Nikita --- Living pace
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I know there are various threads scattered across the forum to do with the new program, but no specific one for discussing the show, that I can see, and since it begins on Thursday thought I may as well start one.
Obviously, no spoilers please and if you want to mention "La Femme Nikita" that's fine (I will be) but let's try not to compare the two shows. Well, not too much...! :cool:
Obviously, no spoilers please and if you want to mention "La Femme Nikita" that's fine (I will be) but let's try not to compare the two shows. Well, not too much...! :cool:
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Bugger knows why someone is doing it again.
I don't have living, so I won't be watching and wouldn't even if I did have living.
OK I'll be off now
What episode are you guys on so I won't mention stuff before it shows in the UK?
What was the point of posting then??
Starting with the pilot episode on Thursday
Do you read your own posts, you opened the door by mentioning Femme, so I did, as I said:
La Femme Nikita was really rather dull.
Bugger knows why someone is doing it again.
Given the bits from the trailer I've seen, this looks equally charmless as Femme.
Simple rule: if you don't like the show, don't post in its thread. Pointless otherwise.
Maggie Q is rather attractive too!
You're not comparing like with like, the various Star Trek off shoots would be closer to this, variations on a theme.
Not liking a show and airing that opinion is not an insult to those who do like it.
Actually I liked the starting point for this is, a quality bit of work from Luc Besson.
Then I got the dull charmless product LFN which went into the 'passes the time' catergory in my mind.
I was and I agree a promising start looks good.
I liked La Femme also unlike prince monalulu.
I did cringe at the opening exposition voiceover, very clumsy. But then it got into the story and for a pilot episode it was rather good. Although the escape from the posh function was a little too easy.
The characters seem likiable enough. Nikita pulled off the role well enough, she seems cold and hard enough to be an assasin while still having enough humanity to be the hero of the piece. Her persuer (Michael I think) does seem a little too nice to work for such an agency so hopefully there will be some character development for him showing how he ended up working for Division. This is similar to Sydney in the Pretender, you always wondered how he got there. The boss seems evil villainy enough although didn't see much of him. The other guys in Division seem human rather than just cardboard cutouts.
I know there's little new in here, the female ass kicking agent trying to bring down evil agency has a lot in common with Alias. Person on the run from evil agency being hunted by previous friends and colleagues has many similarities with The Pretender. There are elements of Dollhouse and Dark Angel not to mention previous versions of Nikita.
So now it remains to be seen where they take the premise. Presumably it will be mission of the week with the story arc developing in the background. It now depends on how good each weekly mission story is verus how well the story arc develops. Dollhouse got this mix badly wrong for the first half of season one.
I will stick with this for a while and see how well it going.
Will give it another chance though.
Regards
Mark
Lyndsy Fonseca. She played Dylan in Desp. Housewives and was in Kick Ass as well.
And the daughter in the in-fills in How I Met Your Mother
Ah, Desperate Housewives, that's where I know her from! Thanks!
Anyway, I like what they have done with this pilot. It's especially nice to see the Cleaner as apparently a major character, because he was under-used in La Femme. Michael and Amanda are promising. I'm a bit disappointed that the agency has been recast as out-and-out evil, because I remember it being more ambiguous. I hope Nikita has been doing something interesting for these last 3 years.
I would think "Living Pace" gives a teeny clue as to the fact it's UK Pace
anyway, watching it now and not bad so far - hasn't really grabbed me, but i'm going to give it a chance as most things take a couple of episodes to really get going.
as long as maggie q keeps appearing in her underwear, that'll keep me interested if the episode isn't that great
thing is, that's the type of series that tends to survive in the states - episodic shows that continue a story arc throughout always tend to struggle i think.
I know that but I didn't know what episode the UK was on.
We've just had the pilot this week. so we're a bit behind. No spoilers please