Bionic Woman on NBC

[Queasy]

Not too bad so far. Katee Sackoff playing the big baddie is interesting.

 

[Blayze]

Watched it tonight, and it was a lot better than I thought it would be.

 

[destrekor]

pretty good show and is definitely looking like it could get going into being a really good series quite fast.
I am also thinking it's this days new version of Buffy, alas without the vampires. Yes I know the concept for the show dates way before Buffy, however I am talking the take on the tv series and the plot structure and what not. And that is definitely fine by me, as Buffy was a great show.

definitely going to be a must watch every wednesday night, however we will run into a issue starting in late January: Lost. Lost @ 9pm EST on ABC will take precedence over this show. However, not to say I won't watch it. I get free HD over the OSU cable (thankfully my tv has QAM support to get those HD channels), but the tv tuners my roomies media center has, while supporting HD... are both hooked up for SD right now. Regardless, I'll get this show in HD somehow. Worth it.

 

[tontod]

I missed the 1st few minutes. So Katee Sackoff was the 1st one, why did she purposely try to kill them with the truck?

 

[Shawn]

I didn't think it was that good, but I'll probably watch a few more episodes anyway.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: tontod
I missed the 1st few minutes. So Katee Sackoff was the 1st one, why did she purposely try to kill them with the truck?

hasn't been revealed yet, but she isn't after the girl so much as she is trying to kill that man. Thus why she took up a sniper position and shot him but didn't get a lethal shot on him. Only reason she is fighting Michelle Ryan's character seems to be because she is acting in defense of her significant other, which seems to be the enemy of Sackhoff's character.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: tontod
I missed the 1st few minutes. So Katee Sackoff was the 1st one, why did she purposely try to kill them with the truck?

hasn't been revealed yet, but she isn't after the girl so much as she is trying to kill that man. Thus why she took up a sniper position and shot him but didn't get a lethal shot on him. Only reason she is fighting Michelle Ryan's character seems to be because she is acting in defense of her significant other, which seems to be the enemy of Sackhoff's character.

It was alluded to during the show that she went looney as a result of her bionic surgery and that she's supposed to be dead. I'm guessing they tried to kill her but she lived and she's trying to take out the ones responsible.

 

[soonerproud]

I wonder when they will make the 60 million dollar man?

 

[Spydermag68]

I have to say it is different from that 70's show of the same name. I know that they had to jump start the series or it would never get the chance of making half a season. I just hope the plot line gets better.

 

[Babbles]

I was moderately entertained. The dialogue, however, is just painful.

Wasn't that Chief from BSG in the bar that worked at the SuperMax prison?

 

[oznerol]

Come on, ATOT. You guys bash Chuck but give moderate reviews to this crap?

For shame.

 

[austin316]

I watched Bionic Woman, Reaper and Chuck.

I thought Chuck and Reaper were really, really, good and Bionic Woman was so/so.

 

[Maleficus]

Originally posted by: ducci
Come on, ATOT. You guys bash Chuck but give moderate reviews to this crap?

For shame.

Listen to this man.

 

[Lord Evermore]

There wasn't enough woman running with jiggling breast. I mean it only made up 20% of the show's runtime. :roll:

Besides the gratuitous sex scene and breast shots, it was pretty good. The whole "secret identity can't explain where I was for the last 2 weeks" thing got annoying the moment they mentioned it, I hope they don't dwell on that every episode. And the whiny little sister needs a bitch slap.

I miss the nananananananana too. It sounded like they were having a bit of a reference to it when she was running through the trees, in the music. But alas, instead of the sound and slow motion, they're using the ubiquitous and annoying quick-cut camera action every time she uses the bionics. Really, I don't think we need to zoom in on her eye as she stares at the camera every time she is scanning. (Speaking of which, why does she have a targetting reticle moving around if the computer is identifying everything she sees whether it's in the reticle or not?)

Katee Sackhoff makes a good bad guy. Nice psychopathic, uncaring look. I hope they do more than just have her fighting with Jaime in the future episodes, I like the dialog.

The fight scene was great. Women in leather in the rain beating hell out of each other. Couldn't best that without them being naked. Although I'd like to know what happened to the non-bionic arm. I was pretty certain it got snapped in half, I thought Sarah was going to rip the arm off, which would have been awesome. But within seconds Jaime was using both arms again; I thought maybe she'd heal a broken arm but that was a little too fast even for that.

And "anthrosites"? C'mon, just call them nanites or nanobots or something.

IMDB says Katee's only in 2 episodes though, so they may lose that positive point.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
IMDB says Katee's only in 2 episodes though, so they may lose that positive point.

She'll be a recurring character from what I understand but her BSG duties don't allow her to work much on BW. Maybe she'll show up more in season 2 if BW makes it that far. She ham'd it up for the pilot episode but she was still the best thing in it.

 

[Queasy]

Highest rated new show so far

Finally, the buzz paid off.

After a slew of much-hyped new shows premiered to merely average ratings, NBC?s heavily marketed ?Bionic Woman? conquered a tough field of new and returning shows to win the Wednesday night battleground.

"Bionic" earned a 5.5 rating among adults 18 to 49, topping the premiere of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff "Private Practice," which earned a 5.1. "Bionic" is the highest-rated freshman premiere so far this fall, with "Private" coming in second. "Bionic" won its hour despite "Private" having a stronger lead-in and ranks as the highest-rated Wednesday-night NBC series premiere since "The West Wing" in 1999.

?Bionic? fueled the debut of NBC?s cop drama ?Life,? which earned a strong 4.1 rating to win the 10 p.m. hour and rank as the third best-rated new show. ?Life? topped the season premiere of ?CSI: NY? (3.7, down 26 percent from last year) and the debut of ABC?s ?Dirty Sexy Money? (3.6, down 22 percent from the premiere of ?The Nine? last year, which benefited from a stronger ?Lost? lead-in).

The ?Bionic? vs. ?Private? showdown wounded the rest of the 9 p.m. field. CBS? ?Criminal Minds? was down 22 percent from last year to a 3.5, Fox?s ?Kitchen Nightmares? dropped 22 percent in its second week to a 2.4 and The CW?s ?Gossip Girl? fell 25 percent to an anorexic 1.2.

At 8 p.m., the ?Dancing With the Stars? results show won the hour (an on-par 4.0), followed by the second week of ?Kid Nation? (2.8, dropping 10 percent). NBC?s ?Deal or No Deal? (2.6) and Fox?s ?Back to You? (2.8, down 10 percent) and ?Til Death? (2.4) followed. The CW?s ?America?s Next Top Model? stayed strong with a 2.4.

Overall, ABC nudged out NBC for the nightly win by a tenth of a point, followed by CBS, Fox and The CW. Among total viewers, ABC's Wednesday night victory was more pronounced, and "Private" topped "Bionic" in overall audience.

Ever since the May upfronts when networks unveiled their fall schedules, Wednesdays have been the most-discussed night, given the intense array of competition. ?Bionic? has topped buzz-tracking measures all summer, while the reputation of ?Private Practice? was dented by a backdoor pilot that aired in May. In the past week, however, any sense that buzz produces viewers seemed to go out the window as the drumbeats of publicity for CBS? ?Kid Nation,? NBC?s ?Chuck? and The CW?s ?Reaper? went largely unheeded.

The only safe bet for breakout numbers seemed to be with returning hits, such as NBC?s ?Heroes? and Fox?s ?House.? Both ?Bionic? and ?Private? (the latter of which, had it aired on any other night, would have likely dominated headlines this morning) show that freshman premieres can still draw significant tune-in.

 

[Queasy]

More Katee Sackhoff

The girl who plays Sarah Corvus and Kara Thrace spoke for about 22 minutes to KUFO-FM?s ?Cort and Fatboy? Wednesday night and said she?ll be doing a lot more ?Bionic Woman? this season.

Katee ?Baby Spank? Sackhoff is currently shooting her fifth episode of the NBC show even as she?s shooting ?Battlestar Galactica? 4.11 (an episode, she tells the duo, viewers are not likely to see until 2009).

?Galactica? and ?Bionic? apparently shoot right next to each other in Vancouver. ?Bionic? currently has a 13-episode order that could grow to a full season if ratings warrant.

Hopefully they will. Sackhoff says she?ll appear in seven episodes of ?Bionic? this year, and is contracted to become a series regular if NBC picks the show up for a second season.

 

[jw0ollard]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
And "anthrosites"? C'mon, just call them nanites or nanobots or something.

Well, Jaime's boyfriend is Will Anthros, his dad created the "Anthrocytes". Make sense now?

Originally posted by: Queasy
She'll be a recurring character from what I understand but her BSG duties don't allow her to work much on BW. Maybe she'll show up more in season 2 if BW makes it that far. She ham'd it up for the pilot episode but she was still the best thing in it.

Her BSG schedule doesn't actually conflict with the BW schedule.. but the person above me posted a more elaborate news item on it, so no need for me to say more.

Originally posted by: Babbles
Wasn't that Chief from BSG in the bar that worked at the SuperMax prison?

Yup. Apparently David Eick doesn't seem to care how many people he recycles from BSG. Will's dad (the guy in prison) is the lawyer from Gaius Baltar's trial on BSG, too.

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So for the people that were disappointed, just be glad that it was as good as it was. I read parts of the original script and it was BADDDDDDDD. They seemed to add a lot of bad things though with the rewrites. I didn't like that they recast Jaime's sister, I liked that she played a deaf girl. The new Becca is just annoying (and a hacker?? come on). They made Jaime's boyfriend's name RETARDED though. Will Anthros?? C'mon. It used to be Eric Masters, which was at least more believable sounding.

The one awful thing was that Jaime worked at a STARBUCKS in the original script. I'm not sure if it was some awful allusion to Katee Sackhoff's other character, but really now.

There was this really cheesy scene where Jaime got pissed at this guy illegally parking outside Starbucks so she picked up and moved his car... post-operation of course.

Anyway, the previews make it seem like it's getting a lot better. The pilot was just kind of boring because of how long it takes to set up all the characters and Jaime's situation, blah blah etc.

 

[Kadarin]

It was better than I was expecting. I'll keep watching it for now.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: ducci
Come on, ATOT. You guys bash Chuck but give moderate reviews to this crap?

For shame.

I was thinking the other way around. Chuck seemed to be trying to hard to be comedic and serious at the same time. It just felt if this were to really happen, Chuck would have been in the hands of the government already. no questions asked.

 

[FoBoT]

watched it on dvr
wife really misses the "nananananananana"

did the guy die? it was unclear to me
why did they kill him? that sucks

gonna have to see it next week, us being "old school" bionic woman fans from our childhood, it was too different from the original
seems like they stole the story from xmen, good/evil mutant bionic peoples

 

[Chryso]

I always thought it was more of a dundundundundun.

 

[jw0ollard]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
watched it on dvr
wife really misses the "nananananananana"

did the guy die? it was unclear to me
why did they kill him? that sucks

gonna have to see it next week, us being "old school" bionic woman fans from our childhood, it was too different from the original
seems like they stole the story from xmen, good/evil mutant bionic peoples

Well, in the original script I read (before the rewrites) they had her boyfriend die permanently, but she didn't find out about it until later.

In the script, she had a "simulation chip" that made her still think he was alive. Or something like that.

I think they changed that though, and he's still going to be on for the rest of the season.

 

[tasmanian]

This is the music right?

 

[compuwiz1]

If TV was ever worth watching again, maybe our kids would be home, instead of out smoking crack with their homies.