Comments on: BIONIC WOMAN Recap: Pilot

By: Adderall.

Adderall. — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:32:22 +0000

Adderall.

Adderall.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:49:32 +0000

Jammer?! Where was jammer! I saw the Chief. Hee I’m rooting for Katee! But I root for Sylar too….

By: Carli

Carli — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:07:41 +0000

Is it bad that I’m completely rooting for the so-called “villan” and not the “hero”? Katee Sackhoff made this episode and, I have a feeling, will make the show. Count me in…at least for every episode she’s in LOL Oh, and it was nice seeing Jammer, Chief and Romo too.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:54:39 +0000

Yeah I felt Jamie didn’t pop too. But then again they didn’t give her a whole lot of good dialogue to work with either. Pilot jitters, I hope.

after all, no pilot can compare to Veronica Mars or Kristen Bell…

By: If I Get Old

If I Get Old — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:47:08 +0000

I saw this in a pre-season screening and the annoying little sister is actually better now. She was apparently recast. The original sister was more homely looking and deaf so there was some reliance on sign language as well. The original apartment that Jamie lived in was also not nearly as nice as the new set that they decided to go with. My biggest disappointment with the show was that the lead actress comes across weak in almost the entire pilot. Here’s to hoping it gets better.

By: K

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:40:24 +0000

I completely agree with your review. I know that as we (roomie & I) watched the fight scene at the end; we said “is it wrong to root for the baddie?”
I want to love this show. I’m always a complete sucker for any show with a bad a** chick…. but I thought Jamie came across as a bit whiny and annoying. I think that they should have cast the actress that plays Sharon on Battlestar as the Bionic Woman. Now that actress has the ability to play both victim and bad-ass!
Well, I plan to continue watching a few more episodes and hopefully the pilot problems are corrected.

By: jenintx

jenintx — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0000

Nice recap, and I definitely agree about the lackluster dialoge, especially in the beginning. I was cringing through the ‘do you love me?’ conversation. It felt forced and silly. The little sister was annoying the crap outta me, all trembly lip and bratty attitude. And this might sound stupid, but I’m not sure the actress who plays Jamie has enough magnetism to pull off such a strong character(for example her line about killing anybody they throw at her just made me giggle). But again, maybe that’s how’s she playing it since this is the first epi.

Now Katee Sackoff has magnetism in spades, though I’m sure playing Starbuck has certainly given her an advantage. She inhabited Sarah with real menace, but with enough charisma to make her someone I weirdly wanted to root for. The fight scene was pretty great, though I wished it hadn’t been so cut up and frenetic. Anyway, I didn’t love it completely, but there was enough substance to keep me around.

Also, am I the only one who rolled my eyes at that little girl in the car talking about how ‘cool it was a girl could run that fast’(paraphasing). Personally, I don’t need saccharine sweet girl power psa’s. I say show, don’t tell.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:00:47 +0000

Thanks for the recap. I kind of liked the show. I’m hoping it will get better because I agree that it was flat. I’ll keep trying it out for a while and see how it goes.

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