A second finale/ The Fifth Season

Saturday, March 24, 2001.
I am getting ready to watch the entire Fifth Season
in one shot ! Gayla, an American friend was so generous to send me a copy. I have no idea of what’s in it except that it is eight hours long and that
Michael shows up only near the end.

Michael is an outstanding character, he will become an obsession and even more than what I was looking for. For seven months (from August
2000 to March 2001) I have voluntarily stayed away from him, and I believe this did me a lot of good. Now, I can see clearer, perhaps I understand better.

When I saw Michael leaving Nikita in the last episode, as Roy did two months before with his character, I have started to get use of being without them. I did not watch any videos. Nothing. I had decided that before I would give it a final touch to LFN on Internet, I would wait and watch them again. So I have waited.

I did not like the way it ended up.
It was impossible that Nikita did not love
Michael. It was high treason. In the Series, we were used to all kinds of unusual situations, but there...No, I could not believe that...their love was the essence, the reason of the story. We can’t treat such a strong feeling like that...To admit that Nikita had never loved Michael, means that Michael had never been an angel, a knight and a hero, that the whole thing was not true. It was impossible. To had loved a woman who fooled him all the time. Who played around and laughed at what he had most sacred... Again, it is impossible.

I was in a dilemma. I did not want to finish these pages on such a sour note. I wanted another perspective. Some light where I would be able
to work. Slowly, it was like I had emptied myself of Michael...

I have watched the fight that his fans had organized in order to have the Series reinstated. But I didn’t have much hope. When Roy decides to put an end to a character, it is for good. Perhaps, he made an exception for Ovila Pronovost, because a follow up of Les Filles de Caleb was already on paper.
We all knew that if Ovila would come back, it was to wish farewell to Emilie, we had read Blanche and everything had been said.

Actually, Roy did not come back to play Ovila. Ovila got older and was a different man, but always in love with the same woman but with a different look and attitude. Old Ovila was a brand new character. In Blanche, Roy had already buried young Ovila four years ago.

Now, how Roy would approach the role of Michael?

Having all this questioning in my mind, I have decided to sit in front of my TV screen and watch the Fifth Season.

It is not easy to have to watch six episodes without the presence of Michael. We look for him, we hope to see him show up any moment, but Nikita is there taking up the whole place. The series is without its hero. But we are filled with beautiful pictures, lightings, make-ups. Esthetically beautiful.

We see the main characters being reunited, even the ones that we had thought were gone for ever. It felt like everybody was happy to go back to their old characters even if we know that it won’t last. Everyone was in great shape : Nikita, Walter, Jason and even a virtual Madeline. But I gave my preference to Operation. I wonder if he knew that his character would disappear before the end of Episode 8.I imagine that he did. A beautiful
performance by Eugene Robert Glazer : Operation was more human and more credible than ever.

It is obvious that Nikita did not tell Michael the truth when they separated. Specially in the way she pronounces his name when she feels that he is close by. In fact, Nikita loves Michael and she always did. But we have to wait till the end of the fifth episode to see the hero shining in his glory !
Same walk, same look and attitude...but I understand what Roy meant when he said that he had found difficult to beleive in Michael because he had already "buried" him, he had slowly but progressively "took off " Michael. I remember what he said in an interview the word :"mourning". It is funny how this word is close to the word mort (death) in French and morning in English. Strange combination; meaning that it is like the death of something and the rebirth of something new, as morning is the birth of a new day. Anyway that was the image that was imprinted in my heart.


Consequently, the Michael that Roy has presented us again, was a new one. Michael of the last two episodes is not the same as Michael of the last
three Seasons. We recognize Michael of the first Season, but more matured, built with a new material and completely changed. Always in control, but more human, Roy got closer to Michael.

Although, he had accepted the separation, he has managed to bring Michael back to life, in a new light, as a resurrection. He has the power of bringing a new dimension, a bright new color and a new subtlety to his character.

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