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Dear Undercovers, also Nikita
Dear Undercovers:
I want to like you but to be honest, you've been kind of boring so far. Very fluffy and happy. And you know, I'm okay with that. I'm good with having a show that's not over-the-top-melodramatic and angsty. But please. Let's talk realism.
I was able to handwave the whole "unlimited money as long as you work for us." I was able to handwave the whole "fluently speaking the foreign language as good as a local" thing. (Which. I watch this show and I watch Covert Affairs, and I am seriously skeptical that an agent could learn a new language late in life and be fluent enough to pass for a local HOWEVER I realize that real-life operatives probably do this all the time, so this is probably a case where real-life is more unrealistic than I'd think.)
But let's talk North Korea. Granted, I'm a terrible student and didn't really pay attention in all of my International Relations classes, BUT ... I am hugely skeptical of your agents' ability to just finagle their way into North Korea, somehow they DIDN'T realize they'd be given a guide, and somehow they can just blend into the North Korean population -- even though none of the four was Asian!
I find all of the above HUGELY unrealistic.
Signed,
Your fan
Dear Nikita:
I know how this is supposed to; I recognize this trope from the umpteen volumes of shoujo manga I have consumed in the course of my life. Girl A (our main character) meets Girl B, who hates her. Girl B does a lot of things to torment her. By the end of the first plot arc, however, Girl A and Girl B are best friends, and they face other tormentors together.
Now granted, in this scenario, Girl A is usually saccharinely-sugary-sweet and innocent. However, the fact remains that I expect Alex and Jaden to team up together by the end and take on Division. I mean, I thought that's what you were setting up, what with Jaden's mistrust of Division as well.
(Also, side note, I severely dislike the guy part of the Alex-Jaden-whatever-his-name-is love triangle; I find him annoying and I wish he would go away.)
You see, the enemies work together and become friends trope is tried and true, and you've set it up, and I expect you to follow through. Because the alternative (that they're just enemies, and then Jaden sabotages her, and hates her for life) is BORING.
Signed,
Your fan
I want to like you but to be honest, you've been kind of boring so far. Very fluffy and happy. And you know, I'm okay with that. I'm good with having a show that's not over-the-top-melodramatic and angsty. But please. Let's talk realism.
I was able to handwave the whole "unlimited money as long as you work for us." I was able to handwave the whole "fluently speaking the foreign language as good as a local" thing. (Which. I watch this show and I watch Covert Affairs, and I am seriously skeptical that an agent could learn a new language late in life and be fluent enough to pass for a local HOWEVER I realize that real-life operatives probably do this all the time, so this is probably a case where real-life is more unrealistic than I'd think.)
But let's talk North Korea. Granted, I'm a terrible student and didn't really pay attention in all of my International Relations classes, BUT ... I am hugely skeptical of your agents' ability to just finagle their way into North Korea, somehow they DIDN'T realize they'd be given a guide, and somehow they can just blend into the North Korean population -- even though none of the four was Asian!
I find all of the above HUGELY unrealistic.
Signed,
Your fan
Dear Nikita:
I know how this is supposed to; I recognize this trope from the umpteen volumes of shoujo manga I have consumed in the course of my life. Girl A (our main character) meets Girl B, who hates her. Girl B does a lot of things to torment her. By the end of the first plot arc, however, Girl A and Girl B are best friends, and they face other tormentors together.
Now granted, in this scenario, Girl A is usually saccharinely-sugary-sweet and innocent. However, the fact remains that I expect Alex and Jaden to team up together by the end and take on Division. I mean, I thought that's what you were setting up, what with Jaden's mistrust of Division as well.
(Also, side note, I severely dislike the guy part of the Alex-Jaden-whatever-his-name-is love triangle; I find him annoying and I wish he would go away.)
You see, the enemies work together and become friends trope is tried and true, and you've set it up, and I expect you to follow through. Because the alternative (that they're just enemies, and then Jaden sabotages her, and hates her for life) is BORING.
Signed,
Your fan