So I watched the new "reimagined" Bionic Woman pilot that popped on On Demand and all I can say is there wasn't a single thing in it to really make me want to watch a series.
The visual production design of the do-no-wrong almighty Battlestar Galactica is all over this thing, and they've gone so far as to even cast two BG regulars in it.
But is was just so boring really.
The look of the pilot, from the Caprica Vancouver location shots to even the font style used for titles just looks too much like BG. There were some pretty bad visual effects too.
Maybe they did it on the extreme cheap to get it made and before an audience of possible buyers but I can't see myself watching more than a few episodes of it.
Even in this fictional world, the premise of how Jaime Sommers gets the implants just doesn't ring true to me.There's just too much that just "happens" and I don't feel that I even care to know why it happens now.
Now of course, for a new teen generation of geek losers, especially girls, this show may have some minor appeal. The pilot definitely seems to simultaneously go after several disparate demographics.
Due to copyright and licensing issues, the removal of this source material from the world of Steve Austin also blemishes it a bit for me.
Sure, the target audience probably has zero clue who Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman, and Rudy Wells are but I really would have liked Jaime tied to a modern version of her original roots.
Oh well. It it becomes serialized and not episodic I may be drawn to it but otherwise I don't think it hold much for me.
And that's ok.
I'm going to have a shit load of home work to do in the near future anyway.
Watching TV is just a distraction from real life matters.
And yes, the crack is too.
Uh. . .
Having watched it too, I think you're completely ignoring the thing they think will make it continuously appealing, which was whoever Jaime Summers was played by fighting Katee Sackhoff in the rain at the end. Only problem being they can't name the series "Wet Bionic Girlfights" or everyone will think they're watching Fox. But yes, by and large, it was very boring. They've already changed the showrunner, which is usually a bad sign but not always.
What's a washed out WWF wrestler got to do with all this?
I forgot this was on last night. I was distracted by Miami Vice: New Orleans, aka K-Ville. (yeah yeah, "New Orleans Vice," but that's not as funny. Kind of like CSI: Miami.)
It was SO Miami Vice-like, it even climaxed with the bad guy trying to get away in a helicopter. I told my wife "If they shoot the fucking thing down with handguns, this will be my new favorite show." Instead, "Crockett" just runs under the helicopter and attaches a chain to the helicopter's landing struts, which prevents the helicopter from getting more than about 20 feet in the air. That was even better.
MY GOD! It's Zoe Slater from EastEnders!
M.
So, the Bionic Woman remake has NOTHING to do with the original, at all? Wow, that makes me a billion times less interested in it. The only thing they coulda done to hook me would have been having Lee Majors show up.
-hx
Hoop: Nope. All the Six Million Dollar Man character rights are tied to the rights of the Cyborg novel that served as the source material. Jaime Summers is an original, but obvious derivative of just the TV show and not the novel so she's fair game.
There are some characters in this that are obvious parallels, Miquel Ferrer playing one that is psuedo-Oscar Goldman.
No connection to the original series? Dammit, I was hoping for Bionic Bigfoot, or the return of the evil Venus space probes.