I love Niki and personally I couldn’t imagine a better person than Ali Larter to portray the troubled mother. Niki, hands down, is one of the strongest characters on the show.
I love the concept that TPTB chose to take one of the most primal human traits (to protect one’s own) and illustrate it by giving this unsuspecting mother supernatural strength.

Furthermore, anyone could pick apart the characters. For example, let’s consider Claire. Someone could say she was just a goodie-goodie cheerleader who probably never gave a crap about anyone else in her life until she realized she was “a freak”. Look at how she treated Zach? “I’ll say hi to you at school” ? Oh God forbid, she say hi to someone beneath her clique. What’s even better? When Claire wasn’t taggin’ along with Peter in NYC making pouty faces, lamenting about her desires to be “normal”, she spent the last 3 freakin’ episodes of the season crying about shooting him (Peter).

That could be considered whining. And for the record, I don’t love or hate Claire. She’s a good character and I think she works well in the series.

In contrast? Niki has had her whole life manipulated by Linderman, witnessed the death of her sister, raised in an abusive household…and to make matters worse had to deal with being locked up in prison.

She is a strong woman inside and out doing everything and anything to keep her son from harm.

Speaking of which, since WHEN has caring about the welfare of your own child whining? It is one thing to have issues or merely dislike a character because of personality traits. However to use an example as trying to protect one’s own family? That’s callous, ridiculous, and asinine. Clearly, those who directed that comment about Niki isn’t a parent…which gets to the point at hand.

Did Niki get cheated out of a more integrated storyline? Yes! But Kring admitted that was a lesson he learned and resolve in Season 2. Kring is developing Niki out of her comfort zone, out of the domestic scene and into the storylines of the other core characters.

Niki is a character that has so much potential to be a great asset to whomever she chooses to side with on the show.
We can’t forget the important role she played in the season finale in helping Peter defeat Sylar.

These are not the standard brand of characters for a series. And I fear there will be backlash from so-called fans looking for some quick-fix action series.

*Note. Niki isn’t leaving the series, she’s going on hiatus to “fix” something and whatever happens, when she returns it will be a surprise. So Niki and Ali Larter fans have nothing to worry about so far.

Let’s hope the writers have some tricks up their sleeves, alotta online and TV viewers (including myself) are waiting with baited breath.

Please don’t disappoint.

KEEP ALI LARTER ON THE SHOW!!

bring back ali

BRING BACK NIKI AND JESSICA .
EVERYONE ELSE WHO LIKED NIKI / JESSICA is cool. U guys totally rock. lets start a petition