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Forever Knight - The Trilogy, Part 3 (1995 - 1996)

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In its third season, cult favorite "Forever Knight" continues a fine tradition of excellent, even thought-provoking storytelling while concluding the saga of Nick Knight, 13th Century vampire and 20th Century Toronto homicide detective.

In the opening double episode of the season, "Black Buddha", a deranged bomber destroys an airliner leaving Toronto, precipitating a major shakeup in the cast of "Forever Knight." Knight's partner and his precinct captain are killed in the crash. Knight's new partner is Tracy Vetter, an inexperienced and often impulsive detective whose father happens to be police commissioner. Her arrival allows an interesting plot twist. Tracy falls in love with the boyishly charming vampire Vashon, but remains unaware that Nick is also a vampire, leading to a series of humorously ironic situations, notably in the episode "My Boyfriend is a Vampire.".

Season Three continues the themes of the series. Nick hungers for redemption and struggles with the guilt of 800 years of killing. He continues to work through a complicated relationship with police coroner and close confidant Natalie Lambert. Their love for each other will come to drive several episodes and the ending of the series.

As in Seasons One and Two, actions relentlessly have consequences; Nick's life is repeatedly made complex by his struggle to balance his vampire nature against his instinct to act for good. Nick's tendency to resort to his vampire abilities to solve crime sometimes complicates the cases or threatens the intended moral outcome.

Nick's vampire mentor LaCroix plays a large role, continuing his delicate wrestling match with Natalie for Nick's soul while sometimes bailing Nick out of trouble. Nick will try to return the favor when LaCroix faces his own long estranged and vengeful vampire mentor in "Ashes to Ashes".

Jeanette, Nick's fellow vampire and sometime lover from the first two seasons, has "moved on" but resurfaces in "The Human Factor" to validate Nick's search for his lost humanity and to offer a seeming alternate pathway back to it.

As all good things must come to an end, so does the season and the series. In the dramatic "Last Knight", Nick resolves his relationships with Vetter, LaCroix and Natalie. The ending is one every fan of the series will want to watch.

Season Three is highly recommended to fans of "Forever Knight" as the final 22 episodes of a series that managed to be highly entertaining and often thoughtful despite a limited budget. Extras for the third season DVD set include three music videos.

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This is the third and sadly, final season for the series. Nick's life in Toronto is beginning to end as the series opens. In the first episode both his partner and boss are replaced and not for the better. In the vampire world Janette has moved on. Nick's new partner, Tracey Vetter, a rather annoyingly perky young woman has stumbled upon the existence of vampires, a secret that she is intent on keeping from Nick. As the season progresses the stories do improve, particularly those involving Tracey and Vachon, 'her' vampire. The stories are interesting and well done for the most part.

The final episode is compelling but will certainly cause fans of the series to scream 'no' and frantically search for a loophole.

The downside to this set, besides being the final episodes, is the lack of extras. Commentaries by actors, writers, series creators etc. would have been greatly appreciated and are conspicously absent. An explanation of the reasoning behind the ending in particular would have been of great interest. Instead all that is offered are some music videos of songs that were featured in the series.

I was a huge fan of FOREVER KNIGHT and was sad and very disappointed to see it end. I'm glad that it's now on DVD, but I still have one major problem. The first two seasons are being sold here for about fifteen dollars a piece. The finally season, as I'm sure others have noted, is over one hundred!
What's up with this? Perhaps there is some bonus material that makes it worth the high price that I'm not aware of?
I love shopping at amazon. I generally get really good deals here, but until or unless the price is soon lowered for the last season of FOREVER KNIGHT, I won't be able to afford to buy it.
Please amazon, help us out here!

This is one of the better TV series in the horror genre and can be compared to such classic series as Have Gun Will Travel and Kung Fu. There are elements of Have Gun Will Travel in the shows in terms of philosophical musings on the part of the character LeCroix. The central character, Nick Knight is driven by the tension between the intrinsicly violent, sociopathic nature of a vampire and the vestages of humanity that remain within him. His role as a police officer becomes the focus for this tension and can be seen as what psychologists might refer to as reaction formation. As a police officer he is repressing the violent and criminal tendencies in others who threaten the social fabric while, at the same time, trying to cope with his own plight reinforced by is idealistic views. Nick Knight's idealism is cast against LeCroix's (Nick's unwanted mentor) dark pessimistic views of human nature. This point is underscored in the season and series finale. In the final analysis this series is a classic by virtue of the intelligent scripts that attempt to grapple with larger philosophical questions. In this regard there are also parallels with the classic series Kung Fu starring David Caradine as Kane. Both Kane and Nick Night exist on the cusp of a moral delemma regarding human nature and violence, although the resolutions are quite different. I can recommend Seasons one, two, and three of Forever Knight (I have purchased all of them and I am pleased with the product) for those who have enjoyed Have Gun Will Travel (an excellent series - DVDs for the three available seasons well worth the purchase) and Kung Fu (also an excellent series with the three seasons worth owning).

When I read of some of the changes in the cast, I was a bit hesitant to buy Part 3. I was wrong! Schanke not being a part of the third season was a relief,but the absence of some of the other regular characters, such as Janette was disappointing. I think Part 3 is the best of the trilogy. The acting is better (not so overdone), the storylines are better thought out, and the new characters are superb. The final episode was a thought-provoking shocker. I highly recommend this, especially to people who didn't have a chance to see the original broadcasts.

one of the first vampire series with some interesting storylines (and a few oddities here and there) and since this is season one you usually wouldnt expect much but since I have seen and OWN the trilogy I can tell you season 1 and 3 are all thats really needed for the full story unless you are a die hard fan like me and have to have em all. some of the best features in this set are the episodes with nick attempting to become human yet again and the finale with nick having to bear the decision on whether or not to turn his friend, his love, Into A Vampire! so be sure to buy this set if you buy season one.the reason I say pt 3 is needed is because it has the END conclusion to the story and even though it wasn't what i'd hoped it would be it was, and always will be my Favorite older vamp series that didnt need big buget special effects to win you over.

I'm very grateful to Amazon for having this set of Forever Knight episodes. I saw this episodes in the mid 90's, and I think that I'm lucky to be able to buy the last season of Forever Knight in Amazon. These episodes have profound existential philosophical messages. The writers of these episodes used the vampire story as a metaphor to give messages on immortality vs. humanism, power vs. love, survival of the fittest vs. sacrifice, and overall, redemption.

Glad to see that the final season was released on DVD. It left me wanting for more. My only complaint is that I wish there was more special features. I would have loved a commentary by Nigel Bennet or Geraint.

First of all I still love this show. The acting by the stars was very believable. Second of all, I can understand the need to keep adding and deleting some of the stars from the show. Nick is after all, a vampire. People will come and people will go into his immortal life. Third of all, I thought season 3 was by far the best season. Vachon and Tracy shared a very special attraction for each other much as Nick and his Doctor friend did. The only thing is I regret the shows ending. I would definitely recommend more movies to be done on this show,especially where love is concerned. Their chemistry was very real. I enjoy watching Javier Vachon especially. He finally found a woman who was a resistor. Someone actually was very hard to get for him. Its my understanding that every man likes a challenge. Javier and Tracy made this show all the more worthwhile for me. I still watch season 3 the most.

This was a very good show that has been copied many times over the past few years. Although the special effects aren't always the greatest, the story will keep you coming back for more. A must have for any fan of the vampire genre.