Terrible writing, acting, character development, plot, editing...I could go on. Worst premiere I've seen in ages. A few (mediocre) special effects and the producers think they've created something worth watching. They didn't even come close.

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Having not yet seen Bionic Woman I cannot comment, only to say that I enjoyed her in Eastenders. Maybe the detractors can't understand U.K. English. As an Anglotexan albeit from Lancashire I find it no trouble and I sincerely wish Michelle the very best in her new venture .Fred

I'm in the boat that REALLY wanted to like this. With LOST on Hiatus and The Office being the only other TV show I watch I am searching for other shows. First I'd like to talk about the good points. Miguel Ferrara and that’s it. Now the bad points. Michelle Ryan is like a REALLY REALLY poor mans Jennifer Garner. Take away from that she has NO personality and exhibits NO chemistry with any of her co stars. This show has 0 personality and not a single likeable character.. I really want to watch a show with people that I care about. I can forgive plot/story and believability so long as they have a world full of REAL people with HUMAN plights. This show doesnt even try in these areas since its so concerned with plot twists and being hip. And whats with the sound track? It feels like an early 90's Cinemax film. VERY lame and outdated. I reccommend calling up JJ Abrams OR Joss Whedon to fix this one.. Hell... Mark Cherry would make this a lot more interesting..

Hey, where did she get those bionic high heals?
How else does she do those landings?

I thought the pilot was boring.

Would have been cool if the guy said "that's 6 million dollars we got in you, i'm your land lord" instead of 50 million.

Also, i think bionic woman is kind of unattractive, on the verge of ugly and she looks like she's kind of fat in some scenes.

I've watched plenty of bad TV because of hot chicks. Dark Angel comes to mind.

Someone sent me this BW parody...

http://tinyurl.com/2hgox3

Can't sleep, scary robot vagina will eat me...

What hasn't been said? I was disappointed like all the rest. There are parts of it that show promise and I'll give the show a few more chances, but the pilot is supposed to make you WANT to watch the show.

This one failed at that.

As everyone has said, the lead is not very charismatic. I just didn't care about her. Also, why was she so angry about being bionic? That made absolutely no sense to me. Scared? Sure. Mad that you saved my life and gave me superpowers? Not so much.

As for calling the sister being kidnapped, etc, *I'm* calling the sister hacking into the nanites or whatever it is that are making her sister bionic. You know it's gotta happen.

Honestly, though, here's the thing that would have saved the pilot for me. I never did notice that they said Miguel Ferrer's character's name. At the end, when he meets up with Jamie and talks to her, I would have LOVED if as she walked away he said to her, "Oh..by the way...I'm Oscar Goldman." and then she does her walk into the sunset bit.

I saw the pilot on Comcast's Video On Demand.

I was less than impressed.

However, it wasn't as bad as "Flash Gordon."

The beauty of the original was the tragic love story -- The Bionic Woman and The Bionic Man vs The Bionic Man and The Doctor.

And the good guys were just that...the good guys.

I miss those days when it was okay for TV characters to be "good guy" -- to be polite, honorable, capable of love, honest (with a tendency to a few white lies), loyal, a good sense of humor, and a character that if I meant them in real life I could trust and actually like as a person.

Sigh.

"Bionic Woman" is all flash and no soul.

Morjana

The pilot isn't that bad. Yes, Ryan was quite stiff in this opener, and hopefully when she's more comfortable with the accent she'll loosen up.

Honestly, I really hated Katee Sackhoff. She's great on Battlestar, but in this opener, she ruined the beginning of the pivotal rooftop scene. Obviously, her lines didn't come across well, because you can tell they had her in a studio reciting the lines again and dubbed them over. Still, the scene stinks, and the writing was awful.

Despite that, I have very high hopes for the show, and I've seen some glimmers of brilliance. Hopefully it'll smooth out over time.

Faith was a great addition to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an "alternate" version of slayerhood, if you will, with a charismatic performance by Eliza Dushku. It worked because Sarah Michelle Gellar had Buffy down perfectly ... Dushku was good, she was given plenty of chances to steal scenes, but in end, there was always Gellar/Buffy.

Katee Sackhoff is at least as charismatic in Bionic Woman as Dushku was as faith. But there's no SMG here. Sackhoff blows the titular actress off the screen, and the imbalance ruins the show. It's not a good thing when you spend all of your time watching a show and thinking "I don't care about this lead character, when is Starbuck gonna be in a scene?" If it isn't clear, I'm a huge fan of Sackhoff, but I don't need this, a mediocre show salvaged only by the occasional appearance of one interesting actress.