FK Season 3
Aug. 6th, 2023 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
switchbladeeyesSo I decided to skip the remaining episodes from season 2. Hopefully, they'll come back to Amazon Prime eventually. Bought season 3 on Apple TV and started watching (re-watch for me, first time for my spouse).
Like with season 2, there are episode that I remember really well and some I don't remember at all.
So far, we've watched:
Black Buddha parts 1 and 2:
RIP Schanke and Cohen. I had previously spoiled for my spouse that they'd be killed offscreen 'cause I knew he'd want to know before actually watching it, especially about Schanke. It was just such an unnecessary move, imo, to kill them off. And Janette's left town, a big loss for the show, especially since they're just going to bring her back later to assassinate her character. I know, I know. I have some Feelings about changes for season 3.
But other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
The mystery is actually a good one. The stakes were super high, a great sense of urgency. Nick's grief and guilt. Nat's own grief and also anger at Nick for how he is reacting, ready to skip town. And as much as I haaaaaaaated the show killing off Schanke and getting rid of Janette, I actually like all the new characters introduced in the episode.
The whole Inca thing ("The Inca"? Really? This guy doesn't have a name?) was kinda "meh" for me, but at least gives us some backstory for Vachon as an important new character. I like that Tracy is a resistor because this means Nick is going to have to be more careful than he was with Schanke to preserve his own secret since he can't just hypnotize her. (And is this episode where "whammy" came from? I don't remember it being used before on the show in reference to hypnotizing humans.) Good set up.
Outside the Lines:
I 100% did not remember the modern mystery in this episode and it kept me guessing. Good character development for Tracy, forcing her to challenge the assumptions that were clouding her judgment about her lifelong close friend, Bruce.
We see that Tracy being a resistor is already an issue for Nick when it comes to using his powers on the job. Nick saw Bruce straight up murder a suspect by throwing him off the roof of a tall building, but there was no way Nick could explain how he got to the roof faster than Tracy. She took the elevator and he supposedly took the fire escape. There's just No Way. And he can't alter her memories about how he got there.
I appreciated that there was a mention of Schanke. Gone, but not forgotten as Nick admitted to Tracy that he didn't want another partner after Schanke died. But nonetheless, Tracy is now Nick's parner and so he tries to mentor her having learned his own lessons on operating on assumptions as opposed to discovering the facts and looking at them objectively.
I enjoyed the flashbacks to WWII and Nick's role in the French Resistance that came to tragic conclusions because Nick went on assumptions without getting the whole picture. We get some prime LaCroix here. Awful to Nick but also Not Wrong about Nick's behavior. Called OUT.
Fun fact: I own LaCroix's coat from the flashback. (Pictures in this post.)
Blackwing:
Just kidding. We didn't watch this one. I vaguely recall it being Not Good and my recollection of the plot makes me think this is going to be a cringey episode with racist tropes.
So we'll probably skip it. Besides, the next episode is "Blind Faith," or as I described it to my spouse, "Vampire Old Yeller." And I'm looking forward to that one.
Like with season 2, there are episode that I remember really well and some I don't remember at all.
So far, we've watched:
RIP Schanke and Cohen. I had previously spoiled for my spouse that they'd be killed offscreen 'cause I knew he'd want to know before actually watching it, especially about Schanke. It was just such an unnecessary move, imo, to kill them off. And Janette's left town, a big loss for the show, especially since they're just going to bring her back later to assassinate her character. I know, I know. I have some Feelings about changes for season 3.
But other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
The mystery is actually a good one. The stakes were super high, a great sense of urgency. Nick's grief and guilt. Nat's own grief and also anger at Nick for how he is reacting, ready to skip town. And as much as I haaaaaaaated the show killing off Schanke and getting rid of Janette, I actually like all the new characters introduced in the episode.
The whole Inca thing ("The Inca"? Really? This guy doesn't have a name?) was kinda "meh" for me, but at least gives us some backstory for Vachon as an important new character. I like that Tracy is a resistor because this means Nick is going to have to be more careful than he was with Schanke to preserve his own secret since he can't just hypnotize her. (And is this episode where "whammy" came from? I don't remember it being used before on the show in reference to hypnotizing humans.) Good set up.
I 100% did not remember the modern mystery in this episode and it kept me guessing. Good character development for Tracy, forcing her to challenge the assumptions that were clouding her judgment about her lifelong close friend, Bruce.
We see that Tracy being a resistor is already an issue for Nick when it comes to using his powers on the job. Nick saw Bruce straight up murder a suspect by throwing him off the roof of a tall building, but there was no way Nick could explain how he got to the roof faster than Tracy. She took the elevator and he supposedly took the fire escape. There's just No Way. And he can't alter her memories about how he got there.
I appreciated that there was a mention of Schanke. Gone, but not forgotten as Nick admitted to Tracy that he didn't want another partner after Schanke died. But nonetheless, Tracy is now Nick's parner and so he tries to mentor her having learned his own lessons on operating on assumptions as opposed to discovering the facts and looking at them objectively.
I enjoyed the flashbacks to WWII and Nick's role in the French Resistance that came to tragic conclusions because Nick went on assumptions without getting the whole picture. We get some prime LaCroix here. Awful to Nick but also Not Wrong about Nick's behavior. Called OUT.
Fun fact: I own LaCroix's coat from the flashback. (Pictures in this post.)
Just kidding. We didn't watch this one. I vaguely recall it being Not Good and my recollection of the plot makes me think this is going to be a cringey episode with racist tropes.
So we'll probably skip it. Besides, the next episode is "Blind Faith," or as I described it to my spouse, "Vampire Old Yeller." And I'm looking forward to that one.
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Date: 2023-08-06 08:54 pm (UTC)Yay for owning Lacroix's coat. That is so cool!
I agree that having Tracy along for the ride and her being a resistor makes things more complicated for Nick. They just could have made more use of this potential.
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Date: 2023-08-07 01:11 am (UTC)I took some photos of the coat (along with a few other things) a few months back and updated the post with the link if you're curious.
They just could have made more use of this potential. <--- THIS right here. What you said encapsulates my frustrations with the show. I can deal with the canon and continuity being a little all over the place, but there was so much they introduced that they could have done more with and that bugs me the most. Gah. I think it's been especially noticeable for me re-watching the show with someone who has never see it before. ("No, sorry, you'll never see that interesting character again." "Nope, they're never going to talk about that again, sorry." "Yes, that was a cool concept. They don't actually do anything with it after this." Etc.) Thank goodness for fan fiction!