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In its timeslot, Wednesday night’s premiere of NBC’s “Bionic Woman” clobbered the premiere of ABC’s “Private Practice,” the season premiere of “Criminal Minds” and new episodes of “Kitchen Nightmares” and “Gossip Girl.”
It garnered NBC’s highest ratings for a Wednesday-night premiere since “The West Wing” eight years ago.
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Hey...so, I used to watch the lead in Eastenders, something that's making her new character not sit too well.
However, I think she'll shake that off and make some damn good US telly.
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Sep 27, 2007 4:32:11 PM CDT
Too bad it was the weakest of NBC's new dramas...
by triceratops on fire
Chuck and Journeyman are FAR more entertaining and potentially better shows than bionic. And I can guarantee I'm not alone in thinking that.
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Getting rid of the deaf sister was such an idiot move; it took away the one interesting part of the show.Now it's even more clear that Bionic Woman is just Alias with the balls cut off. Yawn.
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bionic eastender woman
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Not going to watch this. It's innacurate.
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Sep 27, 2007 4:41:55 PM CDT
Chuck and Journeyman will not see a second season
by fiester strikes back
This show will.
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they promoted the hell out of this show and it's a remake, so hence the ratings. Check back next week or in week 5.
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maybe, but the response to Private practice has been very very negative. i think that will dive harder and faster.
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Entertain me, or lose my viewershipidness. Also, Journeyman was pretty cool. Patiently waiting for Sarah Conner.
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Private Practice averaged 14.2 million viewers, Bionic Woman's averaged 13.6 million. It came in a close second to Bionic in the 18-49 demographic.
So Killed?, not really...but lets see what happen next week. -
Are you on crack? Bionic got a 5.5 with A18-49 while Private got a 5.1. I wouldn't call that "clobbered." Besides, of all the televisions turned on last night, Private got a 15% share while Bionic got 13%.
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Why should I be interested in this without any stuntcasting. Come on, peoples.
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can some look at these and tell me how bionic woman beat private practice at anything?
http://www.tiny.cc/tbKHT
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Bionic Rocks!!
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This show is a turd what the hell.
Lets just hope its turns out like the WB Birds of Prey. Super start then crash! -
"Going head-to-head in the 9 p.m. hour, Private Practice averaged 14.2 million viewers to Bionic Woman's 13.6 million. Private Practice was a close second to the Jamie Somers display of amazing arm strength in the 18-49 demographic."
And hey Herc, you fat bastard, when are you gonna unfreeze my main account? Just because someone razzed you for your undying love of reality TV and your admission that you'd never even seen the original UK run of "The Office" is no reason to delete all their posts and free their handle. Lame. -
It doesn't suprise me that this shit is popular..it's like fucking ass Heroes. If it smells like shit...
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this show will be one of the best on TV. Give it a chance. It will prove the worth of your investment.
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Every show needs a few episodes to get its bionic legs, so to speak - I'll give this a few more eps. It'll be interesting to see if Eick put out good material without Moore; I'm a little pessismistic about that.
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Her fighting abilities are programmed into her or some other "techno-babble" explanation so that they are instinctual, like how she was able to disarm the guy in the alley without even thinking about it. In any case, she doesn't really have to learn how to fight, just how to control her bionics better, which I guess in the span of the episode, she did.
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was better than the Bionic Woman. "Chuck" was spectacularly mediocre and Journeyman
was actually pretty good. Reaper was the most fun of the new shows for me. I can see that sticking around for a bit. -
I will be giving the Bionic Woman a chance because there is something there. Whatever that is they better capitalize and expand on it. Quick.
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Look at his picks to pans..Herc, while humourous, is a TV snob. He picked..Sarah Silverman's show as good and plenty
C'MON! man..even Jimmy Kimmel doesn't think Sarah Silverman is funny. If she didn't have Posehn and that other thing there would be a bounty on her head.
He panned...“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"" -
so many laugh-out-loud moments, and it wasn't even a comedy. first bionic woman's "timeout" bit was hysterical, really. i'll give it a few more episodes, though, as even the first episode of the american version of "the office" was absolutely horrid.
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... doesn't blow the good will of the ratings and gives Ryan some meatier scripts to work with. She's a better actress that the pilot allowed.
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Both were labelled by Marc Berman (www.mediaweek.com) as 'Winners'. Wednesday at 9pm might become the primo network matchup this season.
Not that I watched any of these shows, but my wife watches Criminal Minds, with Fat Tony joining the cast! -
Are the same loneley pathetic wannabe with multiple usernames trying to be a shit disturber?
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It's Adults 18-49, not overall ratings. Private Practice had more viewers than Bionic Woman (source: http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003648085 remove all spaces as always)
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You guys are going to have to explain to me why it sucks so bad.
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the pilot sucked, but it looks like half of the people who worked on it got fired (including some of the cast; why do they hate deaf people?).. So the new episodes might actually be entirely different (as in: actually good). at least they got people's attention.
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Just you wait and see. It sucked royally.
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I'm talking about the one who looks like a man, not the one who looks like Katee.Very scary.
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Bionic DONKEYS!
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Also, the person who wrote Bionic Woman was a co-writer on "Alexander". That explains a lot.
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"I hate everything cus I'm an unhappy little troll
with back acne who lives with my parents. Girls hate me and eventually I'll turn to the lonely man-love of other little bitter boys while continuing to say everything sucks in a pathetic attempt to hide my own self hatred and overwhelming insecurity. Eventually I'll accidentally hang myself while masturbating. My ashamed parents will find my bloated urine stained corpse then drink heavily to hide their shame." -
And so is Katee Sackhoff. That reason enough for me to check it out again next week. I hope episode two will show improvement.
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Right. It didn't clobber it. But Herc jumps up and down and dances like a monkey for any showrunner that sends him an email. We will have to endure Bionic Woman posts this season whether the show has good ratings, has bad ratings, has good writing, bad writing....
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That Journeyman is the best new show. But I have to hand it to Chuck, for a tv show it had some genuinely kick-ass action in it. Reaper was good but not great (oh but it so could be). This didn't impress too much, but it could quite easily become great. I think that UK viewers will have a problem with Zoe, sorry Michelle.I guess we just have to wait and see.
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Every single person I talked to that watched the pilot (at least 5 people) pretty much said they hated it.
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10 - Eye candy
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That said, my girlfriend didn't like it. And that's equal to about 5 opinions of course. Still, here's hoping it lasts the distance.
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Show wasn't great, but I think it had promise. I just don't think it has a chance on NBC.
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I doubt this show will get a 2nd season to resolve whatever cliffhanger they screw their audience over with. My wife made me watch some of Bionic Woman, and I thought it was pretty laughable. Pilots are rarely indicative of the show's quality though, so I would be willing to give it a 2nd chance at some point. Doesn't seem like much is on during the timeslot.
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Fancy a crappy show getting good ratings. I don't care if it's a step forward for network sci-fi, it's a step back for good shit being on a network again.
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I just found out the chick who plays Jamie Sommers little sister is 18. Woo hoo ! Now I don't have to feel guilty that I really want to eat my dinner out of her ass. http://imdb.com/name/nm1423955/
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So it's not too surprising it did well. It'll be interesting to see how much of that holds up next week.
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hahahaha holy shit thats funny! I'm glad too because that little girl is hot.. I supressed my wood for her cause I thought she was BW's daughter, not sister, making her about 13.. Awesome! This show was OK for a first episode, a little too like "ALIAS" for my tastes.. Too much gov't conspiracy shit already.. This will be back for more and I think Journeyman was cool, not so sure about "Life" though.. Way too much overacting in that show.
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I'll watch more.
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BW kept my interest for exactly 8 minutes.
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unless Mad Men is still considered new.
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..."Private Practice" still got better ratings overall. Don't know if anybody else on the board has said this already, but "BW" did NOT clobber "Private Practice."
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I am just glad that all the whiny cockfag bitchy tv critics got slapped. I am starting to think that a lot of these critics are women haters. Get over it , Michelle Ryan is going to be big , once they give her decent scripts to work with. And for all the Sackhoff militia out there, she was so one-dimensional it was tragic. So dont bitch. Give the show a chance.
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The reason that B.W. got the ratings it did was simply because of the massive advertising campaign that NBC had for the show (Who hasnt seen the trailer a million times)? Most viewers are not going to turn in the second week because their expectations were for a nostalgic recreation of what they grew up with in the 70's (or for something along the lines of what BSG turned out to be). Bionic woman is neither. Beyond the fact that the writing sucks, Bionic Woman has been plagued by huge problems throughout production. Glen Morgan walked off the show after a huge fight with Eick over the shows "direction". NBC pushed thru a consultant (Katims) whose suggestions are pretty much ignored, not to mention Smilovic coming in to try to redirect the horrific writing and problems NBC continues to have with it. I won't even go into all of the personality problems with people on the set or the fact alot of the gay people working with the show are upset over the addition of Isaiah Washington, who according to one person high up in the show isnt homophobic because ??!! he once dressed up as a woman for an acting part??!! The potential bionic woman had was great, but the reality of it is whats going to tank it quickly. No one wants to eat in an empty restaurant, and for all the advertising, special effects, great actors (Sackhoff, Ferrar, even Ryan) its pretty much empty.
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Saw it, loved it. My new favorite show! Funny, I figured more people at AICN would dig it. I'm curious what the Popcandy comments will say. Anyway I didn't have a problem with the pilot at all. I like the lead actress, never seen BSG but I liked the other bionic character too. Fun show!
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See??? There IS a market for all this superhero, bionic fantasy sci-fi hooey - just make a fucking decent one now while you're at it... the reason your veiwers tail off and the ratings go down is because most of them are fucking crap because you make them fucking crap...
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Its a shame they chose Michelle Ryan to lead this show because she is a poor actress indeed. She used to be in a show called Eastenders which is renowned for its god awful acting here in the UK. I find it laugh out loud hilarious that some idiot thought she could actually lead a show (did they not research her previous work), I find it even funnier that someone on this TB said Katee Sackhoff could not of acted her roles in the UK, trust me anything but Michelle Ryan is an improvement!
...and please people stop saying she's gonna be the next BIG thing, i wouldn't kick her out of bed but she sucks at acting
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Romijn's rendition of Mystique, but with The Joker's mouth.
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True, Bionic Woman won as far as the 18-49 year old crowd, which is what advertisers crave, but the truth is Private Practice had a 9.7/15 share where as Bionic Woman got a 8.4/13 share. So, with the "Actual" numbers, Private Practice is the highest rated new show of the year so far. Go to Zap2it.com if you want the truth.
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Now and Again was cool. Ridiculous that it got canned so soon.
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We cant all diss a show on a pilot. Think people. If we did would Buffy have survived in its first season? Give Ryan and the writers a chance.
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The dropoff is probably going to be HUGE - and deservedly so. I'd hoped it was going to be better, but now I know not to waste my time.
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LOOKS like a clown? I don't know why you people are into clown porn so much. That or weird dream sequence women from David Lynch movies??? And I can't wait for McBlacky to be on this show as the Bionic Man with a homophobia chip... kind of like Data.
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... but premiere eps are always problematic, especially for high concept shows. Maybe it'll get better. Michele Ryan looks great, but if she really wants to pull off playing an American, she needs to get to a tanning booth...stat! English women have beautiful complexions, but now Americans (with the possible exception of goths) are that damn white.
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Now, did it blow you away like the LOST, TWIN PEAKS and ALIAS pilots? No, but I saw enough potential there to hang in for a few episodes to see if things click. Shows like STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, ANGEL and BUFFY had shitty pilot episodes and then went on to decent runs, so all of you instant-gratification junkies need to pop a valium and relax a bit.
Oh, and Katee Sackhoff DOES look like the Joker, especially in that bar scene when she's wearing dark lipstick. And Series 7, don't knock clown porn if you've never tried it.
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I thought the pilot was pretty good, but ditching the deaf sister was funny. The reason I forsee that the series is going to tank is that while the episode was good, it left me with a definite "been there, done that" feeling. standard episodic action series. limited multi-episode arcs and yeah, the dependence on BSG characters. The show has potential, so I hope I'm proven wrong, but its the network we're talking about here, they already tanked the deaf sister, probably just because the new one was hot. Oh and I noticed that they're portraying the sister as some sort of wannabe hacker. Any bets that a future episode will involve her hacking skills "saving" the day? It's stuff like that that make me think that as a continuing series, it's got nowhere to go but down.
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You're allright. Look, I didn't think it was great but in the scheme of things, it was good enough. I'm not expecting much and it was no worse than the other crap on tv. A hot chick, some fighting, a younger hot chick. It certainly beats the various reality shows or Jeff Foxworthy's "Cout Yer Polecats". But the bigger question is, why are so many young people watching tv anyway? Go out, chase some pussy or whatever makes you happy.You can watch tv when you get older.Trust me.
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sucks ass, theres a reason show's like this put up ratings.
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until he found out that he's not alone. As much as I like Kidd, the pilot was 90% boring shit.
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Someone said she looks like the Joker. No...But she would make a good Harley Quinn in the next Batman movie!
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1. the Unit 3.1.(GREAT GREAT)
2. Journeyman
3. Bionic Woman (Lets see and wait)
the rest soooo dissapointing. Heroes 2.1. - Boring Premiere
Prison Break 3.1, 3.2 - Fox!! this one you can canceln now , and nobody will complain
CSI Miami 6.1 - CSI Coincidence. The script writers looked too much Prison Break......
Criminal Minds 3.1.- the Departure of "traitor" Mandy Patinkin. The unaired episode from last year slashed!!This is gonna be the last season.
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I haven't watched the premiere episode yet, but I did watch the pilot and I think there are three major problems with the show that I don't think they will be able to fix.
1. Michelle Ryan - She just doesn't have the sex appeal of a Jennifer Garner or Alba. If your going to have a show with weak writing you need a sexy lead and she just can't cut it.
2. Having a fiance - I mean where's the sexual tension. If you want to attract the female audience to a show like this you need some sexual tension between the main character and a potential partner.
3. Making her a bartender - What is she going to do, pour bionic bourbon and cokes.
I had hope for this show and will hope they can salvage it, but it could have been so much better. -
Because most people seldom GET out... most of us (hey, I admit it) have no lives... what else are we gonna do after work? Going out clubbing and partying just doesn't work on weeknights if you have a full-time job. Also, let's face it, as Seinfeld once famously said, only about 5-10 percent of people out there are dateable, and I guarantee most of the regulars here on AICN are in that other 90-95 percent. All we want is some decent, cheap entertainment on the tube or in the theatres.
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He was just pointing out that a sci-fi show did well in viewership ratings, which is true (would have been odd if it didn't, considering how much it was promoted). Herc even posted a couple days ago saying that he didn't like the premiere overall (except for Katee Sackhoff, who was great as always).
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Prison Break is the tits. I love that show! Never get rid of it, its probably the most Ridiculous show on TV. BUT ITS AWESOME! At least there is no other show that is a just like it on TV. ALSO worst fucking preimere episode of the season CSI:VAGAS oh my fucking god what a horribly boring episode I thought I was watching Gerry again. Worst cliffhanger resolution ever. Also I dated a girl that looks just like the miniture killer, which was werid.
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I am glad that TV is really good right now, because after blowing my money on seeing Halloween (i know stupid me) I am afraid to waste any more fall movies. Like I've been wanting to see Superbad, but after the over hyped super boring Knocked up couldn't bring myself to go. And i was going to go this week but then TV had much better appeal. Now its out of theaters. This weeked I will have to decide to see The Kingdom or Nip/Tuck reruns i've missed??? And I agree about the full time job thing, what the fuck else do I have time for? I come home at 5 sleep wake up work out eat and then its like 8 or 9? Gotta be up by 7. So i watch tv till 3 in the morning.
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...so it KINDA applies. EW.com is reporting that Biel has PASSED on Wonder Woman, so all you guys freaking out about her in the role, relax. The rest of us will now bitch and moan.
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... I'm Blindbeard the Pirate!"
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... But it revels in it's own stupidity and hence is great, mindless fun. So far it's the new show I've enjoyed most.
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Katee would have made a better lead than Michelle but the real reason she stands out is that the Sarah character is more interesting than the Lindsey character. Which might be a problem down the line.
It does have potential but for some reason I can't imagine this AND 'Heroes' on the same network at the same time. Of course there are ten cop shows on at once..... -
Bionic suffered from a poor script that had no sense of subtext, theme, or nuance. It was paint-by-numbers. It felt like the hack, Goyer wrote it. My biggest problem was the lack of a sense of trauma from her injury. There should have been a much longer period invested in her recovery and sense of powerlessness. Then, the added kick afterward of the sudden influx of bionics.
Still, I see potential in the series if they can bring some good writers aboard. I fail to see the interest in the "bad" bionic woman, by the way. She was blander than the lead (who I think has a sense of vulnerability that might make for an interesting juxtaposition).
Reaper was actually a fun show. Well written in a Buffy sort of way. -
There, I said it. Horrible, thin-veiled parable of "modern" times. May it die quickly and with much suffering.
Thanks. -
or better yet wonder woman.. no.. wrong show otay.
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The Bionic Women pilot was a mixed bag at best. But the fact that it still won its time slot should tell network exec's that there is a large audience out there waiting for quality Sci-Fi shows. I hope network TV takes the hint. Lord knows the Sci-Fi channel seems satisfied will only a couple of original quality shows. Strange for a network that is suppose to be dedicated to the science fiction genre.
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And this site needs to stop trying to push her as the new shit. She ain't.
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Her face looked like a babboon's ass!
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As remakes go it was a vast improvement over Wagner's parachute jump accident pilot. Just what brand of rose-tinted glasses are some of you viewing the old series through? The old show sucked balls and the new one is 1000x better and has a superior story structure. I like the idea of an ordinary woman being made bionic who has to not only deal with her new-found strength but also has a highly-trained military bionic prototype who's also psychotic and after her ordinary ass. It'll make for a much better showdown when the newbie earns her stripes. Trust me, this show will get better.
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Poor throughout. I kind of expected more from the BSG guys (which is generally stellar), the only decent aspect was the scene stealing performance of Katie Sackoff who clearly enjoyed being the baddie. It made me wish that the producers had waited until BSG wrapped up and cast her in the main role as she definitely has the chops to carry a show like this. Michelle Ryan was pretty vacant (to borrow a line from the Sex Pistols) the (replacement) super web hacker sister looks like an opportunity for product placement (was that an Ibook she had stashed away?...jesus writers do you even know a thing about hackers?), the scientist/boyfriend insipid and lackluster, the Asian ponytail in need of cutting, Eddie Izzard looking his scariest in drag (the likeness is uncanny no?) and Miguel Ferrer clearly happy to get a paycheck. The only reason to watch the show further might be to watch Sackoff eat the scenery when she makes her infrequent returns as a guest star. Doomed to failure unless there is a major turnaround.
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Wow, how do you all know how this series is going to be after one episode? And to say, "It's not good" is one thing but what's with the hate?
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viewers shouldn't have to stick around for 5 episodes, just to figure out if a show is worth their time or not. Executives, creators and writers get paid a shitload to do pilots and there are plenty of people that don't get those opportunities that would likely do great. Authors need to hook readers on the first page, even the first sentence. People that make TV shows need to get that through their heads. It is almost as insulting as those poor movie executives blaming poor box office results on downloading and DVD and everything else but the quality of their product. If you can't entertain me out of the gate, somebody else can, and you lose. I don't owe you a bunch of do-overs.
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Come on, the deaf retarded chick had to go! If she stayed, Jaime would have had to get the cretin a bionic ear! Jaime got one for free, so why not her deaf goth sister/daughter/whatever the fuck she was. It would have been cool to see Jaime throw her bad attitude through some sheet-rock walls into the next building.
Also, no one likes to watch handicappers on TV....and who would date one? I would have preferred they killed her off in the first episode....like this, Jaime yells "duck!" and the deaf tard eats a bullet, in and out, cause she can't hear shit. Hence, the emotional breakdown and a reason for Jaime to go after "the other side".
Cool, now we got a hot chick playing the part, which oughta be good to rub off to. -
It would have been better if she tore a phonebook and they used the "dur dur dur dur dur" bionic sound.
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