Note: You are about to read one of my reviews with more spoilers, maybe it's my more "spoilered" review to date. I normally try to keep my spoilers very low but LfNikita's episodes often have to do a lot with its endings, epilogues and LITTLE DETAILS, so more details are needed in order to review them. Nevertheless I hope that my review will help you to find the episode EVEN MORE INTERESTING that it already was, rather than spoiling any surprise.
-----That said, let's go!!!!
CALL ME CRAZY BUT I PREFER PETROSIAN OVER OPERATIONS.
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This episode begins with an assassination attempt on the life of Operations during a briefing that sends him directly to the hospital and to struggle hardly for his life and health. The one sent to replace him: An old colleague of him called Egran Petrosian who immediately takes full command of the operations in Section One and restructures the way that missions are done, maybe making them more dangerous but also making them with less personnel (the bottom line here is that also some less people are endangered every time). Petrosian quickly showed an enormous preference for Nikita, that at least at the beginning seemed to be mostly of sexual nature rather than strategic.
In time we see that Petrosian wants Nikita to be his second in command, pretty much the equivalent of what Madeline made in the Operations' Regime.
During this episode we get to know Petrosian personality very well. He is as merciless with the enemy as Operations and also much more fond of having a strict discipline within the Section that impedes some well liked characters by the audience like Walter from working on private projects of his own. Also, Petrosian tends to make something different from Operations on the personal level: he shows mercy to his own colleagues. While Operations always tried to keep the relations between the persons working in Section One as cold and impersonal as possible, Petrosian sends Nikita to a luxurious restaurant allegedly in a mission that is really more or less a date with Michael. His measures also prevent Birkoff from making anything off the record, but I think that there could also be a second bottom line there: if things work correctly, people would have to work less to get good results.
Sadly for the Section, the situation forced Nikita to decide which of them, Operations or Petrosian remained in charge, a decision she had to take very intuitively. At the end of the episode she says that a big consideration was that she didn't want to become the next Madeline. Nevertheless I think that a third bottom line here is that she voted for the evil she knew, instead of voting for the uncertain good they could get. As a final comment I want to say that even when we are told during the episode that Petrosian had engineered the strike on the life of Operations, which could maybe make us think of him as a traitor, truth is that we actually don't know the whole story behind that, all that we knew began with the hit on the life of Operations.
My conclusion is that, even when both characters were ruthless and their intentions almost impossible to read thoroughly, Petrosian showed at least a little bit of compassion for his own people and a slightly higher sense of honor.
Thanks for reading.
IMDb by David del Real. October 2017. Mexico City, Mexico.
-----That said, let's go!!!!
CALL ME CRAZY BUT I PREFER PETROSIAN OVER OPERATIONS.
::::::: :::::: :::::::
This episode begins with an assassination attempt on the life of Operations during a briefing that sends him directly to the hospital and to struggle hardly for his life and health. The one sent to replace him: An old colleague of him called Egran Petrosian who immediately takes full command of the operations in Section One and restructures the way that missions are done, maybe making them more dangerous but also making them with less personnel (the bottom line here is that also some less people are endangered every time). Petrosian quickly showed an enormous preference for Nikita, that at least at the beginning seemed to be mostly of sexual nature rather than strategic.
In time we see that Petrosian wants Nikita to be his second in command, pretty much the equivalent of what Madeline made in the Operations' Regime.
During this episode we get to know Petrosian personality very well. He is as merciless with the enemy as Operations and also much more fond of having a strict discipline within the Section that impedes some well liked characters by the audience like Walter from working on private projects of his own. Also, Petrosian tends to make something different from Operations on the personal level: he shows mercy to his own colleagues. While Operations always tried to keep the relations between the persons working in Section One as cold and impersonal as possible, Petrosian sends Nikita to a luxurious restaurant allegedly in a mission that is really more or less a date with Michael. His measures also prevent Birkoff from making anything off the record, but I think that there could also be a second bottom line there: if things work correctly, people would have to work less to get good results.
Sadly for the Section, the situation forced Nikita to decide which of them, Operations or Petrosian remained in charge, a decision she had to take very intuitively. At the end of the episode she says that a big consideration was that she didn't want to become the next Madeline. Nevertheless I think that a third bottom line here is that she voted for the evil she knew, instead of voting for the uncertain good they could get. As a final comment I want to say that even when we are told during the episode that Petrosian had engineered the strike on the life of Operations, which could maybe make us think of him as a traitor, truth is that we actually don't know the whole story behind that, all that we knew began with the hit on the life of Operations.
My conclusion is that, even when both characters were ruthless and their intentions almost impossible to read thoroughly, Petrosian showed at least a little bit of compassion for his own people and a slightly higher sense of honor.
Thanks for reading.
IMDb by David del Real. October 2017. Mexico City, Mexico.
