'Nikita' on The CW HD - Page 2

pretty predictable and the writing wasn't all that great. the little "twist" at the end would have been better served at the season finale, imo. at least keep the audience guessing.

Like others have said it was not the greatest show ever, but it wasn't that bad. There were some casting choices where it was obvious they went with pretty over good. They also fell into the trap of saying things that would have worked better if they had just showed them.

I will keep watching for now.

I think that her working with that girl on the inside is an integral part of the story and something that we'll see in most every episode.

Ratings were good, built out of the Vampire Diaries in total viewers. We'll see if it all goes to hell next week.

In a fantasy based program that was easily the most fantastical bit of story telling for me, think of what the odds would have to have been for that girl(Alex?) to end up where Nikita wanted her? I don't think the universe is big enough. Other than that, I still liked the show.

Why is it every time there is a rehash we scrutinize for what it used to be (myself included). We should learn to take it for what it was and what it is now and just try to believe that is has never been done before. With that said, I sort of liked it and will give it another go.

Yeah, it is a bit contrived (more than a bit, actually ). Get her involved in a pharmacy robbery in which a guy gets killed on the off chance that she'd get picked up as a trainee by Division? Was the innocent guy intentionally killed just to set this up?

As a sub part of that part of the story, Alex is in this super secure facility where the rest of the world thinks she's dead, yet she has access to email? As long as they keep those gaping plotholes to a minimum this show could be fun and interesting, as long as it stays intelligently interesting and not ridiculous("24") I'll stick around.

I liked it. Probably one of the better shows in what appears to be a weak batch of new Fall shows.

I never saw the original, so it's all new for me, I'll keep watching, it was entertaining, and I like Maggie Q, never realized how thin she was though.

I watched the original movie, but never saw the previous TV series. I found it to be enjoyable and fun. Nothing too serious and some very nice weapons and eye candy.

There is no comparison to the original movie. I'll keep watching to see where it goes, but the Amanda character is a big disappointment. This show just doesn't have the atmosphere/mood of the movie. Maybe cause it was in French.

I wasn't familiar with Maggie Q. I was pleasantly surprised that she wasn't super young basd on the "teen drama" comment from the OP.

She was Olyphant's girl friend and his enforcer in 'Live Free or Die Hard', she was pretty bad ass in that movie. I believe she can play the role. This seems a bit darker than the average CW show, thank heavens. It has potential.

Through the wonder of Netflix Watch Instantly, I just watched some of the original Luc Besson film, from the scene where Nikita meets Amande and begins to transform her affect from heroine addicted gutter-snipe to sophisticated young woman through the scene with Bob after her graduation exercise in the restaurant and I have to agree--the movie is so much better that it's not worth comparing. Amande is quirky and slightly creepy; she has only a few minutes in the movie, but manages to express so much more character than the actress who plays Amanda. The organization Nikita works for (called Directorate-General for External Security or DGSE) is housed in something like an old warehouse or factory. The atmosphere is not at all glossy and commercial as this TV series.

I've watched it probably a half dozen times over the years. Twenty years old, it seems every bit as cool now as when it was new.

But, as has been pointed out, that's the film; this is what it is and should be judged on its own merits as a TV drama. Given that standard, the pilot was decent and it could very well improve as the actors grow into their roles a bit.

She had a pretty intense fight scene with Bruce, remember the SUV in the elevator shaft?

I quite enjoyed the pilot episode of Nikita. Of the two new shows I added to my DVR (Nikita & Terriers) Nikita kept me interested from beginning to end. Yes, I admit I'm a sucker for an assassin in a red bathing suit. And she's still sassy in an evening gown.

I thought I heard the guy from division mention Alex killing some one they were interested in taking out.

Yes ... but I'm pretty sure it was actually Nikita (in the other mask) that did the deed, Alex stayed behind to be caught ... these things aren't clear until the very end of the episode.

I think that you were talking about them sending her out on a mission? I don't remember that. I do recall her blowing up over the idea that she might be asked to kill someone, after she hears that the guy who befriended her was being sent out on an assassination mission.

the .50 sniper rifle she wields in the second episode is a Steyr HS, according to imfdb.

Yes, I believe it was as well, it's still an astronomical stretch to think that Alex would end up exactly where she needed to be though. But then again, it's only a TV show, leaps in logic like this are common place.

I distractedly watched DH4 and remember a BadA$$ woman beating up Bruce Willis and that she did meet a unique death. Did not connect the two. Thanks for the reminder.

Why? Clearly, Nikita planned the whole thing to get "Division's" attention. Division took the bait, hook, line and sinker.

(Unlike the original movie, where the pharmacy heist was just a heist gone horribly wrong.)

I must have missed something then because the way I saw it was just a random heist, in other words, why would Division be interested in people robbing a pharmacy? At that point Nikita's presence/return was unknown to Division, so why the interest in the robbery?

It's not so much the robbery itself that was of interest, but that the guilty part had very little "paper trace" and people that might look for her, as was said in one of the dialog...

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+ They (Nikita and Alex) "got rid of somebody Division had been after for a long time."

Pay attention.

Ah, see, I said I must have missed something, guess I spent all my mental energy looking at Maggie Q instead.