Bionic Woman

Bionic Woman episode 1.06 “The List” had two good fight scenes.

The first scene involves Jaime Sommers and Jae Kim sparing at Berkut HQ workout room.

Best Line:  Jaime - “You know what I love most? Being referred to as a weapon.”

The second fight scene involves Jaime Sommers and CIA agent Tom busting into a room to capture Victor Booth, played by guest star Callum Keith Rennie, and retrieving the stolen list of CIA operatives.

Best Line:  No words, all action!

Bionic Woman episode 1.05, “The Education of Jaime Sommers,” really only had one fight scene.  There was one brief scuffle with a guy trying to attack Jaime, but it hardly counts and I’m not even going to bother posting it.

The set up:

Jaime has been sent undercover as a college student to investigate the black market sale of advanced microchips that once implanted in a person, can actually be used to turn them into killing “Manchurian Candidates”.  The chips were created by a world renewed expert in Parkinson’s Disease.

The fight scene erupts while Jaime and crew move in to stop the bad guys from getting away with the microchip.  Jaime, CIA agent Tom and Antonio Pope all work to take the bad guys down.

Bionic Woman episode 1.04, “Face Off,” had one cool action sequence that is fun to watch.  There is one at the beginning of the episode but this one is better.

The set up:

Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers and Isaiah Washington as Antonio Pope have flown to Paraguay to rescue from terrorists a CIA agent in possession of proprietary Berkut Group data on bionics.  After escaping from their captors, Sommers and Pope disagree how to handle the CIA agent (Pope wants to kill him) and she and the agent ditch Pope and make their escape out of the warehouse.  However, Sommers is outflanked by the terrorists and her only way to reach their exit point is to leap across the warehouse using ductwork as “stepping stones”.  It really is a fantastic scene.  See if you can hear the subtle use of bionic sound effects.  I personally wish there were more.

If you like the stunt, the a link to the filming of the stunt is after the jump.

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Episode 1.04, “Face Off” didn’t have quite as much action as last week’s episode, but the two major fight scenes were great.

My pick of the week for the best sequence actually isn’t the longest, but the most clever.  It involves Jaime Sommers and Anthony Pope escaping from terrorists holding them captive at an undisclosed location in Paraguay.  They have flown there to rescue a CIA agent in possession of encrypted data about Sommers and the Berkut Group’s bionics research.  The scene is fun because Michelle Ryan’s Sommers is tied up and fights the guys literally with her hands tied behind her back.

The second fight scene is fun because we see Sommers get into a brawl with Anthony Pope.  Pope has just tried to assassinate the CIA agent he and Sommers were sent to rescue and protect.  Once Pope realizes the operative has compromised the Berkut Group’s bionic secrets, he deems him untrustworthy and collateral damage to the bionic cause.  Jaime refuses to trade her life for his.  She kicks Washington’s Pope’s ass.  As Rob over at coolscifi.com explains, “it is cool see a bigot get the crap beat out of him.”  Yeah, Rob, we agree.

Video after the jump.

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Bionic Woman episode 1.03, “Sisterhood,” had the most fight scene action per episode minute to date.  Of course, all involved Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers using her bionic strength and Krav Maga training.

My favorite scene involves Jaime Sommers battling Serbian terrorists trying to abduct the daughter of a Canadian businessman.  Sommers has been tasked to baby sit the teenage brat.  The scene takes place in a nail salon, but just before the bad guys show up, Katee Sackhoff’s character Sarah Corvus shows up and eventually lends a hand.

Episode:  1.03 - “Sisterhood”

Duration:  1.35 minutes

Characters:  Jaime Sommers, Sarah Corvus and Serbian Terrorists

Winner:  Sommers and Corvus

Deaths:  1

Best Line:  Sarah Corvus:  “Rock, paper, scissors for the last guy?”

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The second episode of Bionic Woman had two fight scenes.  The first, and this week’s winner, involved Jae Kim and Jaime Sommers sparing and Kim teaching Sommers to integrate her super strength with her feminine strength.  I liked the fight scene and the editor’s use of last week’s best fight scene winner between Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Corvus and Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers integrated with the sparring match between Sommers and Kim.

The second fight scene between Sommers and the military terrorist was pretty standard fare, but interesting because the soldier appeared to have some bionics himself.  However, this was never mentioned in the episode.

The production value on Bionic Woman is fantastic and fight scenes like this week’s winner will keep me watching for them alone.  Here’s this week’s winner.

Episode:  1.02 - “Paradise Lost”

Minutes Into Show: 24

Duration:  2 3/4 minutes

Characters:  Jaime Sommers & Jae Kim

Winner:  Sommers

Deaths:  None

Best Line:  Jae Kim:  “You think just because you have machines inside you, that’s enough; you’re invincible.  The machine is nothing without the women.”

Last week’s premiere episode of Bionic Woman, “Second Chances,” was a rockin’ good time, due greatly to the rainy rooftop fight scene between Michelle Ryan’s Jaime Sommers and Katee Sackhoff’s Sarah Corvus.

In three minutes the scene managed to serve up character development, bionic technology explanations, show off cool moves, quips, sex appeal and a healthy serving of good old fashioned fun. We can’t wait for the next match up between these two, which will hopefully be on Wednesday night in episode two!

Hands down, this week’s best fight scene is this well choreographed rooftop battle between the two powerful bionic women, as they test their technology and forge the pattern of their future relationship with each rainy blow.

Episode:  1.01 - “Second Chances”

Minutes Into Show:  53

Duration:  3 minutes

Characters:  Jaime Sommers & Sarah Corvus

Winner:  Draw

Deaths:  None

Best Line:  “Not to be too mellow dramatic about the whole thing, I’m Sarah Corvus, the first Bionic Woman.  Ta Da.”