Bionic Woman

[ROBOTRON]

Being an old fart from the 70's, I watched a lot of tv. One of my fav shows was The Six Million Dollar Man. It was a show about astronaut Col. Steve Austin testing out a new spaceship (resembling a space shuttle) which crash landed nearly killing him. Needless to say they (The U.S. Government) decided to rebuild him and a guy named Oscar Goldman sent him on all kinds of government missions to do all kinds of impossible shit. A few seasons later, He later fell in love with Jamie Sommers...a famous tennis player who had a terrible parachuting accident in which she broke her legs, ear and eye, etc. Heartbroken, Steve Austin begged Oscar to robotize her too so he wouldn't lose her. Needless to say, they sent her on all kinds of missions too. They even faked her death for awhile.

Okay...its now 2007. Imagine this milk. A bunch of tv executive types sitting around brainstorming about what to release this fall. One guy says, "we're getting killed by shows like Smallville" and "Heroes" and shit...lets do something like that". Another guy says..."hey, I got an idea, remember The Bionic Man?" "Retro is pretty hot right now, lets do that!" Another guy..."Lets skip Steve Austin all together...lets make it some hot chick the bionic woman....no lets make two bionic women and make it a cat fight!!!!" RAWR! Great idea! Lets do it! We can put the chicks in tight jeans and kick in a few alternative rock tunes and we've got a hit!

*applause is heard and coffee is sipped in background*

Ok, enough of my melodramatic ranting...the show is pure FAIL. I didn't like it. They completely skipped over poor Steve Austin and went for the sex appeal first. They even had the nerve to do a peter parker/spiderman roof jump...how copycat can you get? Reality shows suck, game shows suck, tv in general sucks.

sigh. neutral

Rate 4/10 FAIL.

[Anal Kaboom]

Well the trailer was riddled with fail. What more could you expect? I didn't even bother watching thanks for the insight though.

[AaronChance]

They should have done a live action Ghost in the Shell instead.

[haohmaru]

Being an old fart from the 70's, I watched a lot of tv. One of my fav shows was The Six Million Dollar Man. It was a show about astronaut Col. Steve Austin testing out a new spaceship (resembling a space shuttle) which crash landed nearly killing him. Needless to say they (The U.S. Government) decided to rebuild him and a guy named Oscar Goldman sent him on all kinds of government missions to do all kinds of impossible shit. A few seasons later, He later fell in love with Jamie Sommers...a famous tennis player who had a terrible parachuting accident in which she broke her legs, ear and eye, etc. Heartbroken, Steve Austin begged Oscar to robotize her too so he wouldn't lose her. Needless to say, they sent her on all kinds of missions too. They even faked her death for awhile.

Okay...its now 2007. Imagine this milk. A bunch of tv executive types sitting around brainstorming about what to release this fall. One guy says, "we're getting killed by shows like Smallville" and "Heroes" and shit...lets do something like that". Another guy says..."hey, I got an idea, remember The Bionic Man?" "Retro is pretty hot right now, lets do that!" Another guy..."Lets skip Steve Austin all together...lets make it some hot chick the bionic woman....no lets make two bionic women and make it a cat fight!!!!" RAWR! Great idea! Lets do it! We can put the chicks in tight jeans and kick in a few alternative rock tunes and we've got a hit!

*applause is heard and coffee is sipped in background*

Ok, enough of my melodramatic ranting...the show is pure FAIL. I didn't like it. They completely skipped over poor Steve Austin and went for the sex appeal first. They even had the nerve to do a peter parker/spiderman roof jump...how copycat can you get? Reality shows suck, game shows suck, tv in general sucks.

sigh. neutral

Rate 4/10 FAIL.

I was a fan of both of those old shows but have no interest in this.

Watch the show on Mondays with that dude from Rome instead. It's on Fox @ 10PM.

[dave is ok]

Journeyman also sucked.

Fuck everyone trying to make "teh next HEROES" with all this scifi shit. NBC is the worst offender, we dont need a whole night of hour-long sci-fi shows. We do however need a full a night of comedy, leave Thursday how it is kthx

[Dolemite]

Hollywood's been remaking every movie ever made for a few years now. It was aonly a matter of time before TV started doing it. I'll bet we'll start seeing more and more old shows getting the treatment real soon.

BTW, how is Jamie's surrounding flesh strong enough to support the strength of her bionic implants? I mean, what keeps her arms and legs from just tearing off her body?

she better fight bigfoot or I'm not watchin

Maskatron and the Venus Probe imo.

[Thief Silver]

I forget what they're called but I would assume the nano living thingamajigers inside her that help her regenerate would do so. But yeah there's really nothing on Wed, I may give this show one more week and then go back to playing video games for another hour in the night.

[Anal Kaboom]

You're a trooper.

[stormy]

This show sucked. I expected better from the BSG crew. I don't actually mind that the main character is a girl, but she's not hot enough to carry the show. She's not even likable really, and the single sister/mother angle is crappy. SFX sucked. The jump scene wasn't just from Spiderman, it reminded me more of the Matrix. Either way it was definitely a straight rip.

Big Bang Theory was a shitty show too. It's like they have no clue at all what is actually good. The networks will just throw on anything.

[YellerDog]

They should have done a live action Ghost in the Shell instead.

I would love to see this, actually.