Re: "Bionic Woman" re****ted officially cancelled

Steven L. wrote:
> I didn't like the character of Jaime Sommers.  I don't know if it was 
> the writing or the actress (Michelle Ryan) or both, but there just 
> wasn't the warmth there that Lindsay Wagner had in the original BW.

It's because they played her like a stupid ****.  She wasn't someone to 
root for, she was someone you wanted run over by a semi.

> I didn't like the rest of the premise.  I know people are upset about 
> Iraq and all, but how many evil dark Government agents can we see 
> depicted on TV and in the movies already?  In the original BW, Richard 
> Anderson made Oscar Goldman into a believable, dull-but-decent
bureaucrat.

It wasn't so much that, it was the fact that Berkut basically held a gun 
to her head and said "do what we say or we'll kill you".  That's not a 
good start for a working relation****p.

> I guess that in sum, there just wasn't anyone to cheer for in a show 
> that's supposed to be about a modern-day superhero.  The original BW was

> fun--a bit campy, a bit tongue-in-cheek.  The new BW show forgot how to 
> have fun.  It took itself much too seriously.

Like Battlestar Galactica, it was dark, dreary and disgusting, which 
isn't surprising considering the Exec.

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