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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 258184" data-attributes="member: 23">The Return Of The Bionic Woman (Parts I and II) (continued)There’s a soapy new season/cliffhanger resolution tone to these episodes, as we flash back to Jaime’s death to learn that certain top secret events happened in its immediate aftermath of which we and Steve weren’t informed. As Oscar and Rudy leave the operating theatre, one of Rudy’s assistants, Dr Michael Marchetti bursts upon them urgently demanding to try his new cryogenic techniques on the clinically dead Jaime. After a perfunctory resistance, they relent (perhaps partially motivated by not raising questions about the face transplant Dr Wells apparently underwent at the same time as Jaime’s surgery). It’s all a little convenient but it gets Jaime back so I’ll take it. Still, this whole business is arguably an even greater violation of medical ethics than covertly fitting Jaime up with bionics in order to call in the debt. At least in that case Steve could technically be viewed as her next of kin who consented. At what point do medical scientists become modern day resurrectionists? Gifted as he may be, it does seem Dr Marchetti skipped university the day they did the Hippocratic Oath. Now now that he’s resurrected Jaime he’s being very sexually inappropriate, which raises questions about his motive for wanting to play around with her body in the first place. By the time Steve finds Jaime, she’s emotionally dependent on Dr Marchetti for whom kisses and promises of more to come are part of Jaime’s therapy. Leading to a soapy love triangle with Steve, not helped by Jaime’s soapy amnesia meaning she views him as a mentor and not a fiancé. Earlier on, Steve had threatened to tear Oscar and Rudy apart for not telling him about Jaime. Yet he is surprisingly pragmatic about the situation with Michael. Perhaps due to Michael being disarmingly up-front about his attraction to Jaime. There’s an element of Steve being grateful to Michael for bringing Jaime back, and respecting him as a man of science. But it’s a little surprising how much he lets Michael get away with. Michael’s motives in general are very difficult to read. His words say that he has Steve and Jaime’s best interests at heart. His actions say another. He tells Steve that Jaime is suffering from a typical patient infatuation with their doctor, yet he seems to do all he can to encourage - and perhaps even invite - this. He tells Steve that he won’t influence Jaime, but his kisses and his enabling her complete dependence on him say otherwise. And yet Michael is also very relaxed and supportive when Steve takes Jaime back to Ojai alone. Is he as good as his word? Or is he just supremely confident that Jaime needs him too much to even notice Steve. And does he also realise that spending time with Steve will cause her painful memories to return meaning that Steve himself will need to choose to step away? It’s all very ambiguous. Whatever the case, it’s Michael with whom Jaime ultimately rides into the sunset in his little red sports car. Mind you, Steve didn’t do himself any favours. It’s bad enough that Jaime’s first mission for OSI required her and Steve to skydive from a plane. Far from the ideal scenario for a team that’s working overtime to protect the fragile Jaime from remembering anything connected with her pre-death bionic days. Then, when the situation gives Jaime flashbacks to her accident and she panics at the thought of leaping into that situation again, Steve simply pushes her from the plane. Well, technically he kind of drags her out with him, but I’m not sure Jaime would split hairs over that detail. continued… </blockquote>

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