Vid Rec

[katewrites]

posted a new Nikita vid called Seamstress. It's amazing. Go watch it.



I think one of the reasons that this vid works so well is that it plays with Nikita's motivations and what she actually did to Alex. The show did itself, building towards understand what Nikita did and why and how Alex's view changes.

Last season on Burn Notice, there was a similar arc to Alex's. Jesse was betrayed by Michael, Jesse promised to put a bullet in whoever burned him and when he found out it was Michael, there was a distinct conflict of interest. Does he shoot Michael?

I think that Alex and Nikita's arc is much more interesting because it involves Alex looking out through this web of lies and Nikita realizing that for all her good intentions... she sometimes doesn't have good intentions. She built Alex up to save her, but also built her up to destroy Division. They kind of have to untangle what was real, what was manipulation and what they didn't know was manipulation until they could look at it from a distance.

I'm not saying that Nikita's motivations were evil or that Alex was a victim in her own situation, but there's this moment when someone (someone help me out, was it Percy or Amanda?) asks Alex why she's fighting Nikita's enemies instead of her own. And it's true, Division is evil, but it isn't Alex's evil. It isn't her big bad.

The season ended on a Robin hunting Batman note, and I think I'm the only one who's excited about that.

The whole season has been one Bechdel passing episode after another. It's essentially a show about female friendship, loyalty and affection. About two women kicking ass and doing it for themselves, by themselves. Even the boys here are often less able to figure it out than the ladies.

But underneath there's this rotten core that clearly needed to be addressed, and what this vid does is take that and make it completely utterly bugfuck creepy. Because it kind of is.