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geebsTV commentary:
Nikita- What the hell, the game has changed yet again! So Amanda and Ari make a play for Zetrov, killing that Deena chick in the process. Which was kinda weird, because she was one of the "suspicious" operatives besides Mason. I guess she thought she was on a normal Division op, and Amanda killed Deena to hide her true intentions for that one device?
Anyways, Nikita and friends foil Amanda and Ari's plan. What's most important though is Amanda had Nikki dead to rights in the beginning but couldn't finish her off. And then later, when Nikita was trapped in a sealed chamber and she seemed to asphyxiate, Amanda quickly had her men breach the door, thinking Nikita was knocked out, but didn't want to leave her stuck in there. So Nikki gets the drop on Amanda, has her dead to rights and spares her.
We get to see Amanda and Nikita's early relationship in Division, and they used to care for each other, like a mother and daughter. Amanda tells Nikita she broke her heart by turning on her, but Nikita says Amanda broke her heart by basically whoring her out just like her foster mother used to. In the end, Amanda is pissed about her weakness, for not killing her surrogate daughter when she had the chance, while at the same time, Nikita is proud that she spared Amanda, proving to herself that Amanda didn't turn Nikita into the cold and merciless killer Amanda wanted her to become.
In the mean time, Percy makes his play for Division. Mason gets killed in the process, but Percy manages to find some new allies, and make it to the Operations room. There, he convinces the rest of Division that Amanda betrayed them by having Sonja called Birkhoff, who forwards video from Ari and Amanda's meeting with Zetrov (where she outright says her operatives are expendable) So Division is back in his hands. Heh, I guess he's fine with Birkhoff and Sonja having this line of communication? (Hilariously, since Percy had Sonja make Birkhoff thinking she and Birkhoff were talking alone, Birkoff is all flirty, not knowing everyone in Operations was hearing him. Awkward!)
So Ari's screwed now because he's on Zetrov's shit list, so no doubt some enterprising Gogol operative looking to move on up will go after him. And now that Percy has division, Amanda's out in the cold too. So now Amanda's the one on the run. But, Ari has his hands on a black box, so they have something at least.
Fringe- You know what line is overused? Someone being all, "Nice Shot!" and the other person being all, "Well, actually, I was aiming for their arm/leg/what have you". Heh, the situation with Olivia and the Feds is interesting. So, given the existence of Fringe events, they don't think the idea of her having memories of another life supplementing her "old" memories is totally insane. But the fact that her memories are being changed doesn't make them exactly trust her. So they're not throwing her in an institution, but neither do they want her working for them.
But ha, Lincoln is totes jealous of Peter and Olivia. I mean, it does kinda suck for him, because it seemed like something was budding there, but now all of a sudden she's this new (well, old) Olivia. And she looks at Peter so lovingly now, and since Linc is Mr good guy boy scout, he's not going to stand in the way of that. And ha, Liv is all, "Thanks, you're such a great friend!" The poor guy!
Another sweet moment, I guess since Walter's come around with respect to Peter, he's giving him his belated b-day gifts, which include beer and skin mags.
The CotW is interesting. I mean, its a rehash of that one case with the porcupine dude on the plane, only the plane didn't crash this time. Of course, it seems like time has still passed on the show since Peter disappeared and came back. So its like years after that case. So if it didn't take place then, but did take place now, you think they wouldn't be surprised that the details would change, given it happened years after it was originally supposed to happen!
This time around since Lincoln is on the case, he ends up getting infected because he didn't want to call Broyles since Liv decided to tag along. So heh, even though Liv is suspended, her help is invaluable. So in the end, Broyles is all, "you may only be 60% of the Olivia I knew, but that's still 90% better than any agent I know", so they give her back her badge.
I was a little confused by the end though. Was original porcupine guy's sister and Gay-ta the same creatures in the cage on Robert Jones' ship there at the end, or just two other porcupine creatures? And the sister and Gay-ta are eventually going to turn into those things, just not yet? Because otherwise that seems like a huge waste of Gay-ta.
Nikita- What the hell, the game has changed yet again! So Amanda and Ari make a play for Zetrov, killing that Deena chick in the process. Which was kinda weird, because she was one of the "suspicious" operatives besides Mason. I guess she thought she was on a normal Division op, and Amanda killed Deena to hide her true intentions for that one device?
Anyways, Nikita and friends foil Amanda and Ari's plan. What's most important though is Amanda had Nikki dead to rights in the beginning but couldn't finish her off. And then later, when Nikita was trapped in a sealed chamber and she seemed to asphyxiate, Amanda quickly had her men breach the door, thinking Nikita was knocked out, but didn't want to leave her stuck in there. So Nikki gets the drop on Amanda, has her dead to rights and spares her.
We get to see Amanda and Nikita's early relationship in Division, and they used to care for each other, like a mother and daughter. Amanda tells Nikita she broke her heart by turning on her, but Nikita says Amanda broke her heart by basically whoring her out just like her foster mother used to. In the end, Amanda is pissed about her weakness, for not killing her surrogate daughter when she had the chance, while at the same time, Nikita is proud that she spared Amanda, proving to herself that Amanda didn't turn Nikita into the cold and merciless killer Amanda wanted her to become.
In the mean time, Percy makes his play for Division. Mason gets killed in the process, but Percy manages to find some new allies, and make it to the Operations room. There, he convinces the rest of Division that Amanda betrayed them by having Sonja called Birkhoff, who forwards video from Ari and Amanda's meeting with Zetrov (where she outright says her operatives are expendable) So Division is back in his hands. Heh, I guess he's fine with Birkhoff and Sonja having this line of communication? (Hilariously, since Percy had Sonja make Birkhoff thinking she and Birkhoff were talking alone, Birkoff is all flirty, not knowing everyone in Operations was hearing him. Awkward!)
So Ari's screwed now because he's on Zetrov's shit list, so no doubt some enterprising Gogol operative looking to move on up will go after him. And now that Percy has division, Amanda's out in the cold too. So now Amanda's the one on the run. But, Ari has his hands on a black box, so they have something at least.
Fringe- You know what line is overused? Someone being all, "Nice Shot!" and the other person being all, "Well, actually, I was aiming for their arm/leg/what have you". Heh, the situation with Olivia and the Feds is interesting. So, given the existence of Fringe events, they don't think the idea of her having memories of another life supplementing her "old" memories is totally insane. But the fact that her memories are being changed doesn't make them exactly trust her. So they're not throwing her in an institution, but neither do they want her working for them.
But ha, Lincoln is totes jealous of Peter and Olivia. I mean, it does kinda suck for him, because it seemed like something was budding there, but now all of a sudden she's this new (well, old) Olivia. And she looks at Peter so lovingly now, and since Linc is Mr good guy boy scout, he's not going to stand in the way of that. And ha, Liv is all, "Thanks, you're such a great friend!" The poor guy!
Another sweet moment, I guess since Walter's come around with respect to Peter, he's giving him his belated b-day gifts, which include beer and skin mags.
The CotW is interesting. I mean, its a rehash of that one case with the porcupine dude on the plane, only the plane didn't crash this time. Of course, it seems like time has still passed on the show since Peter disappeared and came back. So its like years after that case. So if it didn't take place then, but did take place now, you think they wouldn't be surprised that the details would change, given it happened years after it was originally supposed to happen!
This time around since Lincoln is on the case, he ends up getting infected because he didn't want to call Broyles since Liv decided to tag along. So heh, even though Liv is suspended, her help is invaluable. So in the end, Broyles is all, "you may only be 60% of the Olivia I knew, but that's still 90% better than any agent I know", so they give her back her badge.
I was a little confused by the end though. Was original porcupine guy's sister and Gay-ta the same creatures in the cage on Robert Jones' ship there at the end, or just two other porcupine creatures? And the sister and Gay-ta are eventually going to turn into those things, just not yet? Because otherwise that seems like a huge waste of Gay-ta.
