And now, more fannishment ...

[apocalypsos]

Verdict: Boy, that was just really ludicrously awful, wasn't it?

Let's see ... I don't like the characters (I don't even like Miguel Ferrer and I adore Miguel Ferrer, and while I didn't get to see the entire original pilot where the little sister was deaf and Mae Whitman, I liked what I saw of her a lot more than I do now that she's a bratty computer hacker -- ooo, edgy! -- and a low-rate Rachel Bilson), the episode didn't flow at all as if the scenes were hastily chopped together, and the dialogue made me want to gag. "I'll bury one guy after the next"? Urgh.

And let's not even talk about the little girl saying pretty much directly into the camera, "I just thought it was cool a girl could do that," which offended some part of me so deeply I would have thrown my laptop across the room if it hadn't been, you know, my BABY. I imagine it's supposed to be some sort of thinly veiled feminist statement, but it fails so miserably I can't even comprehend. I mean, really, didn't we all think only boys could run sixty miles per hour?! (That's not what she meant, of course, but considering that was the first reaction that popped into my head, that's not good.)

And there are so very many things about the relationship between Jaime and Will that are skin-crawlingly skeevy I don't even want to think about it.

I just ... ugh. I would think I couldn't possibly hate this show any more than I already do but then I remember the PTB hired Isaiah Washington as if it were some great fucking casting coup and then I realize, no, actually, it COULD get worse.

Verdict: AWESOME. Oh, man, that's a great followup to suffering through The Bionic Woman. Charlie's great, the partner's great (the Woman in White! *squeaks*), and I maybe spazzed out at Alan Arkin (EDIT: ARGH. Meant to type Adam Arkin, typed Alan. I know the difference, I swear. That's what they get for having similar names. Hmph.) being the financial advisor/best buddy, especially during that last scene. "You want to drive the tractor." "You know, I think I kinda do." *snickers*

It inspires great fannish glee in me so I am most definitely torrenting it again next week.

Comments

[partners4life.livejournal.com]

The original Jaime and Steve were childhood sweethearts, there was so much history between them that I think Steve's motives were pure more so than Will in the remake.

Personally as a huge fan of the original Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, I find most of the "new" BW to be ridiculous plot-wise and filled with bad acting. Lindsay Wagner didn't win a Emmy for her fashion sense after all, there was real emotion to that show (6 Million Dollar Man was more campy).

I knew things were bad when I was rooting for Sarah Corvis to kick Jaime's ass. *g*

[poisontaster]

I used to watch 6M Dollar Man religiously, but I never got into Bionic Woman as much, so I was much sketchier on the details. I was also sort of embarrassingly young. *blushes* But yes, I agree.

I'd be MUCH more into the show if it was Sarah Corvis. *sighs*

[partners4life.livejournal.com]

To show you how much of a young nerd I was: I owned the Jaime Sommers doll.

Jaime was my first girl crush. I watched that show more than $6M Dollar Man, which my brother loved.

I still heart Lindsay Wagner.

The original Jaime was cool, this Jaime is lame.