FORKNI-L
Digest - 21 Jul 2013 to 29 Jul 2013 (#2013-116)
Mon, 29 Jul 2013
There are 3 messages totaling 170 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. FKFicFest 2013 Starts Tomorrow (Monday 7/29)
2. Reminder: "Nightcrawler Night" Tues July 30
3. Discussing "Last Act" -
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:40:15 -0700
From: "Amy R." <akr@l.......>
Subject: FKFicFest 2013 Starts Tomorrow (Monday 7/29)
Stories and illustrations in FKFicFest 2013 will begin releasing
tomorrow (Monday 7/29), and will continue releasing at a rate of two
per day through next Sunday (8/04). Please come join us for exciting
new FK fanworks! You'll be able to find the stories each day through
any one of these:
- AO3 Collection:
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/2013_FKFicFest
- LJ Community:
http://fkficfest.livejournal.com/
- DW Community:
http://fkficfest.dreamwidth.org/
I'll post here on ForKni-L throughout the week with links to
individual stories and illustrations, too.
(Authors may or may not choose to bring their stories to FKFic-L
after the game. I encourage everyone to do so.)
Not familiar with FKFicFest? It's an annual "ficathon" game. Each
player submits a slate of three possible FK story requests, and then
is matched with another player's slate; every player writes a story
(or draws or paints a picture) that another player has requested.
(I'm the game's moderator.) We have about two months to write or draw.
It's very exciting! We have eleven new stories and one illustration
coming this year, ranging all over FK with mystery, history, romance,
adventure and drama! It looks like every regular character (except
Reese and Tracy? I haven't yet spotted Reese or Tracy) appears in at
least one story, as well as some recurring characters and guest
stars, one real historical figure, and assorted original characters. Come see!
Amy R.
akr@l.......
"Brightknightie" on AO3/LJ/DW
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:46:27 -0700
From: Victor Roscetti <dragonslair_08060@y.......>
Subject: Reminder: "Nightcrawler Night" Tues July 30
Tomorrow night Tues July 30 at 9pm Eastern US time (Check the link for your
local time) I will be hosting two hours of my show as if it were C.E.R.K.
Radio as the Nightcrawler.
I have 31 prerecorded pieces of "Wisdom" for the show (Monologues, stories,
poems and sonnets) as well as taking calls from listeners. The show may even
run longer than 2 hours but only the first 2 hours will be broadcast live.
The entire show will be available for download approximately an hour after
the show ends.
Several fans authored the recordings that I did as well as a few that I wrote
and a couple by classic authors like Shakespeare, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Other than the few "classic" writings - everything
in the show is original and fan-created. With themes like "Family", "Children",
"Priorities", "Love" and "Greed" we can only speculate on what was happening
in Toronto to cause LaCroix to broadcast his messages.
It will be a Night to Remember! And Who knows - this may be an annual event!
Join us and call in to speak with the Nightcrawler! (347) 884-9923
I will also post all the mp3s from the show on my website for downloading your
favorites! All free as usual. I do this for your enjoyment as well as my own.
They will be available on Wednesday here:
http://viktoraurelius.com/whispers-from-the-voice (You can go there to hear
more mp3s from previous shows)
Here's the Blog Talk Radio episode info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/viktoraurelius/2013/07/31/whispers-in-the-dark--episode-74
Tonight is a VERY special night for me. My love of the 90's TV series FOREVER
KNIGHT and the character of LaCroix / the Nightcrawler (Played by Nigel
Bennett) - the Vampire Master who each week taunted his "child" Nick Knight
(the vampire who is atoning for his sins by helping humans as a Cop) over the
radio night after night - was such an inspiration to me that I have been
emulating his breathy, hypnotic style since 1996. My personae of Viktor
Aurelius is an homage to the character and since I first began to record as
"the Voice" I wanted to have my own radio show where I could dispense wisdom,
recite poetry and hold an audience captive with my voice. This radio show was
close to what I had planned but it was never exactly what was originally
intended. Tonight we will spend the night as if it were C.E.R.K. Radio in
Toronto, Canada in the 90's, and you will be able to call into the show and
speak with the Nightcrawler. You will be treated to recitations of his wisdom
through monologues, stories and poetry as only the Master can provide. I hope
that fans of the show will join us, call in and ask the Nightcrawler questions.
Join us, and be Enlightened.
Thank you,
Viktor Aurelius (aka Vic)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:56:31 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Discussing "Last Act" -
"Last Act" has never been one of my favourites--I think perhaps because the
screenplay (by Brad Wright) raises a number of questions, declaring answers
that I don't entirely accept. It's the *declaring* answers that bugs me,
mind: I don't think there's sufficient discussion of the issues. The
episode is slanted, in other words; and it's a slant that doesn't mesh with
my own views.
Of all the episodes, this is the one that most straitly affirms the show's
preference for mortality over immortality. As Nick, questing for a reversal
of his condition puts it, "There are only two ways to escape eternity. One
way is to join the dead. The other is to join the living." He is trying for
the latter; but his old flame, Erica, decides on the former. Right at the
start, we see her suicide--and there is no question that *she* had decided
to kill herself, for she quite deliberately chose to remain seated on the
park bench at dawn. And what of "le meutre de la semaine" (this week's
murder)? That too, of course, deals with the question of suicide: did she
or didn't she?
Immortality is twined with motive in both cases.
Marilyn Siegel has decided to bestow a "mortal's immortality" upon one of
the cancer patients at the hospital, giving the future to a dying man in the
form of progeny, passing his genes down to the next generation. To Erica,
too, this is the compensation that mortals have for their brief span upon
this earth: refreshing their love of life with each generation.
For Erica, vampires are takers rather than givers, destroyers rather than
creators--and, of course, for almost all the generations of *her* life this
has certainly been true, since the only way for a vampire to exist has,
until recently, been through killing people for their blood. Until now, she
has justified this to herself by giving back to the world through her art:
she is a talented playwright. When she no longer takes pleasure in *this*
form of creation, though, she decides that she is a burden on the world and
should move on.
This is to suggest, though, a dichotomy between two forms of creation:
progeny and art. Which is the more morally desirable? Which gives more to
the world? Which is more truly "immortal" (in *both* instances, be it
noted, in a metaphoric sense of "immortality"!)
That Erica, the artist, ultimately finds that her plays no longer satisfy
is, I suspect, supposed to be an answer. And it is, of course, an answer
for *her*. On the other hand, the seeds of her self-destruction are clear
in Nick's flashback, centuries before she actually takes the step of
suicide. Is childlessness so curdling a fate for humans, though?
I think of someone like the childless Beethoven, whose music is still
admired. Is Bach to be considered greater because he had a large family?
Does he somehow thereby earn himself and his music "more" immortality than
Beethoven (if such a thing were possible)?
Or is "Last Act" really giving us a superficial examination of a complicated
ethical issue? Let's face it, in Nick and Erica we have two vampires who
could do with some heavy-duty counselling for depression.
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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