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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.
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.
