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Bionic Woman<\/strong><\/em>:  Gritty as expected.  Nice fx.  Decent acting.  While the Evil (or Morally Questionable) Government Black Ops Thang is hardly new, nor is the Rogue Experiment That Had To be Covered Up Thang, not to mention the whole Young Doctor Uses Unauthorized Techniques On His Dying Girlfriend Thang, it works well enough (so far) that I’m willing to come back for more.  Though, annoyingly, NBC (or whoever it is) seems to be about 1-2 minutes earlier than the rest of the world.  DVR adjusted.<\/p>\n

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Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em>:  “The Sound of the Drums” Part 1 of 2 — the Series 3 finale.  Grand stuff.  The Master (yeah, I’ll go ahead and say it) in rare form.  World-wide conspiracy and danger.  The unspoken implication that Earth is in danger precisely because it is valued by the Doctor.  I am dying to watch next episode — and I don’t want to, as it’s the series finale.  *sigh* <\/p>\n

Painkiller Jane<\/strong><\/em>:  Wrapping up Season 1 with the sort of interesting-but-not-very-clever sort of way the series as a whole has been handled.  I’ve wanted to like this a lot more than I have, but aside from some interesting premises and villains-of-the-week, it’s been hampered by cliches and conventional writing — and the last episodes at NICO have been even more lame than the rest.  I’ll watch next season — if there is one — but I’d rather watch Dresden Files<\/em> any day.<\/p>\n

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Torchwood<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>:  Ianto’s turn in the emotional wringer, with plenty of backstory tossing about and Captain Jack doing a Jane Vasco better than Jane ever has.  Witty, dramatic, and steadily improving, even if both Torchwood and Painkiller Jane<\/em> seem full of people who really ought to know to shoot first and clean up the messes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bionic Woman:  Gritty as expected.  Nice fx.  Decent acting.  While the Evil (or Morally Questionable) Government Black Ops Thang is hardly new, nor is the Rogue Experiment That Had To…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10927,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/this_is_not_your_fathers.html","url_meta":{"origin":11300,"position":0},"title":"This is Not Your Father’s Bionic Woman","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-May-07 6:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"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.\u00a0 NBC's being smart and...","rel":"","context":"In "TV"","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10458,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/parts_is_parts_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":11300,"position":1},"title":"Parts is parts","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Jan-07 11:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I would worry about the plan to remake the old TV series The Bionic Woman, if it weren't being done by David Eick, who's producer on Battlestar Galactica. 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