There are 6 messages totalling 174 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. My FK Moment 2. Period nomenclature for FK (was Canadian Cuts) 3. Inquiry 4. FK Fic Recs? 5. Alexandra (was Re: Canadian Cuts) 6. Human Factor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:05:24 -0700 From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......> Subject: My FK Moment Learn something new every day...from a friend of mine that lives in Toronto (discussing her new gov't job): I used to work as an Executive Assistant at the Chief Coroner’s office WAY before our beloved coroner but still... ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:34:53 -0700 From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......> Subject: Period nomenclature for FK (was Canadian Cuts) For that matter, "Alyssa" with this spelling is most decidedly *not* an Elizabethan (or Tudor) name in England. They seem to do better with the men's names than the women's for flashbacks. --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......> wrote: > From: Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......> > Subject: Re: Canadian Cuts > To: FORKNI-L@l....... I've always > >wondered, while Alexandra is a common name now in > Europe, America, Canada, > >Australia, etc., In those days wasn't it strictly a > Slavic or Greek name? > >But I could be wrong. > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:40:01 -0400 From: Cheryl Pillsbury <fknight420@c.......> Subject: Inquiry I hope this is all right, OFF THE LIST I have ink for a brother MFC 210 printer, who wants it? AG Press Publishing www.AGPress.8m.net fknight420@c....... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:21:37 -0500 From: Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......> Subject: Re: FK Fic Recs? On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Portia <portia1@m.......> wrote: > I think Nancy Kaminski's stories are the top, along with Dorothy > Elggren -- these are the 1st that come to mind as Greats. Very kind words, Portia. Thank you! > I also think there was a really good author who's name started with an > "O" -- does anyone have any idea who this might be?? Ophelia?? I > can't remember! And I'm sure I'm doing a diservice to other great > authors I used to love by not naming them, but it's been a while since > I read FK fic and that's why I'm asking for your help! :o) I think you mean Ophelia Paradise, who wrote some very hot and wonderful NN stories. They're some of my favorites. Nancy Kaminski nancykam@c....... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:12:33 -0700 From: "Amy R." <akr@l.......> Subject: Alexandra (was Re: Canadian Cuts) In Monday's digest, Melissa Puzio <melissa.puzio@c.......> wrote: > >>You mean you don't like Alexandra the Dingbat Barmaid? :)=<< Yup. :-) I don't much like the Alexandra character from "Fatal Mistake." She earned her epithet. :-) But on the up side, I don't think we're supposed to like her! I think she's supposed to be precisely what she is, and that's one of the glories of first season. In my opinion, despite her shortcomings, Alexandra is a well-rounded character compared to some of her later-season equivalents, such as Amalia (CL) or Alyssa (DoN) or Liselle (TG). At any rate, she gets more lines than they do. We know some of Alexandra's past, her hopes, her motivations: that she had never been farther than the next county, that she longed to travel, that she found Nick attractive in part for being well-traveled, and of course that she, um, wasn't shy. We know she was a tavern serving woman, and we know some of how she approached her customers. We know she searched for Nick over time. And in the present day, we discover that she resents and despises her vampirism, putting her into a select company with Nick, Serena, Sofia and perhaps Urs. (Maybe even Feliks, but that's another analysis entirely.) Of course, Alexandra is also an easily manipulated nitwit, by all appearances. Revenge on Nick, but not on Lacroix? From a strictly first-season angle, I wonder whether Lacroix planted that idea in her, and perhaps maneuvered that she would not find Nick until after he was gone, if ever he was gone -- a little revenge insurance from beyond the grave. Except that the outcome of the plan would likely embarrass Lacroix, if that were the aim. She misses Nick's heart with her plank-sized stake. The logic of her revenge is swiss-cheesed, as Nick points out to her. When Lacroix winds up his pieces and turns them loose, they don't usually falter so badly, which is perhaps an argument against her being anything but a project long ago cast aside. And if that's what she is -- left to function all on her own through the centuries -- perhaps she hasn't done so very, very badly? It's just that we know characters who do it better! Surely Alexandra is meant to parallel the young hoodlum who attempts to take a misguided revenge on Stonetree in that episode. Both Alexandra and the boy have committed against others the very crimes of which they accuse the person on whom they wish to take revenge. Neither of them run on all cylinders -- the boy is apparently drug-addled -- and so her dim-bulb status serves a structural purpose in the episode; I respect that! Have I gone and talked myself into liking Alexandra just a little bit better? Maybe. :-) But that's a long, long ladder she's got to climb up to guest-star ground level. Amy R., Knightie akr@l....... FK Site: http://users.LMI.net/akr/fk/ FK Blog: http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:32:28 -0700 From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......> Subject: Human Factor I was re-watching S3 and I was struck by something in HF. Janette stated that "800 years is a long time to live with a cold heart." I have a question about this. Wasn't Janette brought across a goodly amount of time before Nick? (I always thought it was closer to 200 years earlier) for some reason. And since "Dark Nick" was around a good 500+ years before he started his quest for humanity it seems a strange comment to make if she was considerably older than him. ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 30 Jun 2008 to 1 Jul 2008 (#2008-156) **************************************************************
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