"Bionic Woman" Gets A British Accent

Hey, let's bring a British accent into the mix! It's Michelle Ryan's original accent... she got her start on the long-running British soap Eastenders:

Also, let's send Jaime to college. And have her flirt with a different woman: her roommate.  And with the other boys at school. And let's make it obvious that Nathan, the bioengineer back in the office, is totally in love with Bionica. He gets horribly jealous when the neuroscience TA flirts with her.  Nathan thinks the worst of people, and Bionica of course thinks the best, despite all available evidence that she is surrounded entirely by people with ulterior motives. Even the "good guys," such as they are, have ulterior motives.

The nominal plot of the episode is that some soldiers are getting evil brain implants. It ties in nicely with the overall theme of fallible technology that distinguishes the new "Bionic Woman" series (and the 21st century, if I might be so bold) from the 20th-century version. OK, put fifty million dollars worth of computers into your body... and then debug them and worry about having your brain hacked into and reprogrammed.... by Al Quaeda, of course.

Of course, the flirty TA is incredibly hot and smart and is Isaiah Washington's hot suspect. Of course, he seduces Bionica - Aren't TAs never supposed to date their undergrads? Isn't that totally against the rules? - but it turns out he's not actually the bad guy, he's in the CIA. Bionica and Hot TA have a cute romantic moment before stopping the microchip dropoff and kicking ass at a farmer's market.

Best moment: taking out a fleeing suspect with a thrown cantaloupe. Also liked: closing theme by Ani DiFranco, every college woman's favorite singer-songwriter for at least fifteen minutes.

I think we all learned a lesson here: Science is bad. I think that's the lesson. Possibly the lesson is that you should never trust a cute TA who wants to get into your pants. Also if you're a cute TA who's secretly in the CIA, you should never leave a hot, mysterious undergrad alone in your apartment, because she'll totally find your microchips.

Comments

[Ro]

Good episode, but she didn't flirt with her roommate.

[Aaron]

She was TOTALLY flirting with the roommate- like the part where they agreed to do each other's homework? How is that not moving into backrubs and kissing within a week?

I'm disappointed we won't get to see more of her, because she's hilarious. The thing with the hidden food? Great. I'd love to see her brought in later as a biotech recruit. That'd be fun.