Indulged this evening in a three episode marathon of the La Femme Nikita series. The first season is out on DVD, and the first disk came via Netflix yesterday. Perfect timing since today ended up screaming out for attitude and style, shiny gizmos, aggressive music and dead terrorists.

I always thought the series was great and was very disappointed when it went off the air in 2001. Maybe it was a guilty pleasure but the operative word was pleasure. Yes, I also loved Luc Besson’s original french language movie. No, I have no trouble reconciling the fact that the similarities between the two pretty much end with the characters’ names. Both are fine to watch in their own rights. Just please, please, do not ever bring up the gawdawful American remake of the movie. At least the producers had the respect to not use the french name and thus keep their trash from being confused with the far superior original.

One Response to “Nostalgic Mayhem”

1. ed k. says:

   July 20, 2003 at 5:42 pm

   HEY! And here’s *another* one that we have in common. (I own the original video.) You should check out the chinese version Black Cat, sometime. Different, weird, but more or less the same story.