There are 3 messages totalling 126 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Episode Discussion: Bad Blood 2. Episode Discussion Scheduling: Forward Into The Past 3. CD and NB on The Border (CBC), January 7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:50:32 -0500 From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......> Subject: Episode Discussion: Bad Blood 1) Inspector O'Neal works really quick. He hears of the killing, crosses over from Scotland with an introduction to Cohen and is in place before the witness statement reaches the Homicide offices. 2) I like the nuance of how the writer handled O'Neal not having a pistol on him during the show. Nick offers and O'Neal turns it down because he is not sure a gun would be of any use against the person they are chasing. Given how calmly O'Neal says that, it does heighten the sense that something really dangerous is afoot in Toronto....maybe something Nick even should be wary of. 3) where the heck did Schanke see "a guy who was hit by a combine"??? His dad was a sewer worker...so I've always figured he was a city boy. I suppose he might have spent summers in highschool or college working at an uncle's or aunt's farm... 4) Schanke's my kind of guy...a pile of meat and potatos for dinner...and "balances" it with a diet soda. 5) ahhh, I see Natalie is also a graduate of the "Nick Knight Remedial Driving School - We Use All Lanes, Plus the Sidewalks, Pedestrians are expected to jump High as we wizz past". Nice scene though. I like how O'Neal suspects what Nick is and thinks Natalie knows and pokes her to see how she will react. I don't think driving into oncoming traffic was the reaction he was after, however. 6) Why does Nick keep the coffee under the sink (aside giving him and Natalie a funny set of lines to bat around). You'd think he'd keep certain basic non-perishable things around just because Natalie does stop by and spend time. 7) "Did everybody forget how to drive all of a sudden!" from Schanke. Amusingly, it looks like they shot the near-misses seperately (they didn't reuse the film from the first instance for the second)....'course, they probably just started reusing earlier episode near-misses at some point. 8) was it ever stated definitively that Miklos was a vampire? His reaction to O'Neal putting that crucifix against his head is so mild in comparision to Nick's "drive into oncoming traffic, smoking at the seams" reaction...that I think Miklos is human. A strong, scary mortal that Janette hired so there was a bouncer at the club who could deal with troublesome mortal clients without anyone wondering at his "superhuman" abilities. Do any of the list elders know Miklos's human/vampire status for certain?? Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:12:13 -0500 From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......> Subject: Episode Discussion Scheduling: Forward Into The Past The next episode up for discussion is Season 2's Forward Into The Past. I think this is the last episode on the 1st DVD of that season (if you are working from the box sets). Date is January 15th, 2008. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:41:43 -0600 From: Roxana Elizondo <roxeliz@h.......> Subject: CD and NB on The Border (CBC), January 7 On Monday, January 7 the CBC will premiere a new series called The Border that features two FK alums. It's a 24-esque show that deals with the Canadian Immigration & Customs security and concerns like human-trafficking, drugs, and terror threats. It recently completed shooting it's 13 episode season order. Catherine Disher is a series regular and plays Superintendent Maggie Norton, the second in command of Toronto's Immigration & Customs Security (ICS) squad. "...the Squad's unofficial mother, Maggie's a wise-cracking Newfoundlander who loves to bake and has a mind like a steel trap. Her interrogation skills are legendary--she once reduced a vicious serial killer to a sobbing six year old, begging her forgiveness. She's also a dead aim with a gun. She's raised two girls as a single mother--one's a surgeon in Vancouver, the other lives in a trailer park near Niagara Falls with a born again biker." I know I want to see CD make a grown man cry ::grins:: Nigel Bennett is at the very least a recurring character. When the show's official website launched he wasn't included but it's since been updated to include his character and actor bio. His character is Agent Andrew Mannering "a high-ranking agent in Canada's spy agency, CSIS. In Mannering's vision of the world, an epic battle is being waged between good and evil for the future of the planet. The United States is the champion of freedom and democracy, and Canada must do all in her power to assist her neighbour. If human rights are trampled, and a few innocent lives sacrficed, that is a minor price which must be paid... If Mannering had his way ICS would answer to CSIS--it galls him that, technically, their mandates are separate but equal." The official site has a flash intro with images of the actors and in it CD and NB's images are right next to each other. That brought a big smile to my face. I posted a screenshot of them both on photobucket. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/roxeliz/fkalums_border.jpg Both actor's bios had some nicely worded things to say about FK. "Nigel Bennett created the powerful and seductive Lucien LaCroix in Forever Knight winning the 1996 Gemini Award for his role." "Fans of the cult classic Forever Knight will forever cherish her as Dr. Natalie Lambert. For this role she received two Gemini Award nominations for Best Performance in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role (1994, 1996)." I sure hope Nigel and Catherine get to have some good scenes together. We got so few of them in FK but those they did have were so memorable. I'd love to see them go head to head. Also, for those of us outside of Canada the official site says that they'll be posting the episodes online the day after they air. I'm really excited for this show and was seriously bummed that I might not get to watch it so that's a very welcomed move from the CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/theborder/ Roxana ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 1 Jan 2008 to 3 Jan 2008 (#2008-2) ***********************************************************
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