Girl Power By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Bionic Woman NBC, Wednesdays, 9 PM “Sisterhood” Written by David Eick Directed by Steve Boyum The Bionic Woman is in serious need of a personality transplant. The third episode kicks off (ahem) with Jaime being ordered to babysit the daughter of an important financial backer of her shadowy employer. This is not a plot; it’s a plot device. Trying to stretch it into anything more than a distraction from the main theme (character development) was a waste of time. Having said that, I think that this week’s episode was actually…
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Bionic Woman: “Paradise Lost”
Beta Testing By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Bionic Woman NBC, Wednesdays, 9 PM “Paradise Lost” Written by Laeta Kalogridis & David Eick Directed by Tim Matheson Bionic Woman still does not know what it wants to be when it grows up. Is this going to be a weekly ass-kicking showcase a la Dark Angel, or an angsty drama of conspiracies and shadow governments a la The X-Files? It’s obvious that the writers are trying to avoid the self-parody that so much underconceived SF can become, but at the same time a little self-conscious irony would help considerably. As it…