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.

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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