Posted on 05/03/2017 1:03:34 PM PDT by mairdie
Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" done to Canadian vampire/cop show, Forever Knight. Nick Knight, brought across in the crusades, has been trying over the centuries to undo his bad decision to become a vampire.
I loved this show so much that I actually wrote a spec script while it was still on the air. An agent friend got permission from my agent to represent it and mailed it on a Tuesday and got called by James Parriott, the creator and exec producer, that Thursday. But they needed a Canadian writer. Sigh. Oh, but it was exciting while it lasted.
I can’t stand Bruuuuuuuuce.
That’s wonderful. Completely missed that one.
I saw Bob Dylan in concert when I was in college. What impressed me most was the way the audience went dead silent at a slight gesture of his hand. Remember seeing Andre Segovia perform and could almost count the dollars he was imagining as he mechanically worked his way through a concert that seemed to be boring him witless.
Too cool.
“It is easy to write. Just sit in front of your typewriter and bleed.” Hemingway
>>>It is easy to write. Just sit in front of your typewriter and bleed.
Yes, but when the blood dries, it gums up the keys. Really difficult to compose around some particular missing key. (Like a W?)
Knight was actually a less impressive character than either LaCroix or Janette.
The former, as a late night radio one man talk show, would have really appealed to the late night audience even more than Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. During those long, Canadian winters I can imagine him having a totally adoring fan base for his eclectic philosophical ramblings.
Janette, on the other hand, as a nightclub owner, had a great combination of hot, seductive, and menacing. She really liked being who she was. Between the two, the series was filled with ‘color’.
Agreed! LaCroix was my favorite character. I loved LaCroix saving Janette and then giving her Nicholas as a present. Just picked up LEXX and am hoping Nigel Bennett is good in that, too.
The show spent enough time with all the characters to give them good depth. Though they almost lost me when they killed off Schanke. Making Janette become human when Nicholas spent his existence trying to become that way was brilliant.
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