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 Not for Mac users September 10, 2007
12 out of 27 found this review helpful
I wish I could rate this pilot. But it's not available for Mac users.
You're missing a huge chunk of your target audience, Amazon.
 Meh.... September 19, 2007
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
Stringy-haired brunette Michelle Ryan raising her rebellious teen sister on her own finds her life spinning out of control when she is struck by a seemingly out of control truck and hospitalized.
I found Michelle's acting to be better than I expected. The teen sister was very annoying. At that age does she really need a baby sitter? Jamie's relationship with the professor just didn't excite me. He wasn't particularly handsome and was a little old. I also thought Jamie was a tad ungrateful for being `re-constructed' doubtless there are thousands of accident victims who would love to be in her situation. The whining, hand-wringing and belligerent attitude was annoying.
Overall, I wasn't that excited by the premiere. I think I will wait and see a few more episodes on tv before I write it off altogether, but so far I was underwhelmed.
 Sorry Amazon - Take a Hike NBC September 11, 2007
8 out of 30 found this review helpful
I'm primarily a Mac user though I have a PC for the few things I cannot do with my Mac. Watching TV shows shouldn't be one of those things.
Amazon - your DRM is unacceptable and since you aren't compatible with the MacOS I'm not even willing to hold my nose to use Unboxed.
NBC - your greed and cluelessness is incredible. Remember iTunes? I'm still using it and until you do to I guess if I miss one of your shows I just miss it.
 Stronger, Faster... and no silly "bionic boing" sound effect! Excellent start! September 11, 2007
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
As a "Battlestar Galactica" fan, I am thrilled to see one of the producers of "Galactica" is behind this remake of the Bionic Woman. I can say with great satisfaction that "Bionic Woman" is every bit as excellent as the previews were promising. The special effects were striking (but you may already know that from the previews). More importantly, the acting range from the lead is excellent. With the great emotional range of Michelle Ryan, this show could be bigger than, say, "Alias" (which was hampered a bit by a narrow acting range). I also was really pleased to see that Katee Sackhoff has wonderful line deliveries -- since I'd only seen her as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on "Battlestar" I honestly did not know if she could play other characters. Indeed she can, and it is wonderful to see her enjoying herself as a villain. The rest of the cast, aside from the lead's love interest, didn't appear much, so we'll have to see more before we know how they gel. The look of the show is delightfully gritty.
The premiere episode is appropriately emotionally wrenching. Jamie is a woman about to enter her adult life, whose plans for a "normal" future are derailed suddenly. It is a credit to the writers that she is not invulnerable before she is bionic, and, as her new adversaries remind her, neither is she invulnerable after! But she is willing to persevere, to try to balance the darkness with every ounce of her strength. It's a good ideal, and it needs a dark canvas for it to be portrayed authentically.
I think if NBC stays out of the way and lets Bionic Woman remain as intense as the pilot episode, they will have a hit. Networks may finally be learning from shows like "Galactica" and "Heroes" that when a producer has a passion for an imaginative series, the audience will love it if the producer is given a free hand.
I've seen some negative comments about the show, but I also remember how many people hated the new "Galactica", too -- and yet it built a strong audience in its first season and the second season was even stronger. Give this show a season, and see it build a generation of fans.
In a word, terrible September 18, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
To be honest, I shut it off about thirty minutes into it. During what I saw, there wasn't a single scene that I hadn't seen before, done better. The dialog is stale, the plot is overblown, the acting is wooden-- in conclusion, if I had paid for this I would have been very upset.
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