Forever Knight & Blood Ties for Pagans

We decided to combine the two into one group, because Blood Ties is also Canadian, also took place in Toronto, and didn’t run for very long. Supposedly Blood Ties had 2 seasons, but they both took place within one calendar year, March 11th 2007 to May 20th 2007, and October 12th 2007 to December 2007. Forever Knight was created by James Parriott, while Blood Ties was based upon the novels by Canadian author Tanya Huff. Tegwedd has looked for those novels on the library computer, but they’re not there. There are other novels by her, though. Tegwedd is thinking about taking them out, and reading them, while she waits for the George R. R. Martin novels. This is our 6th vampire group. After Kindred the Embraced, Forever Knight is her favorite vampire show. This is chiefly because of the star, Geraint Wyn Davies, whom she regards as eye candy. It also doesn’t hurt that he is Welsh-Canadian. She’s partial to Welshmen. She really likes the way the show portrays the vampire community’s culture. Stephen also considers this his favorite vampire series. Although the series primarily takes place in Toronto, there are many flashbacks to France and other European locales. In his long and varied past, Knight also spent time in Chicago and New York.

His sire was portrayed so wonderfully and sinisterly by Nigel Bennett, who was also in the French-Canadian space series Lexx. He was also seen in a series put together by Dan Akroyd about psychic research. Just about every Canadian actor was on Forever Knight at one time or another as a guest star. It was recently shown during the day on the SyFy channel. They may bring it back this summer on Chiller or SyFy. Some episodes took place in Montreal. There is a French version, which is much more risque than the regular series was. If you know how we can obtain the French version, please tell us. Tegwedd is mildly curious, but Stephen is wild to get his hands on them. He may even give you a free reading and/or class in exchange for those episodes. Like in the series Moonlight, the main character of Forever Knight lives in a loft with controlled lighting. Both of them drank animal blood, or human blood in those plastic blood donor pints. Both of them regretted ever having turned vampire. One was a cop, the other a private investigator. Vicki Nelson was also a private investigator, after having been a police detective. Neither Nick nor Mick killed to eat anymore. Stephen thinks that the writers of Moonlight might have taken some ideas from Forever Knight. Both main characters had strong relationships with the other vampire characters. Both main characters were also musicians. Both shows had flashbacks back to their early lives. In one of the episodes of Forever Knight, we see how Le Croix became a vampire in ancient Pompeii.

The cast of Forever Knight: Geraint Wyn Davies--Nick Knight Nigel Bennett--Le Croix Deborah Duchene--Janette Catherine Disher--Natalie Lambert John Kapelos--Det. Donald Schanke Gary Farmer--Capt. Stonetree Natsuko Ohama--Capt. Amanda Cohen Ben Bass--Javier Vachon Lisa Ryder--Det. Tracy Vetter Greg Kramer--Screed Blu Mankuma--Capt Joe Reese
Kristin Lehman--Urs

As we have already mentioned, Tegwedd considers Geraint Wyn Davies to be eye candy. Alex O’Loughlin isn’t exactly hard on the eyes either. He’s an Aussie. The soundtrack for Forever Knight is now available; you can probably get it from Amazon. Stephen likes that both shows featured rock ‘n’ roll. There’s rock associated with both shows. There’s also rock associated with the Anne Rice vampire movies. Both vampires could fly. Very rarely did Nick have to deal with supernatural opponents; mostly they were mundane criminals. The love interest in Forever Knight never materializes. Natalie Lambert ME languished with her unrequited love for Knight all three seasons. But in Moonlight the love between Mick and Beth is requited. There was another love interest in Nick’s life, one he’d known for centuries, Janette. But he associates her with his old life of brutality and death dealing.

Janette controlled the bloodletting in her goth club. Part was paranoia, fear of having her vampire nature exposed if the bloodletting became too public. Le Croix just let it all hang out. We’ve told you a great deal about the series. Can you think of anything we’ve missed? We want to hear from you We want to know if any of you knows if how to get hold of the cast members, and whether any of them were Pagans or Pagan symps. We’re having an argument here about Nick’s spiritual beliefs. Tegwedd maintains he was a Catholic, but Stephen says he was an agnostic. What do you think?Whatever he might have been, he was a vampire first and foremost. And we’re vampire freaks.

Tegwedd didn’t get to see Blood Ties until she put it on the top of her Netflix queue. Netflix is also a good way to watch Forever Knight. For those who aren’t familiar with Blood Ties, it’s about a former police detective who is slowly going blind from retinitis pigmentosa starts an unusual private investigative agency to investigate unusual cases. She is befriended by a vampire, who is Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Henry VIII. He has a very dry, droll, dark sense of humor. He’s both a rocker and an artist of graphic novels. There’s sexual tension between Vicki and Henry which never really manifests. Like many of our favorite shows, it had a short run. Some of the antagonists are really nasty. We wondered what the name of the assistant was. We thought it was Cassandra, but as it turns out, it was Coreen. As we watched this series, it held our interest throughout. Unfortunately it suffered from the curse so many series we liked suffer from: the Abbott’s Inn Kiss of Death curse. Like Moonlight, Kindred the Embraced, Roar, and the 2nd Dark Shadows, Blood Ties lasted barely 2 seasons. There are many other series that we killed by liking. Another unrelated series that got axed was Law & Order:LA.

This morning Tegwedd looked up Blood Ties and hit the mother lode. Not only did she get the name of the mysterious elusive assistant, but the names of the other three major characters as well, and the actors who played them. To begin with, we were both wrong about the dates of the series. We thought it was in the 90s. It was in 2007; March 11th to May 20th, and October 12th to December 7th. Vicki Nelson was played by Christina Cox, Coreen Fennel by Gina Holden, Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond was played by Kyle Schmid, and Det. Mike Celluci was capably played by Dylan Neal, a good Celtic name.

To sum up, we’ve decided to expand this group to include Blood Ties. They’re both Canadian, and took place in Toronto. There are many parallels between Forever Knight and a 3rd abortive series, Moonlight. There was a big parallels in the cars preferred by both vampires, big vintage convertibles. Music was important. Rock figured big in both series. Go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/ , call 888-611-7982, and go to our network at http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ .