"Paradise Lost"
Well, if you agreed with last week's blog question about Jaime's boyfriend being "utterly meh" then you're probably not too sad to see him dead. But his passing - and that loose floorboard - gave her some guidance toward who he really was and what he was involved with.
I don't blame her for trying to walk away from it all and return to her normal life under the radar. But when she was a little too strong for "Mr. Right Now" to have a good time, and the ringing in her ear was too hard to ignore, she had no other choice. Plus, saving that suicidal woman gave her a little bit of a high, huh?
And with one trip to Jonas' office, she was suddenly a player in "The Game." Enter ex-Dr. Burke. Forget about whiny interns, this is a whole other ball game in terms of saving lives.
Isaiah Washington definitely has the aura of a leader - as we saw on
Grey's Anatomy - so I'm intrigued by his role as Jaime's supervisor. And order No. 1 was to start training.
Her session with Jae was pretty cool. I can't even do a pull-up with two hands on a step-stool. Regardless, it wasn't hard to figure out that Jaime would get involved with the Paradise case, but my first instinct was that something would go wrong, considering she's not fully trained and her eagerness is overruling any rational thought. But just when she's getting rocked in a one-on-one battle, she pulls out a punch so hard, it was as if a car had pushed that "soldier" over. As for the test run that led them to saving thousands of people all over the country, it reminded me a bit of
Jericho - the hunt between two "armies" of sorts, the map marking target points. I'm still wondering why Vivian was immune to the DMC-30 though. Do we have another talented female on our hands? And what does it mean that Jonas' company created that synthetic in the first place?
On another note, Sarah Corvus, the first Bionic Woman, is still running free, haunting Jae in the process. When she lured him to the Yellow Rose Hotel, I got chills all over again when her steely eyes and creepily steady voice approached her ex-lover (or current lover). And ta-da, she seduced him. But what does this mean for Jaime? Jae's in a tough spot, and I'm curious to see how working with the second Bionic Woman will affect his complicated relationship with the original.
All in all, I'm getting sucked into the looming questions about the company, and mostly Sarah and her loss of control. I'm not completely convinced that
BW can fully hold its ground all season, but I do get a kick out of female leads who throw a mean jab, and lines that sum things up in one heavy breath:
"I'll make it simple for you, we're saving the world. Are you in or are you out?"
Oh, she's
so in. -
Megan Cherkezian
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