"Bionic Woman" Episode 3: I Love Sarah Corvus

I keep wanting to call Jaime Sommers "Bionica" and Sarah Corvus "Starbuck," but I guess I'll get over it and learn the proper names, because I am rapidly falling in love with this "Bionic Woman."

This week's episode of "Bionic Woman" was, to be honest, everything I hoped for and more. I love the Sarah/Jaime interactions, especially the line "don't get me started on how objectifying this whole "Bionic Woman" thing is."

I was also glad to see more of the origins of Sarah Corvus. For example: She was in a terrible car crash eerily similar to the one that made Jaime into Bionic Jaime. The crash was her fault, and her sister died.

And most importantly, we get to her motivation for stalking Jaime: she's dying from some kind of nanotechnology failure, and she needs Jaime's help. Or at least, that's what Will's dad is telling her.

And he tells her all kinds of things, like that she needs to kill Becca Sommers to get Jaime to relate to her more. Creeeepy!

This episode seemed filled with knowing references to earlier films: the limited lifespan of a superhuman is an obvious nod to "Blade Runner," and "Single White Female" bells rang in my head when Sarah suggested that both bionic women wear matching outfits: "How do you look in capris?" And of course, when Jaime tries to convince Sarah that she's not entirely evil, it's a very Star Wars family reunion.

Some people might say that's a ripoff, but I'd call it a brilliant pastiche.  (Yes, I used the p-word. Sue me.)

I'm really curious to find out how this is going to pan out: is Sarah going to get any sympathy at all from Jaime? Is Jaime going to begin suffering from the same problems? Was Will really as horrible as Sarah says? And on next week's show, is Isaiah Washington really a mole?

One more question: Is the Center For Ethical Bionics for real?

Comments

[bacchus]

This episode had more then a few holes, but I also love Sarah Corvus and that was enough to keep my coming back another week.

[Pascale]

anyone feel like Jaimeg is being REALY nieve in trusting the orginization or maybe she just isn't sure she could handle herself if ANthros turned out to be lying and having to intentions to help Corvus... I just what Sarah to kill anthros... seriously hate the obvious dependancy issues. Sarah knows he\s controling her and she can't do anyhing about if she wants to survive.