I thought there was an another La Femme Nikita some 15-ish years before the early to mid 2010s version, back in the mid to late 1990s?
Old TV show La Femme Nikita
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That's the one we are talking about. It starred Peta Wilson as Nikita
...my assessment of this show clearly hasn't been objective enough.I vividly recall an episode where Pita Wilson dealt with a threat wearing NO wardrobe at all, just strategically-placed hair.
That was actually one of the things I liked about the show. It was played dead serious, with none of the tongue-in-cheek humor we associate with James Bond, Man from UNCLE or The Avengers. Being a trained government assassin, after all, is a grim business.
I always thought it was a well-written show with good stories and engaging character relationships. And I fell madly in love with Peta Wilson, who was easily the sexiest woman on TV at that time.
The show had a gimmick where all the first-season episodes had one-word titles, the second-season episodes had two-word titles and so on. If the show had lasted much longer than five seasons, they wouldn't have been able to fit the episode titles on the screen!
I also love this show to bits. I just wish I had finished my DVD set. Peta was lovely as Nikita. 1997-98 was the height of the show's popularity and this book came out around that time and a CD of music from the show.
...her wardrobe does rival, based on that shot.
Oh, I watched the movie first and then red the comics... and *boy* is Mina better in the movie. No, really - I take the kick-ass-vampire-action-girl trope over the "damsel in distress, the tortured soul, who gets dipped into her own vomit by the invisible man, only to motivate Hyde, whom she also motivates by letting him touch her breasts, trips balls in order to stop a villain from possessing a singer, which she ultimately fails, only to be put in a mental asylum and rescued later" at any time.
Just to be clear, I only meant that I didn't like Wilson in the movie. 
As much as I enjoyed the first volume of the comic, I am definitely not one of those that couldn't enjoy the movie's take on the whole thing. I even did the old 'can't wait, so read the novelization before the movie even came out' move.
As much as I enjoyed the first volume of the comic, I am definitely not one of those that couldn't enjoy the movie's take on the whole thing. I even did the old 'can't wait, so read the novelization before the movie even came out' move.
Did the same thing.Just to be clear, I only meant that I didn't like Wilson in the movie.
As much as I enjoyed the first volume of the comic, I am definitely not one of those that couldn't enjoy the movie's take on the whole thing. I even did the old 'can't wait, so read the novelization before the movie even came out' move.
I remember, I had a "Freistunde" at our school - it was just a few meters away from the city, so I went to our Bahnhofskiosk and stumbled upon that book. Bought it, started to read and was very entertained. So, buying the movie was a no brainer for me.
And I enjoyed it. Sure, some things don't make sense, like the Nautilus fitting in the canals of Venice, but honestly: Who cares? It's a movie.
And then I read at the internet, that people weren't that fond of the movie and when my teacher at the Academy recommended, that one should definitely buy the League comic book, because it would be better, I shrugged and thought "Well... maybe give it a chance".
So I ordered the two comics and - boy what a let down, honestly. Unlikeable characters (Hyde eating a henchman? Nemo setting people on fire? Mina, the cool action-heroine is damseled more often, than one can say 'Women in refrigerators'?), incredibly ugly art style, which has characters looking at the reader with this large eyes, which makes one think "Is that supposed to be a joke now?"
But when I stumbled upon "The black dossier" and the Leagues "Century"-comic-arc, I said "Maybe it's better?" And honestly... it isn't.
The movie, panned by critics, the one, that made Sean Connery quit filming, is actually a better version of the story.
Alan Moore's bibliography is a shitlist.
^^You just made Alan Moore's shitlist.
Watchman is also very overrated. In its original comic form *and* in the movie form.
I haven't read the comic, but the film was just self-indulgent with ONE character I liked (Rorschach) who should have his own noir-inspired film.
That's it. Nothing to see here, even the eye candy was lacking.
That's it. Nothing to see here, even the eye candy was lacking.
Eh, you didn't miss anything, with not reading the comic.
Hey @$3DollarBillYall what did you mean about Peta's outfit on the pics I posted?
Yes
No what did you mean by her outfit rivals? Rivals what?
Maggie's in CW Nikita.
Oh ok i liked both. I don't think Peta ever wore that same outfit on the show.
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