Thursday, Jul 26, 2007
Big Summer isn't it? I haven't been around much, obviously, but I still keep looking at what is happening on the site and to everyone, by reading your blogs. So, last year I wrote a couple or reviews for all the new shows I had seen, but now, it's time to do it for this year.
This is the time of the year when we are a little bit excited about all those new shows. Personally, I'm always more excited one week before the show officially begins on TV. But right now is also the time when the network are sending the new shows to their station so that the people over there can watch them and leak them on the internet.
The original "Bionic Woman" wasn't the best thing on TV, but it was interesting at least. The new "Bionic Woman" certainly isn't going to break any record in audiences unless big changes happens. Not so long ago SCIFI Network "Painkiller Jane" premiered. I never hidden the fact that I wasn't a fan of that show because I thought the acting, casting and stories were bad. Now, I'm not hidden my feeling for "Bionic Woman." Don't get me wrong, I Love when shows are produced in Vancouver, Canada but we have talent over there that isn't used.
"Bionic Woman" uses a simple network plan. "Cut the budget and lets hope for the best." Selecting second class actors and having a story that wouldn't make it inside a book is certainly the best way to create a television phenomenon and make history.
The pilot is simply awful. Too much in not enough time. The story gives you a feel that everything is cut and pasted from another show or movie. It cuts there and there and there and.. I'm lost. But the pilot doesn't only give you this feeling, it is also extremely depressing to watch. You get the impression that the writer(s) tried to force the story by adding characters that you don't need. One of them is Jamie's sister. A young girl who is deaf and rebel but is also having a big family issue with her sister. $20 that we will get an episode on this (please, shot me if it happens). The thing is that we don't care about her. It's one of those character that have been added to drag the story.
From the main character to the guys in the background there is a major issue with the casting. I never was a fan of Katee Sackhoff, and never will, but I can't expect an actress, that I think need to go study acting a little bit more, to do an amazing performance with awful material. Miguel Ferrer has also been casted in the pilot and I was quite surprised by him been casted in that show. Through I like him as an actor, he has the exact same role that he had on "Crossing Jordan." The boss that doesn't mind if his favorite employe does what ever he wants.
The actor that I was most excited about was Mark Sheppard. Great actor with a whole lot of potential. Strangely, and unsurprisingly, he doesn't get the best role. He is the bad guy in prison. Not even one of the main bad guys but he does a good job with his role, as always.
Frankly, I'll give the show one shot. Hopefully someone will wake up and do some changes but that never happens generally. Anyway, you'll each get your chance to make your own opinion and I'll be respecting it.
Have a next day everyone!
Next Review: "Caveman" (It's a positive review)
This is the time of the year when we are a little bit excited about all those new shows. Personally, I'm always more excited one week before the show officially begins on TV. But right now is also the time when the network are sending the new shows to their station so that the people over there can watch them and leak them on the internet.
The original "Bionic Woman" wasn't the best thing on TV, but it was interesting at least. The new "Bionic Woman" certainly isn't going to break any record in audiences unless big changes happens. Not so long ago SCIFI Network "Painkiller Jane" premiered. I never hidden the fact that I wasn't a fan of that show because I thought the acting, casting and stories were bad. Now, I'm not hidden my feeling for "Bionic Woman." Don't get me wrong, I Love when shows are produced in Vancouver, Canada but we have talent over there that isn't used.
"Bionic Woman" uses a simple network plan. "Cut the budget and lets hope for the best." Selecting second class actors and having a story that wouldn't make it inside a book is certainly the best way to create a television phenomenon and make history.
The pilot is simply awful. Too much in not enough time. The story gives you a feel that everything is cut and pasted from another show or movie. It cuts there and there and there and.. I'm lost. But the pilot doesn't only give you this feeling, it is also extremely depressing to watch. You get the impression that the writer(s) tried to force the story by adding characters that you don't need. One of them is Jamie's sister. A young girl who is deaf and rebel but is also having a big family issue with her sister. $20 that we will get an episode on this (please, shot me if it happens). The thing is that we don't care about her. It's one of those character that have been added to drag the story.
From the main character to the guys in the background there is a major issue with the casting. I never was a fan of Katee Sackhoff, and never will, but I can't expect an actress, that I think need to go study acting a little bit more, to do an amazing performance with awful material. Miguel Ferrer has also been casted in the pilot and I was quite surprised by him been casted in that show. Through I like him as an actor, he has the exact same role that he had on "Crossing Jordan." The boss that doesn't mind if his favorite employe does what ever he wants.
The actor that I was most excited about was Mark Sheppard. Great actor with a whole lot of potential. Strangely, and unsurprisingly, he doesn't get the best role. He is the bad guy in prison. Not even one of the main bad guys but he does a good job with his role, as always.
Frankly, I'll give the show one shot. Hopefully someone will wake up and do some changes but that never happens generally. Anyway, you'll each get your chance to make your own opinion and I'll be respecting it.
Have a next day everyone!
Next Review: "Caveman" (It's a positive review)
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Posted Jul 27, 2007 4:30 am PT
I have no interest in the Bionic Woman, at least not this new version. I have to say that I have been watching Painkiller Jane despite its low budget and bad acting because I am enjoying the stories. Maybe you just didn't give it long enough or maybe it's just not your type of show.
But then, neither is the Bionic Woman.
But then, neither is the Bionic Woman.
Posted Jul 29, 2007 4:25 pm PT
Ah, Jaimie Sommers: tennis player and love interest for Steve Austin, fatally injured in a freak (?) skydiving accident and saved for the sake of love. In the original episode of the Six Million Dollar Man where Jaimie was introduced, her bionics went haywire and she died anyway. Maybe they should have killed the new Jaimie off the same way? It would have put us all out of her misery that much faster! 
I love Miguel Ferrer, but he is capable of so much more than the typecasting he's been given here. I never had much hope for this show, to tell you the truth, and I have even less now.
I love Miguel Ferrer, but he is capable of so much more than the typecasting he's been given here. I never had much hope for this show, to tell you the truth, and I have even less now.
Posted Jul 30, 2007 4:45 pm PT
Agree with you, Finn. The Bionic Woman and Bionic Woman can't be compared. At least with our seventies version, we could use our imagination to "see" her bionic legs. In the preview I saw, she had these scary plastic appendages and she screamed. So did I ... a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Postscript: This show will air on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. CST. I will be occupied watching something else at that time.
... a mind is a terrible thing to waste.Postscript: This show will air on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. CST. I will be occupied watching something else at that time.
Posted Jul 30, 2007 5:01 pm PT
Hi jekyll! I agree with you. The show certainly has a lack with the main character and the whole concept around her. I think they are trying to stick with the original concept while making her new, but the whole mix doesn't work at all. I also agree with you on the chances for this show to survive. Many changes are needed.
Hey Im2Crazy! It has been a while! I generally like this kind of show. I remember Mutant X, which was similar in many ways, and I liked it. But this show doesn't do it for me. As I said, when there is too many wholes, I can't focus and believe what I'm watching.
Hi and welcome on my blog Finnegan! I too believe that the new Jaimie shouldn't survive. I think using a new character could have been better than reusing an old concept of a show which failed. About Miguel Ferrer, I think he needs to do something else than playing the boss of a doctor who is doing whatever he wants. Actors need to do new things, and not always being in the same kind of roles.
Hey Im2Crazy! It has been a while! I generally like this kind of show. I remember Mutant X, which was similar in many ways, and I liked it. But this show doesn't do it for me. As I said, when there is too many wholes, I can't focus and believe what I'm watching.
Hi and welcome on my blog Finnegan! I too believe that the new Jaimie shouldn't survive. I think using a new character could have been better than reusing an old concept of a show which failed. About Miguel Ferrer, I think he needs to do something else than playing the boss of a doctor who is doing whatever he wants. Actors need to do new things, and not always being in the same kind of roles.
Posted Jul 31, 2007 9:20 pm PT
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