Inception & Nikita
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If you have not yet seen Inception, please, go see it.
There are several reasons to see it - these reinforce one another, but if you don't like one, it won't harm your viewing of the rest:
* logic games
* great acting from great actors
* excellent scenery
* dancing on the ceiling (minus the song)
* demonstrations of personal perception & how much we notice
* a dead ringer for the lead actor in Nikita, but that might be my brain on pattern-recognition overdrive.
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And, tonight and last night, Nikita...
The Good News:
* Maggie Q has top billing.
* Maggie Q demonstrating her acting chops - if this show doesn't get her an Academy Award, I will be majorly irked, and may send a kelpie after the Academy.
The Bad News:
* Not enough Maggie Q
(she should have been onscreen more)
* It's probably only a matter of time before someone writes a Nikita/The Pretender crossover because she's just like him. (there are plenty of good reasons to write that crossover, i grant you)
In the first 10 minutes, there was a statement by Nikita herself, which cast her former employers in a very puzzling light:
"I was forced to train to be an assassin for The Division."
Now, to me, that just screams of incompetance on the part of The Division...why force training upon people? Yes, there's the advantage that these are people who are less likely to be missed, and might be seen as socially expendable.
But unless The Division has perfected a way to induce Unquestioning Loyalty / Stockholm Syndrome in every single trainee, isn't there a shockingly high risk of those trainees turning on The Division? :) They probably have a euphemism for it, too - "Benedicting" after General Arnold.
Then again, Nikita's the first to escape from The Division...maybe before her, there was no attempt to escape - just go on a rampage within The Division?
But if that's not the case, then how do they do it? What makes the trainees so unflinchingly loyal to The Division.
hm...
In fact, it reminds me of a passage from another show:
"We have to take it on faith. Which we're killed if we don't have."
-Anna, one of the angels on Supernatural
Yeah, I can imagine loyalty tests are important in The Division. (but they can't be too regular, as then the trainees learn to expect the tests, which rather spoils the results)
And as to the end...
For better or worse, once they showed who the mole was, I had a feeling who had really been wearing the pig mask in the beginning...and yes, it turned out to have been so.
Though that means she's been planning this for a long while - long enough to help someone lose an accent, and long enough to find someone she would be willing to throw inside Division.
Is it next week yet?
.
If you have not yet seen Inception, please, go see it.
There are several reasons to see it - these reinforce one another, but if you don't like one, it won't harm your viewing of the rest:
* logic games
* great acting from great actors
* excellent scenery
* dancing on the ceiling (minus the song)
* demonstrations of personal perception & how much we notice
* a dead ringer for the lead actor in Nikita, but that might be my brain on pattern-recognition overdrive.
.
.
.
And, tonight and last night, Nikita...
The Good News:
* Maggie Q has top billing.
* Maggie Q demonstrating her acting chops - if this show doesn't get her an Academy Award, I will be majorly irked, and may send a kelpie after the Academy.
The Bad News:
* Not enough Maggie Q
(she should have been onscreen more)
* It's probably only a matter of time before someone writes a Nikita/The Pretender crossover because she's just like him. (there are plenty of good reasons to write that crossover, i grant you)
In the first 10 minutes, there was a statement by Nikita herself, which cast her former employers in a very puzzling light:
"I was forced to train to be an assassin for The Division."
Now, to me, that just screams of incompetance on the part of The Division...why force training upon people? Yes, there's the advantage that these are people who are less likely to be missed, and might be seen as socially expendable.
But unless The Division has perfected a way to induce Unquestioning Loyalty / Stockholm Syndrome in every single trainee, isn't there a shockingly high risk of those trainees turning on The Division? :) They probably have a euphemism for it, too - "Benedicting" after General Arnold.
Then again, Nikita's the first to escape from The Division...maybe before her, there was no attempt to escape - just go on a rampage within The Division?
But if that's not the case, then how do they do it? What makes the trainees so unflinchingly loyal to The Division.
hm...
In fact, it reminds me of a passage from another show:
"We have to take it on faith. Which we're killed if we don't have."
-Anna, one of the angels on Supernatural
Yeah, I can imagine loyalty tests are important in The Division. (but they can't be too regular, as then the trainees learn to expect the tests, which rather spoils the results)
And as to the end...
For better or worse, once they showed who the mole was, I had a feeling who had really been wearing the pig mask in the beginning...and yes, it turned out to have been so.
Though that means she's been planning this for a long while - long enough to help someone lose an accent, and long enough to find someone she would be willing to throw inside Division.
Is it next week yet?