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fembuckOkay, so this show is intentionally fucking with us, right? Because that "Happy Valentine's Day" scene between Nikita and Alex was almost too gay to function.
My god, Alex had the most amazing case of sex hair ever, like someone (and by someone I mean Nikita) spent all night just running her fingers through it. And her shirt! Alex's shirt was so unbuttoned that I was blushing a little because it seemed like they'd just rolled out of bed to get a snack and exchange Valentine's Day gifts after sexing for most of the evening. Add that to the looks, the dialogue, and the music and the gay was almost overpowering! I mean, could Nikita have looked anymore like a classy business lady getting ready to leave the love nest she purchased for her college co-ed lover? The answer to that question is, 'No'.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest of the episode because it doesn't deserve it. It would be like having a glass of frozen Minute Maid punch after you've had a glass of Merlot.
Okay, I take that back. That Michael/Alex/Nathan dinner scene was pretty intense and worth mentioning. Michael was such a magnificent bastard! Alex looked so uncomfortable. I mean how incredibly awful for her to hear him insinuating that she's a whore considering her past. She looked so small and broken. Michael you cruel littler otter. If he knew about Alex's past, I'd go so far as to characterize his insinuations as despicable.
But at the same time, Nathan (if he's not a spy or something) will totally be better off if he stays the hell away from Alex. He's just gonna end up dead. You know it's true. He's a red-shirt. His generic good-looks and bland, non-threatening personality mean he's doomed (though at least Nathan has the good manners to be good-looking unlike the double-ugly squirrel-faced charisma vacuum they've saddled Nikita with). Alex is gonna get that basic bitch killed.
Also, where's Mindy? Seriously, I am not okay with Capt. Fugly and Slightly Above Average-looking Neighbor Boy stealing screen time from Melinda 'muthafuckin' Clarke! Seriously, this show uses it's cast so strangely. Aaron Stanford and Melinda Clarke get next to no screen-time, while Noah Bean's all over the fucking place. I wish he'd get a statue of liberty collectible to the head again. Dump him in the bathtub and run!
In conclusion, I like this show better when it's Action-Adventure BFFs Kicking Ass and Taking Numbers instead of Sex and the City with spies ... which means it sucks for me that it's on the CW. Because as much as I hate Nathan and Ryan for sucking the energy, intrigue, badassery, suspense, good story-telling, dynamic characterization, chemistry, plotting and pacing from the show ... I know they're not going anywhere (at least not fast enough for me).
My god, Alex had the most amazing case of sex hair ever, like someone (and by someone I mean Nikita) spent all night just running her fingers through it. And her shirt! Alex's shirt was so unbuttoned that I was blushing a little because it seemed like they'd just rolled out of bed to get a snack and exchange Valentine's Day gifts after sexing for most of the evening. Add that to the looks, the dialogue, and the music and the gay was almost overpowering! I mean, could Nikita have looked anymore like a classy business lady getting ready to leave the love nest she purchased for her college co-ed lover? The answer to that question is, 'No'.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest of the episode because it doesn't deserve it. It would be like having a glass of frozen Minute Maid punch after you've had a glass of Merlot.
Okay, I take that back. That Michael/Alex/Nathan dinner scene was pretty intense and worth mentioning. Michael was such a magnificent bastard! Alex looked so uncomfortable. I mean how incredibly awful for her to hear him insinuating that she's a whore considering her past. She looked so small and broken. Michael you cruel littler otter. If he knew about Alex's past, I'd go so far as to characterize his insinuations as despicable.
But at the same time, Nathan (if he's not a spy or something) will totally be better off if he stays the hell away from Alex. He's just gonna end up dead. You know it's true. He's a red-shirt. His generic good-looks and bland, non-threatening personality mean he's doomed (though at least Nathan has the good manners to be good-looking unlike the double-ugly squirrel-faced charisma vacuum they've saddled Nikita with). Alex is gonna get that basic bitch killed.
Also, where's Mindy? Seriously, I am not okay with Capt. Fugly and Slightly Above Average-looking Neighbor Boy stealing screen time from Melinda 'muthafuckin' Clarke! Seriously, this show uses it's cast so strangely. Aaron Stanford and Melinda Clarke get next to no screen-time, while Noah Bean's all over the fucking place. I wish he'd get a statue of liberty collectible to the head again. Dump him in the bathtub and run!
In conclusion, I like this show better when it's Action-Adventure BFFs Kicking Ass and Taking Numbers instead of Sex and the City with spies ... which means it sucks for me that it's on the CW. Because as much as I hate Nathan and Ryan for sucking the energy, intrigue, badassery, suspense, good story-telling, dynamic characterization, chemistry, plotting and pacing from the show ... I know they're not going anywhere (at least not fast enough for me).
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 03:42 am (UTC)Seriously though, this episode was pretty boring to me other than the Alex/Nikita scene near the beginning, and the Alex/Nathan/Michael dinner scene.
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:34 am (UTC)In conclusion, I like this show better when it's Action-Adventure BFFs Kicking Ass and Taking Numbers instead of Sex and the City with spies ...
It really is two separate shows shoved together. Sadly, I think network execs are afraid of Action-Adventure BFF's Kicking Ass because, apparently, the scariest thing in the world for a network exec is a woman who'd choose her best friend over a penis!
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:48 am (UTC)Heh *giggles demurely*
It really is two separate shows shoved together.
Sad but true. Last weeks episode was so kick-ass, and this week was ... just ... not. At all. I mean, this week wasn't Lost Girl level "how did it go so bad, so quickly?" but it was ... not good.
because, apparently, the scariest thing in the world for a network exec is a woman who'd choose her best friend over a penis!
*le sigh* So true.
I just don't understand the changes they're making. It's like, last week excepted, the rating for the show are decent for the CW. It's got an audience. Why they want to alienate that audience with crappy love stories boggles my mind. Do they really expect a sudden influx of 18-35 year old women now that Nikita has an ugly boyfriend and Alex has gone to second base with her neighbor? Cause, One Tree Hill fans aren't suddenly going to start watching in droves and the Action-Adventure fans are not impressed by these shenanigans.
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:09 am (UTC)I'm not even going to comment on the rest of the episode because it doesn't deserve it. It would be like having a glass of frozen Minute Maid punch after you've had a glass of Merlot.
thank you!! lol :D
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:25 am (UTC)Sadly, most of the episode really is like frozen punch however. It was toast with no butter. I don't even really remember what happened other than Nikita wore a lot of wigs and had a French accent.
Here's hoping next week goes back to being good.
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 05:02 am (UTC)The whole scene was very intimate and sexual. I was watching with my mouth hanging open because I couldn't believe how suggestive the whole thing was. I mean, that scene could have been in a Xena episode!
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:12 am (UTC)oh girls, your jealously over each of you having potential boys on the side is so so so obvious.
Because that scene needs to be relived over and over again, I just couldn't help myself. But since I'm nice, I share! http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S9G8848X
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-13 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 05:06 am (UTC)And now I'm going to avoid the rest of what you said for now since I'm west coast time and I'm only just getting to watch it. xD
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Date: 2011-02-13 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-14 06:46 am (UTC)Although return of Gogol is badass and to see how Nikita uses her high heels for various things like apparently a USB xD
The dinner between Michael/Nathan/Alex was awesome and what Michael was insinuating but I totally reject the ending scene between Nathan/Alex. Just. No. And I swear it's not because I'm Nikita/Alex all the way. Michael, although idiotic this episode, had a point. I think their relationship is moving too fast.
Have to agree with your verdict after Coup De Grace. Better luck next week :(
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:44 pm (UTC)Ha! Having now seen the scene in question (repeatedly, thanks to the uploader above) your words DO NOT adequately describe how GAY the scene was. Honestly, ignore the fact that Nikita tosses Alex a phone and it really sounds like she tossed her a sex toy!
But.. GAH! I'm really falling for these two.. HARD!! Kinda like how Nikita's fallen for Alex. And I love (in subtext goggles land) how Nikita's totally fallen for Alex but puts up these 'all business' walls, which just confuses Alex who's all 'didn't you *just* have your face between my thighs, why so cold Nikita?'. Which causes them both to run back to HetLand for very wrong, very bad reasons.
And I like how the two of them have these little and big walls between but, at the end of the day, trust each other completely.
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:25 pm (UTC)I officially love you
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Date: 2011-02-13 05:11 pm (UTC)LOL! "Rotate the hiding spot." Nikita wants to be surprised when they break out the toys, she doesn't want to know exactly when it coming because of where Alex walked from!
But.. GAH! I'm really falling for these two.. HARD!! Kinda like how Nikita's fallen for Alex.
Heh. And ME TOO! I am kind of really in love with them.
Nikita's totally fallen for Alex but puts up these 'all business' walls, which just confuses Alex who's all 'didn't you *just* have your face between my thighs, why so cold Nikita?'. Which causes them both to run back to HetLand for very wrong, very bad reasons.
To be honest, this is exactly how the "Happy Valentine's Day" scene played out for me. Nikita was trying way too hard to be 'professional' and Alex just really, really wanted to cuddle with her boo. Honestly, when Alex is all vulnerable and puppy doggish like that it boggles my mind that anyone, even Nikita, would be able to resist her for a second.
And I like how the two of them have these little and big walls between but, at the end of the day, trust each other completely.
They and their relationship is the heart of the show, and as long as the show remembers that and keeps them integral to each other, I can deal with the het shenanigans the CW is forcing on us.
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:55 pm (UTC)What time in the ep is the Nikita-Alex scene?
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Date: 2011-02-12 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-12 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-13 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-13 08:18 pm (UTC)Please tell me this will be continued in fanfic...
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Date: 2011-02-12 08:36 am (UTC)they know we ship them, and they're teasing us so hard D:
Michael: >:(. that is all.
you don't like Noah Bean? I can't stop thinking he looks like a cross between Tom Cruise and Brandon Routh.
YES, WHERE'S AMANDA?! Melinda Clarke needs more screentime!
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Date: 2011-02-13 05:18 pm (UTC)Oh, I know! That scene was delicious gay angst all over the place. It really was super-subtexty. They're like 50s era housewives who's fallen in love with each other, but have to 'live the lie' or marriage in order to survive in society.
Michael: >:(. that is all.
What a magnificently douchey little otter.
you don't like Noah Bean? I can't stop thinking he looks like a cross between Tom Cruise and Brandon Routh.
Never really been a fan. I was apathetic towards him on Damages, and here too. I just don't find him to be a very charismatic actor. Also, somethings happened to his face between Damages and Nikita that weirds me out. His features have gotten more delicate (maybe he lost some weight or something) and I just really wish they cast someone else.
YES, WHERE'S AMANDA?! Melinda Clarke needs more screentime!
I know! This show underuse of her should be criminal. Amanda and Melinda are AMAZING. Less Percy, more Amanda.
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Date: 2011-02-13 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-14 06:49 am (UTC)QFE!