I hope nobody minds me bumping this. I thought it better to find an existing thread and comment rather than making an entirely new thread, especially for a series that is no longer airing new eps.
So, I've heard of La Femme Nikita and saw a couple ads for the 90's show and thought it looked corny and really pumped on itself as a spy thriller. That's pretty much been my impression of the name "Nikita" any time I heard about a series or movie having to do with it; just junky explosions, over the top stunts, gadgetry and cheesy spy exploits. Fast forward to 2014, I started watching Salem and loved it to death, particularly Shane West as the rugged, raspy voiced, deadpan snarker, John Alden. Last year, I also got into Twelve Monkeys, loving the hell out of Aaron Stanford as a replacement for Bruce Willis's James Cole. It was only after all of that, last month in fact, when I looked over imdb and went looking into Shane West's other work. Seeing Stanford also starring in Nikita, I was sold. You didn't have to say anything else; regardless of cheese content, I was gonna watch it for the guys(didn't I already go through something similar for Supernatural? Huh.).
What. A. Shock! I cannot gush enough about this series and I'm kicking myself for passing it by over these last few years simply because of 90's bias. Came for the beef cake and got so much more in return. I'm currently working through season 3, almost done,
Sean just died and I'm more sad for Alex than actually going to miss him; he was kind of a douche, imo. I don't know if I have to put spoilers up when talking about it still, but I'm just gonna copy what other people have done until told otherwise. There were times during the first two seasons where Nikita kinda pissed me off. I mean, I get it. I'm sympathetic to her trauma, what her life basically is, but sometimes her martyrdom was really annoying. Which might just be a personal bias because broody Michael and
his chopped off hand gettin' all huffy and whiny about it...actually had me salivating. I think that is part of the way I write, though. I like strong, well-rounded female characters who don't play passive-aggressive games or project their insecurities. I love writing male characters like that though, making them all whiny and rash to soothe that wounded ego.
I love the complexity of the series, and the characters reactions, even as implausible as they're getting right now in the third season(Amanda pokes your brain and suddenly you're brainwashed within a few hours. Yeah...okay, mebbe.
), when they set up rules and standards of behavior, they pretty much stick to them, and the operations within those fences make sense. I love and hate Amanda. Like, she's kind of got this alien-bug thing going on with her eyes and lips and just everything she does makes stuff craptastic. Yet she's so much fun sometimes, snarky, smug, and godawful human being and I love it. Like a coin that won't fall, I'm stuck on the edge considering her annoying but those same things making me unwillingly smirk in pleasure for the way it all plays out. I definitely miss Ari and wish things hadn't ended that way with him. Don't care about Ryan, as some other people have said, he was a cardboard cutout that they occasionally wheeled into the room and he waved his finger and his eyes flashed. Owen is my third fav character, especially with his face-heel turn. How delightful! So bad!
My absolute favorites though are the two guys I started the show for, Michael and Birkoff. I've loved every bit of their stories and how they've shifted and changed throughout these seasons. Plus, the back and forth of the earlier seasons are just priceless.
Anyway, still working through the series, might come back to give a final review of the series as a whole, but with the recent eps and drama, I needed to find a thread and unload about it. ^^;
Except, more than wonder, I'm a little scared. They are capable of anything in this show. 
