Bionic Babe is back… for now at least

A friend of mine is dying to know what I thought of the new Bionic Woman series which made it’s UK debut here last night. He knows I was very excited by the prospect of seeing the woman who was once Zoe Slater, Michelle Ryan not only playing a Yank but also playing a Yank who is part cyborg.

Let me start by saying that I was not a fan of the original series of the Bionic Woman that came on in the mid-70’s, but I was a huge fan of the Six Million Dollar Man, but then who wasn’t… that show was cool. The Bionic Woman on the other hand was just, for want of a better word, shit! I mean a woman with a gigantic blond head of hair, wearing silly disguises running around saving people is a silly concept, but when you throw in her bionic dog Maximilian… come on!

Despite this I was still excited about The Bionic Woman returning to the small screen… the excitement is still with me, but it is waning a bit, replaced with thoughts of how could Americans not like this show??? It is a million times better then the original Bionic Woman which ran for three years… how could they cancel this show after eight episodes. The budget is bigger meaning the effects are better, and it is darker then the original… and well just better in all ways. Not only that you tune in to watch one bionic woman and get another one thrown in for free, a blond one. And if you watch them fight, I think they fancy each other, which means that if the show wasn’t cancelled after eight episodes we could have had some girl-on-girl bionic loving in the future.

I will admit that the dialogue is pretty bad, but in my opinion it is so bad it was good… if you know what I mean. Also, Michelle Ryan looked fabulous, so good in fact that I didn’t even notice that her acting is still a bit unpolished. (OK, I did notice, but I didn’t care.)

So to answer my friends inquiry about the show; I liked it! It is good stupid television fun, and I pray that some television exec somewhere liked it as well and brings it back, because what the world needs now is more Bionic Woman, and less X-Factor, American Idol, Big Brother type crap!