PainkillerJane - Episode 2 - Toy Soldiers - SciFi Channel

I watched the second episode of this series last nite, Toy Soldiers, and I gotta' say, I was a little disappointed. First of all Jane was never really in danger the whole episode. I mean yes she did cut her arm open, to watch it heal. And she was shot, with friendly fire. But only because she was standing in the way of the person that they wanted to shoot. So he shot, knowing that the bullet would go right through her. But overall, not very much action this episode at all. I do have to admit though that Kristanna Loken, who plays Jane, is pretty hot. And there's some pretty hot pictures of her if you Google her. But anyways, it just wasn't all that exciting of an episode. And I'm sorry, but if you don't keep that excitement going for the first couple of episodes, you're going to start losing viewers. This one was about a Neuro that had the power to animate the dead. He seems to be gathering in young, in shape, men, so they conclude that between that and the hits on the military installations, that the person behind this is attempting to build an army. They also conclude that with the President coming to town, that that's their target. Which is a little exciting. But the truth ends up being that the Neuro is a lonely adolescent boy who likes to play war with toy soldiers. When he finds out what he can do, he decides he's going to play with people instead of toys. And since they're already dead, he's not really hurting anybody. Right? Well eventually the team finds him . . . well really, Jane finds him. They stop him and Jane takes a bullet in the process. Like I said, not very exciting. This episode didn't seem a whole lot different than any other crime drama out there. The problem I see is that they can't show this girl trying to intentionally hurt herself every episode, and basically committing suicide every episode, because she knows she can't be hurt. The problem is there's some people out there that don't understand that this is just a TV show, and has no basis in reality. Someone may try to copycat. So, they're going to have to tame it down, quite a bit, from the book. Which, to be quite honest, is really the only edge that it has. Otherwise it seems like a cross between Alias and CSI. So in other words, if it goes down that path, nothing original. We'll see how the next couple of episodes play out. But I don't think this ones going to be around for a long time. And that really is a shame.