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		<title>1.08 Episode Review &#8211; &#8220;Do Not Disturb&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally got round to posting this - I thought this episode was quite a mixed bag, but it was definitely a continued improvement for the series. In particular I liked the fact that they showed some continuity from the previous episode by referencing the fact that Antonio had been killed. It was important to see the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-610" href="http://bionic-blog.com/do-not-disturb-official-promo-images/do-not-disturb-6/" title="Do Not Disturb"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bbdnd4.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Do Not Disturb" /></a>Finally got round to posting this - I thought this episode was quite a mixed bag, but it was definitely a continued improvement for the series. In particular I liked the fact that they showed some continuity from the previous episode by referencing the fact that Antonio had been killed. It was important to see the Burkets mourning his death and significantly it was interesting to see Jaime actually grieving. Odd, that she should grieve more for Antonio than she did for Will (her ex boyfriend), but nonetheless it was important in that it gave us the Jaime many of us had been desperately seeking &#8211; the Jaime who struggles with her new found position in society.</p>
<p>There are, however several things which I didn&#8217;t like about this episode &#8211; notably the crazy camera angles, which I sense they have borrowed from Battlestar Galatica. Sorry, but it&#8217;s not cool to disorientate the viewer! Jaime still does silly things &#8211; like speak in front of the bad guy whilst she&#8217;s on the phone to the guys from the Bat cave..sorry, &#8216;Burket Headquarters&#8217;. Seriously Jaime, discretion is important in your job!</p>
<p>Whilst I appreciate the fact that the creators consciously tried to marry the &#8216;A&#8217; and &#8216;B&#8217; story, it still felt somewhat coincidental and even random at times. I mean what are the chances of Becca having a crush on Vincents son? What was the point of that boy anyway, except to to bring the two storylines together? It seemed too forced and they will have to address this in the remaining 5 episodes.</p>
<p>Oh, and where did Jaime get all of that ice from?</p>
<p>I felt that Jae and Ruth were still vastly under-employed. Seriously, is there no real work to do at the Bat cave, I mean, Burket Group?</p>
<p>Despite a few criticisms there were several bright sparks in this episode. I loved the introduction of more cool Bat cave, I mean &#8216;Burket&#8217; gadgets in the form of Jonas&#8217; Visual Caller ID. But did Jaime even have to ask whether it is legal or not? This is Burket Jaime, get with the programme! ;)</p>
<p>I liked Jaime&#8217;s line to the receptionist at the Spa &#8211; &#8220;TV&#8217;s really important to us&#8221;. I felt that was a nod to the fans maybe?</p>
<p>I thought it was cool to see &#8216;<strong>Heroes&#8217; </strong>referenced in this episode &#8211; I just hope Heroes repay the old &#8216;quid pro quo&#8217; sometime soon! Or make that sometime in Fall 2008, seeing as the strike has crippled it&#8217;s 2nd season.</p>
<p>I thought there was some cool use of bionic abilities in this episode &#8211; in particular I liked it when she used her Bionic hearing and then Bionic strength in the car bomb scene. The filming of these scenes was much better than the &#8216;oh there&#8217;s a propeller, let me bend it&#8217; scenes.</p>
<p>I did feel that this episode was a little &#8216;filler&#8217; &#8211; I mean when you see Jonas doing the dishes you kinda know what&#8217;s coming! It was a little slow in places and a little sentimental &#8211; but I can kinda understand that because after the death of Antonio we really needed to see the &#8216;human&#8217; Jaime..the Jaime who struggles with the choices she is expected to make, the Jaime who is torn by her own morality and &#8216;the greater good&#8217;. We finally saw Jaime make a heartfelt decision..one based on the love for her sister. She so badly wanted to confide in Becca &#8211; and I even found myself willing her to do so -but she realised that the more Becca knows, the more danger she is in. This is a simple thing, but it&#8217;s something which, as a viewer, I wanted to see addressed, instead of skirted over. It was great seeing Jaime nearly, but not quite being able to share her secret with Becca. I felt that the writers finally did something to advance the storyline &#8211; the decision Jaime made was the wrong one (in my view), but it&#8217;s totally understandable and debatable.</p>
<p>My episode rating: <strong>7.5/10</strong> (but with huge promise)</p>
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		<title>RIP Antonio Pope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the curtain comes down on Isaiah Washington&#8217;s stint on Bionic Woman, I thought it would be a good time to look back on what he and Antonio Pope have brought to the show. Well, whatever you want to say about Isaiah and his time on the show, he certainly brought the buzz that helped to catapult BW into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-247" href="http://bionic-blog.com/episode-103-107-spoilers/antonio-pope/" title="Antonio Pope"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/bb_birds_pope.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Antonio Pope" /></a>As the curtain comes down on <strong>Isaiah Washington&#8217;s</strong> stint on Bionic Woman, I thought it would be a good time to look back on what he and <strong>Antonio Pope</strong> have brought to the show.</p>
<p>Well, whatever you want to say about Isaiah and his time on the show, he certainly brought <a target="_blank" href="http://bionic-blog.com/buzz-saved-bionic-woman">the buzz </a>that helped to catapult BW into he realm of &#8216;most anticipated new show&#8217; back in the summer. I recall blogging about the controversy that his arrival brought - often I wished we could just have the actor and not his baggage, but the two things remained inseparable as column inches were filled with his past controversy, and predictions were made that he would unsettle and fall out with certain members of the cast. How ironic that it is now Katee Sackhoff who is <a href="http://bionic-blog.com/sackhoff-to-ditch-bionic-woman">&#8216;apparently&#8217; doing the falling out</a>. As for Isaiah, not a peep..not one problem reported. Not that it deserves praise..that&#8217;s what professionals are <strong>supposed</strong> to do. But in light of the hype, he did his job &#8211; got kicked through a few walls, raised the stakes and got shot. Goodnight Antonio.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Antonio Pope was the greatest character I&#8217;ve ever seen..far from it. Neither was Isaiah&#8217;s performance anything special. On the whole it was just &#8216;OK&#8217; (although many would disagree).</p>
<p>Will Isaiah or Antonio be missed? Not really. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m sure Jaime will miss her human &#8216;punch bag&#8217; and Jonas will miss those long lingering stares that the pair used to share, but in all fairness they can now promote Jae Lee to &#8216;actually&#8217; doing something other than &#8220;taking it beyond the demo&#8221;.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s give Isaiah his due, he did a decent job (not that &#8220;decent&#8221; should be enough for this re-imagined franchise) and gave us some excitement by walking into his ex girlfriends bullet.</p>
<p>Incidentally, do you think we&#8217;ll ever find out what happened to her? Did she get caught? Perhaps they&#8217;ll tidy up such loose ends in Isaiah&#8217;s spin-off show? ;-)</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also noticing a trend here..first Will Anthros (remember him?) and now Antonio Pope (remember him?) killed by a bullet. They have all this technology and these two guys get killed by bullets? You gotta love it..</p>
<p>But I digress, this is not the time to split hairs..join me as I say goodbye to Antonio. Even Jaime shed a tear for him..one more than she shed for Will Anthros. Bless.</p>
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		<title>Trust Issues Clip &#8211; All Eyes on Antonio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Need a bionic fix until the next episode airs? Take a look at this clip from tonight&#8217;s episode &#8211; &#8220;Trust Issues&#8221; &#8211; where it would appear &#8216;Mr. 5 episode Antonio&#8217; is under suspicion from his own team. Could this be a fatal end for Antonio?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bionic-blog.com/trust-issues-clip-all-eyes-on-antonio"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
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		<title>SPOILER: Episode 1.07 Promo Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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<p>NBC have released 7 promo images for next weeks episode 7 titled <strong>&#8220;Trust Issues&#8221;.</strong> Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.</p>
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<p> <a rel="attachment wp-att-566" href="http://bionic-blog.com/spoiler-episode-107-promo-images/trust-issues-9/" title="“Trust Issues”"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bbtrust5.thumbnail.jpg" alt="“Trust Issues”" /></a> <a rel="attachment wp-att-567" href="http://bionic-blog.com/spoiler-episode-107-promo-images/trust-issues-10/" title="“Trust Issues”"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bbtrust6.thumbnail.jpg" alt="“Trust Issues”" /></a> <a rel="attachment wp-att-568" href="http://bionic-blog.com/spoiler-episode-107-promo-images/trust-issues-11/" title="“Trust Issues”"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bbtrust7.thumbnail.jpg" alt="“Trust Issues”" /></a></p>
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		<title>Caption Contest # 4 Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to primitiveskin for winning Caption Contest #4 with this clever effort: Antonio tries to stop a giant fan blade with one of his body parts, but doesn’t quite achieve the same results as Jaime. Stay tuned for the next Caption Contest which will be up within the next day! Caption League Standings addthis_url = [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Antonio tries to stop a giant fan blade with one of his body parts, but doesn’t quite achieve the same results as Jaime.</strong></p>
<p>Stay tuned for the next Caption Contest which will be up within the next day!</p>
<p><a href="http://bionic-blog.com/competitions">Caption League Standings</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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<p>I had almost forgotten that <strong>Isaiah Washington</strong> is only on the show for a <strong>5 episode</strong>arc. In fact he supposedly completes this arc in tonight&#8217;s episode. Interestingly <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=67&amp;id=17163"><strong>GayWired.com</strong> </a>ask whether his departure will now mean that the &#8220;Gay Factor&#8221; will be increased:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maybe <strong>Isaiah Washington </strong>ixnayed any reference to homosexuality, but seeing as how his character supposedly ends his limited run this week, the opportunity is there to up the gay factor. Perhaps Jamie Sommers (<strong>Michelle Ryan</strong>) and Sarah Corvus (<strong>Katee Sackhoff</strong>) could take their rivalry to the next level. At the very least, give us some wet wife beaters—and more of Katee’s slicked back hair. Totally hot stuff!</p></blockquote>
<p>It will also be interesting to see what happens to his character (<strong>Antonio Pope</strong>) &#8211; will he dramatically get killed off? Will the door be left open for a future return? Don&#8217;t forget you can watch tonight&#8217;s episode 6 on <strong>NBC</strong>..or <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VU6K0I?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bionic-blog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000VU6K0I" title="Amazon Unbox: Bionc Woman Episode 6">Unbox</a>.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Isaiah&#8217;s character, Antonio Pope, wasn&#8217;t in this episode so his 5 episode arc concludes in next weeks episode &#8211; &#8220;Trust Issues&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Caption Contest #4 &#8211; Antonio &amp; Jaime</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go, Caption Contest #4 features Jaime and Antonio in a rather difficult spot (from &#8220;Face Off&#8221;). All you have to do is think of a funny/witty/genius caption to go with the following image and I&#8217;ll choose the winner next Wednesday. You can either leave your answers in the comments or email them to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here we go, <strong>Caption Contest #4</strong> features Jaime and Antonio in a rather difficult spot (from &#8220;Face Off&#8221;). All you have to do is think of a funny/witty/genius caption to go with the following image and I&#8217;ll choose the winner next Wednesday. You can either leave your answers in the comments or email them to me at the usual address (see &#8216;Contact&#8217; section above if you don&#8217;t have the address). Don&#8217;t forget all winners will be entered into a <strong>Bionic Caption Contest League Table</strong>, so get your entries in..you can submit as many as you like!</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bbsc4.jpg" alt="Caption Contest #4" /></p>
<p><strong><em>I know it&#8217;s tempting but try to keep it as clean as poss ; ) Goodluck!</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Episode Review &#8211; &#8220;The Education of Jaime Sommers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what an episode that was! Not only did &#8220;The Education of Jaime Sommers&#8221; combine interesting scientific themes with plenty of funny moments, but it also integrated some much needed on-screen chemistry, particularly between Michelle Ryan and Jordan Bridges. All this without Katee Sackhoff or Mark Sheppard. What Worked: The opening scene where the man kills his fellow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-467" href="http://bionic-blog.com/spoiler-episode-105-promo-images/the-education-of-jaime-sommers-2/" title="The Education of Jaime Sommers"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bbedu2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="The Education of Jaime Sommers" /></a>Wow, what an episode that was! Not only did &#8220;The Education of Jaime Sommers&#8221; combine interesting scientific themes with plenty of funny moments, but it also integrated some much needed on-screen chemistry, particularly between Michelle Ryan and Jordan Bridges. All this without Katee Sackhoff or Mark Sheppard.</p>
<p><strong>What Worked:</strong></p>
<p>The opening scene where the man kills his fellow soldiers was awesome in that it instantly presented us with the theme of control and manipulation. This mirrors Sarah Corvus&#8217; claim that she was hacked and &#8216;made&#8217; to kill the Burket scientists and brought it to a whole new level with not only the notion of non-bionic hacking, but the proof that it can be done..even to &#8216;humans&#8217;. I mean if you can effectively &#8216;hack&#8217; a human, you bet they can hack a machine, right? Corvus is innocent I say! (well, apart from all those subsequent murders maybe)</p>
<p>Nathan is SO the man! His whole protective rant at Jaime was so funny and believable. Gotta love the tech geek! He&#8217;s fast becoming my third favourite character &#8211; who would have thought?</p>
<p>Jaime going back to college. OK, so I thought that this would suck, but it was actually rather well done. Particularly the bit near the end where her roommate gave her the results of the paper Jaime completed for her &#8211; it was sweet to see Jaime fulfil, if you will,  her ambition to experience further education (something she had to give up due to looking after her sister).</p>
<p>Jaime &amp; Tom. OK I was cynical. I don&#8217;t watch BW for the &#8216;romance&#8217;. I get enough pointless love stories watching &#8216;Heroes&#8217;. However, this was good. The chemistry between Ryan and Bridges was fantastic, he managed to bring out that sparkle in Ryan and I dare say she added to his performance too. They are certainly more &#8216;believable&#8217; than her and Will Anthros (who by the way is no longer boring since his &#8216;death&#8217;), and I think the audience will care more about them as a couple as they lead their double lives and perhaps find solace and understanding in one another. Of course it wont be as simple as that..well, I hope not.</p>
<p>Antonio Pope. You have to hand it to Washington, he knows how to work the camera. I thought he was fantastic in this episode, not only because of his presence and intensity, but because he actually gave a more &#8216;subtle&#8217; performance, which was perhaps helped by his script allowing his character to show more &#8216;compassion&#8217;?</p>
<p>Jaime&#8217;s &#8216;British&#8217; accent. Yes Yes and YES! Now the only thing I&#8217;m left thinking is why they didn&#8217;t just make her an English Bionic Woman in the first place!? I think NBC are also wondering this as it almost seemed as if they wanted to see &#8216;our&#8217; reaction to her accent (which is very clever by the way whoever thought of that script). Although Ryan has done a great job with her American accent, it must be hard work keeping it up when it&#8217;s not your natural way of speaking, and I actually think that this may be the reason why some people perceive her character lack &#8216;emotion&#8217; or &#8216;life&#8217;. Maybe she&#8217;s concentrating so hard on getting the accent right that she is not able to harness the rest of her acting talents? After all if I were to suddenly have a new arm it would feel kinda foreign to me for a good few months and I&#8217;d imagine that co-ordination would be a problem. So, NBC, here&#8217;s my suggestion..ditch the American accent..find a way..get freaky-geeky Nathan to rewire her &#8216;programming&#8217; (he has a fetish for the English accent, right?) and have her speak in her natural accent. You may get some stick for it, but this is the business you&#8217;re in..you&#8217;ll think of something. I really think it will be worth the risk because for the first time Ryan (as good as she has been) reminded me of her performance in the outstanding &#8217;Jekyll&#8217;. Please bring back the English Bionic Woman..even &#8216;Tom&#8217; (if that&#8217;s his real name) liked it!</p>
<p><strong>What Didn&#8217;t Work:</strong></p>
<p>The fight scenes. Was the camera person drunk? Seriously what was going on behind the camera? The filming of the fight scenes was so jumpy and disorientating.</p>
<p>The lighting/editing. What I mean is that the outdoor scenes look so &#8216;pale&#8217;. The colours aren&#8217;t &#8216;rich&#8217; enough for what should be a glossy, super-slick show. I mean take a look at the other Sci-fi shows and they &#8216;look&#8217; much richer on the eye. Unless it&#8217;s a dark scene the BW lighting/editing (whatever) just doesn&#8217;t look good. Please sort it out NBC because the visuals shouldn&#8217;t be noticeably bad &#8211; No-one talks about the great visuals on Heroes because they&#8217;re just that..great.</p>
<p>More random terrorists. OK, enough is enough &#8211; I know that &#8220;this isn&#8217;t your moms Bionic Woman&#8221;, but do we really need the random terrorist plot <strong>week after week?</strong>Yes, the world is a scary place, much &#8216;scarier&#8217; than it was in the 1970&#8242;s (or at least that&#8217;s what they say) but honestly, there&#8217;s more going on than just terrorism. Yes, by all means drop it in there every <strong>once in a while</strong>, but not <strong>every</strong>. <strong>single</strong> . <strong>week</strong>! If something doesn&#8217;t work, get rid of it..that&#8217;s what I thought NBC were doing with this show, seeing what works and what doesn&#8217;t until the show finds it&#8217;s identity? Well, the random terrorist plots don&#8217;t work, they look silly and only serve to prop up the much more interesting themes &#8211; like neuro-hacking..now<strong>THAT&#8217;s</strong> a theme..run with that, heck leap from building to building with it, just cut out the random terrorist plots each and every week. We get it, the world is a scary place..but it&#8217;s much more believable when the corners of science and it&#8217;s often unethical application in society is explored.</p>
<p>Ruth. What have they done to her?? She&#8217;s vastly unemployed after such a promising start. Let the caged bird free..</p>
<p><strong>Recommendation:</strong></p>
<p>Other than the whole &#8216;bring back the British Bionic Woman&#8217; and lose the &#8216;constant&#8217; terrorism plots, what I recommend NBC do, is to give the Burket&#8217;s a barometer &#8211; bring a tangible rival organisation into the picture. Not the CIA, an actual rival &#8216;bionic&#8217; agency. We need something to compare them against..Jaime is constantly questioning the idea that <em>they</em> are the &#8216;good guys&#8217;, so let&#8217;s put this to the test, let&#8217;s find out just how <strong>ethical </strong>Burket really are, let&#8217;s find out how far it is acceptable for an organisation to go before it becomes immoral and unethical. We have a plethora of themes and issues which should be explored here. Let&#8217;s see whether Jaime, who is doing this on her terms (apparently), is fighting for good, for the &#8216;greater good&#8217;, or for the interests of a few fatcats who simply want to shape the world as they see fit. It always gets sticky when the main protagonist finds out that not only are they a puppet on a string, but every choice they thought <strong>they</strong> were making, was actually a choice which was made <strong>FOR</strong> them. Let&#8217;s explore the notion of freewill, control, manipulation, personal gain and sacrifice. Let&#8217;s see this Bionic Woman become a pawn and then have her fight for her <strong>right</strong> to be free and to make her own decisions..real decisions which <strong>she</strong> believes in. Then you have the question of what IS real and what is controlled &#8211; we&#8217;ve seen it with Corvus..<strong>now let&#8217;s explore that cautionary tale</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p><strong>Best Actor</strong>: I&#8217;m pleased to say that it was Michelle Ryan. The lead actress is coming into her own! </p>
<p><strong>Best Character</strong>: Jaime Sommers</p>
<p><strong>Best Quote</strong>: One of many from Nathan&#8217;s scenes! Oh and this one from Jaime&#8217;s room mate:</p>
<p>&#8220;I just like secret food, OK!&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why that made me laugh, but that&#8217;s the whole point..great stuff!</p>
<p><strong>Worst Quote</strong>: (Tom) &#8220;You&#8217;ve got something on your nose&#8221; (or words to that effect)</p>
<p>Excuse me whilst I cringe! ;)</p>
<p><strong>Best Moment</strong>: The various scenes which showed people being &#8216;controlled&#8217; (notably the opening scene).</p>
<p><strong>Worst Moment</strong>: The fight scene (daytime). Apart from Jaime knocking the guy out with a Melon, watching it gave me a headache. Sort it out..maybe give the camera technicians some of those neuro-control transmitters (I&#8217;m kidding about the last bit..but seriously please sort it out)</p>
<p><strong>Episode Rating</strong>: 8/10. I&#8217;m tempted to raise this by .5 but I hope that there is still alot more to come.</p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-465" href="http://bionic-blog.com/spoiler-episode-105-promo-images/the-education-of-jaime-sommers/" title="The Education of Jaime Sommers"><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bbedu1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="The Education of Jaime Sommers" /></a>So now they have me interested again..I&#8217;ll admit it, I was beginning to wonder whether I had misjudged my excitement over the premise of this show, but although &#8220;TEoJS&#8221; wasn&#8217;t perfect, it was a continued improvement. I really do think that it will be worth being patient with this show as they find their groove. It&#8217;s almost like watching a &#8216;beta&#8217; project at times, but the fact that they have a <a target="_blank" href="http://bionic-blog.com/more-creative-changes-jason-cahill-set-to-go-bionic">new show runner </a>suggests that NBC are in this for the long haul, and if they keep on improving then my interest in the show will continue to peak. The biggest compliment that I can pay this episode was the fact that the lead actress did just that, she led and she was brilliant. Furthermore, four of my favourite characters were absent &#8211; Papa Anthros, Sarah Corvus, Jae Lee and Becca Sommers &#8211; yet I honestly didn&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>Now the bad news is that just when things get interesting, NBC decide to put another show on in it&#8217;s place for Halloween, so no new episode next week. Bionic Woman returns on November 7.</p>
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		<title>Episode Review: &#8220;Face Off&#8221; &#8211; 1.04</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Face Off</strong> wasn&#8217;t as good as <strong>Sisterhood</strong>, but it had enough to keep me entertained. I did, however, find the episode to be disjointed and at times I failed to believe aspects of the storyline.</p>
<p>This week, I&#8217;ve broken my views down in to what I felt worked and didn&#8217;t work:</p>
<p><strong>What worked:</strong></p>
<p>-Jaime&#8217;s reaction to Becca &#8216;making out&#8217; &#8211; <em>This</em> was actually a believable scene and it allowed us to see Jaime using her bionic installations for personal use &#8211; much to the displeasure of Jonas.</p>
<p>-Jaime and Nathan. I&#8217;m fast becoming a Nathan fan! I like his quips and the way he and Jaime interact. He SO wants her, but it does cross my mind as to whether he likes <strong>&#8216;Jaime&#8217;</strong> or the <strong>technology</strong> that is inside of her. After all, he is a tech-freak.</p>
<p>-Sarah being carted away, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.watchingbionicwoman.com/bionic-camp-katee-sackhoff-as-hannibal-lecter/">ala Hannibal Lecter</a>, as she makes small talk with Jaime as if she didn&#8217;t threaten to kill Becca the week earlier (or whatever the timescale currently is in this show). Funny stuff!</p>
<p>-Finding out about Jaime&#8217;s &#8220;5 year&#8221; bionic lifespan was a good device. Kinda knew it was coming seeing as we found out about Sarah&#8217;s the week before, but it was a good move. Just a shame we didn&#8217;t focus more on this potentially interesting theme.</p>
<p>-Fight scene between Jaime and Antonio (although I would like to know how Antonio escaped from &#8216;bad guy hideout&#8217; in the first place..)</p>
<p>-The idea that Will Anthros was working outside of the Burket Group. As Jonas said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we knew Will as well as he thought&#8221;. Basically, Will is getting <a target="_blank" href="http://bionic-blog.com/will-he-get-any-creepier" title="Bionic-Blog">more and more interesting since his &#8216;death&#8217;!</a> Was he selling bionics to the highest bidder, just like his father before him?</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bb_fo_sarah.jpg" alt="Sarah purposefully gets caught" /></p>
<p><strong>What Didn&#8217;t Work:</strong></p>
<p>-Sarah&#8217;s escape. Fair enough they explained the ease of her <em>capture</em> by her admitting to Jae that she &#8216;wanted&#8217; to get caught, but her escape was far to &#8216;easy&#8217; and rather disappointing.</p>
<p>-Sarah and Burket interrogation. Apart from the line where Sarah admits to Ruth that&#8217;s she&#8217;s &#8220;crazy&#8221; and where she references &#8220;Mr. Ed&#8221;, I found the interaction between Burket (Jonas, Ruth, Jae) and Sarah, unbelievable. It needed more tension and better dialogue. A missed opportunity for some real character development methinks!</p>
<p>-Jaime&#8217;s decision making. OK, she saved the CIA guy, but why did she give him the flash file? Would she <strong>REALLY</strong> trust him enough to do that? Maybe I&#8217;m being picky, but that just made no sense&#8230;she previously didn&#8217;t strike me as stupid.</p>
<p>-Fan bending. I know what they were trying to do here (i.e. give Jaime something &#8216;cool&#8217; to do), but what was the purpose of that fan other than to give Jaime something &#8216;cool&#8217; to do, lol!? Also, would the fan really continue to work afterwards, and stop every single bullet that the bad guys fired? Perhaps it&#8217;s a super fan..</p>
<p>-The scene were she did her bionic leaps as the bad guys fired bullets at her was cool (it certainly looked cool in the trailers), but wasn&#8217;t it a bit convenient that she just happened to get shot and land in the <strong>exact spot</strong> where she would have ended up had she followed Mr. CIA man (which would&#8217;ve been the logical thing to do anyway!)?</p>
<p>-So Will, who works for a top secret agency, leaves all of his data on Jaime&#8217;s bionics on one flash file? Maybe limiting the data to one source is not such a bad idea, but the whole plot device about the CIA man getting caught just seemed so random!</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bb_fo_sarah3.jpg" alt="Sarah escapes, using Jae as a human shield" /></p>
<p>All in all this was quite a mixed bag, however something kept me interested. Whether it&#8217;s the promise of things to come, the hope that <strong>Mark Sheppard</strong> might grace the episode with his presence or the faith that they will finally start driving home the powerful themes..whatever it was, I still enjoyed it enough to watch the episode in full. However it has to get better than this, I&#8217;m used to quality shows and demand that &#8216;BW&#8217; doesn&#8217;t waste this opportunity to give us themes which no other show currently can. Come on guys, don&#8217;t waste this chance!</p>
<p><strong>Best character:</strong> Antonio Pope &#8211; not great in this episode but he gives us that &#8216;curveball&#8217; intensity and makes me laugh when he &#8216;tries&#8217; to face off again Jaime..like duh, she&#8217;s bionic, dude! He must like getting kicked through walls!</p>
<p><strong>Best Actor:</strong> Michelle Ryan (OK, Jaime was dumb in this episode, but I thought Michelle gave the best performance. Wasn&#8217;t feeling Katee this time, perhaps it&#8217;s down to her script?).</p>
<p><strong>Best moment: </strong>The Antonio/Jaime fight (Incidentally is THIS why it was called &#8216;Face Off&#8217;? I can&#8217;t think of any other reason&#8230;except maybe for the capture of Sarah. But that was hardly a face off..more a passing glance!). Anyway, the fight sequence still rocked!</p>
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<p><strong>Best Quote:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ruth:</strong> &#8220;You can lead a horse to water but you can&#8217;t make him drink&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Sarah: </strong>&#8220;..If Mr. Ed wont drink, you grab him by the mane and hold him under&#8230;he&#8217;ll swallow&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Worst Quote</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jonas</strong> (to Jae) &#8220;You want to help her..help her help herself&#8221;.</p>
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<p><strong>Main Episode Theme</strong>: Trust, trust and trust..did I say <strong>TRUST</strong>?</p>
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<p><strong>Overall Episode Rating: 7/10</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><font color="#ffa500">*Coming soon: &#8220;Face Off&#8221; Episode Investigations</font></em></strong></p>
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		<title>Episode Review &#8211; &#8220;Sisterhood&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Wow, this was certainly a step up from last weeks episode! If this episode was an indication of things to come then no wonder NBC have ordered more scripts. The title &#8211; &#8220;Sisterhood&#8221; I thought this was a good title for the episode as it played into the central themes &#8211; the relationship between [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wow, this was certainly a step up from last weeks episode! If this episode was an indication of things to come then <a target="_blank" href="http://bionic-blog.com/nbc-orders-three-more-bionic-scripts" title="NBC request more Bionic scripts">no wonder NBC have ordered more scripts</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bb_sis1.jpg" alt="Sisterhood" /></p>
<p><strong>The title &#8211; &#8220;Sisterhood&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I thought this was a good title for the episode as it played into the central themes &#8211; the relationship between Becca and Jaime and between Jaime and Sarah. Despite not telling Becca the truth about her being half machine, Jaime clearly loves her sister and feels protective over her. However, in this episode she realised that Becca could be her biggest weakness, as people such as Sarah can target her as a way to get to Jaime..as a way to make her comply, or conform to their standards. Sarah Corvus and Jaime are virtually sisters themselves, both of them share a connectivity or a &#8216;sisterhood&#8217;, if you will, by the fact that they both have bionic implants which have been placed inside them without their total consent (though I was of the understanding that Corvus &#8216;volunteered&#8217; for the programme, but there you go). I get the feeling that although Jaime&#8217;s priority is to protect Becca, she also empathises with Sarah and wants to help her..she just doesn&#8217;t know whether she can trust her &#8211; likewise, Jaime broke Sarah&#8217;s trust by using the self-hack trick to alert the Burket Group. Can&#8217;t blame her really, you just don&#8217;t mess with a girls sister. I would like to see this theme explored in greater depth because it&#8217;s obviously one which the actors can easily identify with and consequently it will be depicted with great realism and integrity, as it was in this episode. By the way, Katee Sackhoff was simply brilliant.</p>
<p><strong>Jaime Sommers &amp; &#8216;Grooming&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>So, it would appear that Will did indeed target Jaime for Bionic installation years before they &#8216;met&#8217;, as the file she found in last weeks episode indicated. Not only is this creepy, but it raises some serious issues about a person&#8217;s right to freedom as well as issues of trust. So, Will was looking for someone with the right genetic/personality/physical etc make-up in order to try out his new and improved Bionic technology. Question &#8211; where on earth was he test running all of this? Was it directly under the Burket noses or did he have another agency that he worked for? I mean two years is a long time, and one would assume that during this time he was still perfecting and testing the implants..and on who? That&#8217;s what I want to know. We also have the issue of Jaime&#8217;s grandmother who may have been an early Bionic subject, which would suggest that <a target="_blank" href="http://bionic-blog.com/sarah-corvus-not-the-first-bionic-woman" title="Article: Not the first Bionic Woman">my theory </a>that Sarah is not, infact, the first Bionic Woman is correct. I think that Jaime&#8217;s genes are suited to Bionic installation and perhaps her grandmother (who had a so-called &#8216;genetic defect&#8217;) was an early Bionic test run?</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bb_sis3.jpg" alt="Self-Hack" /></p>
<p><strong>Jaime &amp; Sarah &amp;&#8217; Hacking&#8217; into oneself</strong></p>
<p>One of the most interesting themes from this episode &#8211; the fact that both Bionic Woman can &#8216;hack&#8217; into their implants and &#8216;turn them off..and on&#8217;. How cool is that..and how cool was the nose-bleed aspect!? They&#8217;re beginning to present these BW more and more like machines..or computers and it&#8217;s a fascinating exploration into what it would be like to be bionic. I have a question though &#8211; how often can they hack into themselves before it starts to do irreparable damage? Sarah has been Bionic for what, 2-3 years, and already she is beginning to &#8216;erode&#8217;. This may be because her implants are inferior to Jaime&#8217;s but I would still imagine that Jaime&#8217;s lifespan is also limited? Another interesting aspect is the notion that if they can self-hack, then others can also hack into them &#8211; as Sarah claims (and I believe) happened to her when she killed those 14 BG scientists. I&#8217;m sure there would be no end of people who would want to hack into a BW, afterall, they&#8217;re part machines..machines that can be turned into the most dangerous and &#8216;effective&#8217; of weapons.</p>
<p>Which brings me onto Antonio/Jae..</p>
<p><strong>Embrace the machine or retain humanity?</strong></p>
<p>These are the contrasting philosophies of Jaime&#8217;s two mentors &#8211; Antonio believes that she must unleash the &#8216;animal&#8217; and embrace her machine side if she is to survive..whilst Jae, who has had to turn a gun on his own love, believes that &#8220;the machine is nothing without the woman&#8221;.</p>
<p>These are two crucial distinctions and it&#8217;s fascinating to see which one is most effective and which one Jaime will end up choosing. My bet is that she will have to choose BOTH if she is to survive. There may come times when she has to hold onto her humanity in order to keep her identity and possibly save her sister..but there will also be occasions when she has to make snap judgements for the greater good..decisions which may well mean &#8216;calling out the animal inside&#8217; and stepping outside of her human morals and belief systems. As a BW she can no longer just think for herself..she has a wider picture to survey. No-one said being a BW would be easy..it&#8217;s the price she now has to pay for the curiosity of science and mans meddling with God&#8217;s work. Ah, and there&#8217;s another themes..natural evolution versus scientific evolution.</p>
<p><strong>Sarah &amp; her Sister</strong></p>
<p>So, Sarah had a sister..I never actually considered that. It actually gives the most layered character even more layers, which is great as Katee Sackhoff is able to handle it..infact she seems like an actress who needs a challenge. Anyway, whilst my heart does bleed for Sarah&#8217;s loss, what I want to know is, who killed her sister? Afterall, it was surely no accident as it mirrored the way in which Sarah attempted to kill Anthros jnr..unless, of course, she is still so scared by what happened to her sister that she wanted to purge herself of the memory (guilt?) by inflicting a mirror &#8216;accident&#8217; upon Will..? Eitherway, I felt bringing her sister into the game (yes Jaime, &#8216;game&#8217;) at this stage was great as it enhanced the episode and integrated with it&#8217;s central theme. Did I say Sackhoff rocks? And that&#8217;s coming from an anti-fanboy!</p>
<p><img src="http://bionic-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bb_sis4.jpg" alt="Papa Anthros" /></p>
<p><strong>Papa Anthros</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing what Mark Sheppard does to an episode &#8211; perhaps next time we can just sit him in a room and have him talk about&#8230;anything! Seriously, the man is awesome..<strong>awesome</strong>I tell you! So, Papa Anthros is quite the manipulator, it would seem. He obviously has his own agenda, which consists of getting his paws on Jaime&#8217;s bionics. Hmm, he must be pretty jealous that his son was able to create a more advanced Bionic Woman than his Sarah Corvus effort &#8211; is this why Will&#8217;s death doesn&#8217;t even seem to register with him? I knew there was some-kind of beef between the two of them. Anyway, enough about Will, he&#8217;s dead (or IS he?), what were those drugs that Papa Anthros gave Sarah? She must be at a very low ebb if she is trusting him, after all doesn&#8217;t she hate her creators?</p>
<p>We also found out that Anthony was in jail for treason &#8211; selling Bionics to the highest bidders. Now that is a storyline that has depth - it not only questions the ethics of the man, but it suggests that he is motivated by money (or the equivalent). Did he not care what the buyers of these &#8216;weapons&#8217; did with them? Also, did he actually sell &#8216;Bionic Women&#8217; to the highest bidders, and if so what has become of them? And why &#8216;women&#8217;? Sarah raised this issue in the episode, and it&#8217;s now made me question why &#8216;women&#8217; seem to be the prerred gender for Papa and son&#8217;s Bionic installation programmes?</p>
<p>Oh, And where was Mr. Stitches? I miss his barrel of laughs..</p>
<p><strong>Jonas and the Burkets</strong></p>
<p>Loved Jonas this week, full of quips and witty comebacks! He is a pervert though (joking), and the issue of privacy is an important one. I mean, what do they do when Jaime is taking a shower? And did they really watch her and Will get it on (Yuck)? I guess it would explain why Jae was so quick to tend to Will&#8217;s &#8216;fatal&#8217; shoulder wound and why Jonas was so quick to save Jaime&#8217;s dignity in last weeks toilet debacle -they&#8217;re monitoring her at all, well, &#8216;most&#8217; times. So just to clarify, they (or rather Will) implanted an optical interface which is wrapped around her cerebral cortex and relays a live video feed or stream to BG HQ. So it&#8217;s in her <strong>brain</strong> and not her eye &#8211; which is perhaps why she is able to &#8216;hack&#8217; herself &#8211; &#8216;if&#8217; it was in her eye then surely no amount of concentration would allow her to turn it on and off at will? Although she could cut out her eye, but that&#8217;s another story (season 2 maybe? ;)). So yeah, Jonas and co. contravene her rights to privacy but then from their point of view she was a curveball who has $50 million of their machinery inside her body. So I guess Jonas has to keep track of his investment..hopefully he wont abuse that power on a late night at the office &#8211; he&#8217;s no longer married, right? Close your eyes whilst bathing Jaime..that&#8217;s my tip to you.</p>
<p>I could say much more about this episode as I thought it truly rocked! Last week was such a disappointment for me, so it&#8217;s only right that I congratulate the guys at BW for a fantastic episode this week. It wasn&#8217;t perfect but please let this be the start of many more good things to come. Everyone recognises that this show has potential, and if Eick and co. continue to tap into that potential then people will remain curious..don&#8217;t drop the ball guys!</p>
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<p><strong>Best Performer: </strong>Katee Sackhoff (Did I say she rocks?)</p>
<p><strong>Best Character Performance: </strong>Sarah Corvus &amp; Papa Anthros (awesome..both of them)</p>
<p><strong>Special Mention Award: </strong>Lucy Hale as Becca (great addition to the cast and an excellent character so far)</p>
<p><strong>Best Quote:</strong></p>
<p>Antonio: I&#8217;m about to go analogue on your ass!</p>
<p>Jaime: Bring it bitch!</p>
<p><strong>Best Moment: </strong>Jaime hacking herself so that her optical interface came back online and alerted the Burkets of Sarah&#8217;s presence. That was an awesome moment!</p>
<p><strong>Episode Rating:</strong> 8.5/10</p>
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