Bionic Woman 101

Ahh, The Bionic Woman. I used to love that show. Even the bionic dog had a little place in my heart. For years afterwards you couldn't jump without doing it in slow motion and making a boiiiinnggggg noise. As always, a remake is good news and bad news. Good news because you loved the show and you want to see it again. Bad news because they'll probably botch it horribly and you'll hate them for it. So far though, Bionic Woman (what was so wrong with the word "The"?) is pretty good. At least, in so far as they didn't screw it up. It is different though. It seems darker and she seems like she'll be moodier. The original was fairly perky, and she had a smile on her face as she clobbered someone with her arm like it was a club.

I'm moody. Don't mess with me.

The pilot is fairly straight forward. It sets up her life very briefly and introduces her sister and boyfriend. Apparently her sister isn't deaf any more, now she's a l33t hacker. It seems like they even removed the extended preview featuring the sister from YouTube. So she crashes, she gets rebuilt, she learns how to use everything, she kicks a little ass, sticks it to the man, and walks off into the sunset. Or rain, in this case. There is stuff I could nitpick (I could nitpick anything), but nothing actively annoyed me. I did notice though that Sarah (the villain) said "the first time the ear and eye implants come online" when she was being nice. She also whispered from across the room knowing she'd hear her. Yet later on when she was fighting, she tried to guess her implants and didn't know about the ear. Oops? Oh well.

Girls fighting in the rain. Aimed at guys perhaps?

I had never heard Michelle Ryan (Jamie) speak before, but she has a fairly frightening English accent. Thankfully she pulls off the American accent. Katie Sackhoff (Sarah) is good as the badass, but then we knew that from Battlestar Galactica.

Hello, is my lipstick ok?

Overall, I look forward to seeing more!