Hindsight is irony and such

[Zeke]

Oh yeah, funny how that worked out. The real reference was to The Guardian, an excellent show that was on at the time. (It starred Simon Baker, who went on to do The Mentalist, and now you're equipped to fully get one of my favourite bits in the Ring 2 fiver. Another cast member of interest around here was Raphael Sbarge, who played the traitor Jonas on Voyager.)

I've dropped a few other references to that show over the years, but I think they're mostly in OC fivers. There's also a funny near-miss: in the Angel pilot fiver, when Tina calls him a "guardian... knight" and Angel says she's thinking of his cousin Nick, it really sounds like a Guardian reference since the main character's name was Nick (and he was a broody atoner to boot). But in fact, that's all a coincidence. "Guardian" is there so she can humorously fail to land on "guardian angel", and the rest is a reference to Forever Knight, an earlier vampire show with a very similar premise.