It's official: Bionic Woman, RIP
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Buh-bye, Jaime Sommers. (Hey, haven’t I said that before?)
David Eick, one of the executive producers on what was probably the most anticipated (not least of all by me) series of last season has confirmed to SciFi Wire what we all knew to be true but no one would admit: Bionic Woman is no more.
I just felt that the process was so frustrating, and the conditions under which we were making that show never really came to fruition in such a way that I felt like we could make the show well The actress [Michelle Ryan] we found was wonderful. Some of the writing was good. … We just didn’t ever bring it all together like we did with Battlestar. At a certain point, when it becomes that frustrating, I think you’re better off to say, ‘Let’s try again another time,’ and let it go.
I agree.
Look, like I said a million, gazillion times, I was the core audience for BW. I stuck by it far after most didn’t. I watched every episode and enjoyed certain things about all of them (except maybe the last one). No one wanted to like BW more than I did. Seriously.
But it just never hit its stride. Note that Eick even says, “some of the writing was good” (emphasis mine). That was the biggest problem. The scripts just weren’t there. It could have overcome many of its problems if the scripts had been better. Even as good as the pilot.
Anyway, it’s over. But if Eick tries it again, sometime down the road, I’ll probably be there. And be cheerleading all the way.
Speaking of David Eick, he also told SciFi Wire that he’s working on a pilot script for a TV series of Children of Men.
The movie, based on P.D. James’ novel, was fabulous; the series would “focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society’s utter focus.”
For those who didn’t see the film, the idea is that at some point, people stopped being able to give birth, so the youngest people in society become a focal point for everyone. It starts with the death of the youngest person alive; that person has been the focus of all of society from birth.
Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he’s working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James’ SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 film of the same name.
Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it’s about how, when you don’t have a responsibility to the next generation and you’re free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?
Now that’s something I’ll be watching for.
Photo courtesy of NBC Universal.
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