Wow... that looks... bad.

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IT's the same guys what did BSG, correct? I give them serious benefit of the doubt on this one. If it's half as good as BSG it'll be better than %90 of the drek out there now.

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David Eick is the Executive Producer and a writer (he wrote the pilot, at least) for The Bionic Woman.

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I dunno, if Ron Moore isn't involved, there's no guarantee that major characters will die.

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Well, at leats that's saved me the effort of bittorrenting the pilot. Holy god that was awful.

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I for one welcome our hot bionic cylon overlords.

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Wait! Where's Max?

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Are you sure this isn't airing on Lifetime? Because this smells like it's airing on Lifetime.

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...and then Starbuck shows up.

Fucking hell, I thought you were just being snarky.

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...whereas, I thought maybe he meant Dirk Benedict, which somehow made a bit more sense to me, don't ask why.

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I had to ask that question, too. I mean, Sackhoff was my first thought, but I was like, "naah, they won't do that..."

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Anyone else thought it might not be so bad until that point?

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Yeah. Somehow Sackhoff's delivery, usually tolerable for Starbuck's lines, just doesn't work for that.

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ye gawds...

And there was some bantering a year or so ago about The Six Million Dollar Man being remade as well... by (wait for it...) Jim Carrey.

Imagine the crapfest combo there!

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but who would play his lover, bigfoot?

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Gosh, think they'll hold the deaf sister hostage?

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Stop that crazy talk.

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Thanks Jamie, down here in erehwon (Australia) we probably won't be seeing this for another five years. Gee, at first view I'd say it wasn't worth the effort, but hey, I could be wrong - it's just that my fave show BSG worked because it had a story. This doesn't. Yet. Count the plot threads, guys.

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By 'we' you mean 'Australians without the internet', surely?

Gave up waiting for shit to come out on TV ages ago down here..

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not true - I have broadband but I am not keen on torrent (that would increase my already large net bill)or leaving my computer on all night to get them finished. I prefer to buy the DVD's if I actually like something: call it voting with your wallet.
Sadly, most of the stuff isn't worth the download IMHO.

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well...at least the good news if this is even a minor success we can get our Lindsay Wagner goodness on DVD here in the States finally!

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With the lack of good TV these days, I'd watch it.

But i certainly don't remember the first Bionic anything.

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But i certainly don't remember the first Bionic anything.

Back then, we didn't have special effects. Any time the bionic woman (or 6 million dollar man) was supposed to be, say, running superhumanly fast, they shot it extra-super-slow motion. Whee!

Welcome to the world of the future.

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And everyone of a certain age has practised making the stupid noise they added to the slow motion to convince you that the bionic people were using their power.

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Miguel Ferrer was awesome in RoboCop.

"I thought we agreed on total body prosthesis. Now lose the fuckin' arm!"

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I'm waiting for Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.



of course, when I googled for it so I could link to an example of it's awfulnes, I find that in fact, a pilot was made in 2001.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJxHwqO29w

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WOW. I totally would have watched that.

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that's an incredible find.

as a student of pop culture crap and retreads, i feel like i failed in some way by missing this.

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Amusingly, Electra Woman was played by Markie Post, who was Christine Sullivan on classic 80's TV show Night Court. She is 50 years old in that pilot.

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looks like a huge step-up from the original Bionic Woman which was as bad, if not worse, than the original BSG and the 6 million dollar man. Ah, the rose-tinted glasses of youth! The new Bionic Woman is an actor who played in Eastenders. Hey, nice one.

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I've got to start crying more often in the shower. Boo. The physics on those legs is desturbing, they should like bend backwards or something to get that kind of lift.

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No worse than Smallville. But then I am easy to please.

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Wow, there was nothing in that trailer that made me even want to watch the series. It's like they're doing tv series pilots on rehashed old ideas.

* Hero origin story? Check.
* Government Conspiracy? Check.
* Love interest that is involved in conspiracy? Check.
* Relationship angst with family/love interest? Check.
* Evil nemesis? Check.

I've seen all of these shows before. The only unique elements are extra mother/daughter angst and catfighting. Whee.

This show is going to be one part origin story, one part cat-fighting, and one part "I can't get guys interested in me, and even then I can't get too close because the government will kill them! Why can't I ever get a decent date?"

Gag me with a robotic finger.

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I've seen all of these shows before. The only unique elements are extra mother/daughter angst and catfighting. Whee.

The whole mother left/little sister is a brat is well known to anyone who suffered through the Buffy/Dawn relationship.

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