"Bionic Woman" Paradise Lost (2007)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Tim Matheson

Writer:

Jason Smilovic (written by)

TV Series:

"Bionic Woman" (2007)

Original Air Date:

3 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

As Jamie slowly adjusts to her new life with her bionic body parts, and dealing with the murder of her fiancée Will...

Plot Keywords:

Car Accident | Cyborg | Adopted Sister | Female Protagonist | Remake

Cast

Michelle Ryan	...	Jaime Sommers
Miguel Ferrer	...	Jonas Bledsoe
Molly Price	...	Ruth Treadwell
Will Yun Lee	...	Jae Kim
Lucy Hale	...	Becca Sommers (as Lucy Kate Hale)
Isaiah Washington	...	Antonio Pope
Kevin Rankin	...	Nathan
Katee Sackhoff	...	Sarah Corvus
Carly McKillip	...	Vivian
Jacob Blair	...	Cute Guy
Lara Gilchrist	...	Carly
Erin Karpluk	...	Robin
Lorena Gale	...	Mrs. Buezy
Michael Jocelyn	...	Priest
Marrett Green	...	TV Announcer

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Netherlands:12

Trivia:

The television in the house that Jaime enters in the town of Paradise is showing footage from "Battlestar Galactica" (2004). David Eick serves as executive producer of both shows. Katee Sackhoff and Aaron Douglas are also both cast members of ‘Battlestar Galactica’.

Quotes:

Jaime Sommers: Are you still in love with her?
Jae Kim: I don't know if love is the word. She killed 14 of our agents and I shot her in the head.
Jaime Sommers: I could see how that experience might stay with a person.

Movie Connections:

Features "Battlestar Galactica" (2004)

Paradise Lost was a step down for "Bionic Woman" compared to pilot

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

In this one, we find out Jamie's boyfriend Will died (perhaps following that shot he got on the shoulder in the pilot episode). She then decides to have sex in the public restroom with a guy named Steve (perhaps named after Steve Austin of "The Six Million Dollar Man"). Miguel Ferrer's character walks in at this point and asks her, "Are you in or out?" Not liking his tone, Jamie says, "I'm out." (Didn't she agree to join "on my terms" the previous week? That scene confused me.) Jamie then, through super-hearing, finds out about a woman about to commit suicide and manages to save her in perhaps the most cheesy way I've seen on modern television. Obviously, there was some bad editing. She then meets a nice man in a bookstore as she's reading "What Color is Your Parachute?" He's played by ex-"Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington. He has a dog with him which, I guess, is supposed to tell us what a nice guy he is (and perhaps make us forget his homophobic remarks that got him fired from the hit ABC show). We later find out he's her handler in Ferrer's agency. The rest of the episode takes place in a town called Paradise where everyone there turns up dead except a teenage girl who was in the bathroom when whatever caused the mass dying occurred. I'll just stop here and mention that the most intriguing scenes concerned the Katee Sackhoff "bad" bionic woman and her love scene with a trainer of Jamie's. Oh, and the little sister of Jamie's can be both a brat and a little lovable. Overall, this episode was a little step down from the pilot I saw last week but the scenes for next weeks episode with Michelle Ryan and Sackhoff look very interesting indeed so I'll tune in next week for that.