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Date Posted: Wednesday, June 07, 12:56:49pm
Author: Nell
Subject: Re: OK, here goes
In reply to: JayBee 's message, "OK, here goes" on Wednesday, June 07, 11:13:34am

To me, MMWK represents the moment the show morphed from a spy show to a soap opera, where the plot emphasis was no longer on taking down SOTWs and the moral dilemmas Nikita faced in doing so, but all about relaaaaaaaationships. Which is not the show I had fallen in love with!

Yeah - there is that too. ;-)

Though while, in retrospect, it signaled the true beginning of the soap opera- I don't think it really had to. There is actually a lot of potentially really interesting stuff in those four episodes to explore regarding how section operates and whom it pursues and how and why..... and with Nikita now in a different place, intellectually and morally, vis a vie Section - for example, she *doesn't* rush to tell Elena that her life is a lie - knowing that this will only hurt her in a multitude of ways, where I think she might very well have done such a thing in her first year as an operative. That would have been interesting to explore, especially with more interesting villains.

Sometimes I think LFN's greatest failing was actually in conceiving of the terrorists/villians/criminals - so much of the drama depended on them being believably bad and yet in complicated places - and this also ended up pushing the internal politics/soap operas of Section into the front.

It annoyed me immensely, especially because the end of S2 had really left open some fascinating new directions they could have gone in. But no. *Rolls eyes*

If you were to write an Alternative Reality plot line, beginning at the end of S2, what themes/issues would you have put forward?

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Re: OK, here goes -- JayBee, Wednesday, June 07, 01:40:12pm
- Yeah - I can see that; really easily, actually (r) -- Nell, Wednesday, June 07, 02:16:35pm