Question:
Before seeing "Last Knight", how did
you expect the series to end?

Kelly Green

I didn't know the series was going to end. I had seen one or two episodes in previous years. "Last Knight" was probably the first episode I saw all the way through. I thought that it was a cliffhanger - a la - that Star Trek episode where Riker fires on the Borg ship with Picard inside. "Last Knight" was good drama, but I really did expect the writers to write their way out of it at the beginning of the next season. What a pity there wasn't a next season.

Michelle Bischof

Well, at the very least, I expected Nick to regain his mortality.

StephiLyn

I had expected the series to end on a tragic note, since it seemed that all of the eps of the third season were so relentlessly dark and depressing, with the themes of hope, optimism, love and persevering against all odds conspicious by their absence. I thought that it was simply a matter of time before Nick's "self-destruct" switch would finally go off, and it did, in a big way, taking everyone that he had cared about with him. Every ep in the third season was a countdown leading up to the inevitable death of Nick Knight and those around him, so when "Last Knight" happened, I wasn't too surprised. I was shocked by how swiftly the events unfolded, but not surprised. I didn't have a computer then, and I wasn't even aware of FK fandom on the 'Net at the time. Now, even though I have a computer, I haven't seen FK in over a year because I saw it on broadcast tv, and when our local station decided not to air the remaining reruns during June, July and August, but to air movies instead, it was a surprise, but I didn't mind too much. It felt like I was watching the slow "suicide" of someone that I had grown to care about when I watched the third season of FK, and I admit (reluctantly) that I was relieved when Nick "died" (out of camera range). I believed that Nick finally found peace, and I saw the sunrise at the end of the ep as a symbolic "releasing" of the fans, as if to say, "the story's over, it's time to go back to your lives and move on to something else..." I took that "releasing" at the end of "Last Knight" at face value and did just that. I moved on from FK and found something else that interested me. Well, I haven't seen any FK in over a year now, and I don't miss it. I'm fortunate to have a computer where I can check in on what other FK fans are doing, but, since I don't have the Sci-Fi channel on our cable system, I couldn't watch FK reruns, and even if I did have Sci-Fi, I still wouldn't watch FK reruns. The way that TPTB ended the series seemed to mean that I didn't have to support it anymore, and I must admit I thought that it was rather odd for someone to continue to be a fan of a show when TPTB don't want you to be a fan of it anymore. Weird logic? Yes... but TPTB have never been known for thinking logically! ;-) It's been a long year living without Forever Knight on tv, but, I'm happy with the FK books and the soundtrack album, so... not seeing it on tv anymore doesn't really bother me. I know that this might be a rather unusual statement coming from someone who is still a fan of Forever Knight. I'm a VERY casual fan, now, since I don't have the Sci-Fi channel on my cable system, so even though I did write to TPTB about an FK tv-movie on Sci-Fi, the odds are that I won't see it on broadcast tv, because SFC has exclusive broadcast rights to FK, and I don't get SFC on our cable! I'm content with the knowledge that Forever Knight was one of the BEST horror series on television. I enjoyed it very much, but TPTB says that the story's over, and it's time to move on... right? I could be wrong, though...

Roseanne

I found Forever Knight about five eps before "Last Knight" and I thought I had found a new TV show. I wasn't expecting it to end in the immediate future! Needless to say when I saw LK I thought it was a cliff hanger and would leave us hanging until the fall and the new season. At the time I was without computer and not in contact with any FK info. By the time the fall came around and I couldn't find FK any where I was frantic. I finally got a computer, caught up with the FORKNI-L, then SFC started the run of the series from the beginning--so I was more interested in how the series started rather than ended.

Naomi Engle

Thanks to FORKNI-L members I think most of us already knew how it was going to end. I remember seeing excerpts from scripts that list members had accessed. I was glad to have the information beforehand. I found watching last Knight pretty devastating but it would have been unbearable and shocking to watch it cold. I did participate in SONY's survey saying I wanted Nick and Nat to stay alive.

Roxana Elizondo

I didn't. When I saw Last Knight I had no idea it was going to be the last episode. I kept waiting for another episode or some kind of made for TV movie to come along to close everything. I can't believe the writers just simply decided to kill practicaly everybody off. I guess I expected for Nick to move on but to keep in close contact with Natalie. Maybe he would even come back for her in the near future when he was settled in. Although I have doubts that Natalie would leave her job. But maybe for true love she would.

Sharon Bauman

Since the writers were killing off all the vampire characters, I half expected Nick to be staked or suntanned to death. I did hold out the hope that Nick wouldn't die, so I was pleased the ending was so ambigious. However, I was not pleased with the episode itself - so much of it was rehashing scenes to fill time. And whoever thought of the revolving camera angle made me want to grab my dramamine! I thought the last show was poorly - if not hastily - written, but not unexpected.

Susan Ellen Field

I didn't expect it to end, and as far as I'm concerned it hasn't! Everyone online, and off that are fans of "Forever Knight" are all working very hard to make sure, that there was no ending :)

Raissa Devereux

Before I saw LK, I expected that Nick would remain a vampire. Nat would be brought across, because she was becoming too involved in the vampire community not to be. However, Nick wouldn't be the one to do it. I always assumed it would be LC.

April Hackett

I didn't know that Last Knight *was* the final episode. As such, it was a horrible shock. I couldn't accept that they would end the show in such a way. I still have not accepted it. KtK offers a chance to insure that LK isn't the ending, but a branch in the lives of our favorite characters.

Amanda

I didn't. <g>

Tammy J. Morrison

I knew it was going to end, but I didn't have continuous Net access at that point, so I hadn't heard what they had planned. I didn't honestly know what to expect. I didn't think they'd let Nick become human (it would have made a TV movie much harder to accomplish and TPTB as far as I have seen, never want to -muck- up a opportunity to make money!) but I didn't expect him to almost kill Nat either! And then to ask to be killed himself?!? (Until a TV movie commits them one way or another, I -DON'T- believe that Nat is dead!) Seemed so out of character... Neither seemed like suicidal people and they'd just fought -SO- hard to stay alive earlier in the series. Personally, I thought they might go with the way some series end. Just another episode that resolves nothing. When he drank from her, I was sitting on the edge of my seat cheering for him to bring her across, but then I'm dark so what do you expect. ;> Ah well, there's still time for that!

Charlotte Sigmann

Unfortunately, I became addicted to FK during the Valentines Day marathon (although I had caught it here and there) and when I saw LK, I thought it was just a season ender cliff hanger. Imagine my surprise...

Robert Devaughn

I never though the show would end. Consider this: In BB, Nat revealed that she was Irish and Liam warned her that he didn't want return to have to hunt her. In Queen of Harps it was predicted that Nick would not die happy. Remember in the 3rd season Nick was not a happy man and in ND and in NIQ he was considered brain dead. Who helped him back to life? Nat of course. Remember Baby, Baby? LC mentioned an old Celtic (Irish) perdiction about a man of power (Nick?), the union of mortal souls (Near Death) and the heat of the fire? Who could forgot the last scene before the commercial break with Nat & Nick sharing a passionate kiss in NIQ. My imagination runs wild. The show could have continued with Nat becoming pregnant, Liam coming back to kill her, Alexandra coming back to kill Nick, Serena trying to kidnap the baby, along with the other routine homicides and case solvings, and flashbacks. Interactions with LC and Jannette could keep the series going for at least another 3 years. Ah.... the possibilities.

Michael Gallandt-Oakes

I wasn't on the list when I saw "Last Knight" so I was totally unprepaired. I never thought the series would end. At least not so quickly. I never thought Nick would find a cure, but I had the idea that eventually he would "move on". Maybe taking Nat with him. Something so they could pick up the series again if they wanted to. At least that's how I would have liked it to end.

Laura

END??? *EXPECT* IT TO END??? I'm sorry. I read the title of the show as *FOREVER* Knight. Vampires are immortal. Read: eternal. I didn't expect the show to END. <sniff..sob>

Izzy

Two words: I DIDN'T!!!!!

Russ Lance

I didn't even think about it. If I would have had to guess - probably similar to the way it did end. There was a profound sense of tragedy during the last season.

Karen

I think I figured they'd just write an average noncliffhanger ep. I never thought they'd attempt to close it off. Especially with the history of resurrections this series has had. It really came as a big surprise.

Danielle

Nick being cured and marrying Natalie. Tracy coming across and going w/Vachon and everyone being happy in the end.

Susan B.

Unfortunately I read the spoiler two months before it first aired. And even after that I thought the end was a fake - that Nick would become mortal. I could have handled the dying part, if it was done with more love, less desperation, and less ambiguity. But it still felt like a waste of watching the show for 3 seasons, only to have everyone end up dead. The worst part is, it still haunts me.

Grace Frederick

Well... not like that. I mean did every one have to die (Tracy was no big loss)? At the end I was half expecting Lacroix to do himself in because he had no one left to play mind games with. It takes time to get someone as wrapped up in angst as Nick was. As I see it the ending could have gone two ways. First Nick could have stayed with Nat and (maybe) have become human or he could have taken off with Lacroix and left his humanity behind. There is a possible third conclusion. He could have left Lacroix, taken off by himself, and we could have had a new series of Nick traviling the word. Can you imagine what Nat would be like when she met up with Nick again? "Were did I leave that stake?!"

Janet Bernice

I thought the last episode would be more of a cliffhanger, more open-ended. It doesn't make sense that LaCroix would kill Nick, especially after so many episodes torturing him and spending time convincing him that vampirism is good. He is his son and has done nothing to deserve killing. The fact that Natalie was killed would make LaCroix happy, I would think, because it only proves Nick's animal instincts are intact. I would think the two of them would simply leave for parts unknown, at the very least, not the Hamlet killing spree we witnessed.

Jessica Roop

Well, I started watching FK *after* it had been cancelled (I watched it at 12:30 AM on a local CBS affiliate) so before I had only seen 7 or 8 episodes of FK (all 3rd season) before I saw Last Knight. I kind of cheated and read a review on the episode and read about Natalie & about Tracy dying, but it never really clicked that that was what *truly* was going to happen. I never thought that the plot would have been like it was. I thought there would have been a lot more happiness between Nick and Natalie before she died, and I didn't think the circumstances surrounding Tracy's death would be like they were. I thought that she would have died in some heroic fight and I kind of thought we would have seen some ceremony honouring her. I cried when I saw LK (okay, so I still do...) because it was *nothing* like I had imagined. I never thought that it would have came to this hopeless nothingness that it ended with. I thought it would have been a powerful, heroic episode to be proud of. I guess I was wrong!

The Doc

I guess I was hoping that the series wouldn't have ended so soon. I can best answer this question by telling what I definitely did not expect. i.e. Nat lying near death on the floor while Nick has LaCroix stake him. I'm not sure what I was exactly expecting, but I wouldn't have minded if Nick and Nat were somehow brought together. I don't think Nick would necessarily have regained his mortality, but I would have liked an ending with a little more hope.

Gwynn Holloway

I did not expect the series to end. Also I thought so little time was devoted to developing the new characters before they killed them off. At the very least I thought Nick would move on in a neverending search for mortality!!!!!!!!

Sammy

Before I watched the episode I was trembling with fear and biting my nails. After having been witness to eps such as AtA, BB1 and numerous others I didn't think Fk was just going to quietly fizzle out. So when I saw the lady in the bathtub I was sort of relieved. It looked like all the others. Of course I wondered how interesting it would be with no bad guy to apprehend but I had faith that TPTB would think of something. Did they ever! It just wasn't exactly what I wanted to see. I wonder just how many of us list members were prompted to join the list by LK.

Lisa McDavid

I already knew in detail what was going to happen, so I can't say I had any other idea before I watched Last Knight -- if this means, what did I think Last Knight's was going to be. If this means, how did I expect them to end the series before there was a final episode, the answer is that I didn't expect anything that could be construed as a definite ending. This is because series with defined endings are notoriously hard to sell in second-run syndication. Actually, I didn't want a definite ending. I wanted it to be possible for everyone to decide in his or own mind how the series ended, after the last show we saw.

Janette Zeitler

Expect, or hope? :) If you mean HOPE, then I HOPED Janette would come back, and she and Nick would move on together, leaving LaCroix to 'comfort' Natalie! :) As for expect, I REALLY expected that Nick would bring Natalie across and the two of them would live happily ever after. <gag> (Sorry N&Natpackers, couldn't help myself!)

Kathleen

How did I expect the series to end? Certainly not as it did! At the time, I had no idea what was going to happen. I barely knew how to turn on a computer, and the internet was just something my little brother fooled around on. Needless to say, I was shocked. I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach when I saw the episode. I have it on tape, somewhere, but haven't been able to bring myself to watch it since the first time. What I expected to happen for the series finale was for Nick and LaCroix to move on, preferably with Natalie, either as a vampire or just as a friend. That way, we could all be picturing them right now living out their lives in some remote place we know nothing about. Alive. (Sorry if this is a little long, it's my first "real" post to the list.)

Jill Schilling

Unfortunately, I was not online during the 3rd season of FK, so I hadn't heard about the cancellation. I don't know that I had a specific expectation of how the series would end. However, I had hoped for an in-between sort of ending -- not the "tragedy of errors" we were left with and not a happily-ever-after ending. I had hoped for one of three scenarios to end the series: Nick moves on, with or without LaCroix, leaving Natalie behind. Nick brings Natalie across and they move on together as master and fledge, with Nick having to teach her how to survive as a vampire. Nick and Nat continuing as-is, no real resolution. Of these, either 1 or 3 would have been my choices. If I had thought about how FK would end, I probably would have expected the last episode to be just another episode. (I hate it when TV shows attempt to achieve closure!)

Lori Isabella

When Last Knight aired it was just after my Father had very suddenly died so I really did not have that much time to think about it. I had seen in the TV listing that the episode's name was Last Knight and the blurb said something about Natalie forcing Nick to make a major choice. I also knew that it was intended to be the series' finale. What I expected was that something would happen that would involve Nick being found out and being forced to move on. I figured the major choice would be whether or not he would take Natalie with him. Considering what had happened in Ashes to Ashes I was pretty sure that LaCroix would be moving on too. I figured they would do this so that the door would be open for movies later. Since Nick, Natalie, and LaCroix are probably the most vital characters I figured that they would all move on together and that any later movies would be their story in a new city. I expected that Tracy and Capt. Reese would be phased out. I thought when they killed Urs and Vachon it was just part of a plan to get back to the basics of FK. It seemed that they were systematically removing the threads that USA had demanded that the fans resented so much. I guess even as early as then I expected (and still do expect) there to be FK films.

Jackie Wilson

About 5 years down the road. Oh, wait you said "how" not "when." I guess I expected, when I heard it was to end, that Nick would leave -- simply leave -- with LaCroix and Janette, who I had hoped would return to square the deal with what happened in Human Factor. But, alas, I was off the mark.

Vivienne Geovanis

I was shocked and disappointed. I hoped that "not showing" Lacroix actually staking Nick meant that they were leaving open the possibility to continue the series. Then I realized that even if that were true, it would mean that Natalie was dead and wouldn't be in any future episodes, and that would ruin one of the major themes: Nick's quest for mortality. Or at least it would set it back pretty far. Plus, the N/N relationship was one of the major themes and removing that would have left a big hole in the show. Even though season three had many major characters gone, that was something that had pissed me off, and I thought it was really cheap how they did it -- a plane crash to kill off Cohen and Schanke, and having Lacroix explain to Nick how/why Janette left without saying goodbye. It just all seemed indicative of how discontinuous and haphazard the writing on the series was getting. I wondered if they were going to start it up again with one of those cheesy "It was all a dream" season premieres. To me that was the only way they could have saved the show. And yet at the same time it would have killed a lot of it's credibility and continuity and I'd have had a hard time taking it seriously any more. I'd have watched a season four anyway, no doubt, but I'd also probably have been pretty disgusted with it for cheap "only a dream" writing copouts. It's great for one episode (Curiouser and Curiouser). Not for an entire season. I also thought that MAYBE, if Lacroix at the last minute had not staked Nick (since they don't show it, so we don't know for sure), the show could have continued with just Nick and Lacroix. But it would have been risky. Theoretically all vampires must move on eventually. So theoretically, the premise of the show could have changed to be the ongoing adventures of Nick and Lacroix and their love/hate relationship, and Nick starting his quest for mortality (and simultaneous resistance of Lacroix's influence) all over again, once they've both "moved on". But, that would only have worked (I feel) if the series had already been on a long time, which it hadn't. Plus, I felt Natalie's character -- though it had become very stereotypical and whiny in season three -- was what balanced the character of Lacroix in Nick's life. Having Nat dead ruined that balance. (Not that it wouldn't have been nice to see Nick give in to Lacroix's dark influence once in a while :) They'd have had to create another "up" Natalie-like character to balance out Lacroix's influence and agenda for Nick. But it wouldn't have been the same. And with Janette gone, and Natalie dead, the only sympathetic character left (but HARDLY) for a possible season 4 would have been Lacroix. Great as he is, I don't think Lacroix's character could have carried as much resonance as the ensemble of Lacroix, Nick, Natalie, and Janette did. So... despite the fact that I thought the way LK ended the series sucked, I also couldn't picture it continuing very well the way things had been going that season anyway... and in the end, the ending LK gave the series seemed inevitable, in a way -- unless you threw away all of season three and started season four where season two originally left off. Just MHO...

Mary

After Human Factor, knowing the series was likely to be cancelled, I thought an open-ended final episode might involve Nick and Nat making a first (and partly successful) try at "Janette's cure." That would have left plenty of room for drama in case of renewal, (Nick still struggling with the vampire, LaCroix still a potential threat, yadda, yadda, yadda) but with a stronger sense of hope. Until they started mellowing out LaCroix late in the third season, I thought an absolutely final episode would involve mortality for Nick, the beginnings of a life with Nat, and the destruction of "the old demon," OR mortality for Nick, a brief period of happiness with Nat, followed by their destruction at the hands of LaCroix, with implications that Nick and Nat would find their happiness in Heaven. I would never have expected a "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" style stroll off into the clouds, which wouldn't have fit the series tone at all. More likely something with an overhead POV and voiceovers or some lighting effects. I guess the rising sun and the closing bell tone (which seems to be unique to that episode) were supposed to represent that hope.

Katherine

Well, I guess I never expected to see it end happily ever after. I really don't know. I think I expected it to end unresolved, with Nick, Janette, and LaCroix moving on. Perhaps with Natalie's death or her leaving Nick for the best. Sometimes I would hope that Nick would achieve mortality, but I never believed that would happen realistically. And sometimes, just sometimes, I would fear the kind of ending that we saw in Last Knight.

LB Burstiner

Not with LC holding a stake over Nick, that's for sure! I would have expected a more open ending, like a typical cop episode, with some big cliffhanger, like Nick almost finding a cure, and then leaving it at that. I definitely did not expect it to be so dark and depressing, but I wouldn't have expected a happy, walk into the sunrise kind of ending either.

Farah

I didn't expect the series to end. And when I saw Ashes to Ashes, I thought, no, its not possible. Then Francesca came on and I was relieved. Then I saw Last Knight and I felt like someone had pulled the rug out from under me. I am still angry at how the show ended, it was completely out of character.

Natasha & The Wildman

Natasha really didn't think it was going to end. I had only discovered FK in its third season, and was just getting attatched to the show and its characters when TPTB so rudely stole our show away from us, ending it in such a horrible and unorthidox way. If there was to be an ending, I thought Nick and LC would just move on. At the very least, I expected everyone to live. Okay, I've rambled enough. Let's see what insight The Wildman has... Oh, by the way, LONG LIVE THE KNIGHT!!! The Wildman's tears stain the console keys! The "bloodwriting" was on the wall. The Wildman took the news worse than a "Dear Vamp" letter. Ergo, the end. But fear not fellow FK vamps! The Wildman has seen enough season finales to know that a good writer can undo any untimely demise. Therefore, fellow FK vamps, unite and remember, you ain't gonna get it if you don't keep askin' for it. BRING BACK THE KNIGHT!!!

Reva

I expected it to end unhappily. After all, look at Nick's life. When was he ever truly happy? I feel it would have done a disservice to the integrity of the series if it had a cliched Hollywood ending.

NNPacker

Before seeing LK, I thought they would end the series with Nick moving on without Natalie. (Bad idea to me since I'm a NNPacker) I thought he would just vanish and Natalie would understand since the last few episodes were so trying for Nick. I see Nick leaving Lacroix and the last scene would be Natalie talking with Lacroix and Nick checking into an unknown hotel in an unknown city with the desk clerk saying, "Here is the key to your room Mr. Parker."

Kathleen Devanney

I don't think I thought about the show ending; I just thought it would go on "Forever." But, if it did end, I thought Nick would bring Natalie across and that they would deal with "the darkness" together. If I thought about it more, I would know Nick didn't want to "condemn her to this darkness," however, bringing her across would have been my idea of the appropriate ending.

I don't think I thought about the show ending; I just thought it would go on "Forever." But, if it did end, I thought Nick would bring Natalie across and that they would deal with "the darkness" together. If I thought about it more, I would know Nick didn't want to "condemn her to this darkness," however, bringing her across would have been my idea of the appropriate ending.