saaaame
I had never seen this show, but I've been thinking how it reminds me of a movie I saw as a kid called "Midnight Cop". Turns out that was the original pilot that became "Forever Night"that they put out on VHS as a movie.
So, Mido... Will you be reviewing "Midnight Cop"?
Rick Springsteen is not my nick
This feels like a recycled Walker Texas Ranger script or something.
This one is. Wild
0:52 Wow 😅
So early 90s Canada was like mid 80s America?
This is probably off base--I haven't actually seen this episode--but maybe this weirdness was all a metaphor for Nick's not wanting to be a vampire anymore? As told through the lens of a famous rockstar trying to sabotage her career? I dunno. Maybe I'm overthinking.
Weirdly I'm seeing comments, which appear to be for a Scaredy Cat video, so as I was reading them, I forgot what I was supposed to comment on. I guess I'll just note that apparently Ron DeSantis is afforded the ability to get gender-affirming care. He just doesn't want others to get it.
Okay, so clearly there was some kind of a bug in the UA-cam system, as I was making this comment on a Rational National video about DeSantis dropping out. Oh well, here's some particularly meaningless engagement then. I guess I should say that I have been enjoying this series.
@@AkiVainio Huh. Thanks for the update, I guess. Who says bugs can't be useful...
So..like Doja Cat?
Mildread gets recognised in public, and they're not even the star of the channel!
I'm sorry, but an edgy musician writing a song about wanting to kill their fans just wouldn't be controversial. Even in the 90s when this show was made, it would have just blended in to the general melange of rock star weirdness. This episode came out a year after Nirvana released Nevermind, and around the same time "R*** Me" was released ... which, by the way, makes Rebecca's whole shtick seem hilariously outdated even for the time. She would have been treated as seriously as WInger was by that point. Grunge and Punk bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Bad Religion were exploding in popularity, and genuine metal acts like Metallica, Pantera, and Anthrax had been given greatly expanded exposure on MTV and radio. Rebecca's toothless hair metal shtick would have seemed like a sad joke, with or without the yawn-inducing "Fan Kill" stunt -- a desperate Nelson or White Lion clone that came 10 years too late.
I dunno, maybe things were different in Canada. Did y''all get Nirvana on MuchMusic?
I mean this is the beginning of Grunge and end of the Motley Crue hair metal era. This is aired in 1992 as you say but was FILMED in 1991 when Nirvana got big. So, literally probably the last year that Rebecca could be popular and probably is only popular with her own existing fans who didn't just automatically stop listening to hair metal. So she got out while the getting was good. Besides, even in-universe, her fans are acting like "Fan Kill" is just a goofy stunt as we see when interviewed.
The big secret of the episode is, no, Rebecca is dead serious and really wishes she could kill them all.
I get the feeling it was extra edgy because it was a woman singing about that. Solo acts and groups who were men could sing about that stuff, but less so with women.
Nirvana made that cock-rock stuff look old fashioned, but it was still popular. There are still plenty of hair metal bands from that period around today. R*** Me was on In Utero, so came out in late 1993, and it was extremely controversial at the time. It was refused airplay and some stores wouldn't stock it.
Where video?
Wait.. was he sweating blood at the start there?
Yeah, he does that
@@ScaredyCatsTV Hoping we get an episode dealing with him doing the laundry because I have seen him wearing way too many light shirts for this revelation.
This episode made me think of the Fromage special MuchMusic used to run every year for the cheesiest music videos. Not just the fake music video. The entire episode. Probably the weakest of the fifteen or so I’ve seen so far.
Please, please do something about the reflections in your glasses. How can I look longingly into your eyes when they are obscured so?
I think my list got episode 14 and 15 swapped. Or you did hallucinate this episode.
Some of the lists seem to skip the real number 11, putting 12 there instead. See the comments on Mildred's video about number 11 for more info.
Openminded mechanic 71
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I like how all early 90s television is evocative & copycatting what other popular film & media were doing at the time. For instance this episode is clearly riffing off of Basic Instinct. I've been rewatching The X-Files & in the first 2 seasons every episode looks & feels like an homage to another popular film of the time, down to the editing