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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 261559" data-attributes="member: 23"> Doomsday Is Tomorrow (Parts I and II) (continued) It’s fascinating to see the “relationship” between Jaime and ALEX as they work to learn more about the other - almost working together at times - in order to destroy them. Both prove incredibly intelligent and able and are fast learners. ALEX has to adjust for Jaime’s bionics, for which he’d not originally accounted. Jaime uses ALEX’s own tech against him and manages to get computer assistance to repair her damaged bionic leg. ALEX’s two biggest weapons are his lack of empathy and his capacity to jam communication to his own ends (ironically, empathy and communication are the very two things Jaime has been attempting to employ to reach him). He can take ruthless measures, like deploying fire fighting foam to remove all Jaime’s oxygen while in the tunnels, because he doesn’t know how breathing feels. After that comes electrocution and flooding. The escalating threat feels genuinely terrifying as the story goes on. The Middle East do not believe the doomsday device to exist and carry on with their nuclear tests as planned. This results in the doomsday device being triggered, the American military sending planes to destroy the complex - with Jaime inside. And ALEX ensuring this happens by jamming a failsafe signal even after Jaime has disabled the initial threat and found that there is (dramatic pause)...no doomsday device. Scenes of the planes getting closer, and the procedural insight into their preparations really make this feel like an impossible situation far more so than an episodic show should have the right. Lindsay Wagner is absolutely wonderful. As the levels of threat and terror are raised, she is in that moment. I assume scenes weren't shot in order, but it's clear she knows exactly where Jaime is in the story in terms of the emotional rollercoaster. She brings gritty determination and adrenaline-fuelled focus and peppers scenes with an occasional grim humour as she spars with ALEX. As I said, many of the scenes are basically Jaime speaking to a disembodied voice, but she makes these scenes crackle with energy. The writing and presentation are gripping, genuinely suspenseful and claustrophobic, and so well-written it really holds up and transcends eras. If anything, it’s even more relevant today when smart technology is part of our everyday lives. In among this, Jaime also bonds with a Russian agent, from whom Jaime keeps her bionics secret for approximately thirty seconds after Oscar asks her to be extra careful to conceal them (well, it wouldn’t be a Bionic Woman episode if she didn’t needlessly out herself to at least one person). But any shortcomings are more than made up for in the final act, where the two of them share a moment of reflection about Elijah’s message of peace. This image is a message in itself. These episodes are essential Bionic Woman, with a story the scope of which feels far more epic and important than the genre and medium would have you think. </blockquote>

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