David Bilek <dtbilek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>Matt Ruff <storytellers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Sea Wasp wrote:
>>> Consistency in a fictional world is one of my top criteria to
>>> measure someone by.
>>I'm a consistency and internal logic freak, too, actually, but a good
>>story trumps all other considerations, and the more entertained I am,
>>the more continuity errors I'm willing to overlook. "Buffy" kept me very
>>entertained, so things I might have nitpicked in a more boring narrative
>>(e.g., Babylon 5) just didn't bother me.
>>One retcon I still marvel at is the one that ended the La Femme Nikita
>>series, where it was revealed that she'd been working as a double-agent
>>for Center since the beginning of season two. Continuity-wise it doesn't
>>withstand scrutiny, but it was such a gutsy move I really wanted it to.
>I never watched "La Femme Nikita". Was Center the bad guys? That
>sounds interesting, if so.
The best thing about LFN, when it was good, was that it wasn't so easy
figure out who the bad guys were, even after the fact.
Center was the, well, center of a worldwide antiterrorist network, one of
whose branches Nikita worked for. Center, and Section One, and Nikita,
all used tactics that would have made John Ashcroft cry foul and join the
ACLU. On the other hand, they fought terrorists whose tactics and scale
would have been the subject of Osama Bin Laden's wet dreams.
So, serious end-justifies-the-means question mark time. At a purely
tactical level, Center's efforts to stop Red Cell's nefarious plot du
jour made Center the Good Guys for the day. But there was an ongoing
battle for the soul of Center, Section One, and all the rest, that was
more im****tant and less clear.
By the start of the third season it was unfortunately clear to the
audience that the show was unclear on these points because, like the
X-Files mytharc, they were making it up as they went along. The final
retcon being particularly atrocious in that regard. A pity, because it
is a story I would have liked to see done well.
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