Anybody watch "Bionic Woman" last night? Opinions? (Spoilers)

[NewJeffCT]

I thought it had potential, though I'm a bit confused on some of the characters, since it seemed to be invaded by refugees from Battlestar Galactica - Katie Sackhoff as the "1st" bionic woman, and then the guy that played Chief Tyrol seemingly showed up out of nowhere... my daughter was falling asleep, so I'll need to watch that part again, as the sound was a bit low at the time.

The actress playing Jamie Summers (Michelle Ryan) seemed pretty good. Not bad looking, though she seemingly went from angry & bitter to ass kicking do-gooder rather quickly. Did the guy playing her lover/boyfriend remind anybody else of Viggo Mortenson?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

1. I am ambivalent

I will probably watch it next week because I have the "feeling" the show may have something more to it. This new Jamie Summers has a lot more going on than the one from my past - I agree with you about how fast she flipped from "Oh no!!!!! I have really fast, perfect looking legs, a scary-strong arm, insane hearing and vision!!!! I want to die!!!! TO --- I will be your military tool ... BUT ONLY ON MY OWN TERMS!!!!"

Oh hell, I'll watch just to find out if the show improves or jumps the shark.

[LynneSin]

2. What you said

It seems like they took the plot-lines from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and changed "Vampire Slayer" into "Bionic Woman"

There is potential and I'll give it 1-2 weeks to see if the show is worth it. Anyhow it's a great filler between America's Next Top Model and Top Chef

[NewJeffCT]

5. Didn't even think about that

with Jamie Summers as Buffy and Sarah Corvis as Faith... Sackhoff certainly carried the Starbuck intensity into this role, too, though it seemed striking to me to see her in the bar with that bright red lipstick on - it really stood out to me.

[LynneSin]

6. And Jamie came with a little sister - didn't Buffy have one too?

:shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

7. Buffy's little sister

magically appeared in Season 5

[DS1]

3. I heard it was like the All Star BSG Revue

but I'll watch it tonight. I like the writing on BSG, and hope some of that carries over.

[u2spirit]

4. I watched the entire NBC fall preview

on on demand and IMO, it was the worst of the 4 shows. Chuck, Life and Journeyman being the others.

[NewJeffCT]

13. the preview for "Life"

that ran during Bionic Woman made it sound like an interesting premise.

[William769]

8. I have it recorded but have not seen it yet.

Will watch it this evening. I was a big fan of the show back in the 70's. I hope it's not a big let down.

[Orrex]

9. In a word, unremarkable

No surprises from start to finish IMO.

The effects were pretty good, but obviously they'd have to be if you're going to try a show like this in primetime. The acting was passable but likewise unremarkable.

One minor but pervasive complaint: everything had that sort of homogeneous "bluish" look, which strikes me as very lazy cinematography and without much impact here. Not sure why they did that, other than because it's basically the expected style now.

One other complaint, less minor (no spoilers AFAIK, because this information was available weeks ago): she's a parentless and single 24-year-old nightshift bartender who is delighted to discover that she's pregnant. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I've never known someone of similar financial circumstances who was likewise delighted by such news. I would like to have seen some horrified "what the hell am I going to do" introspection--not a lot of screentime, but enough at least to portray this very human response. Especially considering how it would resonate with her new "what the hell am I going to do" introspection regarding her new limbs, ear, and eye.


I probably won't watch again next week.

[ceile]

10. A tad boring, i thought.

But I will give a few more weeks.
It's just hard to watch Michelle Ryan w/ out hearing her horrible East Enders accent in the back of my head.

[AlCzervik]

11. i watched the pilot over the weekend and was unimpressed and bored.

i was disappointed because i wanted to like this show, hopefully they'll get different writers and save it.

[Deja Q]

12. The promo (recently found on youtube) says it all.

Poorly thought out and not worth anybody's time.


Looks like many people who responded felt similarly.

[flamingyouth]

14. I'm going to watch it on Sci-Fi on Friday.

(Just out of curiosity.)

Judging by the reactions here and elsewhere, though, I don't have high hopes. I do like Michelle Ryan; she was great in the BBC series "Jekyll."

[hunter]

15. I reviewed it, sort of, here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6966465&mesg_id=6972483

[TreasonousBastard]

16. It sucked rocks. OK,OK, I know that...

after Dark Angel, Buffy, Painkiller Jane, a few Immortals, Xena, and a whole host of other badass broads on teevee we can't have the sweet Jamie of Lindsay Wagner back again and noir is the taste now.

But, it doesn't have to be stupid.

Why Jamie Summers again? Didn't we have one of those already?

Why the hell is Katie Sakhoff so pissed? But she's not really serious about being pissed, is she? Hotshot first bionic woman they thought they killed off isn't very good at killing off her new enemies, is she? Can't shoot straight and newbie kicked her ass while not really knowing what her powers are yet. Come to think of it, what the hell was her plan with that truck-- just to see a new BW made? Sakhoff's invented a great character, and probably should be the star, but the people running the show don't know what the hell to do with her. She's credited as a guest, so they're planning on wrapping up her story soon. Too bad-- if they knew what to do with her, she's one hell of a character.

And Jamie herself freaks out when she wakes up but within a day or two is all badass and completely together about all this. And not a second's thought about the consequences of making a deal with the show's devil. All this is moving far too fast.

And what this about yet another Dark Gummint Conspiracy? Every season has one of these with gray suits chasing after the hero or heroine. They're supposed to be frightening, not funny. Ferrer can be brilliant as the bad guy, but I just can't take him seriously here.

All told-- great cast giving it their best shot with the lousy writing and production.

[NewJeffCT]

17. that's one thing that bothered me

Sackhoff was a trained soldier and has two bionic arms. Ryan was a bartender and only had one bionic arm, and it looked to me like Sackhoff nearly ripped her non-bionic arm off, and at least gave her a severe break... yet, this bartender with one bionic arm and one broken arm was kicking ass only seconds later, against a trained soldier with 2 bionic arms.

[Beetwasher]

18. Meh. That Last Scene Where She Threatens To Kill Everyone They Send After Her

if they come after her made me laugh... I didn't buy it and it came off real cheesy and badly acted. Otherwise it was passable and I'll give it a shot.

I also agree w/ the other comments about how she could hold her own against the first bionic woman. Makes no sense, but oh well, it's tv I guess.

Also, is the Miguel Ferrer (?) character supposed to be Oscar Goldman? I don't remember them mentioning his name.

[NewJeffCT]

22. The only reason I could think

that Jamie Summers started kicking ass was that since she was the 2nd bionic woman, her technology might be a bit more advanced because of what they learned installing bionics on Sarah Corvis.

[MilesColtrane]

19. The direction and acting were average.

Some of the dialogue was laughably bad, and the plotting was predictable and hackneyed.

Michelle Ryan is easy on the eyes though.

I'll give it another episode. If it doesn't improve, I'm out.

[NewJeffCT]

20. I'll probably watch a few more episodes

just to see if I can figure some of it out.

[qdemn7]

21. I thought it sucked....

I've watched Journeyman, Life and Bionic Woman all through Amazon Unbox / Tvio. Of the 3 Journeyman was the best. I give it an 8 on a scale of 1-10. Life is a 7. Bionic Woman was pretty bad. I only give it a 3. Don't see it lasting too long.

I'm 50 yrs old. I was in High School and College when the original series were on TV, so I can fairly judge them all.

The Six Million Dollar Man started as three 90 minutes Made-For-TV movies in 1973, based on novels by Martin Caidin. It then translated to a series. The Bionic Woman came along later, in 1976.

Both original series were quite good for their times. Sad to say, despite all the CGI graphics, 30 years of technological innovations, BSG cast, the NEW Bionic Woman is, in a word.....terrible.

So here goes:

Michelle Ryan is awful in this part. She seems to sleepwalk though it. She shows almost no emotion.

Some genius scientist takes his pregnant young twentyish girlfriend and sticks $50,000,000 worth of hardware on her, and no-one tries to stop it?

She wakes up from surgery and is fully functional? No rehab needed?

I can see the "unkillable" "other" Bionic "person" getting old quite quickly.

I'm sick and tired of the "single-parent" concept, or in this case, "older-sibling-as-parent" concept. Where, if you notice in both concepts, the MOTHER is always dead, the father is a nut, and the younger sibling is a troublemaker. Do any characters on TV have NORMAL family lives?? Or is that too hard for writers to write for?

So I might give BW a chance, but not much of one. As long as I have room on my Tivo, I'll probably watch it. But frankly, I don't see the series lasting much past 6-8 episodes.