Bionic Woman season 1 thread

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http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Bionic_Woman/

Old news, at least a couple of weeks old.
It was announced at the NBC upfronts about 3 weeks ago, it will air on Wednesday nights at 9/8c this fall.

It's produced by Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick.

Also, if you're interested in the rest of the new fall shows and schedules, check out this thread:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...d.php?t=256507

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Wow, in the most positive sense of the word.

As a Battlestar Galactica fan, I am thrilled to see one of the producers of Galactica is behind this. That he casts some of his friends in this is the icing on the cake.

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Seen pics of the girl, shes really cute

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Without seeing much more than a 30 second tease, this is the new show I am most looking forward to. Add this to my list of NBC shows.

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It's a little weird seeing the girl from "Two guys, a girl, and a pizza place" as the Bionic Woman. I guess those hot-oven incidents can be quite dangerous.

But the previews are intriguing.

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You mean Traylor Howard? She's on "Monk" these days. Michelle Ryan was on an UK soap for quite a while, though.

I still think it's interesting that the last Bionic Woman on TV was Sandra Bulloch.

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I saw a shorter preview a little while back and it looked interesting, and this longer preview makes it look even more interesting.

Cool to see Starbuck as the "first bionic woman". I wonder if they'll eventually work an astronaut named Steve Austin into the story. That would be fun.

I'll definitely be checking this out.

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I do. I was mistaken. The preview still looks interesting.

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Looks good but I'll wait and see. I remember foundly the original Bionic Woman TV series and the 3 6 Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman TV movies. They were great for thier time and even wraped everything up in the movies with the wedding.

The REAL bad part is their casting of her "teen" sister. She looks much older than the bionic woman actress and I thought was pathetic from the clips. I also don't think the show needs to deal with the whole teenage angst thing like so many kid shows. Make it hard hitting for adult viewers and dump the teen crap. Just look at how much better shows like 24 were when they got rid of the idiot teen type character of his daughter.

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The kid sister is "Anne" from "Arrested Development", and also a bit annoying from her stint on "Thief" as the daughter that Andre Braugher's character got saddled with in the short mini-series.

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For a moment I thought she was Kelly Osborne. Ha!

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i recently saw a screener of this and it is not going to make it on network t.v. period. they use a few of the contemporary battlestar galactica cast in the pilot.

if bsg couldn't make it this definitely is not going to make it on network t.v. corny special effects. thin acting skills. wtf moments abound. sci-fi channel material for sure. national network material, i think not.



if the screener i saw hit airwaves it will be cancelled as fast as drive was. perhaps they are still working on it but what i saw seemed like a finished product.

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Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

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New to this thread and new to the fact that they are remaking this. I am surprised, didn't know about it. Saw the NBC website and preview there.

Looks like a reimaging again. Where's Oscar Goldman? I guess they have a new organization that rebuilt her.

I don't watch NBC and I haven't seen Heros, which I plan to when the DVD's come out. This looks like NBC is pinning it's hopes towards some more Sci-fi genre material. Does seem odd without Steve Austin.

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This is one of the new series I'm most looking forward to in the fall. I liked what I saw in the previews, especially the way they seem to be using the overall premise as a means through which to explore a young woman coming of age in today's more chaotic world, sort of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer metaphor with the protagonist a few years older.

And Katee Sackoff was looking deliciously psychotic in the scenes they show of her.

Also, Heroes season 2 looks to be an improvement on one; shorter story arcs, and with the spinoff Origins series being used for fill ins, no or very few reruns.

But hey, I'm a Sci-Fi and comic book nerd, so shows like this get the benefit of the doubt with me.

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Not to derail this thread too much, but in addition to the Bionic Woman and second season of Heroes (not to mention Medium, which returns in January) NBC also has an action/comedy called Chuck and time travel drama Journeyman bookending Heroes on Monday nights this fall, making for a very sci/fi filled schedule for a broadcast network.

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Apparently...

The deaf sister is out and replaced by a younger-looking sister without the hearing problems.

There's meant to be some sexual tension between the two bionic womans on the show.

The show looks interesting but apart from Michelle Ryan and Miguel Ferrer as boss, the casting seems uninspired, especially Chris Bowers (a Juan-Carlos Ferrero look-a-like) as the doc/love-interest.

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When is this supposed to air?

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Wednesday nights at 9/8C starting September 26 on NBC.

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Take your pick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0j9Zu_4pw4

or


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi-ZXe4vx-k

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For those that have seen the premiere ep.. or have seen "28 Days Later"

There is that song in it.. has a very nine inch nails feel to it, though I don't think it's NiN... anyone know what that is?

(and it's not that obscure the song plays repeatedly.. and is the big song of both as an industrial-metal-instrumental)

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Thanks, will definitely be checking this out.

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Ungh - this looks DREADFUL. It's. . . . domestic! Give me the good old seventies where Jamie would fight like Ninja and Fembots and enemy spies in vaugely eastern Europe countries. None of this getting in touch with your inner feelings bullshit.

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I recently saw a screener of this and even in its rough form (with temp music from 28 Days Later and Babel) and some unfinished scenes and unfinished effects, I can say with great satisfaction that Bionic Woman is every bit as excellent as the preview was promising.

The special effects that were finished were striking (but you already know that from the preview). The acting range from the lead is, thank goodness, excellent. With the great emotional range of Michelle Ryan, this could be bigger than, say, Alias (which was hampered a bit by a narrow acting range). I also was really pleased to see that Katee Sackhoff has wonderful line deliveries -- since I'd only seen her in Battlestar I honestly did not know if she could play other characters. Indeed she can. And it is wonderful to see her as a villain. The rest of the cast, aside from the lead's love interest, didn't appear much, so we'll have to see more before we know how they gel.

Though some have said this show would be safer if it was on the Sci-Fi channel, I think that networks have learned from shows like Battlestar Galactica and Heroes that when a producer has a passion for an imaginative series, the audience will love it if the producer is given a free hand. I think if NBC stays out of the way, and lets Bionic Woman be as gritty as Battlestar, they will have a hit in the kind of demographic that has eaten up shows like Battlestar and Heroes.

The pilot episode of Bionic Woman is gritty, with a bit more gore than I expected from a network show -- and that is a good thing since it suggests the network is staying out of the way. Though it does have the network television convention of people in hospital beds still wearing lipstick and makeup, so maybe they have their hand in it a bit.

I can hardly wait to see the finished version. This show is going to be a hit.

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i tried watching the episode but could only get about half way. uggh. maybe in hi-def it'll be better. the show had a very Alias-type vibe.

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Dude, Jamie Sommers in the 1970s was sensitive too. Jamie lived in the country, petted horsies, and had a bionic dog for heaven's sakes. That was how sensitivity was portrayed back then -- by evoking a "John Denver" kind of vibe. Today, they evoke it with friction between characters, people crying and getting their arms broken. It's a rougher kind of world.

But I do agree with you about fembots. It wouldn't be the Bionic Woman without fembots. And if they have to give a nod to Austin Powers by saying "You mean they're fembots, like, Elizabeth Hurley?" that's ok.

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I sort of agree with what you said and also with the other poster. This has WAY too much goo in it like the other poster said and I also said in another post I HATE the lady playing her younger sister. For crying out loud, she looks older than the bionic woman plus the whole teenage angst vibe is getting REALLY old. I mean we all know what teenage years are like, but not everyone that was a teenager went though the weaping, emotional rollercoaster B.S. that so many T.V. shows love to portray.

If they make Bionic Woman hard hitting, action, some romance and more comic book like with fembots and other threats like that then count me in. The first show from what I've seen was very mixed and I would have to vote thumbs down unless they change it like most people want to see done.

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as i have stated before, this is a big thumbs down for me too. after seeing the pilot i can't understand how this would succeed when really good shows like battlestar galactica, firefly and john doe didn't.

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I hear you, but I think the removal of that character was a mistake. I have yet to see the character they replaced her with, but evidently people agreed it was just too much sentimentality to have a deaf sister.

But as for the other angst, I don't see it. I may have to use a spoiler here...

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Plus I kinda like that kind of drama, so, that's my bias. I knew the Galactica producers like having characters who are having difficulty adjusting, so I can see why they (or one of them) felt they'd be able to portray Jamie Sommers in a way that would honor the fact that her life just got seriously diverted down a different path. That said I see the risk of the show becoming unduly sentimental if the network tries to dumb it down. It needs to be creepy, and the pilot had that element.

I am honestly extremely surprised that people aren't liking the show. I thought it was a slam dunk for anyone who liked shows like Galactica (and Diallo, Firefly is one of my favorites too -- certainly the similarity of Jamie Sommers to Summer Glau's character River on Firefly must have some similar appeal? Both teenage (er, 24 year old) women with superhuman abilities...).