Monday is not my favorite day of the week.

[lyssie]

1. I dreamed in Nikita this morning. I have no idea why, I've been gorging on Leverage commentaries and Midsomer Murders and Big Finish Audios.

2. But it did remind me that I'd watched two and a third episodes of La Femme Nikita. Unfortunately, those must be the worst episodes or something, because they're uncompelling, bland and full of "Michael threatens to rape and murder Nikita, and she has no way to escape." And the third episode is "Michael is full of pain, and we should all feel sorry for him." So I stopped watching out of disgust.

3. Nikita herself is written as this male fantasy mixture of insouciant little girl and stone-cold killer. I feel heartily sorry for Peta Wilson, as she's never really given much to do outside of pout, get naked and shoot things. Oh, and sometimes, she gets to be Innocent, and then find out that even her closest friends are just evil and/or dead.

Sigh.

So, yeah. My opinion of the "La Femme Nikita is so brilliant" line that people use to talk about how bad Nikita (the CW series) is... well, let's just say I find it unconvincing. (I found LFN so uninteresting I watched it sometime in, like, December, and then totally forgot)

5. Speaking of ridiculous things, you know the Leverage commentaries are going to be good when John Rogers says things like "Can we not talk about felonies on the commentaries, please?" and there is lots of alcohol being drunk. They make me giggle. A lot.

Comments

[vickyocean.livejournal.com]

3. But Nikita had that really awesome collection of sunglasses. That makes up for a lot. ; ) Didn't she have a whole rack thing where they all hung in her kitchen or something? She did inspire me to get contacts so I could wear cool sunglasses. ; )

I haven't watched La Femme Nikita since it originally aired and I keep meaning to rewatch it to see if I still feel about it the same way I did back then. Probably not.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I did like that about her apartment. And there are bits of a good show peeking out. They just... need to dump Michael and pick up a sense of humor somewhere.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I attempted to watch the original once and just was not impressed. It was boring and from what I saw, Nikita didn't do much and Michael was an ass.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I think I expect too much from tv shows these days.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. In the past couple years, I've given up on a lot of shows for not holding my interest or doing something overly squicky...I used to be able to watch just about anything, as long as it had awesome/hot female characters :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Your LFN comments make me sad. I'm supposed to watch it between Nikita seasons!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It's possible it gets better? I don't know. I was... really hoping for something better, given how lauded it is by people. :/

eta: then again, I couldn't manage to watch all of the original movie all of these things are based on as it bored me stiff. I did vaguely enjoy bits of the American remake, though.