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seriousficHmmm... an analysis of failed storytelling in a series with great potential. Should be interesting...
The show had a hot lead actress, Michelle Ryan, who played Jamie Wells Sommers, she was given a pretty younger sister Becca Sommers (Lucy Kate Hale), and an attractive nemesis in Sarah Corvus (Katee Sachhoff).
Deep hurt is incoming.
What would have been more interesting is if the Berkut Group had taught Sarah seduction and she used those skills to get marks between her bionic thighs then crushed them like Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye. That would have been a vastly more entertaining use of her bionic legs than hackneyed wire jumping.
WHAT AM I READING?
ETA: If you must know, I can sum up what Bionic Woman got wrong in one scene. During the pilot, I think, there was a sequence where Jamie is testing out her powers and running at sixty miles per hour through a forest or whatever. She runs past a speeding car, there's a little girl in the backseat who spots her, she says "Mommy, Mommy, look how fast that woman is running!" You know, typical superhero stuff. The mom says something and the little girl goes back to her Gameboy, saying "I just think it's cool that a girl can do that."
Protip: If you have to insert a scene with no other purpose than to point out how cool and feminist your show is, it's probably not cool or feminist.
The show had a hot lead actress, Michelle Ryan, who played Jamie Wells Sommers, she was given a pretty younger sister Becca Sommers (Lucy Kate Hale), and an attractive nemesis in Sarah Corvus (Katee Sachhoff).
Deep hurt is incoming.
What would have been more interesting is if the Berkut Group had taught Sarah seduction and she used those skills to get marks between her bionic thighs then crushed them like Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye. That would have been a vastly more entertaining use of her bionic legs than hackneyed wire jumping.
WHAT AM I READING?
ETA: If you must know, I can sum up what Bionic Woman got wrong in one scene. During the pilot, I think, there was a sequence where Jamie is testing out her powers and running at sixty miles per hour through a forest or whatever. She runs past a speeding car, there's a little girl in the backseat who spots her, she says "Mommy, Mommy, look how fast that woman is running!" You know, typical superhero stuff. The mom says something and the little girl goes back to her Gameboy, saying "I just think it's cool that a girl can do that."
Protip: If you have to insert a scene with no other purpose than to point out how cool and feminist your show is, it's probably not cool or feminist.
