I wouldn't say I love every show with an action heroine but I do love a lot of them and Nikita was one of the best, imo.
There was so much potential with the 3 year jump but they did so little with it that it feels like a waste. The storyline might improve now that we've actually caught up to the timeline but they had 15 episodes to do a nice slow-burn up to the jump and they just...didn't. Like why bother introducing the Bonnie/Enzo thing in episode 5 when they made absolutely no progress in their relationship by episode 15? Maybe we'll get a flashback or two to explain how they ended up as make-out buddies in the future but it won't be nearly as satisfying as it would've been if they'd taken the time in past 10 episodes to actually develop that relationship.
And it's the same with all of their future storylines. We see the beginnings of Caroline and Alaric raising the twins together but we have no idea why they're engaged. Did they actually fall in love at some point or did they just get engaged to give the twins a more stable home-life or to stop people from asking too many questions? How is Matt still alive in the future when none of his friends were around to protect him? And so on and so on...The show had the perfect opportunity to develop those storylines so we'd actually be invested in this future timeline but they chose not to, for some reason.
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There was so much potential with the 3 year jump but they did so little with it that it feels like a waste. The storyline might improve now that we've actually caught up to the timeline but they had 15 episodes to do a nice slow-burn up to the jump and they just...didn't. Like why bother introducing the Bonnie/Enzo thing in episode 5 when they made absolutely no progress in their relationship by episode 15? Maybe we'll get a flashback or two to explain how they ended up as make-out buddies in the future but it won't be nearly as satisfying as it would've been if they'd taken the time in past 10 episodes to actually develop that relationship.
And it's the same with all of their future storylines. We see the beginnings of Caroline and Alaric raising the twins together but we have no idea why they're engaged. Did they actually fall in love at some point or did they just get engaged to give the twins a more stable home-life or to stop people from asking too many questions? How is Matt still alive in the future when none of his friends were around to protect him? And so on and so on...The show had the perfect opportunity to develop those storylines so we'd actually be invested in this future timeline but they chose not to, for some reason.