Still Dreaming - A Forever Knight Podcast Erin Schwartz

A re-recording of episode 2 with better audio!

Our existential wandering through Forever Knight continues with part two of the 1992 pilot.

Camus writes, "hope is disastrous for humans inasmuch as it leads them to minimize the value of this life except as preparation for a life beyond."  Nick Knight's hope for salvation is precisely what damns him.  His current quest for mortality is deference, a way of not negotiating the present, not accepting his current state.  He pushes his Sisyphean rock up the hill angrily, already hating it for falling down the other side.

Can Nick overcome his existential dilemma?  Can Schanke figure out anything?  What is going on with LaCroix's haircut?

Tune in, gentle listeners, as we explore these eternal questions in our Forever Knight.


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A re-recording of episode 1 with better audio quality!

There's a series of murders in Toronto, and Nick Knight is a detective on the case, but his colleagues don't know that he's actually an 800-year-old vampire.  Nick laments his status an immortal bloodsucker and hopes to someday reclaim his humanity.  But can he, if he continues to be shackled to the past?  Can understanding Nick's plight through the lens of the existentialist idea of the absurd (as written about by Alber Camus) help us unravel both his struggle and our own quest for meaning?  Tune in, dear listener...

References:

Camus Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

_____. Nuptials. (1938)

Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, (1940)

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What is the role of the body in realizing our radical freedom?  What responsibility do vampires have for their choices?  Is it possible for me to be more bored by a Forever Knight episode?  Tune in, gentle listener...
Sources:  General discussion on Sartre and Beauvoir.  For a list of all the sources used on the podcast, and for information on how to support the show, go to your website:
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Oh my...this one...this one really hurt.  
Episode 12 of season one is called Dead Issue and deals with issues of abuse and rape.  
What is the existential lived condition of internalized oppression?  Can Nick figure out a mystery involving the the wife of an Inspector without destroying his and Schanke's careers?  Why isn't there more Natalie in the episode? And what do the writers have against famed Northern Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch?!?
Sources:
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

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Don Schanke:  Cop.  Father.  Husband.  Friend.  Man of Action.   But does our favorite side-kick live an existentially authentic life? Or are his choices made in bad faith?  Can Nick help his friend during a time of crisis?  Or will Donut Donny be picked off like the last paczki in the precinct?  Tune in, gentle listener....
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Sources: Sartre, Existentalism is a Humanism. John Messerly, Summary of Sartre's Theory of Human Nature, (2014) reasonandmeaning.com

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Nick is on the radio!  He's searching for a serial killer before he can strike again!  But first he's got to....throw cards in the air and brood on the floor in robe?  Huh?  I experience existential befuddlement as we ask about the nature of being as it relates to responsibility to others and our own choices of morality...or something like that.  

Sources:  Sartre, Being and Nothingness.  De Beauvior, The Ethics of Ambiguity.  Camus, The Rebel.  And, The Myth of Sisyphus.  

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