Exactly. There's a vast difference between this Jaime Sommers and the previous one. Disregarding their occupations, the original Jaime was more of a person than a series of cliched roles intended to drop her deeper and deeper into a big pool of angst. Was this Jaime happy about anything the entire pilot? At all? She was antagonized by her sister, intimidated by her boyfriend, uncomfortable at the thought of being pregnant, anguished at losing at the baby, pissed about being kept prisoner, anxious and upset about acquiring new abilities, and angry about the Sarah Corvis thing. There's no sense of humor there, no smiles, no occasional sarcasm. And granted, it's still the first episode and not a lot of good things happened to the poor woman, but for Christ's sake, why do I want to see her every week if she's going to mug all the goddamn time?
I mean, look at Lindsay Wagner's Jaime. She was smart, straight-forward, strong, with a great dry sense of humor. I don't get any of that with this Jaime. The most I got was someone else saying she was smart -- smarter than Miguel Ferrer's leader-of-the-team character -- but I saw no evidence in her behavior to show she really was.
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I mean, look at Lindsay Wagner's Jaime. She was smart, straight-forward, strong, with a great dry sense of humor. I don't get any of that with this Jaime. The most I got was someone else saying she was smart -- smarter than Miguel Ferrer's leader-of-the-team character -- but I saw no evidence in her behavior to show she really was.