Bionic Woman (Ha! I've seen the premiere already!)

As geeks, we seem to have hit the big time. Amazon Unbox selected us to receive free four premieres of new shows! All we had to do was say yes! And we had downloaded three of them before our router went kaput. (We have a new router and hope to get Journeyman soon.) Maybe it's because we rushed to buy A Dog's Breakfast on Unbox. (Digression: A Dog's Breakfast comes out on DVD Sept. 18! Order now! We have! There are extras on the DVD that don't come with Unbox.)

So what follows is my review of Bionic Woman. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, but I'll put most of it below the cut for length. By the way: if you don't want spoilers, avoid the five-minute preview that's all over the Internet. You can figure out almost the whole darned plot from those five minutes. I watched weeks ago. I wish I hadn't.

Here's my quick summary: if you think the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is good, you'll probably like the re-imagined Bionic Woman. David Eick was involved in both, and they have similar sensibilities. Everything is darker, gritter (nastier, bloodier). Some of it is thought-provoking, and some just seems overdone (like the product of three am dorm discussions of philosophy). I'm always of two minds about new BSG, and I feel similarly about Bionic Woman (hereafter BW).( More about Bionic Woman )

Bionic Woman (Ha! I've seen the premiere already!)

As geeks, we seem to have hit the big time. Amazon Unbox selected us to receive free four premieres of new shows! All we had to do was say yes! And we had downloaded three of them before our router went kaput. (We have a new router and hope to get Journeyman soon.) Maybe it's because we rushed to buy A Dog's Breakfast on Unbox. (Digression: A Dog's Breakfast comes out on DVD Sept. 18! Order now! We have! There are extras on the DVD that don't come with Unbox.)

So what follows is my review of Bionic Woman. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, but I'll put most of it below the cut for length. By the way: if you don't want spoilers, avoid the five-minute preview that's all over the Internet. You can figure out almost the whole darned plot from those five minutes. I watched weeks ago. I wish I hadn't.

Here's my quick summary: if you think the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is good, you'll probably like the re-imagined Bionic Woman. David Eick was involved in both, and they have similar sensibilities. Everything is darker, gritter (nastier, bloodier). Some of it is thought-provoking, and some just seems overdone (like the product of three am dorm discussions of philosophy). I'm always of two minds about new BSG, and I feel similarly about Bionic Woman (hereafter BW).( More about Bionic Woman )