I think I’ve finally given up on NBC’s new fall television show Bionic Woman. It’s just too stupid. Not the concept, but the execution. I was a big fan of The Six Million Dollar Man when I was a kid, but then again, what kid wasn’t? I don’t remember watching that show’s spin off and this show’s predecessor the original Bionic Woman. I don’t need to have ever watched it to know that it was better then this show is.
It bothers me to admit this show stinks because I really had high hopes for it. There is something about the concept of a bionic woman that trumps the concept of a bionic man. It’s interesting to see the supposed weaker sex be able through the power of bionics to kick some major ass. In The Six Million Dollar Man, the main charactor Steve Austin (played by manly man Lee Majors) already looked as though he could more then take care of himself in a physical altercation. The addition of bionics only added to his already perceived physical strengths. You might not guess that Steve Austin could pick up a custom van, but you probably had an idea that he wasn’t a weakling.
With a bionic woman, you wouldn’t guess that she was strong, let alone super bionic strong. She doesn’t look like she could open a jar of pickles, let alone pick someone up off their feet and throw them 30 feet.
The problem with this show is that they have gone too far with making her look the part of the dainty female.
They constantly have the title character Jamie Sommers (played by British actress Michelle Ryan) wearing high heeled boots. They then put her into one physical altercation after another. The only thing more ridiculous looking then a woman running in high heels is a bionic woman running 60 miles an hour in high heels.
The show is called the Bionic Woman, not the Bionic Lady.
But it has chicks fighting! And Starbuck with fat red lipstick!
The trailer park down the street from me has chicks fighting, too, but I’m not scrambling to watch that, either.
Really? Sloofus told me you earn extra spending money for comics by holding the spit bucket at those trailer park girl fights.
I don’t like to brag, but, yeah, I’ve held a spit bucket or two.
your points are all good. my biggest problem with it is that she’s only strong sometimes. when she can leap from building to building, wouldn’t one of her kicks to the gut do more than knock the wind out of you? and ryan is just so boring compared to katie sackhoff.