Lightning might strike again, as some of the talent of Battlestar Galactica bring The Bionic Woman back from the 80s to the small screen for NBC. NBC’s being smart and allowing (or putting themselves) material up on YouTube for folks to view:
It all looks pretty nice, gritty and rainy and dark and just what you’d expect. That may be a bit of a problem. The doc looks like he’s just out of med school (romantic interest warning!), and the gruff LeCarre “you’re an agent of mine, I own your life” schtick is getting a bit long in the tooth.
Plus … she runs like a girl.
That said … I’m certainly not cringing at the thought. Yet.
(via Doyce)
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Yeah…
I dunno. Maybe it’s just me, but I have yet to enjoy one of these series remakes. I’m the same way with comics; I regard Marvel’s Ultimate line as a perversion of the “what really happenned.”
Perhaps that makes me over-critical. I watch the clips and focus on every “flaw.” For example, the sound effects that seem to be taken from some kung fu movie. Why a roar of air when she jumps? When Steve and Jamie used their powers in the original shows, the dramatic effect was achieved by sounds that told us they were using their powers, but which weren’t supposed to be sounds actually created by the use of their powers.
$10 says Dave is thinking right now about the Enterprise “whooshing” as it soars through space. And I accept that as dramatic license, but not this, which is why I say I may be over-critical. My fault or theirs, I can see that I wouldn’t enjoy this any more than I did the new Battlestar Galactica or Night Stalker shows.
I wish they’d just create their own characters and concepts instead of rehashing the culture of my youth. Stop messing with my nostalgia, already!
Heh.
I understand where you’re coming from. Honestly speaking, the new BG was such a different show from the original that if you changed all the names, the connection would be acknowledged but it wouldn’t be seen as a ripoff. Should they have changed the series name, then?
I don’t mind remakes as long as they have something new to say with the old premise (and, of course, as long as they say it well). The new BG does so, IMO. (I can’t speak for Night Stalker — never caught the new version.)
“Anthracites?” They fixed her with coal? I guess they couldn’t call them “nanites” without getting Seven Of Nine pissed off at them (and nobody wants that!
Still, pretty hot stuff. I see clearly the intent now – a platform for chicks fighting.
Brief observations:
– You can barely hear Michelle Ryan’s accent! Cool!
– Katee Sackhoff is on the show? Keen!
– I hope I can get this show in Canada.
Well, it looks like it was filmed in “Seacouver,” so that’s pretty close to Canada.
Yeah, the “Anthrocytes” (I’d guess is the spelling) threw me. Not sure where that fits in with “bionics,” but I guess cybernetics, per se, are passe.
Seacouver…hah!
It’s really more a question of which private Canadian broadcaster will buy the distribution rights. If neither of the Big Two do (CBC doesn’t buy primetime American programming anymore…especially after that reality show debacle of last summer), I’m gonna have to invest in a taller antenna to pull in the NBC signal from Plattsburgh.
Better “anthrocytes” than “nanobots”. I’m so tired of nanobots.