You do realize that you're posting in the lj of a dropout factory worker, right?
True, but I'm not the least bit prepared to be implanted with bionics, either.
For me personally, the changes in Jaime's personal circumstances -- profession, family, etc. -- fail at their intended purposes. I'm guessing I was supposed to get behind Jaime for being an average random person, but I can't. Her greatest enemy is better trained, a professional soldier and possesses more bionics. As a normal person, she's at a ludicrous disadvantage and they haven't inspired me to want to root for her at all.
The original Jaime Sommers, as an athlete, at least had the physical know-how to understand better how her new body works. They can tell me all they want that this new Jaime is, while a dropout bartender, still smarter than everybody in the room, but they've yet to use her actions to convince me of that.
And the situation with her sister doesn't much make me want to side with her, either. At least when the sister was deaf I understood why they had such an uncomfortable relationship. Now she's just some twinkie-cute hacker with a criminal record and if Jaime's too freakin' stupid to figure out Becca's hiding a laptop out the window on the fire escape -- that'd be one of the first places I'd look, Jesus, didn't Jaime ever hide contraband in her room when she was a teenager? -- I don't even want to think about her trying to handle a major international sting operation or whatever.
Plus, the throwaway line about Jaime knowing kung fu because Will put a chip in her brain just ... NO. Show me she's smart and teach it to her.
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True, but I'm not the least bit prepared to be implanted with bionics, either.
For me personally, the changes in Jaime's personal circumstances -- profession, family, etc. -- fail at their intended purposes. I'm guessing I was supposed to get behind Jaime for being an average random person, but I can't. Her greatest enemy is better trained, a professional soldier and possesses more bionics. As a normal person, she's at a ludicrous disadvantage and they haven't inspired me to want to root for her at all.
The original Jaime Sommers, as an athlete, at least had the physical know-how to understand better how her new body works. They can tell me all they want that this new Jaime is, while a dropout bartender, still smarter than everybody in the room, but they've yet to use her actions to convince me of that.
And the situation with her sister doesn't much make me want to side with her, either. At least when the sister was deaf I understood why they had such an uncomfortable relationship. Now she's just some twinkie-cute hacker with a criminal record and if Jaime's too freakin' stupid to figure out Becca's hiding a laptop out the window on the fire escape -- that'd be one of the first places I'd look, Jesus, didn't Jaime ever hide contraband in her room when she was a teenager? -- I don't even want to think about her trying to handle a major international sting operation or whatever.
Plus, the throwaway line about Jaime knowing kung fu because Will put a chip in her brain just ... NO. Show me she's smart and teach it to her.