Bionic Woman- Season 1 [Paradise Lost] 10/2007

[Truth Seeker]

Paradise Lost​

Star: Michelle Ryan (Jaime Sommers), Lucy Hale (Becca Sommers)

Jaime continues to gradually adjust to her new bionic life - all while trying to maintain the normal aspects of her human life. She also befriends a stranger who appears to be very friendly and goes on her first mission​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hopefully in this episode, someone will crack a smile or even make a small joke, unless teh bionics prevent that from working right.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

This was the first episode I watched. I thought it was unfocused and my mother said it felt like the work of a novice director to her. Her term may be better.

Granted, the first episodes of DS9 are almost unwatchable and BtVS hit its share of fowl balls in its first season. So, some initial weakness is not a damning sin.

The bathroom scene was cute. Sackhoff was great.

The fight scenes were so poor as to be sad. And the plot aspect of "be happy when people manipulate you and jerk you around" and "sinister, shadowy, unaccountable groups are good for you" are sad and even offensive cliches.

 

[Wormwood]

My wife and I gave this show one more chance.

. . . aaaaand we're out.

The worst part is, there are some very talented people attached to this pig.

Shame, really.

 

[Arnwyn]

Yeah, I think "unfocused" is a great way to describe that episode.

Not so sure about the ending, or who the bad guys were... [Homer] I guess everything's wrapped up in a neat little package. [/Homer]

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I wasn't terribly impressed either. I'm hoping it will get better; the cast is very strong. But I was struck by some of the absurdities in this ep.

1) Wasn't her bf shot in the shoulder last episode? How on earth did he die? Not to mention that he saved her, and she was crushed by a truck. They must have some kind of bionic for heroic shoulder wounds.

2) The bad guys... who were they exactly? A bunch of random mercenaries who decided they wanted to gas towns all over America? That sounds lucrative. The whole "evil for evil's sake" is really uninteresting and not at all appropriate for the show.

3) the training montage looked a lot like filler to me. Couldn't they have come up with some better things for her to do besides one-armed pullups, weaving around steel girders like a car commercial, and the exact same choreography from the pilot? Where were the boulders pummeled to dust? How about trying to run up walls? What about taking on 15 guys at once?

It seemed to me they tried to cram too much into one episode, and amazingly, didn't have enough going on to make it interesting. Some of the narrative was cut or forgotten that might've given us more insight into the story, but as it stands it was a cliche learning-the-ropes type episode.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

I wasn't terribly impressed either. I'm hoping it will get better; the cast is very strong. But I was struck by some of the absurdities in this ep.

1) Wasn't her bf shot in the shoulder last episode? How on earth did he die? Not to mention that he saved her, and she was crushed by a truck. They must have some kind of bionic for heroic shoulder wounds.

I haven't seen it. (Wednesday is card night. Tried to watch the first ep Saturday, but they put on [up]Chuck instead.) But dieing because you've been shot in the shoulder? We've been trained to ignore that because they're always flesh wounds in Hollywood. But think about it. Major artery and vein, and a major nerve cluster. Real easy to die...

 

[Insight]

This show is a mess, and I'm not sure it can be saved. They are far too ambitious with what they try to cram into an episode and skip over story elements I'd like to see played out. It's almost serial in that the writers seem to wrap everything up at the end of each episode. Very odd.

The dialogue was a bit better, but still some glaring cliches. Not to mention her fiancee dying and she doesn't seem to care (nor does anyone else in the organization).

 

[Insight]

I haven't seen it. (Wednesday is card night. Tried to watch the first ep Saturday, but they put on [up]Chuck instead.) But dieing because you've been shot in the shoulder? We've been trained to ignore that because they're always flesh wounds in Hollywood. But think about it. Major artery and vein, and a major nerve cluster. Real easy to die...

The problem is that he lived for several weeks (months) and performed the cyber surgery on Jamie with this alleged wound. Then, for no apparent reason (and without any explanation), he's dead. I don't think he died from the shoulder wound, although they won't tell us, so who knows?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The problem is that he lived for several weeks (months) and performed the cyber surgery on Jamie with this alleged wound. Then, for no apparent reason (and without any explanation), he's dead. I don't think he died from the shoulder wound, although they won't tell us, so who knows?

No, the shoulder wound they are talking about was from Sarah Corvis shooting him with a sniper rifle. I also thought he didn't die and was confused at the start of this episode.

I was even more confused by the end. Some group in military fatigues can load up 20 tanker trucks with a known deadly toxin, park them all together in the same area and nobody will notice? Why did they bother going after Jamie and the other chick from Third Watch in the town (called, of course Paradise) if they were leaving that night to use the trucks? Oh, right, to provide them someone to capture and interrogate.

Why did the one girl in town survive? Why even bother showing her if the character has no relevance to the plot? Oh, wait she had to tell them about a weird truck driving around town - that was surely more useful information than they got interrogating the commando. The girl didn't even seem all that freaked out, or end up in shock by the fact that the rest of the town population died and she survived.

It has a decent cast who can all act, but without decent material, they look awful. I'm done with this show, there are too many other shows I am watching/recording this season to even bother waiting to see if it improves.

Oh, and the music was awful and still too loud.