TV review: Nikita season 1 episode 5: The Guardian

Here are my notes:

- Good to see you again Devon! :)

- When the episode started, we see a safe deposit box being opened (heavy door, under lock & key). You'd assume then that since people went to the trouble of renting a safe deposit box that its contents are valuable and therefore if you want to open it, the viewing room should be heavily guarded as well. Right? Right? Well, it seems that in Nikita's world, the boxes are under lock and key, yes, but when you view the box, you're just right outside the main foyer of the bank. What was the purpose of showing us the big, heavy bank vault door then?!

- I noticed that sometimes Maggie Q seems to be more believable when she is acting as Nikita-pretending-to-be-someone-else (reporter, scorned wife, office worker) rather than being spy-Nikita..

- I find it hard to believe that there are no cameras in the recruits' rooms so I was surprised and disappointed that there weren't cameras in the recruits' rooms and so Alex was able to get away with lifting off Birkhoff's fingerprint. In real life spy world, can she do that? Hmm..

- After Alex got in Percy's office using the fake fingerprint, Birkhoff and Michael shows up and I wondered how the computer didn't register that Birkhoff was supposed to be already inside Percy's office (how perceptive of me, right? great pick up, me! :) they entered by bypassing the fingerprint scanner but further down the track Birkhoff shows Michael the security logs showing he went inside Percy's office)

- When Birkhoff and Michael entered Percy's office, Alex had no choice but to hide.. For some reason, she turns her head and the camera pans to the "finger" that she used to gain entry, giving the audience the impression that she saw the "finger" on top of the table. Unless she has x-ray vision that can make her see objects above a wooden table, I don't know how she was able to see it. If you're going to argue that she "remembered" rather than "saw" the finger on top of the table, they should have asked her to act that she remembered something, rather than acting like she saw something..

- They might not have cameras in the recruits' rooms but I would assume that they have cameras in the training rooms. Apparently, they don't. How can they not notice that Alex is always on the computer? Also, how can they not notice that when something big is happening, Alex is always just outside of the window into the control room?

- Sorry Mojos, Devon is looking too good and the action/fight scenes with him in them were well executed that I think I might have developed a crush, hahaha..

- Speaking of black boxes, if you read my previous blog about Percy having leverage (click here), I was proven right in this episode (another yay! for me! im getting good at this, hahaha!)