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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 258661" data-attributes="member: 23">The Deadly Missiles / Bionic Beauty continuedJ.T. turns out to be a noble, quietly heroic character. So much so that he’s privileged with Jaime revealing her bionics to him. In fact, he’s the first person outside of the Elgins to be given this information voluntarily rather than stumbling upon it. The scene in which Jaime tells him appears to be the first in which there’s “coming out” dialogue around it. Back in the SMDM episode The Bionic Woman Part II, Steve telling Helen about his bionics was done very effectively by alternating flashbacks to Steve’s accident with Helen’s reaction, all of which was free of dialogue, with dramatic music playing over the scene. So when in this episode Jaime takes a deep breath before asking J.T. if he’s heard of bionics it feels very exciting and a little dangerous. Jaime being compromised by her malfunctioning bionic leg after taking an electric shock was a nice touch. This kind of technology having limitations which can cause difficulty at crucial times has so much more dramatic potential than 100% reliability, and I love that consideration is given to this. This malfunction gave us the first look at the chips and wires in her leg (albeit we never saw Jaime and the gaping bionic leg in the same shot). And it was J.T. who got to work soldering away. It seems risky, to say the least. But needs must. While Steve appeared a fair bit in The Deadly Missiles, they were compartmentalised, with each doing their thing in different places. No doubt this was partially to entice viewers to watch until the very end to see them together. While some may be disappointed that there was no real bionic team up with them working together (a trend of all the crossovers since this series got underway), their eventual scenes together in the denouement were worth sticking around for on the bionic romance front. As I remember it, their romance had fizzled out into friendship in Welcome Home Jaime. But here they were straight back into romance without any kind of awkwardness. This is the most smoochy they’ve been since The Bionic Woman two-parter that introduced Jaime. It almost felt like a retcon. Or at the very least as though I’d missed a significant turning point in their relationship along the way.Still, not was worth it for some nice bionic innuendo from Steve to Jaime:And that’s just the beginning. In Bionic Beauty, we get to see just how good a job has been done with Jaime’s bionic parts as she wears a swimsuit without so much as a seam showing. continued...</blockquote>

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