Bionic Woman: Paradise Lost
By fred | October 6, 2007
(S01E02) So after watching the pilot last week, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about the show. It really didn’t look like nothing but a hollow cliché and while it started well, I blame such numbers on the whole promotion NBC did for the show.
Because if there’s one thing NBC have been good at, at least for some of their new shows, not the best by the way, it’s promoting them. But over-promoting a show is not an indication of quality, quite the contrary one might even say.
Now that a second episode had gone by, what’s the verdict.
Well, put it that way : the show is as bad as its credits. It’s self-involved, lame, pretentious, obnoxious, flat, and boring. In other words, we all know networks love to cancel new series after only a few episodes aired, and I think Bionic Woman is my first choice for NBC. This show has to go, and if next episodes are following into the footsteps of the pilot and this one, it hopefully will.
Because there is really nothing good left in the show, at all. The little sister is already such a stupid cliché you do want her to move away to the dad, or anywhere else for that matter. Always they fight, you wonder if one of them at least will cry, and by the end they’re of the episode they hugging & kissing again. I think no one wants her to be around, and let me remind you that she hasn’t even started to help the big’sis with her super hacking abilities…
They had a pretty cool, ass-kicking bionic woman on the show, and no that’s not Jamie, yet they found a way to make her less interesting and somewhat boring this week. Well done, retards.
The big virus drama was, well, boring. The way everything went down and got resolved was, well, boring. The on girl who’s gonna be a cure… It’s all so cliché it hurts, it really does. Just like when she’s in a bar, she now boring friends one minute, and the next she’s spilling out her guts to Pope, a guy she met in a book store and he’s trustworthy because, well, he’s got a dog.
At some point she does ask why she’s telling him all this, and I think the only reason she does, is the exact same reason she actually ask the question out loud : it’s all part of that big old fat cliché of a plot this episode is made from. Guess what? Turns out Pope will be his manager or supervisor or whatever, yeah yeah he lied and in fact has no dog, and he’ll come to the rescue to save her right in time when she’ll be threaten later on.
I can’t see how anyone could find this experience even remotely enjoyable, unless they’re under 12. Jamie refusing to talk to the guy who owns her legs, arm and eye only to sleep with the first guy she sees, then deciding she might want to help save the world - especially after preventing a girl from jumping out from a building, and she’s sent on a job while obviously not being ready. All that, her training sequence, nothing is any good on that show.
And I don’t mean to be bad towards Michelle Ryan, but I am starting to think she was a wrong choice. Maybe she’s asked to do it that way, but she does play a quite odd Jamie. She does not come out as a strong character, but a whinny, spoiled bitch. And it doesn’t help that they do not have us to care for her. I don’t see anyone rooting for her during this episode.
She goes on her first job, she thinks she can take any military guy just because she’s bionic, and in the end she gets lucky to make it alive. I can’t tell you how much I wished, at that time, that the real bionic woman would have been in such a situation. Cause she would have kicked some ass, and I’d have had some fun watching the show.
They created buzz about the show by hiring Isaiah Washington after he got fired for being a gay-hater, and now hope teenagers will like the show because you might get a great view at Michelle Ryan’s breast. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but you can count me out.
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