Nevermores
| Forever Knight Faction | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Nevermores |
| Abbreviation: | |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
| Leaders: | disbanded/disavowed |
| Founder: | Amy R. |
| Type: | solidarity with one side of a controversy |
| Focus: | Janette's fate in the episode "The Human Factor" |
| Wars: | n/a |
| Community: | ForKNI-L |
| URL: | n/a |
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[1]The Nevermores were a short-lived faction of Forever Knight fans who believed that Nick Knight didn't bring Janette back across at the end of the Season Three episode, "The Human Factor".
Faction History
When "The Human Factor" first aired in 1996, its final scenes were widely assumed to mean that Janette had died. However, this assumption was by no means universal, resulting in considerable controversy on the ForKNI-L mailing list. The term "Nevermores" (referencing Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven") was coined to refer to those fans who did consider that the evidence supported her death.
At this point one fan, Amy R., enthusiastically "seized and ran" with the name,[2] turning it into an actual affiliation. One other fan also started to use the name in that way.
The existence of a Nevermores faction was immediately controversial.[3] Quite a few fans did not appreciate Janette's death being (as they saw it) celebrated by anyone. Not surprisingly, the Ravenettes, who were affiliated with the character, were particularly affronted. As Amy R. put it (writing retrospectively in 2013), they took the Nevermores as "a brutal personal attack".[4]
To complicate the issue, fans on list who had contacts among the production staff learned that it had, in fact, been intended for the final scenes of "The Human Factor" to convey obliquely that Janette had survived being shot because Nick Knight had brought her back across.
In these circumstances, the two Nevermores decided to disavow the affiliation, with apologies to those who had felt offended by its creation.
References
- ^ The text of this article has been largely taken from the article, "Nevermores" on the Forever Knight Wiki.
- ^ The phrase "[...] I did seize it and run with it" was used by Amy R. (writing under the username Brightknightie) in a comment she made on 4 September 2013 to the entry "Faction icons XLV" on Greer Watson's Dreamwidth journal.[1] Her role as founder of the faction is corroborated by Meredith's Affiliation FAQ[2] of 15 May 1996.
- ^ Additional information about the controversy over the correct interpretation of the final scenes of "The Human Factor" can be found in the article, "The controversy about Janette's fate" on the Forever Knight Wiki.
- ^ Amy R. (writing under the username Brightknightie) in a comment she made on 4 September 2013 to the entry "Faction icons XLV" on Greer Watson's Dreamwidth journal.[3]