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There is no significance to the title above. It just sounded funny at the moment.
Anyway, the pilot
The Good (TG): It looks like it will be all right.
The Less Good (TLG): It doesn't look like the giant hit NBC was promising. But hey, it's just the pilot.
TG: The new Jamie looks like Stockard Channing.
TLG: She doesn't look enough like a young Stockard Channing, or enough like a young Lindsey Wagner or enough like any athletic young woman for that matter. They need to work on her posture mostly. It's not good standing still at times, and it made the speed-ups look funny instead of amazing once or twice.
TG: Her sister looked like her sister.
TLG: I really don't like comic-book-style presentations. The introduction of the original Bionic Woman on the Six Million Dollar Man worked well, because it took time and there was genuine emotional impact. There was an emotional cost. In this new version the elements are there. But the time frame is so squashed that it's all trivialized. "Eek, I'm a freak! ... Whew, sorry about that. I feel better now." "Oh, I lost my baby. Shucks, better luck next time!" "Now that I'm up and have decided to pass on therapy to get my coordination up so I don't tear myself to pieces, I think I'll run away at 40 miles an hour!" You can easily imagine that enough time passed and enough tears were shed by all. But the comic-book, move-on-to-the-next-panel style just didn't allow for that to be felt by the audience.
TG: I like the idea of the Bionic Barmaid vs the Bionic Bad Girl
TLG: My boy friend is a surgeon who cuts people up without their permission and his dad is an even bigger wacko. I think the distance between Steve Austin and the surgeons in the original made everything sound a lot less insane.
TLG and TG: The shady-government-operations thing worked better a few days ago in the pilot of Chuck, but it was a lot less confusing in BW.
The interesting: There might be connections to Arizona with the writers. Florence, AZ (not CA) has a distressing number of prisons. Sonora is a name you hear all the time here, like Baja in California, and for the same reasons. Regrettably, I don't know of a Sonora Pass.
Bottom line: I'm pleased enough with BW to keep watching.
Anyway, the pilot
The Good (TG): It looks like it will be all right.
The Less Good (TLG): It doesn't look like the giant hit NBC was promising. But hey, it's just the pilot.
TG: The new Jamie looks like Stockard Channing.
TLG: She doesn't look enough like a young Stockard Channing, or enough like a young Lindsey Wagner or enough like any athletic young woman for that matter. They need to work on her posture mostly. It's not good standing still at times, and it made the speed-ups look funny instead of amazing once or twice.
TG: Her sister looked like her sister.
TLG: I really don't like comic-book-style presentations. The introduction of the original Bionic Woman on the Six Million Dollar Man worked well, because it took time and there was genuine emotional impact. There was an emotional cost. In this new version the elements are there. But the time frame is so squashed that it's all trivialized. "Eek, I'm a freak! ... Whew, sorry about that. I feel better now." "Oh, I lost my baby. Shucks, better luck next time!" "Now that I'm up and have decided to pass on therapy to get my coordination up so I don't tear myself to pieces, I think I'll run away at 40 miles an hour!" You can easily imagine that enough time passed and enough tears were shed by all. But the comic-book, move-on-to-the-next-panel style just didn't allow for that to be felt by the audience.
TG: I like the idea of the Bionic Barmaid vs the Bionic Bad Girl
TLG: My boy friend is a surgeon who cuts people up without their permission and his dad is an even bigger wacko. I think the distance between Steve Austin and the surgeons in the original made everything sound a lot less insane.
TLG and TG: The shady-government-operations thing worked better a few days ago in the pilot of Chuck, but it was a lot less confusing in BW.
The interesting: There might be connections to Arizona with the writers. Florence, AZ (not CA) has a distressing number of prisons. Sonora is a name you hear all the time here, like Baja in California, and for the same reasons. Regrettably, I don't know of a Sonora Pass.
Bottom line: I'm pleased enough with BW to keep watching.
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People bemoan the original series with Lindsey Wagner as being silly - but I wonder sometimes if they actually watched it? The original set-up was in some respects far more feminist than the current one. Wagner's charater unlike Ryan's, was an educated, pro-athelet, and sucessful in her own right. She wasn't just Steve Austin's girlfriend. She was a professional and well-known tennis champion and very atheletic - which lended believability to her quick rehabilitation (not nearly as quick as Michelle Ryan's which appears to happen in five seconds). And she does not forgive Steve for rebuilding her right off the bat, it causes a major rift in their relationship. She is particularly and justifiably upset with him - because he knew what they were doing to her, what it meant, because he went through it. How, she asks, can you let that happen to me?
This version lacks that emotional impact.
I'll continue watching it for now, but unlike BSG, I think I prefer the original Bionic Woman to the new version. It was more believable and made me care more about the characters. This one feels very "comic booky" and not in a good way. Focusing far too much on the girl-on-girl fight sequence and not enough on the characters themselves.