YMMV / Forever Knight

• Bizarro Episode: "Dying For Fame" contain a number of hallucinations by Nick being at a diner, as a rock star, and as a prisoner with the rest of the cast playing different roles. It also has a music video.
• Complete Monster:
  • "Bad Blood": Jack the Ripper himself was a surgeon-barber so evil his blood actually made the ancient vampire and Nick Knight's maker Lucien LaCroix sick. Upon becoming a vampire, Jack goes on a killing spree in Whitechapel before moving on from England. Jack spends the next centuries stalking the world, committing a string of horrific serial murders wherever he goes. Finally arriving in Toronto, Jack begins slaughtering innocent people again, ending his spree with the young police officer Bridget Hellman, who he drains before finally being destroyed by Nick and the vampire hunter Liam O'Neal. Easily the most savage and violent vampire on the show, and evil even before becoming a vampire, Jack demonstrates the most savage extremes of the nature of vampires in contrast to the repentant Nick.
  • "The Fire Inside": "Dragon", a masked murderer, is a businessman during the day who despises the homeless as "parasites" who scrounge for the money that "hard-working" men like him earn, and views himself as as an "exterminator" in wiping them out. Introducing himself by luring a homeless man over with loose change, Dragon proceeds to burn him alive, revealing he has been murdering the innocent homeless of Toronto and has tracked a small community of them to the sewers below the city. When Nick and his partner Don Schanke go to save them, Dragon burns a woman doing her laundry to death before attempting to kill every homeless person he finds, children included. When he encounters Nick, Dragon takes a homeless man hostage and attempts to burn him alive, too, mocking Nick for caring about "trash" and claiming only he can solve the "problem." In a world of murdering vampires, Dragon stands as a stark reminder that humans can sometimes be worse than nearly any supernatural monster.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Janette's bartender Miklos gets a lot of attention due to being one of the show's only Ambiguously Human characters.
  • Sewer-dwelling cockney Vegetarian Vampire Screed is often considered to be the best new character from the controversial third season.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: A number of fans preferred Nick with either Janette or La Croix (or both) to Natalie.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Almost everyone hates the show's ending. The only difference is whether they disregard all of season three or just the series finale.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "For I Have Sinned" had a lot to deal with the church covering up the murderer in their midst in the name of preserving the confessional. Much is made of what could ruin the church's reputation and trustworthiness...oof. This hits very hard after the pedophilia cover-ups being uncovered.
  • "Spin Doctor" features an election with a male and female candidate, allegations of sexism and conflicts of interest, inappropriate affairs, and "battle of the sexes" overtones. Viewed during the 2016 US Presidential election campaign or after the election, it's hard not to see parallels.
• Magnificent Bastard: The sire of Nicholas Knight, Lucien LaCroix, was a brilliant Roman general turned into a vampire by his own daughter Divia. Horrified at the corruption Divia succumbed to, with her even suggesting they become lovers, LaCroix seemingly destroyed and entombed her. Becoming a brilliant, powerful, and dangerous vampire, LaCroix once arranged for Nick to be hanged by peasants to trick him into succumbing to his killer instincts once Nick renounced his old ways. In the present, LaCroix frequently manipulates Nick and all around him, even having his own radio talk show as "The Night Crawler" where he frequently promotes his philosophies and schemes. Always charismatic and compelling, LaCroix also admits to certain standards, and always maintains his complex relationship with Nicholas.
• One True Threesome:
  • There's a lot of fans who felt this was canon with La Croix, Janette, and Nick.
  • Many fans were also happy with the idea of Janette, Nick, and Natalia.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Catherine Disher is more famous in the States for her voice work, in particular her performance as Jill in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Her appearance on the Crimson Head podcast is something RE fans should seek out. She also played Jean Grey in the 1990s X-Men: The Animated Series.
  • The role of Monica Howard in "Feeding the Beast" is played by Carrie-Anne Moss. She appears as a 12 step program addict.
  • Amanda Tapping played one of the lab coats in "Near Death". In addition to Sam Carter, she would go on to play a woman injected with vampire blood in the series Sanctuary.
  • Joan of Arc, who appeared in a few flashback episodes, was played by Christina Cox. She later went on to play a woman teamed up with a centuries-old vampire in Toronto, fighting crime, though in this case she was the detective.
  • Nicole De Boer plays a female street kid that Nick has befriended in the pilot episode.
  • Cynthia Preston plays the Femme Fatale stripper in "Dance by the Light of the Moon".
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Subverted, in the "list wars" held on the two oldest fan lists, http://www.forkni-l.listserve.edu, and its sister list http://www.fkfic-l.listserve.edu, which pit ships against each other in round robin style stories. The fans go to Toronto, find their way around it and interact with canon characters as each faction, as they are called, comes up with storylines moderated by the War Mistress. These contests are still occasionally held even now.
• Squick:
  • In, "If Looks Could Kill", Schanke goes on about how hot a young woman's picture is before he finds out from Natalie that the model is fifteen.
  • When La Croix's daughter Divia bids him to make love to her.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The original first edition of Vampire: The Masquerade quoted at least one line from the original pilot, Nick Knight. From centering on a morally grey vampire protagonist trying to reclaim and hold on to his humanity, dealing with an antagonistic sire, being set in a major metropolitan city in the 90's, and including the phrase "world of darkness" in its intro sequence, there are clear links, which may have gone both ways as the series and game evolved. Many fans consider Forever Knight to be a better television companion to Vampire: The Masquerade that the short-lived Kindred: The Embraced that was an actual attempt to adapt Vampire for television.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans hated the third and final season, which killed off or Put on a Bus much-loved characters in order to introduce younger and "prettier" new characters, and especially the "Everybody Dies" Ending (to the extent that there have been a number of Fix Fics written presenting alternate third or even fourth seasons).

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