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Watch Jaime Sommers Freak Out Man!! THE BIONIC WOMAN Hits YouTube Too!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
One of the reasons I harbor an unseemly amount of excitement for the new bionic franchise is NBC, subsequent to the pilot, hired writer-producer Jason Smilovic to work on it. Smilovic did an incredible job running two of my favorite series of the last few years – “Karen Sisco” and “Kidnapped.”
I’ve just been alerted by about 350 people that YouTube is teeming with clips of NBC’s new “Bionic Woman” pilot.
They’re all very key moments from the Jaime Sommers story and give us a pretty clear idea of how a 21st century 42-million-dollar woman works.
Find them here.
Yes, that's "Galactica's" Katee Sackhoff, who loves Ain't It Cool News, as the angry wet blonde.
"The Bionic Woman" airs this fall 9 p.m. Wednesdays on NBC, opposite “Gossip Girl,” “Private Practice,” “Criminal Minds” and “Bones.”
Take up valuable bandwidth with your predictions and reactions.
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I will.
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David Eick, plus nothing else good on at that time slot equals I will be watching the pilot at the very least.
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David Eick, plus nothing else good on at that time slot equals I will be watching the pilot at the very least.
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You can find the same clips on nbc.com. They were posted days ago.
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Man, I wish I had time to check NBC.com every day like you, Zanos!! Thanks for posting this, Herc!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Yep, that sums this crap up.
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or im not watching.
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I call dibs on the new 21st century fetish. I also like angry, wet blondes.
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the sarah conner show
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Soon To Be Cancelled
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I'm sure I posted a TB back then.
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Superherohype posted this days ago...you can find it at http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Bionic_Woman/
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if I ever read, or heard of, superherohype.
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This is so ridiculous. I keep expecting her to start braying about her stupid sisters or mother or dad and the Vic and chips or something. This trend of British actors playing American TV leads has got to stop
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this show looks like its going to stink worse than a raped asshole!!!
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“Private Practice,” “Criminal Minds” and “Bones” are going to be on opposite one another? Now I'm going to have to wire in another VCR or get one of those Devo machines... Ram-a-lam-it, ding-dong-dammit.
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First thing I'd do is go after Whitey. Word.
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No really.
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A single bionic arm? 42 million? This is 20 plus years after Neuromancer, Blade Runner, and Terminator for fucks sake! If you're going to do it, do it right man! Give her an enhanced replicant body over a servo assisted metal skeleton, Multi- Billion dollar project with lofty ill defined goals. Slapping on two bionic legs means that she fractures her hips everytime she lands. Pathetic.
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It seems so random. Still I'll give it a chance and see if it's any good. Starbuck should be entertaining at least.
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I had a soft spot for the original series mainly due to Lindsay Wagner bringing warmth, humor and a girl next door quality to the role. This new girl just seems like every other fake karate kicking wanna be bad ass we see all too often. too bad, this would have been a great movie franchise if they found the right actress in my eyes. If the bionic dog doesn't show up at some point Im gonna have to go robo-sasquatch on someone.
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seriously, i hope she can act or at least look good being bionic, because otherwise it's a mighty weird choice to go with a UK soap actress for the lead in a US scifi drama.
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whenever she uses her bionics?
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Let us count the ways...
1. The Matrix: rooftop to rooftop jump, martial arts fight in the rain, main character suddenly discovering superhuman abilities and struggling to learn how to use them.
2.Tim Burton's Batman: noir style lighting, use of gargoyles to set mood... this actually rips off several other things as well
3.Blade Runner: Confronting arch nemesis on rooftop in the rain, Eick's BSG also borrows *very* liberally from Blade Runner
...not to mention that the whole series is a rip-off from thirty years ago...
Now, having said all of that, the qustion is: Will the acting be able to overcome all those things; and somehow connect with an audience?
Having seen the way networks treated this year's crop of new shows, I don't hold out much optimism that "Bionic Woman" will ever see a second season. Especially if NBC decides to "put it on 'hiatus' right in the middle of things. Can anyone say, "Studio 60"... or "Jericho"(CBS) and just look at how many people turned on "Lost"(ABC) when that went away for three months. -
They are likely equal in strength, but Starbot is supposed to have been a soldier pre-bionics and is battle hardened after years of running from the government. If she doesn't kick the living shit out of poor little Jamie then WTF, and it appears in that clip that Jamie holds her own. Lame.
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Needs the "ANANANANANANANA!" sound effect. I don't care if it's dated. I know everyone is going to watch this show and make that stupid sound themselves everytime she jumps. Is Ferrer supposed to be Oscar Goldman or what. If this is successful they'll probably launch the six-billion dollar man since the Farrelly Bros. movie got sent to development hell years ago.
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but this actually looks decent. BSG is amazing and Eick's interview shows they're going to deal with it in a similar intelligent way. I'll watch for a bit anyway (never seen the original).
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You can usually tell how well a show will do by the acting.
The acting in this is not what I would call bad, but it's not good either.
So you have sub-good acting, mixed in with a story about a deaf rebel daughter and a second evil bionic woman... All of that together does not make for a very good show. -
I'll check it out when it airs. It certainly looks like a "new" style TV show, meaning more cinematic than TV used to be, and of a higher quality than movies are anymore. I like that there's no music during any of the clips, but maybe that's just because they haven't added music yet. I kind of hope they don't; the clips play better without it. And the fighting in the rain is fairly standard for a TV show set piece, but the dialogue scene in the rain makes it seem like the show itself is bleaker than viewers would expect. Actually makes me even a bit more interested.
Kudos, NBC. Sucks that you gave Studio 60 the axe, but at least you've got shows like this and Medium and Heroes to make me get my money's worth out of my DVR. -
Is that Jamie Sommers Mexican brother or something?
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Both in the old series and the new. Honest.
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Honest. Just checked imdbpro.
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What's wrong with you people???
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Check NBC's press release. Or Wikipedia.
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ha ha ha ha ha
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Starbot beats the shit out of her, breaking the rest of her body.
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Can't see what's not to like from those clips. She looks far prettier than lindsey (no chest) wagner, and being from England she won't have a whiny US accent which really grates on our sensitive English ears!! Look, there's ben plenty of actors that have come from the soap dramas, Sir Ben Kingsley springs to mind, so there are a few good actors that will go on to bigger things. Besides she reminds me of a liv tyler lookalike with bigger breasts... which can't be a bad thing.
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It really pisses me off that Michelle Ryan supposedly spent an eternity in the dojo learning Krav Maga and finally got to fight farkin Katee Sackhoff, only to have the beatdown documented by a cameraman in the middle of an epileptic seizure. It also pissed me off in Lord of the Rings, and Batman Begins, and the Bourne movies, etc etc. The cherry on top are the interviews and making-ofs that then go on to trumpet how awesome the actor's fighting skills are. NO SHIT FILMMAKERS, WHY DON'T YOU SHOW US THEN?!? And don't give me that Cinema Verite copout, there's a difference between having a shaky camera and actively causing nausea in the viewers. Exercise self-restraint, and your production will benefit. Otherwise, the show seems to have a lot of potential. I'll be seeing this for sure. --- Let me make myself clear, though: this looks interesting. The people making it are competent. The production value is high. I *will* be seeing this show, or the pilot episode at least. I don't feel that the actress not being blonde or there being no cheesy bionic whine every time she runs is somehow a desecration of my childhood, or something. You fanboys really need to get your priorities straight.
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Go to Cardio Kickboxing Class at Crunch Fitness for 3 times a week for 2 months to prepare for a pilot about an ass kicking Bionic Woman won't make her a good fighter. There are many actresses out there who look better, act better, and fight better. I saw a bootleg of this pilot and it pales in comparison to Buffy, Alias, or even the 1st season of Dark Angel. The storyline would have been better had it been about someone who wasn't so random. A bartender? Please. Jaime should have been an athlete at least to make it believable. But a bartender who get's wrecked in a car accident. Wack. The only thing this chick got is big tits. But she also has a big jaw to match. She looks fat sometimes when in reality she really is not.
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Decent ratings until the American Idol results show stampedes it's way back into the schedule and kills it.
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...just giving you shit. I really wouldn't know how her name is spelled. I've seen the name "Jamie" spelled both ways, so I didn't really know for sure if it was a typo. PS: You think Whedon may have given Buffy Jaime's last name as a tribute or something? Or just a big coincidence?
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My friend, you just sold me right there. Now I KNOW I'll be watching.
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I'm not sure I like the actress playing the BW though. I just hope they do creative things with the bionic sequences and maintain strong, "different", season long character/story arcs that go somewhere. Superheros type stories always need to be headed somewhere. We have to be able to see that final conflict quickly approaching. That's where shows like Smallville f'd up. Supes is an epic character with an epic story but they negated all that by resolving every conflict in 60 minutes. You can't have great, epic conflict in 60 minutes in a Live Action format. And don't spend more then 2 eps focused on her "emotionally coping" with the bionic stuff. That sort of drama is usually written poorly, makes the character look whiny and gets old quick.
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Goes from spawn of London's biggest slut after an incestuous encounter with her uncle, to the bionic woman. She must have a bloody good agent that girl. Good fuck too, according to Gary Lucy.
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Dark Angel, anyone?
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... I would like to apologize now for Michelle Ryan. Secondly, isn't this yin/yang good vs. evil equal thing a bit old now? The whole idea of an evil BW lurking in the background is lazy writing. "Hey, we need a nemesis. Let's do an evil version of the same character with the same powers" etc. So now we'll get bionic wire-fu every episode instead of intelligent ways to use her new implants for the good ole' US of A. The early $6m Man and BW episodes used the fact that their powers were secret & incredible to surprise & outwit their enemies. This new series is just another Jake 2.0/Dark Angel/Mutant X clone. Colour me officially 'meh' on this.
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Give me Lee Majors as the 6 Million Dollar man.
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Since everyone is basing their negative opinions of Michelle Ryan on the broief clips available on youtube I'll weigh in with a counter argument. I absolutely hated her in Eastenders, but it is clear from these clips it was down to the programme and not her. She has completely turned round my opinion of her. She is so completely different from Zoe that I have to admit the girl can actually act ! Now, please let there be fembots.
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but we just don't live in a perfect world, do we?
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I can't believe you got this right. :)
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Can you source this?
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But I can still see this failing to do anything except drag its feet every week. The show will be 'She's bionic. That's it.' which will work for the pilot only. Then we'll have the obligatory episode where she's going to fuck her love interest but he freaks out due to the bionic limbs (well, you would). Michelle Ryan will be OK. She's obviously been working on that American accent. No-one would know that she was British (apart from the fact that they'll bang on about it over and over again when the series hits). She should just follow the excellent Katee Sackhoff and she'll do fine. Katee being in this makes it a must-watch for me.
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This looks absolutely hilarious in the worst possible way.
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This show might actually survive longer than 6 episodes if they use all of Michelle Ryan's god given assets. Maybe the bar she tends is located in a Hooters.
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Who has been tormented with her as a cry baby in eastenders i hope she dies twice !
WAHHH WAHHH KAT WAAAAAH WAAAAH i slept with dirty den WAAAAAAH WAAAAAAH
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I am actually expecting to ejoy this now. Michelle Ryan is a much better actress than her turn in EASTENDERS gives her credit for, and I'm glad she got this gig. Good on the gal! And a passable American accent too. All hail our British action heroine!No, about this love for Katie Sackhoff. WHHHYYYYYYYYYY???She was by far the worst thing in BSG, and will probably be in this too.
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So now the bone-picking begins. If the WB dicks hadn't shitcanned the impending GLOBAL FREQUENCY series, even after that amazing pilot, maybe the BIG WHEEL episode would've been something like this. All intense and angsty and moody."I have a wire in my brain that simulates sexual pleasure when I kill people. That's all I have now." Awesome comic, would've been an awesome episode. This looks very similar, and by proximity will probably be very cool. The Warren Ellis love-in can officially start here.
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From what I read, Jaime/Jamie has only ONE bionic arm, while Sarah (Sackhoff's character) has both arms bionicized (NOT a real word). Seems like the Sarah character would have a crazy advantage over Jamie - she could easily break or rip off Jamie's real arm. Still looking forward to this show, though.
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Remember that POS, cue the pop music when the fighting starts! Guess Evanescence could use the work...
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ComputerGuy68, come on, don't go there! BIRDS OF PREY was great - not every series has to be as dark as BSG to be a good time. It was a smartly written, well acted piece of superhero fun with hot chicks in hot costumes. Ashley Scott has NEVER looked better!BringingSexyBack... Diana Chance, is that you? You foxy wench...
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...gimme full-on carpet munchin'.
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Anyone notice that this was Edward James Olmos' character's name in Stand and Deliver?Just another apopheniacal reference from ol' Damned.
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for nanotechnology (nanites in Trek) -- a hopeful sign that the show might have some original writing.The "Where's the rest of me?" reference when she looks down at her legs (ala KINGS ROW, 1942)is also notable.
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Fembots too. Love triangle with Steve Austin (no, not the wrestler). Crazy '70s jump-the-shark plots with aliens, time travelers, a mechanized Sasquatch. Man, bring me some of that smooth, K-tel, prime time, 3 network cheeeeeze. (And I saw Lindsay Wagner in person at a restaurant about 8 years ago. She was wearing a hippie dress and leather sandals, and her face was shrivelly wrinkly. Whatever happened to the woman I crushed on so bad in 4th grade?
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She got older, dude. What can you do?
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So I guess they kind of tried to explain how the rest of her body can function with her bionic parts. She gets injected with "nanomachines" which not only heal her body at a superhuman rate but also help regulate her bionics. Maybe (sorta) explains how she can land on her bionic legs and her hips don't give out. As for the show, it looks promising as long as the actors get more comfortable with their roles. Everyone acts and sounds too forced/rehearsed.
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