Let's start with the facts: NIKITA concluded its series run on December 27, 2013. After premiering in the Fall of 2010 (September 9) on The CW, the show had a run over 4 season with a total of 73 episodes. Although it was a critics' favorite for its entire season run (Primetime Emmy Award nominations and more), ratings began to fall rapidly with the show's move to Friday nights although it was a ratings hit (by The CW standards) during its first season run. As you all know are ratings always a very important factor for television shows which air on network television. The finale of season 2 was therefore written as a potential series finale if the show should have been axed after its second season because of the ratings problem. But The CW surprised us! NIKITA did NOT get canceled and received a full season 3 order (22 episodes) instead. Ratings (unfortunately) didn't get better but NIKITA almost was guaranteed a fourth season renewal because of syndication purposes. Well, NIKITA eventually got a renewal for a fourth season but which only was supposed to consist of six episodes and simultaneously should function as the show's final season. Netflix supported The CW with the final season to give the show the opportunity to wrap up and give the fans closure. Also a concluded series is more valuable for a streaming internet platform as Netflix. The final season was kind of burned off on The CW's death slot (Friday, @ 9/8c) and aired its final episode during the winter holidays. That's the network and ratings history of NIKITA.
Now, what is left to say? It's been a few days since the series finale (as already mentioned) and thus I personally can say that I actually AM satisfied. The writers of NIKITA (Craig Silverstein, Albert Kim, Carlos Coto and Co.) did an incredible job wrapping up all loose ends of the show within only six episodes! It was one hell of a final season! And we fans were allowed to finish this journey with all questions answered. All endings within the show are perfect in their own way. This includes the main characters, villains and all background stories. Yeah, I admit that NIKITA was a loser ratings-wise but definitely not if it comes to creativity and quality! NIKITA started with high quality standards and held these till the end. For me, there are no exceptions. There wasn't one single episodes which I completely categorized as a filler episode or whatever you want to call it. We always just got the best! Great acting, writing, action, stunts, romance, sci-fi and much more.
And this is the time to say
THANK YOU
for almost four years of fantastic television! We never were disappointed. Our heroes (Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford, Noah Bean, Devon Sawa, Lyndie Greenwood and Melinda Clarke) delivered outstanding performances and the writers surprised us with twists and turns again and again! And I - in my opinion - am more than grateful! I am so happy to have been a part of the whole NIKITA world!
The sad news (apart from the fact that our show is really over) at the end: My work on this blog is thus basically over. There won't be that many posts as there once were during the season runs of NIKITA because this blog is primary dedicated to the television show. That means that post will (unfortunately) become a rarity. But don't worry, there will actually be posts in the future. This includes upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray releases (definitely season 4 and possibly a full series release?) and upcoming projects of the cast. And maybe even more but I can't say yet what this is going to be. Thank you to my small readership who hopefully enjoyed reading this blog, watching clips of upcoming episodes or checking out everything that belongs to a television show like NIKITA!
These were the final words, NIKITA agents (as NIKITA fans prefer to call themselves)! NIKITA will continue to live in our hearts! Because it has a legacy. And we will never forget it! And who knows? Although it seems unlikely at the moment but maybe there'll be a movie someday? Or another season? You can never know what's gonna happen.
With best regards,
Felix (Owner of NIKITA-THECW.BLOGSPOT.COM)
P.S.: I also want to say thank you to the actors and actresses who were once part of the main cast of NIKITA but had to leave the show because of the death of their characters. This goes to Ashton Holmes (Season 1), Tiffany Hines (season 1), Xander Berkeley (season 2), Dillon Casey (season 3) and Noah Bean (season 4). Well, the latter did actually appear in all episodes of the final season so you might argue about adding him to this list. I just wanted to pay tribute to all the ones we lost.
