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Date Posted: Wednesday, June 14, 06:45:11am
Author: Nell
Subject: The MMWK development (r)
In reply to: ~delle 's message, "GREAT question!" on Tuesday, June 13, 05:55:43pm

This is an odd plot arc for me.

On the one hand, I think that, having decided to do it, TPTB actually did a really fantastic job of painting a 'shades of grey' world with this series of eps., Everyone was sympathetic, even in an odd way, Sala Vacheck himself as he rushed to his unknown daughter's deathbed. The emotional changes rung were - on all sides - really interesting. I have also long since fully incorporated Michael's complex emotional history as a two-time husband and father into my mental 'portrait of Michael.'

On the other- 1) it doesn't jibe well with canon before hand - what with Michael not appearing to have *any* extra time for such a major mission! and 2) the basic overall approach of the storytellers shifted with this arc, from exploring Nikita's adaptation to Section/fighting terrorism and global crime lords while trying to protect true innocents to turning Section into a soap-operish petri-dish, in which all the various characters backstories and internal conflicts become the *only* story theme carried week to week. Whatever minor gestures that they had made toward 'real world' terrorism and crime began to fade away, and various Bond-like - ie, not especially real world - villains began to show up and the focus stayed locked on the four main characters and their increasingly petty internal squabbling over whether or not Nikita and Michael together would end up knocking Paul out of his perch - even as the perch itself lost much actual purpose or meaning.

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