Last Knight

Despite the enormous comment about the final episode of the series, it
seems to me that,given the direction of the show, namely that it was to
be concluded, that the writers finished the story of Nicholas Knight as
satisfactorily as possible.In the light of  the happenings of the
previous episodes and the changing relationship between Nick and
Lacroix, it seems perfectly acceptable that Nick should ask Lacroix to
end his existence,and that Lacroix, in turn, should acquiesce.
The penultimate episode,"Ashes to Ashes" highlighted the love that Nick
could feel for his maker. The touch on the shoulder, the words that he
was there for Lacroix, said it all. When he asked his father to make the
ultimate sacrifice for him, that is, to kill him, it would be
extraordinarily out of tune with the developments over season three to
suggest that Lacroix would ,for his own selfish purposes ,deny his
favourite child this request.
And what of Natalie? People have commented that her character had
changed over the seasons and that towards the end she had become
demanding of Nick's emotions. She was the one who brought about the end
of them both. Strange? Not at all. If we are to recall, Nat was, by this
time no longer the young doctor who had come across a vampire in her
examination room. Years had passed. Schanke was gone. She had  met the
youthful Tracy. Women of Nat's age always become aware of their ages
when working with vibrant, younger people. Nat had been waiting a long
time for a true physical commitment from  Nick. It was normal to push
for it. The tragedy was that Nick was in such a dilemma. Both results,
if he made love to her, would be impossible to sustain. He could either
bring her across, and that would be a retrograde step in terms of his
own attempt to be human , or  he could kill her and live on but this
time without the consoling thought that there was someone who could
perhaps make him human again, someone who could see the humanity and
good in him.
It seems to me that because the second option became a reality, it was
only reasonable that he felt bereft of hope and that death was
reasonable. He wasn't scared of it, in fact he had visited death before
and had been pulled back, the second time by Nat. There was nothing to
pull him back now. Even Lacroix, successful the first time in luring
Nick back , wouldn't entertain the idea now. What would be the reason?
Nick wouldn't want what Lacroix could offer. Given Lacroix's experiences
with his own daughter and her troubled mind, it is easy to believe that
his protestations to Nick about wasting life were just a feeble, last
effort to prevent the loss of a favourite child. He knew it was
futile.

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