Nikita, S01E1
Back in the day, hyper-technological, hyper-tactical, shadowy intelligence organizations were cool. Hence The Femme Nikita, which took everything even half-cool about the CIA paradigm, and amped it up to twelve. And, ye gods, wasn't it cool.
Today we live in a time of hyper-technological, hyper-tactical, shadowy organizations driven by abstract tactical profiles and insane internal politics. We call it "the work environment." And you know what? It's not cool. Not because it's oppressively effective, but because it's oppressive yet ineffective, baroque but pointless. It's stupid, it's ugly, it's stupidifying, it's uglifying. It sucks, and just for that, it deserves to be taken down hard.
Hence Nikita.
I'm still reserving judgement about the whole of it (the new Michael, Ops, and Madeline seem less interesting than the originals, and the Birkoff is bleh so far), but I like this Nikita much better, and Alex is pinging all my Robin alarms.
Today we live in a time of hyper-technological, hyper-tactical, shadowy organizations driven by abstract tactical profiles and insane internal politics. We call it "the work environment." And you know what? It's not cool. Not because it's oppressively effective, but because it's oppressive yet ineffective, baroque but pointless. It's stupid, it's ugly, it's stupidifying, it's uglifying. It sucks, and just for that, it deserves to be taken down hard.
Hence Nikita.
I'm still reserving judgement about the whole of it (the new Michael, Ops, and Madeline seem less interesting than the originals, and the Birkoff is bleh so far), but I like this Nikita much better, and Alex is pinging all my Robin alarms.