Bionic Woman

Wednesdays NBC

I hope you read this in time, so you can catch the new episode. I really liked the premise of the show and I think there is a lot of potential.

First let's discuss some minor quibbles:

1) I have mentioned previously how I hate school scenes. Bionic Woman's Will Anthros is lecturing at a university for some sort of bioethics course. As Jamie Sommers walks in, he finishes up his last slide, by saying this is what we will be looking at in bioethics. Are you telling me he took one hour and managed not even to get through his course syllabus? What a tool of a teacher and a waste of class time.

2) "Why do you like me?" Jamie Sommers
"You're different" Will Anthros

Boy, that is real glowing reason why you like someone. You're different? Like she smells? She has six toes? She eats with her hands from out of a bowl? What the heck does that mean?

3) The obvious setup that Jamie Sommers dad, not yet seen, but supposedly involved in revolutions, protests, and demonstrations, will turn up later in some sort of manner to further the conspiracy-like atmosphere already established in this episode.

4) Jamie Sommers drops a blade into CONCRETE! Shouldn't the blade just clatter on the ground?

Other than that, I really enjoyed how quickly this show established a framework which contains enough mysteries and questions for a watcher to come back to. I am stoked about the training sequences that will certainly appear in the future. Any good action show has to have training sequences to reach legendary status (re: Rocky III, Karate Kid, Empire Strikes Back, heck even The Last Starfighter). Any other suggestions? The potential mentor "Jae Kim" is Korean and he is even played by a Korean actor, Will Yun Lee! Usually Hollywood gets a Chinese actor to fill in the role, which I hate. Props to LOST for actually casting Korean actors for Korean parts. Katee Sackhoff, from Battlestar Galactica (not the old one), is essential in the role of Sarah Corvis, because Bionic Woman is obviously too powerful so it helps to have a foil who is just as strong.

The scenes where Jamie Sommers discovers her powers a la Spiderman are pretty freakin' cool and I can't wait to see some more of this show.

Finally, I was surprised to see that this show was filmed in Vancouver. Hello UBC Library masquerading as a US university. Hello Monk McQueens? Or was that the Cannery. Hello Hastings St, doubling as a seedy place where criminals meet. Hello Granville St. I might just watch this show to see what I recognize. What mystifies me is with our high Canadian dollar, what would be the reasons for filming this show up here now?

I leave you by saying, CHECK THIS SHOW OUT.