Bionic Woman season 1 thread (1 Viewer)

[joshEH]

...And she even showed up on the Robot Chicken premiere last night (along with many of the other cast), in the "BSG vs. the FCC" sketch:

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

I like Katee but didn't care for her in Bionic Woman and think the character will get old real quick.

 

[Michael Reuben]

Wow, someone else saw that? Michelle Ryan was good in it, but the role didn't call for much. To get any sense of her range, you'd need to see a lot of episodes of the British series EastEnders, which is where she learned to act and got famous (at least in the U.K.).

The finished pilot (with the recast sister) is available to TiVo subscribers through Amazon Unbox. It's a little clunky, because it has to cover so much ground to set up the series. But I like all the openings they've left themselves for future development. I didn't think the pilot was any darker than the Alias pilot (in which, let's not forget, Sydney's fiance is murdered by her boss), but with Eick in charge, there's at least a good chance that the show won't deteriorate the way Alias quickly did.

M.

 

[JohnS]

I just watched the pilot episode.

I really enjoyed it. More then I thought I was going to.
There seems to be lots of possibilities with this show, I just hope it doesn't get run into the ground like Alias did.(which I liked at first, then got tired of VERY quickly)

And even though I watched a screener copy, I think this show looks good, and will look really good in HD

I also laughed at the Superman: The Movie moment when Jamie was
running really fast next to the little girl in the car, that commented on how fast she was running

 

[Jerome Grate]

My guess the pilot episode is on line or did I actually miss the showing on T.V.?

 

[TonyD]

pilot is "on demand HD" if ou have digital cable.

 

[Brian^K]

No Bionic Woman in HD On Demand, here in MA.

 

[DaveF]

Whew! I was afraid they showed it secretly and I missed it.

Bionic Woman is on my wife's and my list for the Fall. Heroes, Journeyman, and Bionic Woman should make a fun Fall TV season!

 

[Rocky F]

Don't forget Chuck, Reaper and Pushing Daisies.

 

[Ken Chan]

You can download it for free from Amazon, through their Unbox service. This is NBC's counter to iTunes.

 

[JohnS]

Which I just watched Chuck and Reaper, and they are both FANTASTIC!
I'm just about to watch Pushing Daisies.

This fall season is looking better and better

 

[Will_B]

There's a free rental DVD at Blockbuster that has the pilot episodes of Journeyman -- great! -- Chuck -- good! -- and Life -- no interest, I don't know how it is. There's also a preview for Bionic Woman but not a whole episode, because it was not done in time.

 

[pitchman]

It looks like I'm in the minority, but I didn't care for this pilot AT ALL!

IMO, the "reimagineering" of Bionic Woman to make it dark and moody only succeeds in making it dull and dreary. Not even the presence of the always excellent Miguel Ferrer could salvage this turkey for me.

It's T2 meets The Matrix, with a bit of Blade Runner thrown in for good measure and it all comes across as one giant genre cliche after another.

Man, what a letdown! Count me out.

This may have looked good on paper, but whatever was on the printed page that excited the NBC brain-trust, sure as hell didn't make it to the small screen...

After seeing this, my Wednesday night viewing schedule just got a whole lot easier to manage.

As always, YMMV, but for me personally, Bionic Woman is a big old D-O-G!

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

I have to agree, dull and dreary. Can' see people wanting to go to this dark place each week. It's as murky as Battlestar Galactica, which I like, but it just goes to show you people don't like depressing every week.
This show needs to lighten up or it will be gone by January.

 

[David Forbes]

I watched the preview on Comcasat's On Demand and I will also chime in that I was underwhelmed. I'll watch maybe one or two more, but I really didn't find too much to like.

 

[Glenn Overholt]

If it is as dark as I'm seeing, I won't watch anything past the pilot either. Why do they have to keep on doing this crap?

After all, it isn't a reality show!

Glenn

 

[Will_B]

For the contrast! You need the darkness for the effort of the heroes to be heroic. Look at 24 or Heroes -- they both typically involve having an entire city at risk of being destroyed.

 

[Dave Scarpa]

God she was the worst part of thief, the show was pretty decent she was horrible

 

[Marty M]

It's interesting how the scenario for this Bionic Woman is the complete opposite of the original BW, where in the original she is working for the government, and in the new series she is running away from the "evil" government. It will be interesting to see how long this show will last.

 

[Scott-S]

I just watched the pilot episode.

Like most people here, I really don't like the "evil lab" aspect. I would really have prefered they had Jamie work for the government.