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Maggie Q's 'Nikita' . w00t!

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Clevinger said:
I tried to watch La Femme Nikita after seeing a lot of people say it was better than this show, but I couldn't get into it at all. It was cheesy as hell.
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Same here. I never understand when people say LFM is better than this. Cheesy acting, low production values, and those hairdos are cringe-worthy.
 
Alberta Watson IS a fantastic actress AND I love how they gave her a part different to Madeline.

Episode was amazing and this show better get renewed or I will be pissed off.
 
Everyone in the show is a supreme fucking badass...

Both Nikita and Alex were dead for a while
Alex shot Nikita even though she was not even sure of her plan
Percy is fucking ballin'
Michael is also
CIA guy took out other CIA guy with chair
Nikita using CIA front door
Nikita ran though CIA shooting
Nikita jumped down a dumpster shoot followed by fire
Nikita flipped the explosive switch with a fucking bullet
Amanda with the almighty adrenalin stab to the heart
Nikita whole "recovery" bit, with the music was amazing
Roan the Cleaner still making phone calls with half a face

Also,

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Excellent season finale. I'm so glad they didn't go with a standard cliffhanger ending (like the previous week) and raised some new questions but still had it feel like the season was fairly self contained & finished.

I'm really surprised by how well this turned out. I only decided to watch originally because of Maggie Q and was all ready to hate it. I expected it to shit all over the original movie and be canceled after a few eps but I was totally surprised when it turned out to be more of a sequel than a remake.

Looking forward to season 2.
 
OMG this show. This episode. WTF? I've never seen a TV series that intense for an hour I thought I was watching a full-length movie.

I love how everything came together. Everything we saw from the previous episode: the poison division stole, Roan's tendency to use chemical to flush out any toxin, Zetrov, even Ryan Fletcher. That's how you write TV series. All of your elements come together in the finale.

I would be so pissed at CW if they don't renew this.
 
Surprisingly this show turned out well. I wasn't feeling it too much in the beginning and really only watched it when when I got bored or there was nothing else more compelling on (thank you DVR). But it definitely picked up mid-season and ended with a blast. I definitely hope it gets renewed.
 
Tim the Wiz said:
Agreed. Supposed La Femme Nikita superiority is nostalgia talking.
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Possibly, 10 years ago the show felt so cool. I have re-watched the whole thing now, too, and I still like it better, but I can see why people who are new to it would be turned off.
 
damn that was great I really hope they renew this, the only thing missing was still no god damned mention of the recruit that went crazy
 
i fucking love this show!!

finally nikita can replaced my 24 fix!

its picked up for 2nd season right??...right?
 
I don't know why this show is good. I don't know how this has happened. But I am glad it exists.
 
D23 said:
i fucking love this show!!

finally nikita can replaced my 24 fix!

its picked up for 2nd season right??...right?
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Not yet, although we should know by May 19th. We will probably know before though, as stuff leaks out

It has been sitting around a 2+ million viewer number, which is good. CW's other new show "Hellcats," has fallen below 1mil recently.

The Vampire Diaries was doing 3.5 when it got renewed for Season 2, and recently go renewed for Season 3 doing just short of 3.0. Season 3 of 90210 did numbers worse than Nikita, and recently got a Season 4, same for Gossip Girl - it got a Season 5 with fairly low numbers.

Smallville and Supernatural pulled Nikita numbers for many seasons, and got renewed

Of course, all these shows air on different days, and draw a different crowd, so the numbers do not mean much, but I'd say there is a good chance for season 2 - if it is matching Smallville and Supernatural (the closest comparable shows to it) then CW should be happy.
 
So it's Alex, Amanda, and Oversight vs. Nikita and Michael next season? Weird.

Awesome finale btw .. Really hope it gets renewed.
 
Oh man, what a brilliant finale.

One of the best episodes of any show ever.

Every second was stunning.

S2 better be coming. I hope Alex doesn't stay 'bad' for the whole next series. Assuming that it comes.
 
I think current Alex is a good character, and she is not that bad in her current form. She is out to help herself, and she can be an annoyance to both sides when/if she wants to.

Michael and Nikita are now full good guys. Alex would not fit in there too well any more, and I think a team of three would be too much.

Nikita wont have anyone inside Division any more, unless they do something with Seymour, so they will need a new way to make stories other than Alex and Michael getting intel,

Alex fighting Nikita/Division and Nikita fighting Alex/Division would be a nice start to season 2

...if we get Season 2 :P

Also, I am sure CW will try and force another Teen/20s guy into the series somehow :/
 
I was ready to be disappointed and here I am excited as hell for this. The finale was just brilliant and everything came together so beautifully.

I really hope it does get renewed :)
 
The Finale was great, the whole season was great, everyone on the show is great.

I don't know the credentials of the people most in charge of making Nikita, but they're doing something right. I can't think of another recent show that has drawn me in so easily in its first season. There's plenty of other good stuff around, but Nikita has shown a very natural ability to tell an entertaining story without making it look like much of an effort. It's also the first show I've seen in a long time that actually felt like a full season's worth of television, a quality that's seemed lacking in shows since I've grown up.

Every time this thread bumps I worry we're getting some bad news, but I'm really hoping for renewal. It deserves it.
 
WTF

WTF
WTF

How many twists and turns can you pack into 45 minutes? Holy crap, it lever let up. Great finale. This better get picked up for a second season.

Keyser Soze said:
Everyone in the show is a supreme fucking badass...

Both Nikita and Alex were dead for a while
Alex shot Nikita even though she was not even sure of her plan
Percy is fucking ballin'
Michael is also
CIA guy took out other CIA guy with chair
Nikita using CIA front door
Nikita ran though CIA shooting
Nikita jumped down a dumpster shoot followed by fire
Nikita flipped the explosive switch with a fucking bullet
Amanda with the almighty adrenalin stab to the heart
Nikita whole "recovery" bit, with the music was amazing
Roan the Cleaner still making phone calls with half a face
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GotDAMN that's more badass packed into one ep than I've seen in a long time.
 
I was expecting more from the blackbox done it's a gas trap.

But nice to see Alex branching out. It's a good final. Just disappointed by that black box
 
I need this show to come back. I just found out about V getting canned, so if Nikita goes too I'll be so fucking pissed....
 
Just finished watching all the episodes my roommate saved on the DVR.

Couldn't believe I was watching original programming for the CW, of all networks. Superb first season, and some of the best action on network television right now. The pacing was great, too. Every episode felt important to the story they were trying to tell.

The only complaints I have is that sometimes it gets a little too bogged down in the romance, to point that it pulls you out of the story and the fact that these characters are all supposed to be hardened killing machines. But then I remind myself that this IS the CW and they have a demographic to protect.

And the terrible actress behind Alex. Really, in comparison to the rest of the cast (excellent performances from all the main characters, particularly Maggie Q and Melinda Clarke), she's just god awful.
 
Every.single.time this thread got bumped up my heart stop momentarily.

*sigh* a few more days. Although don't take my word for it but I've been reading elsewhere that Nikita has actually been renewed by CW but the network won't announce until upfronts. Apparently the show's casts are on the CW's invite list for the upcoming upfronts so cross your fingers guys. *cross fingers*
 
It's definitely getting renewed. There might be some budget cuts, though. The show has been a huge seller for the CW abroad where it's on channels that people actually watch.

It would be interesting if it was paired with Ringer, or maybe Supernatural. Either way, it's coming back.
 
Just read an article saying CW may jump on Wonder Woman, which could hurt Nikita's chanced... probably a bit silly, but I can see CW making a dumb move like that as the silliness of Wonder Woman would fit better in with their usual stuff :/

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Wonder+Woman+reboot+might+dead+here/4796738/story.html

Until The CW officially unveils its fall schedule on Thursday, though, hold onto your horses.

In the end, Wonder Woman may not have been quite the right fit for a struggling network that's all about courting high-income -- read: adult -- viewers.

NBC might not have much going for it, but what it does have is a legacy of deliberately courting the high-income audience. That was the real reason for risky -- by popular-TV standards -- choices like The West Wing, ER, Law & Order and, yes, Friday Night Lights.

Wonder Woman -- the name, the concept and the TV show -- might be a much better fit for a network like the CW, the home of Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and the now-retired Smallville. But wait, there's more. Wonder Woman is produced by the same TV studio, Warner Bros. International, which co-owns The CW - the "W" in CW stands for Warner. (Warner Bros. also produces Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, and produced Smallville in Vancouver before that show retired last week after 10 seasons.)

The word on the street is that no network is going to pick up a series that NBC passed on, but The CW has always played by its own rules. The CW covets a young audience, has a history of being female-friendly -- a recent TV Critics Association panel was called "The Kick-Ass Women of The CW" -- and is looking for a viable replacement series for Smallville.

With CW newcomers Hellcats and Nikita believed to be on the bubble and not exactly safe bets for return, it's entirely possible that CW executives will pounce on what they perceive as a mistake by NBC.

It wouldn't be the first mistake NBC has made.

And while it doesn't happen often, it can happen. The network formerly known as UPN famously picked up Buffy the Vampire Slayer for one final season after The WB passed on it.

A second -- make that third -- life for Wonder Woman is possible, if not likely. Don't hang up that Lasso of Truth just yet.
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I am not believing anything anyone says until it is official.
 
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