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Post by pigdish on Jun 6, 2007 17:13:44 GMT -5
Anybody interested in this series? www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Bionic_Woman/I think it might have some promise but it's going to be hard to top the original show since I watched it when I was a kid and Lindsey Wagner was so hot then. Before she started doing those mattress commercials.
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Post by Dragonsrule on Sept 26, 2007 21:47:31 GMT -5
Well after the first episode, it was better than I thought. I think it really does have potential. wont say anything else,incase people had to record it first.
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Post by pigdish on Sept 27, 2007 4:31:46 GMT -5
I agree, it has potential. A couple of things that bugged me: 1. Stop with the overly dramatic, overly acted scenes. Most of them are pointless and bring the show into the B movie realm. 2. I personally hate that all the remakes drop the age of the main character or the entire cast in the mid 20s or late teens. They also tend to be overly good people. Yeah yeah I know that is what people want to see nowadays but for me an older cast tends to add more realism given their role in the show or movie. 3. I think this show should be called Bionic Girl because she doesn't look like a woman at all.
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Post by pigdish on Oct 4, 2007 11:39:54 GMT -5
Well I watched the second episode and here are my thoughts and complaints.
I found it really annoying that a super classified document was hidden so well under floor boards that give away when you step on them. Will is the absolute worst chooser of hiding places in the history of secrecy.
When Jamie and that soldier were fighting, how was he even holding his own? I would have thought a bionic punch should have knocked him out. Or maybe a bionic kick would have taken care of him, instead they're trading blows? Then to top this off, her boss comes out from out back. Where did she come from? Then it turns out that the soldiers (good guys) save the day by stopping the bad guys. So why was Jaime even there...for her looks?
That goes along with the sparring session with her trainer (Jim). How was he able to keep up her and not get injured from her strikes? Is he bionic also?
Why are there so many bionic people? Even if you have the money I would think that the bionic parts aren't sitting on the shelf somewhere. So far we have three bionic people in the show. I really don't like this, apart from the logistics of having several bionic people, because it cheapens the unique quality of the heroine. It wouldn't be so bad if the other bionic people had unsophisticated technology in them or even if they were super primitive like the Fembots but it's pretty dumb they way they have it now.
The whole miscarriage thing shouldn't have been included. I mean, she miscarries one day and is out working and having sex the next. Yeah right. Its like she forgot she was pregnant at all.
And what's up with the spontaneous decision to have free sex? I understand she was drinking and feeling all angsty but come on. And that sex scene in the bathroom was more revolting than sexual. I was like, "What the hell are they doing?" It was such a badly acted/directed scene. If you want to see a good scene like that check out one of the earlier episodes of Torchwood. Now that episode was sexy. It was interesting that the guy's name was Steve (maybe a wink and a nod to Steve Austin).
From the pilot episode I learned that: A Dr. can get hit by a truck, sending the car flipping over several times, & have it slam into a pole. But he will be unhurt and be able to do major reconstructive surgery on the passenger.
Apparently for dramatic purposes it is ok to call a time out to light a cigarette. Not smoke it all, & spout off cheesy ass dialogue.
Since the Matrix all poorly choreographed fight scenes have to be done in the rain.
I did like the little nod to the BSG fans. It was playing in the house of the girl that survived that town.
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Post by regrix on Nov 15, 2007 6:22:19 GMT -5
First off I know everyone has an opinion and that as everyone knows is neither right nor wrong, it’s just a personal invective. That having been said... I went with responding to Pigdish’s points on this, their points were well stated but, well they clash with my own opinions so… thought I’d take up the opposite points.
Drama is exactly that Drama, now I’ve been watching the show religiously and have not found it overly dramatic, it does take certain licenses with ‘reality’ but then again it’s subject matter is a level of tech that is barely even on the drawing boards as far as I currently know. So they may amp things up a little but not so much that the suspension of disbelief is impaired.
The drop in age is to get the ratings, and yes… that does seem to be what people want to see these days, not much to do about that but the following two options. Nothing and get used to it… I don’t believe the age of the cast has anything to do with the realism of a given movie or TV show (Spy Kids and Agent Cody Banks not withstanding) the situations can just as easily happen to a 20 something as well as a 40 something. As for Michelle Ryan herself, she is most definitely a woman… believe me, I have been looking… all the right curves in all the right places.
As for the hiding of “Classified documents” in a floor… it is well known that if you want to hide something you put it in plain sight. He could have just as easily hid it by stapling it to his ceiling as hardly anyone ever looks up. I will grant you the hiding of things in a floor is a cliché, but… got to make it accessible to the masses, otherwise viewer ship dwindles… the American viewing audience has a limited attention span after all and if you made it TOO smart, they’d quickly go back to that so called reality TV crap.
The fighting with the soldier, how exciting would it have been if she beat him with one punch? I mean come on it would be over too quick and we’d not get to see her beat him down which is part of the point of such shows, right? Ruth (she whom you refer to as her boss) had gone with her on that assignment, or more to the point Jamie had gone with her in a bodyguard capacity as I recall. As for the good soldiers coming in, you need to remember that Jamie is just getting used to all this and is not always going to have the answers. She’s developing as she goes, yes the show’s been on for months, but in their “reality it’s been a few weeks since she became bionic and began working for Burket. Her reason for being there was as I noted to protect Ruth and to look for evidence of what was going on there, there are after all certain benefits to having a bionic eye and a bionic ear.
Her trainer, Jae, has worked with someone who was bionic already and is likely highly skilled in the martial arts by the look of it, he’s aware of how to use another’s strength against them, which allows him certain leeway when dealing with someone who has enhanced strength, He’s probably also wearing some kind of body armour, possibly some of that spider silk stuff which is supposedly bullet proof. It would be able to fit under his clothing and would be likely unnoticeable. As far as I know he’s not Bionic.
Actually there’s only 2 bionic people, Jamie and Sarah, you’re reading into things more than you need to. As I’ve pointed out there are fighting systems out there which negate the benefits of superior strength so even though Jamie and Sarah have the enhanced Strength, Jae is still able to engage them, plus Jamie has gotten some good hits on him when he leaves himself open (which isn’t often)
As for the Miscarriage, different people react differently to a given stimuli, as an example… I work in a senior/section 8 tenement and one of the Puerto Rican residents had his twenty something son get murdered. Not once from the day it happened until now did I ever see any tears or mourning… which struck me as odd, but… as I said, not everyone reacts to the same thing the same way. Perhaps Jamie just decided she needed to jump right back into living again as the best way to mourn… but then, and I’m male so ladies please feel free to correct me if you find this incorrect… she was only a couple of months along in the pregnancy, not really a lot of time to “bond” with the fetus.
The bathroom sex scene... hmm... let me ask, have you never been drunk and depressed? It leads one to doing some pretty funky things. The combination of alcohol which is well known to strip away one’s inhibitions coupled with a mental state that causes one to stop caring about anything… well… as a intelligent sentient such as yourself can surely understand it can be a recipe for all sorts of misadventures.
The doctor’s survival of the accident was what I’ve come to term as a freak act of physics. Such things are found in reality, like all the documented cases of skydivers falling 33,000 feet or more with a faulty chute, bouncing on impact, getting up and walking away. Or the security guard in the north tower of the world trade center on 9-11 who got everyone that would follow him and led them to the roof, they rode the building to the ground and all survived with minor injuries. Fact is indeed stranger than fiction.
The calling of a time out for a cigarette was a hint of exactly how messed up Sarah’s perceptions of reality are… how messed up her mental wiring has become. (bionic or otherwise)
And the Matrix had some great fight scenes, it was the STORY of II & III that was messed up
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Post by pigdish on Mar 10, 2008 20:16:52 GMT -5
Looks like the NBC executives finally woke up and smell the bionic doo doo. Now if only they would give Journeyman another shot.
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