After reading some of Comic Book Kid's arguments, I transferred what I wrote from the cancelled pilot's thread about Nikita. I found we were largely in agreement with the Blade comparison. I didn't know if anyone else might have seen it that way. Great minds think alike perhaps 
t:.
"I think the new Nikita erred in using Alex to be the POV into the world of Division. I think we might be able to identify with and empathize with Nikita more if the show had started with her induction into Division and perhaps ended the pilot with her breaking free of them.
As it stands now, she sort of does nothing but hang around between missions in a hi-tech, very nice apartment (never explained how she can afford it, especially if she's being hunted constantly by Division). But I digress, the show is largely Alex's show, because we are seeing more of her journey. With Nikita's we are getting it in flashback. But I think the audience should see first hand the transformation of the character from a troubled girl into a stone cold assassin to a doubting assassin, to someone capable of falling in love, and then into a vengeance fueled person. There's a lot of potential for great drama there that has been reduced to the occassional flashback scene.
I also think the show made a mistake by not focusing, if only briefly on her lover. With Alias, we got about 15 minutes of the dude, but that made him more of a real person to me, so when he was murdered, I could empathize with Syndey more.
Nikita's storytelling structure reminds me a little of Blade the Series, and how the writers made Krista far more interesting than Blade, the title character, because there was more on the line for Krista (since she had infiltrated the vamps and could be discovered at any moment). Blade, like Nikita, usually hovered in the shadows and administered the occasional beat down but that was about it. However, I think Nikita's writers have treated her character a little better than the Blade writers at this stage in their respective series."
As for the tweaking, I'm not sure what to make of it until I see it. A little romance for Nikita might open up her character more. Though I was hoping they were going to do something with her and Michael. Him having the drop on her about every week and letting her go was getting old, so I was hoping that he might finally come over to the side of the angels.
t:. "I think the new Nikita erred in using Alex to be the POV into the world of Division. I think we might be able to identify with and empathize with Nikita more if the show had started with her induction into Division and perhaps ended the pilot with her breaking free of them.
As it stands now, she sort of does nothing but hang around between missions in a hi-tech, very nice apartment (never explained how she can afford it, especially if she's being hunted constantly by Division). But I digress, the show is largely Alex's show, because we are seeing more of her journey. With Nikita's we are getting it in flashback. But I think the audience should see first hand the transformation of the character from a troubled girl into a stone cold assassin to a doubting assassin, to someone capable of falling in love, and then into a vengeance fueled person. There's a lot of potential for great drama there that has been reduced to the occassional flashback scene.
I also think the show made a mistake by not focusing, if only briefly on her lover. With Alias, we got about 15 minutes of the dude, but that made him more of a real person to me, so when he was murdered, I could empathize with Syndey more.
Nikita's storytelling structure reminds me a little of Blade the Series, and how the writers made Krista far more interesting than Blade, the title character, because there was more on the line for Krista (since she had infiltrated the vamps and could be discovered at any moment). Blade, like Nikita, usually hovered in the shadows and administered the occasional beat down but that was about it. However, I think Nikita's writers have treated her character a little better than the Blade writers at this stage in their respective series."
As for the tweaking, I'm not sure what to make of it until I see it. A little romance for Nikita might open up her character more. Though I was hoping they were going to do something with her and Michael. Him having the drop on her about every week and letting her go was getting old, so I was hoping that he might finally come over to the side of the angels.
