Sigh. Bionic Woman is just, well, boring
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- November
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UPDATE: BW is continuing its ratings free-fall, coming in fourth in last night’s ratings. Wish I could say I were shocked. Or disappointed.
Honestly, I want to like Bionic Woman. I’m hard-wired to LOVE Bionic Woman. I consider it pretty much a genetic imperative that I watch Bionic Woman.
But I was bored last night.
I didn’t dislike the episode, but I didn’t like it much, either.
Jaime just doesn’t do enough bionic stuff, and now that Katee Sackhoff’s been absent for two episodes now, the little bit of humor’s gone, along with all the heart.
I know I said two weeks ago that I was glad that Sarah Corvus wasn’t in the episode to give Jaime a chance to breathe and spread her wings. I truly enjoyed that episode. But last night? I just didn’t care.
During Jaime and Tom’s multiple “I-want-to-love-you- but-I-can’t-because-it’s-dangerous-for-spies-to-be-in-love-with-one-another” tete-a-tetes, I was just like, “Shut up already!”
I do have to admit, That was a pretty good fight in which Jaime kicked some serious butt. When she lifted that guy by the leg and smashed him to the ground, totally cool. We needed much more of that and less of the romance.
The conversation between Jonas and Becca in the car should have been amusing and touching, but, again, who cares?
And as for Becca, we started in the first episode with her being a super hacker who had a court order that she couldn’t be near a computer so Jaime wouldn’t even leave her alone in the apartment for two hours to Jaime now just leaving her alone whenever she’s on a mission and just telling her not to drink and drive.
I mean, What? Just try  try  to have some continuity, folks.
And does Jaime really believe in “The Rules”? I find that really hard to believe.
I’m willing to hang on for a wee bit more, mainly because I think Miguel Ferrer’s a really good actor and a class act (no pun intended), and he talked about the third new showrunner, Jason Cahill, coming on board and what that means for the show in an interview with TVGuide.com:
… it really is starting to normalize finally. The scripts are finding a voice and finding a tone. This kind of show, in the beginning it’s just so big and expensive there are going to be growing pains, a learning curve. We’re coming to the tail end of that.
One thing I did like: Seeing Callum Keith Rennie, Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon Leoben Conoy (who is fixated on Katee Sackhoff’s Starbuck, by the by), as the bad guy. He does play a really good bad guy.
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on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 11:19 am by Amy Vernon.
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I’m giving this show two more episodes to pull me back in or it’s off my DVR for good!
This show sucks…I have tried over and over again; but it is horrible….the writing is weak, the fight scenes are pathetic….please give me some Alias type action. With Alias, the story line and action was awesome…..somebody please help this crew.
I advocate a mandatory private screening of the complete “Alias” series for everyone associated with the writing and production of “Bionic Woman”, including David Eick. If that doesn’t inspire them to seriously ramp up their effort on this show, then they handsomely deserve the cancellation that must surely await.
I wish I could even consider disagreeing with any of you. If this is how the folks who WANT to love this show feel, imagine what other folks think.
Yeah, IMO this show should have a tag on its bionic toe. Without Katie, it turns into a snoozefest. Too bad, because I also really wanted to like it…but it’s just impossible with this vanilla writing and boring action.
I agree the show is totally boring. Being a fan of the original series with Lindsay Wagner, I find this one way too slow. Get rid of the little sister and lame romantic scenes, and increase the action scenes. Miguel Ferrer is excellent, but I am finding Michelle Ryan a little too dry to make her into a true “hottie”
The show is a bore. It’s an oppressive, dark, brooding drama, never concluding anything. Everyone schemes against everyone else, everything has a double meaning. No humor, no breathing space, just heavy, overbearing weight.
The show seems modeled on the model CSI-type shows, which are full of dark drama. But they have a conclusion, usually a good outcome. Bionic Woman, in trying to avoid the cheese factor of the original, lost all sense of fun, adventure, and the wow factor of bionics.
Like the other posts here, I want to like it, but I’m about to give up.