I just finished watching the series premiere of The Bionic Woman and it hit me that I couldn't remember a single character's name. I was confused right from the beginning. The show has a kind of overall dreary/gray feeling to it. Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica) is in the first scene, so I thought Tivo had screwed up and I was watching Battlestar Galactica. Then a little bit later in the show to confuse me even more, Molly Price appears, who I thought was the same Katee character with a slightly different haircut. Sorry producer people. I need a lot more differentiation between characters, particularly if you are going to have the dark look and feel of a video game. Watching the show actually was a lot like watching a video game. In one of the last scenes there's this to-the-death type of fight scene (I say to-the-death because no one actually dies.) I had no idea what they were fighting about. It seemed like they were fighting just to fight. Maybe it's the chip implants. I didn't understand why the Jaime Sommers character didn't just use her nifty bionic legs to run away from crazy blond chick
It will be interesting to see where this show goes. The feel of the show is so much like Battlestar Galactica. I wonder if that will continue. I wonder if Jaime will get regular assignments like in the original. Will there be more character development? Ah... I just made a connection. Miguel Ferre plays some kind of boss guy in the show who insinuates that they'll just 'dispose' of Jaime if this doesn't work out. He played almost the same exact role in the movie Point of No Return (1993) with Bridget Fonda.



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