"Bionic Woman" Review

Big Summer isn't it? I haven't been around much, obviously, but I still keep looking at what is happening on the site and to everyone, by reading your blogs. So, last year I wrote a couple or reviews for all the new shows I had seen, but now, it's time to do it for this year. This is the time of the year when we are a little bit excited about all those new shows. Personally, I'm always more excited one week before the show officially begins on TV. But right now is also the time when the network are sending the new shows to their station so that the people over there can watch them and leak them on the internet. The original "Bionic Woman" wasn't the best thing on TV, but it was interesting at least. The new "Bionic Woman" certainly isn't going to break any record in audiences unless big changes happens. Not so long ago SCIFI Network "Painkiller Jane" premiered. I never hidden the fact that I wasn't a fan of that show because I thought the acting, casting and stories were bad. Now, I'm not hidden my feeling for "Bionic Woman." Don't get me wrong, I Love when shows are produced in Vancouver, Canada but we have talent over there that isn't used. "Bionic Woman" uses a simple network plan. "Cut the budget and lets hope for the best." Selecting second class actors and having a story that wouldn't make it inside a book is certainly the best way to create a television phenomenon and make history. The pilot is simply awful. Too much in not enough time. The story gives you a feel that everything is cut and pasted from another show or movie. It cuts there and there and there and.. I'm lost. But the pilot doesn't only give you this feeling, it is also extremely depressing to watch. You get the impression that the writer(s) tried to force the story by adding characters that you don't need. One of them is Jamie's sister. A young girl who is deaf and rebel but is also having a big family issue with her sister. $20 that we will get an episode on this (please, shot me if it happens). The thing is that we don't care about her. It's one of those character that have been added to drag the story. From the main character to the guys in the background there is a major issue with the casting. I never was a fan of Katee Sackhoff, and never will, but I can't expect an actress, that I think need to go study acting a little bit more, to do an amazing performance with awful material. Miguel Ferrer has also been casted in the pilot and I was quite surprised by him been casted in that show. Through I like him as an actor, he has the exact same role that he had on "Crossing Jordan." The boss that doesn't mind if his favorite employe does what ever he wants. The actor that I was most excited about was Mark Sheppard. Great actor with a whole lot of potential. Strangely, and unsurprisingly, he doesn't get the best role. He is the bad guy in prison. Not even one of the main bad guys but he does a good job with his role, as always. Frankly, I'll give the show one shot. Hopefully someone will wake up and do some changes but that never happens generally. Anyway, you'll each get your chance to make your own opinion and I'll be respecting it. Have a next day everyone! Next Review: "Caveman" (It's a positive review)