La Femme NiSecret

I do not own a lot of teleivsion series on DVD. Movies, yes. But not TV shows. But I have a secret.  Not one that will get me in a lot of trouble, but one that I’ve kept because of the harassment that is sure to follow.

Here it is: I have in my possession a copy of every single everything to do with La Femme Nikita. This includes all episodes of the new series Nikita currently running on the CW, and every episode of the original series La Femme Nikita – the USA show from the mid-90s, on which Nikita is loosely based. And I've also got Luc Besson's1990 film La Femme Nikita, which started it all, and the 1993 Bridget Fonda version Point of No Return.

Nikita - Newest Reboot

Obsessed? Maybe a wee bit. In this newest reboot, Maggie Q is gorgeous (and Asian!) and kicks butt. Her romantic interest, ShaneWest, is… well, hubby says I’m not allowed to talk about Shane West any more  because I’m so infatuated with him. (Sigh.) I love this series, and wish on every star I can find each night for its third season renewal.

I also possess a few other series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, Dollhouse, and  Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. These four plus the two Nikita series make up six of my eight full collections (the other two are BSG & Firefly, just coz I know somone’s going to ask).

Evidently, I have a "type."  In almost every series I own and have been obsessed with, this is the lead character:

Alias



Buffy

Doll House



Sarah Conner Chronicles



Tough, strong, capable women who are obviously able to use weapons. Really, these ladies are interchangeable.  Drop any of them in any situation and they'll handle it. Here’s the bottom line: they can beat the bad guys bloody, are capable of withstanding torture, change identities more often than I cook, and ALWAYS have good hair days. 

And then, of course, in these shows almost all the leading ladies have a romantic interest who is first their enemy, then becomes their partner/confidant/lover:




                           

 Alias



Sarah Conner Chronicles

 

                   

Dollhouse



       

Buffy



Shane West - rather, "he that shall not be
named in the Crouch house" from Nikita



  And yes, these leading men are also pretty much yummy, ahem… I mean, interchangeable.  Capable men, with dark, brooding looks and good hair days. And did I mention yummy?  



Certainly (besides the yumminess of the guys) the fact that these series contain strong women, who get the job done, and don’t sit around bemoaning their fate draws me to each of the shows.  In my mind, I am exactly like them except for the fact that I drive a minivan. And don’t know some crazy mix of bar brawling and Tae Kwon Do.  And rarely have good hair days. And I sometimes bemoan my fate. Whatever, still… obviously we’re all cut from the same cloth.

So yeah, I have a type. And should Nikita be cancelled (Noooo, please! “Star light, star bright…”), I’m sure I’ll watch, then own, the next of this genre, whatever it happens to be. In the meantime, I'll continue my own fight against that pile of laundry threatening world domination.