Painkiller Jane-Endgame

This was the season finale of Painkiller Jane.

We got a chance to see what happens when she finds out that her powers were not natural. They were given to her by this multibillion dollar researcher. All the people that they had been chasing are failed experiments of his.

Last week Jane was at NICO along with the rest of her team when suddenly she switched sides. She was taken over against her will and she started to help the inmates free themselves. Also, they were killing people. The problem was it came down to a show down between Jane and her team and they realized that they may have to kill her. But, how do you kill somebody, that no matter what you do to them, they heal and keep coming. Thank goodness they discovered that a portion of Jane’s brain was highly developed. They figured this was the portion that was being controlled by the researcher. They used high frequency light to disrupt her thought process and then they were able to subdue her. Now the way it was left, once they could subdue Jane they were able also to sabotage the link between Jane and the researcher so he could no longer communicate with her. But they did it in such a way that the researcher would have no idea that now he only sees what she wants him to see. Whenever Jane decides that she doesn’t want him to see she can concentrate and cut him off.

The nice thing about this is, the way the season ended, you figure out that they know they will be constantly surprised at the neuros they are going to have to catch. Eventually, they will have to catch the researcher.

There is a possibility that the show might be extended, because they do have a continuous villain. If you don’t have a good villain, you don’t have a good show.

I look forward to seeing Painkiller Jane hopefully next season.

Painkiller Jane-The Beast of Bolmar

This episode is about a small village that's not far from Nico which is the facility where all of the captured neuros are detained. There was a series of attacks between the hours of eight and nine at night. People are killed and clawed horribly to death and there is no sign of the actual killer. The killer doesn't seem to be human. How Jane and the group get involved is that one of the guys gets attacked by this thing. The leader of the group senses that it might be because of the nature of the attack that the neuros may be the cause of it. Ironically he's going to be right because they find out later on after they go through some things, Jane gets attacked. As a matter of fact all of them get attacked. At one point the beast could have killed Jane but it didn't. It left her alive. They realize something, that this thing, whatever it is seems to respond to different people in different ways. You find out later that there's a young boy who is an orphanage who has been adopted by the owner of this tabern, who is mean and kind of a rough guy. Because the boy is not really his he treats the boy horribly and there is a lot of built up anger. The boy is only twelve years old, but you get a clue when the owner of the tavern gets killed by the beast.

The beast comes into the tavern, knocks the doors down, drags him out and does not attack any one else and kills him. You start to figure out that obviously there's a tie between the boy and the tavern owner. It's only two people, himself and the boy that live together, so you figure it has to be the boy. Sure enough you find out that the boy is the son of one of the nueros that's kepted at Nico. She has been chipped so she is suppose to be harmless and she is. Apparently, she was pregnant when they brought her to Nico and she had the son. She passed down an ability to her son. The boy could only create this thing when he is in REM sleep. They figured out the best thing to do with him was to reunite him with his mother and solved the problem by chipping the boy.

They showed Jane's motherly side to let you know that inspite of her tough exterior, that she's just like any other woman on the inside. That is, that she has motherly instincts.

Take it easy everybody, I'm going to get a small snack and then maybe I'm sleep until next Friday.

Painkiller Jane - What Lies Beneath

By Bonehead Brooks


Painkiller Jane has gotten back into my good graces because the dream sequence was really tacky but, they made up for it. Now what has happen is we get to find out the true origin of Painkiller Jane and how she got her powers of regeneration. We find out that she is given her powers by this multibillionaire that actually owns the research company. We also find out that most of the people that they are chasing have been created by this same person. Then they find out that the neuros, (these are people with abilities that have been chasing them) are mistakes that this guy created and unleashed on the planet and they have been locking them up and putting them away. We also find out that Jane is under his influence and he is controlling her against her will.

This is a two part episode. Next week they are suppose to have a huge prison break in the area where they stored all of the neuros to keep society safe. All of them are going to be released presumably by Jane.

The writing this week was nice and crisp and I like this twist right now in the end. At least we understand where Jane’s powers come from. How do you get powers that bring you back from the dead?

Well this is it until the next time. In the meantime, I’m off to chow down, then find me a nice corner, curl up on a pillow and go to sleep.

Painkiller Jane - Thanks For The Memories

The writers painted themselves in a corner with this episode. It looked like they either ran out of money or realized too late that it was a bad plot so they used one of the most obvious escape routines in the book. You know, write yourself in a corner and then make it all a dream and that’s what they did.

By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.

Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.