I touched on this in last weeks Bionic Investigations: In the first episode, Sarah Corvus proclaims that she is the first Bionic Woman. But is she?

Just before she makes love to the man now dubbed “Mr. Stitches”, she asks him if she reminds him of ‘her’. He replies by suggesting that her skin does. Could this “her” with the Sarah-like skin have been a previous Bionic Woman? Was she another experiment of Anthony Anthros..or perhaps more likely, Will Anthros, seeing as “Stitches” wanted him dead..?

All this makes me wonder what a living version of an earlier Bionic Woman would do to Sarah’s ego? Whilst she seems more intriuged rather than de-throned by newer model Jaime, perhaps the existence of an earlier Bionic Woman would make her feel less ‘original’..less special? Afterall, she does seem to have a needy side to her, despite her bravado.

Of course this is mere speculation right now, but it’s something to consider, perhaps.

Place your bets below (Poll closes after Wednesdays episode, so get your vote in!):

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I thought it would be interesting to explore the central themes of the show as we progress through the series. One theme which is evident in episode 1, is Love.

In particular we find out that Jae Lee and Sarah Corvus were once in a relationship. After she kills the Burket Scientists, she asks him to say that he loves her, then she attacks him and he executes her, after emotionally telling her “I love you”. But let’s go back a moment..did Sarah REALLY kill those people? Afterall she seems very distressed and even told Jae that she “didn’t want to” and that she ’wasn’t in control’. Furthermore as she lunges for him, she cries “Nooo!!”, as if she wasn’t the one attacking him, if you catch my drift? This suggests to me that ‘perhaps’ someone else was in control of her actions..perhaps someone else ‘made’ her kill those scientists by hacking into her Bionic implants? Indeed, edora poses this very question.

What is also interesting is that when Sarah has the chance to exact revenge on Jae for ‘killing her’, she doesn’t..instead after she shoots Will, she let’s Jae go. How does this conflict with her earlier statement:

“I’m cutting away all of the parts of me that are weak”

The above suggests that Sarah is embracing her machine side and removing all of the weak ‘human’ parts. But does this include emotions..Love?

I think that however much she is trying to remove the pain of what Jae and others have done to her, she still has enough love..enough ‘humanity’ to draw the line by not killing Jae when she had the chance.

What does this tell us about the nature of machine vs love? Perhaps there is hope for Jaime yet..perhaps she will get to choose..

What are your thoughts on the above? ..i’d love to hear them.

Update: I’ve added a poll which you can vote on:

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Over the past few days I’ve been running a poll on the site to see who your most eagerly anticipated actors are for the upcoming BW series. It’s been fascinating to watch, as first Mark Sheppard took an early lead and then both Michelle Ryan and Katee Sackhoff have come back to storm the top two positions, whilst Will Yun Lee has made a late charge!

I think it would be great to see who is in the lead by the start of tonight’s Pilot episode..will Katee remain as the actor you’re MOST looking forward to seeing..or will Michelle and the others make a late comeback!?

It’s down to you guys – if you haven’t already voted, you can do so below or via the sidebar! Go on..it’s a great bit of fun and a way for you to voice your opinion!

By the way, I voted for Katee..but it was close between her, Michelle and Isaiah. Oh and can you believe Miguel Ferrer currently has only one vote!?.. where are the Ferrer fans? :)

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In an earlier post I commented on how similar Michelle Ryan and fellow chick of kick-ass, Jennifer Garner(Sidney Bristow, Alias), are in terms of appearance. Well, I want to put this to the test in a poll..have a look at the visual comparison (picture) and feel free to cast your opinion!

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By the way, that’s Ryan on the left and Garner on the right ;)