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An Early Review of Bionic Woman
Written by Brenda on September 24th, 2007
Tomorrow we are going to have a full lineup of screen shots of Bionic Woman, and Wednesday a full review of the pilot episode. But to get you ready for all this, I thought I would give an outside source review for the pilot episode. This reviews comes from TVSquad.com and I think does a pretty good job of critiquing the first episode. So here is a small snippet of the review, for the rest please go support TVSquad with a visit.
The pilot episode did a great job to introduce all the shows main players that will be supporting Jamie in her transition to Bionic-womanhood. Little Lucy Hale, star of the upcoming Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (did they really need a sequel?), does a great turn as Jamie’s angsty hacker kid sister. The opening banter between them is pretty smart and realistic and she will be a great focus for Jamie’s emotional side (i.e. when she is not saving the world). Although, I can’t help but wonder how many time’s she will be captured or used as bait throughout the season … just remember you heard me call if first.
Also another good character to watch out for is Miguel Ferrer as Jonas Bledsoe, the highest ranking officer in the Bionics program revealed so far. Ferrer is the perfect stern leader with a troubled past who wants to complete his mission at any cost. Ferrer is probably most famous for his role as Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan, but I remember him as Bob Morton from Robocop (one of my favorite movie deaths ever).
Sans characters, plot, everything, Bionic Woman is still a surprisingly beautiful show. The cinematography and editing, as well as the pacing of the shots, are absolutely outstanding. Although there are shows on cable like Mad Men that have high, almost movie-like production values, it is very rare to see a show that looks this good on basic network television. The action and special effect sequences were also pretty top-notch, but a little shaky. To be fair, what I saw was the working version and the screener said the effect was only a temporary holder for the real effect that will air next Wednesday.