Jane Austen, my hero, has very definite opinions on the characters in La Femme Nikita. I recently channeled her spirit, and here's what she had to say:
Jane gives Michael a good talking to regarding his role in the Nikita/Jurgen affair
``I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there. You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.''
When faced with this condemnation, Michael's first instinct was, naturally, to try and seduce Jane. Here's what she had to say about that:
``From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.''
Of course, Michael wasn't talking marriage, but you have to remember that Miss Austen was a lady of the 18th century.
All quotes taken from Pride and Prejudice. If you love Jane Austen's work as much as I do, visit Pemberley.