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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 9 2010, 08:39 PM (1,120 Views) | |
| Miss Rhi | Sep 9 2010, 08:39 PM Post #1 |
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Posted Image Discuss this show that probably won't make it through the whole season if all the episdoes are like this first one. |
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| darraholic | Sep 9 2010, 08:47 PM Post #2 |
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It's soooooooo bad. The acting is awful too. I miss the old Nikita :( |
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| darraholic | Sep 9 2010, 08:48 PM Post #3 |
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At least Julie Cooper is on my screen <3 |
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| Deleted User | Sep 9 2010, 10:41 PM Post #4 |
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I never saw the original, but I loved it. LYNSEY FONSECA! :wub: Was the original concept the same? |
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| Drew | Sep 9 2010, 10:48 PM Post #5 |
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Fucking awful. The End. 6 eps, tops. |
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| darraholic | Sep 9 2010, 10:48 PM Post #6 |
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The original TV show was actually a Canadian show. La Femme Nikita (or simply Nikita in some countries) is a Canadian action-drama television series based on the original French film by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and the Warner Brothers company. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for four and one-half TV seasons—until March 2001, when it was cancelled.[1] The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following, according to the definitive book on the series written by Christopher Heyn in 2006.[2] In the original Luc Besson film (and in the American remake Point of No Return, also released by Warner Bros.), Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to life in prison, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government and they faked her death (suicide). Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly trained assassin who cannot be traced, since as far as the outside world is concerned, she has died in prison and no longer exists. The television series differs from the film versions in one fundamental respect: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is innocent. She is not a killer, nor a drug user, just a homeless young woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. Section One — an elite, top-secret counterterrorist organization with no affiliation to any specific government — sets Nikita up to be accused of murdering a cop and sentenced to life in prison where she supposedly commits suicide and is brought into Section One. Because Nikita will be killed (or "canceled") if she fails to comply, she is forced to carry out the organization's ruthless methods of fighting terrorism, while attempting to keep her moral integrity — and her soul — intact. This personal struggle becomes the primary conflict of the series. Over time, Nikita's secretive and risky romantic involvement with her trainer, the mysterious Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis), will become another source of conflict, and the series' most significant relationship. Just before the conclusion of the series, Nikita also learns the truth of why she was recruited into Section One. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 9 2010, 10:49 PM Post #7 |
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So, Joss Whedon totally ripped this off then? |
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| Drew | Sep 9 2010, 10:51 PM Post #8 |
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Lyndsy Fonseca is basically the original Nikita role. and Alberta Watson > Melinda Clarke. Edited by Drew, Sep 9 2010, 10:53 PM.
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| Drew | Sep 9 2010, 10:52 PM Post #9 |
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If this piece of shit does manage to last, it'll hit the same wall Prison Break did thanks to boxed in concept they've chosen. Nikita will not be able to spend a whole series a free agent. Inevitably, she'd suffer from the same "shit we got a season 2, now we gotta break INTO the prison" syndrome. She'll end up back working for whatever they're calling it now.
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| darraholic | Sep 9 2010, 10:53 PM Post #10 |
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I'm going to have to get the DVD's from the original show. I loved it as a kid. |
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| Drew | Sep 9 2010, 10:54 PM Post #11 |
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I was actually thinking of doing the rent/burn/return thing with the La Femme Nikita DVDs as well. |
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| Drew | Sep 9 2010, 10:56 PM Post #12 |
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and I dont know where you are, but up here Future Shop's selling off the old series sets for 19.99 each. |
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| darraholic | Sep 9 2010, 11:23 PM Post #13 |
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I'm in Kamloops, BC. We have a Future Shop but I don't know if they'd have it in stock here. Might have to go to Kelowna or Vancouver or online. |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 10 2010, 12:46 PM Post #14 |
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1x02 promo |
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| ~bl~ | Sep 10 2010, 07:55 PM Post #15 |
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I am going to watch the first episode as it is airing again tonight in a few minutes. Supposedly the critics love this remake. |
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| Drew | Sep 10 2010, 08:04 PM Post #16 |
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the ones that were bought and paid for atleast. |
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| KMan101 | Sep 10 2010, 08:26 PM Post #17 |
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Watching the rerun right now and .... I'm just not sure about it. I love the actors but something's just not working. I'll give it some more time but I expect erosion in the future in the ratings. I thought it would come out like lightning but it's not ... |
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| darraholic | Sep 10 2010, 08:30 PM Post #18 |
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I didn't care for the acting. The lead chick needs some acting lessons. Shane West is miscast. The only bright spot is Melinda Clarke. |
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| KMan101 | Sep 10 2010, 08:34 PM Post #19 |
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Well, I did say I like the ACTORS. I didn't say I liked their acting in this. Something's just not gelling for me. |
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| ~bl~ | Sep 10 2010, 10:05 PM Post #20 |
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I finished it. Just okay not OMG wow. |
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