Question:
What do you feel is the overall message
or theme of Forever Knight?

Catherine

That regardless of how much of a monster you feel you are, you retain your humanity through the work that you do.

Sharon Bauman

Ooh, good question. I think it's the struggle of good versus evil and how events in your life affect that struggle. Why does Nick do police work? To make up for his "evil" ways in the past. Why does he want to be a mortal again? Because he thinks what he is now is evil. But is it? Even among vampires, there are good ones and bad ones [like Jack the Ripper in Bad Blood]. As much as Lacroix likes to pretend he's so evil, doesn't he wind up doing good things/deeds once in a while? And isn't he always looking out for his "children"? Or, on a more mundane level, the message could be "Be happy with who/what you are, because you can't change it."

Jessica Roop

If you try, the impossible can become the possible.

Reva

I think the overall theme of Forever Knight is that whatever obstacles befall you, there is always hope. This is demonstrated in Natalie's refusal to give up hope on a relationship with Nick despite the apparent futility of it. It can also be seen in Lacroix's unwavering faith that someday Nick would rediscover the vampire in him. The theme of hope is also in Schanke, who despite the sadness associated with being a cop always maintained a positive attitude. And last, but definitely not least, the theme can be seen in Nick hope for a new "life."

Star Allen

What I found so intriguing about the show is that though it is about an immortal, the show, to me at least, is about being human. The show creates a perfect medium through which we can examine human nature, our society. A recuring theme through out the show I noticed was that whether figuratively or literally GOD and the DEVIL reside within us all. Humans are good and evil, sinful and virtuous. We are not perfect, mortality does not make us so. Nick had some miss conceived ideas about mortality and immortality, as did LaCroix. Mortality does not mean your pure and innocent and free of evil. We are flawed, imperfect. Nick repeatedly made the mistake of putting the mortals he loved on a pedestal, seeing them as an idea, the perfect image of everything he thought he was not. Immortality did not make you evil either. It did not make you soulless, nor did it make above 'human' concerns. Vampires or not each one of the immortals on FK proved over and over again how human they really were, proved the existence of their soul. Our nature is something we all have to come to terms with, as did Nick. We have to recognize or evil and goodness and then find a balance between the two, you can't be one or the other. Like Nat said, "Evil is part of the human condition." It's up to us which side of or nature will be the more dominant, up to us how we live. We have a choice. In my eyes Nick made the right one. Also despit our weaknesses and flaws, despit our transgressions against humanity and ourselves we can be forgiven. Our flaws make us human, not monsters with no hope of redemption. Yes, most us have not killed as Nick had but the meaning is the same. He sought to make amends for his sins, he humbled himself before a greater power he wasn't even sure he believed existed and asked for forgivness and he WAS forgiven. The show portrayed the human struggle beautifully, honestly and sometimes brutally. It was a examination of the human soul and spirit. It showed us our own duplicity, showed us what being human is, the flaws and the integrity, the love and hate, mistakes and triumphs, faith and disbelief, weakness and strength. FOREVER KNIGHT worked like a mirror. What we saw when we watched was ourselves.

Marianna Arvay

I think that there are really 2 overall themes that predominate all thru Forever Knight. The first is that guilt can eat to the very core of your existence and keep you from realizing all that you can be. The second is that love is the only salvation that exists.

Jody A.

I feel that one of the main themes that FK explores is the struggle for the balance of power between the more "basar instincts" versus the moral conscience. Nick is constantly struggling to control the "beast" that he believes is "damning him to the fires of hell". He never shed his mortal conscience completely. It lay dormant somewhere. The episode "Curiouser and Curiouser" best described how the conflict of the two entities could cause such festering guilt as to distort reality. One of Nick's character flaws is that he vascillates to each extreme. When he is being pious and moral he suppresses "the beast" to such an extent that when he feels he has failed at whatever yet again he goes to the Raven or goes off on a "drinking binge" or worse the big guilt trip. He is morose, solitary, etc.

Richard Manly

"Forever Knight" is Peter Pan with an attitude; Pan will not stop playing pirate and Nick will not stop drinking blood. By rescuing Wendy or courting mortality, Pan and Nick explore the theme of the need for change and growth. Neither Pan nor Nick take responsibility for their actions. Pan keeps playing games long after he ought to have grown up and Nick keeps preying on humans for their blood. Both men are influenced by women as moral arbiters; in Pan's case, it's Princess Tiger Lily and Wendy. In Nick's, it's Natalie and Daphne Duchene. Yet both men reject the women's direction to confront sinister father figures, Captain Hook and LaCroix. Pan and Nick both occupy their own little worlds (Neverland and Toronto) but have their own subgroups within those worlds (the Lost Boys and the Raven). Both confront serious choices about change and responsibility (growing up and marrying Wendy, becoming mortal and marrying poor Natalie). Yet by taking that leap, both Nick and Pan will fundamentally change and lose their powers, Pan leaving his in Neverland and Nick moving into dairy products and taking his car to work.

Susan B.

I think it's one of morality rather than mortality, what's right and what's wrong. At least that's what I felt during Seasons 1 and 2, along with a message of hope. By the end of Season 3, I felt the message was we're all living a big cesspool that we can only escape through death, which is probably closer to the truth.

Katherine

I think that the moral of Forever Knight has been that we must hold on to hope. It is a reminder that there IS a bright light at the end of the tunnel, if only we have the endurance to reach it. Nick, though in many ways a tragic figure, has carried on through his terrible existence because he has faith that there will be a better future. And at the risk of quoting Last Knight, "I have that faith too." Perhaps that is why we cannot accept Forever Knight's cancellation. The show is a metaphor for life itself. To give up the ghost would be to lose our hopes, our dreams. And so we shall endure, forever.

Farah S. Meerza

Wow! What a question! Well, there are many themes to FK so it is hard to pick an overall one. I think that relationships and the interaction between people/vampires, people/people, vampires/vampires, plays a big part in what this show is about. How events in our lives shape who we are and how we look at the world. It is about trying to find your place in the grand scheme of things. But the show is also much, much more than that in its theme(s). What is the meaning of life? comes up a lot. What is faith? Is there a purpose to this madness? The struggle between good and evil, or if there is in fact any absolute distinction between the two if they exist at all? Is there a God? Who does one owe his or her life to? I could go on and on. I can't think of *just one* theme. I could say its mainly about humanity, but that doesn't seem to quite cover it all either. So I'll sum it up as... LIFE... this show is about life. I guess one could call that on overall theme.

Sami Swan Thompson

Some things are inconvenient, difficult, and/or frustrating, but nothing is really impossible.

Stephen Lansing

I think that the overall theme deals with issues of how one balances the forces that tear at him. Nick is a man caught between two sides of his nature and his constant battle is to determine which nature will control him. The portrayal is close to life as the struggle is never an easy one and Nick has his failures. The main thing is that he perserveres and determines that he will find what he has sought for so long... no matter how long that search may take. FK is an inspiration to find the things that really matter and lay hold of them with everything that you have.

StephiLyn

I believe that the overall theme that I got from the show was that we have in Nick Knight a flawed hero who was simply trying to make atonement for his evil ways. Unfortunately, he had too many misconceptions about who and what he was that kept getting in the way of his quest for mortality. There were times when he seemed to confuse morality with mortality, and he seemed to think that if he became mortal, all of his problems would be over. He couldn't reconcile himself into accepting his true nature as a vampire while still being able to make amends for what he had done in the past. His continued rehashing of his past sins [and a lot of the unnecessary guilt that went along with it] didn't really allow him to carry out his mission of repentence and because of that, not only did Nick lose his life, but, he also left behind a mission that he will never complete.

Tserisa Falcorin

Faith, love and loyalty. I think that most of the show can be explained in those four words. Its simple, but true.

Heidi Anderson

I feel that the main theme of Forever Knight is that your humainty is dependent on your actions, and that spiritual immortality is greater than the temptations of physical immortality! Believing in reincarnation, I also feel that the show displays what happens when one stops the process of working through karma with different lifes! The best example of this is Near Death, when we see Nick's soul represented as a rotting, decrepit corpse. His soul and all other vampires souls' are stagnant. Their only chance at redemption is becoming human again! Wow! Was that a doctoral thesis, or a fun answer?

Zillah

Anything's possible and it's all true... even the contradictory stuff. <winks>

Jackie Wilson

Father Knows Best :) No really, I believe that the overall message is that there can be good in anyone, even if they are supposedly evil (as vampires are supposedly). Nick strives to be good, and does a good job at it. LaCroix strives to seem evil but has good in him. And Janette is just too soft on everyone to ever truly be evil. That's what I believe the message of Forever Knight is.

Susan M. Garrett

Until LK, I had always felt that the message of FK was hope--that people could redeem themselves through good works and good will, if they repented their past and continued to strive toward a higher moral level. That's why one of my favorite episodes is "False Witness"; Nick does a bad thing for a good reason, then makes an effort to correct his mistake, takes the heat for it, and grows as a person because of it. After LK . . . gee, maybe that love doesn't conquer all, that nothing matters, that the only way to end this life is through suicide? That's what disturbs me about that episode--all hope has been destroyed. I'd prefer to think that we'll see a sequel in future that shows that even THIS can be overcome.

Susan E. Nix

The answer is simple. The message is, "shredded grass is mulch and mulch is good for your lawn". It's so obvious.

Victoria Masters

One of Forever Knight's lesons comes from the very nature of the two rivals Nick and LaCroix. The only way for good to come about is through life because death solves nothing. Nick doesn't like to kill because he feels that more good can be achieved that way. Several other vampires, including LaCroix, kill because it suits him/her or because it gives him/her an advantage. There are occations when Nick has killed because he felt it was for a greater good, but often he ends up regreting it.

Karen

No matter how "bad" or evil a person is, there is an underlying goodness in all of us. Nick did things in his past that would definitely qualify as "bad". A vampire is truly an evil being, but Nick is driven by the need to rectify the situation. He subconsciously recognizes his "good" side, but is so overwhelmed by the evil in his past, he can't see himself as good. The exorcist in Sons of Belial saw this goodness as did I believe, Lacroix. I think LC's greatest fear is that someday Nick will be able to see his goodness and that will be when Nick gets cured. (That really just hit me as I was typing this!)

Carlos Manuel Santillan

The series has a theme and is the interpretation of the solitude and desperation of our actual way of life, I feel that there is so much sorrow and lack of objetives in our lives.

Sarah Larson

I'm really not sure if there is just one. I would have to say that through Nick we learn that no matter what evil consumes us it can never override love. I know that sounds so cleche', but it seems to be proven over and over again in many instances of life. Star Allen says it all though. Everyone read her well thought out, tear jerking answer. She said it all and there is no more to be said. Nice job STAR ALLEN.

Jayma Kay Riley

I believe it can all be summed up with a quote from the show, "Immortality is no excuse not to floss." I am deadly serious about this, for all this line can mean. You may have 'everything' but you will still have to deal with the world and all its problems.

Mids (Marie)

Forever means Forever! But besides that, it said that life is something very special and to treasure it. The vampires were an added touch and put some flavor to the show. Basically, it says something like no matter how much you mess up in life, you can always try to make up for it. I don't know if I'm making anysense, but I hope I got the main point across. And as I said earlier, Forever means FOREVER!!! :)

TMF

Too much time spent analyzing the past creates futile regret and needless pain; while too little allows for irresponsibilty in the future. All rational beings (whether mortal or immortal) have choices to make in a world that only appears to be split into clear categories of good/evil; right/wrong; truth/lie. The action that is necesssary in one situation may be unacceptable in another, so there can never be a final answer to the question, "Have I done wrong?" The better question to ask is, "Did I do the best that I was able to do?"

Mary Combs

The power and importance of love and of faith, even in the face of relentless, inescapable evil--but not a blind faith that pretends that horror and pain don't exist (note Reese's observation that the best way to guard against evil is to keep your d--- eyes open) nor yet a naive faith that "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." I think the Jeanne d'Arc episodes are key. Nick's encounter with her is pivotal because she makes him doubt. (There's a great quote somewhere about doubt being the beginning of faith.) By the time he meets Nat, his remorse and his struggle to make amends have brought him only part of the way on his quest for redemption. Assuming the Near Death episode is supposed to be authentic, remorse and good works have not been enough--love and faith are needed to heal his soul. There's a nice touch of irony in Natalie's role, since she is also the voice of science. I'm assuming, of course, that Nick's condition is indeed partly metaphysical, and that the supernatural experiences are by and large to be taken as authentic, since the "pyschosomatic" explanations usually don't work. (To me, the most dramatic example of this is LaCroix's loathing of crosses, which could have no more spiritual meaning for him than a sword, an axe, a noose or any other executioner's tool.)

Donna

To me it seems that the overall message is to accept yourself. Knight may be a vampire, but he's a good "human" also. He is caring and doesn't take life just for the pleasure. Nick is a good person and needs to accept that. What he did in the past is the past, he needs to move on. He can't change what he is, so make the best of it. He doing what he can to make amends, but you can only beat yourself up so long. Nothing you do now will change the past, but it can help to make you and the future better.

Leigh Robertson

I think that the overall message of Forever Knight is simple... sometimes, things just don't turn out our way. At the end of almost every episode of FK, there is a saddening or otherwise disheartening event. And almost every time, that is what I find to be the most touching part of the episode. It seems to reaffirm Nick's (and my) feelings of hopelessness and alienation. I may be a pessimist, I may be depressive, but at least I'm a realist. Things don't always turn out for the better, in fact, they rarely do. Forever Knight has become a master of the realistic ending. Take it as you will, it's just the way I see it.