How Jaime got her Bionic back!

[fembuck]

The new 'Bionic Woman' preview

Plot: Struggling as a bartender and surrogate mom to her teen-aged sister, Jaime Sommers didn't think life could get much harder. But when a devastating car accident leaves her at death's door, Jaime's only hope of survival is through a cutting-edge, top-secret technology that comes at a hefty price.

With a whole new existence and a debt to repay, Jaime must figure out how to use her extraordinary abilities for good, while weighing the personal sacrifices she will have to make. Ultimately, it's Jaime's journey of self-discovery and inner strength that will help her embrace her new life as...The Bionic Woman.

Preview Comments: The editing for the preview is kind of cheesy at points, but despite that the show actually looks pretty cool. I can't help but make a "Michelle Ryan is no Lindsey Wagner" comment (although in Ryan's defenseit's hard to be as hot as the Wagner ... see *fondly remembers teenage girl!crush*) but she looks like she can be pretty bad-ass, and she does an awesome 'almost cry'.

Plus, Katee 'motherfrakking' Sackhoff shows up in the trailer as Jaime's nemsis, the first bionic woman. And in true 'motherfrakking' Sackhoff style, she manages to make the "ta-da" completely awesome!

They show also stars, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Mark "Badger/Romo Lampkin" Shepard, and Mae "Anne Beal" Whitman doing a very good, as Joy from "My Name as Earl" would put it, "deaf accent".

All in all, this show looks like it might not suck elephant cock (yeah, I'm looking at you PKJ! Getting my hopes up only to stab me in the heart every week!!!)

Comments

[aphrodite-mine.livejournal.com]

Wow, did I detect a hint of deaf-sibcest in that promo? 0_0

*will be watching this show now*

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

So how long is it going to take before fandom explodes with Jaime/Sarah fanfic?

[teh-no.livejournal.com]

Could be good, but the "OHMIGAWD HOW COULD YOU SAVE MY LIFE AND GIVE ME SUPERPOWERS YOU WHORE!" could get old fast. Really, superhero fiction, we do not need to have angst every five seconds. Cut it out.

[ralst.livejournal.com]

NBC won't let me watch the trailer but I caught a couple of preview clips on YouTube and it looks good - well, Jaime and Starbuck fighting it out looked good. But did they have to cast Michelle 'Zoe from EastEnders' Ryan? It would be hard enough for anyone to fill the lovely Ms Wagner's shoes (I had a bionic woman doll as a kid and the devotion has never died) but now I'm going to expect her to suddenly scream 'You're not my mother!' every time it starts to rain.

[trancer21.livejournal.com]

Gah!! So many mixed emotions!! I mean, sure, I'm totally going to be there and watch the Hell out of it. But this looks soo, I don't know, like an emo version of Jake 2.0. That and I can already tell it's going to take awhile to warm up to Michelle Ryan. She just looks so... milquetoast. Dammit, it's not like Jill Wagner's doing anything these days!! But there's always Bionic Starbuck bringing the HoYay! like nobody's business.

Fortunately, it looks like the boyfriend dies in the pilot. Which is good because while getting superpowers is cool and everything, having the procedure done by your overly invested boyfriend while you're unconscious and can't give consent is *totally* creepy.

[anomalys.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be fine with this if her name wasn't 'Jamie Sommers'. Just the newest, niftiest bionic woman. With Lindsay Wagner's Jamie still being the original from which they all follow. That way, LW could show up once in a while to lend a hand and show these kids a thing or two. And giving me much sentimental happiness.

There's no Oscar, no Rudy, totally new backstory... so why make Michelle Ryan try to fill someone else's shoes. She'd be much better off being her own unique character.

Though I won't miss all of proto-Jamie's crying. Or Lee Major's singing that Jamie song. That needs to never happen again.