Those of you who have been following my entertainment-centric musings over the last few months know what an awesome time I’ve had going through the past three seasons of Battlestar Galactica. So I was really excited to get in on the ground floor of Bionic Woman from Galactica co-producer David Eick. Here’s what I thought, the pluses and the minuses:
+Relatively un-clichéd sister-sister dynamic.
+Katee Sackhoff’s segments are great; I really want to know what the deal is with her.
+Great special effects for a TV show.
+The fights are incredible.
-Clichéd “walking in on a seminar to foreshadow sci-fi plot” moment.
-The dialogue is way too forced, but just by a couple of degrees I think a little bit of clean-up is all the show really needs.
-“I’m pregnant…” “Marry me…” Car wreck… A nemesis? Wow, we’re not exercising any decompression here are we? Really, this seems to be one of the weaker points in this pilot, it’s all too rushed; by the first commercial break we’ve already seen a majority of the show’s exposition. Everything we’re shown in that expositional ten minutes doesn’t even seem to have any real purpose other than to instill a false emotional reaction in the viewer (the pregnancy for example, there’s no real reason for that little detail other than to give Jamie some motivation/indignation) any exposition beyond that first segment of show seems far too forced to have any real value.
-Plot holes, lots of them.
Yet despite these structure flaws I found myself wanting more when the credits rolled, the characters each seem to possess enough depth to expand into a thrilling serial that will most definitely keep me hooked for the remainder of the season.
I give it a C+ with a note that says “shows signs of improvement”
