No respect for Viewers

When President Ronald Reagan deregulated the American television industry in the 1980's, the networks adopted a policy of playing it safe, minimizing risks and dumping any series that failed to show immediate rating success. That's why today, outstanding shows like The Bionic Woman starring Michelle Ryan have been cancelled before even completing a full season.

Fortunately, the American television networks were not operated in this manner in the 1970's, otherwise some of the great shows of that era would have been cancelled before gaining widespread popularity.

Andy,

If you're not the same angsty, hostile, venom spitting troll that harassed and attacked me at ALEX.net... then sinceerly apologize for my remarks I made to you in this thread.

Okay. . .sooooo. . .bashing the actors and producers and writers such as the above quote makes everything better?

. .Richard Anderson has a vanity licence plate with BIONIC on it. . .he's leaving himself WIDE OPEN for ridicule.

Miguel Ferrer basically said if he was ever caught blatantly living in the past, then he (Miguel, that is) would also be open to ridicule

And no, Miguel is not ugly!)

And just because it's a remake does not mean it has to be a cookie-cutter exact replica. . .it's called creative licence

but thought the (1970's) Bionic Woman was lame

Unfortunately thats the new TV and movie corperate mentality towards remakes about 80% of the time now. In fact some actually go to extreme lengths to piss off as many fans as possible. Banking on the negative reaction to draw in an initial influx of the curious.

Others just want a well known name to slap some near unrelated story onto.

And others seem to just despise the original and want to drag it down by whatever means necessary.

Bionic Woman falls into the "Name to slap a plot onto" category by admission of the writers, producers, etc.

Yes it would have been nice to see some sort of closure to the series. But remember that it was cut off in mid stride by the writers strike and that pretty much left it DOA. And TV series to have anything remotely resembling closure is a rare thing indeed.

Was the series bad? Yes and no. Strip off the title "Bionic Woman" and just look at the series as it stood and there was alot of potential shown. Unfortunately the uneven writing really damaged any hope. Some of the early episodes just herked and jerked around haphazardly or started a plot arc and then nulled it by the end and this doesnt engender good responses.

Any series that hase the execs screwing with it, like Firefly/Serenity, is pretty much doomed from the start.

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by - renamoretti on Mon Aug 4 2008 10:50:06
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I'm still baffled as to why the networks and producers think it's good tactics (let alone good form) to insult the shows they're adapting.

It's just completely destructive in every way.

There is no integrity with the networks. I heard about the show just before it wentr into production. I thought to myself nothing could really compete with the original. The original was so cheesy but Wagner gave it so much heart and humanity that it really worked. But I also thought this show is doomed because it won't be an instant hit and therefore won't get the time necesary to get an audience. For those to young to remember, the reason the original became a series was because The Bionic Woman was a hit already on the six million dollar man.

Anyway, this really was a great show. I just watched the 8 episodes and I'm really upset that NBC wouldn't even give it a chance. Instead they would rather put Leno on primetime and play it safe ... so typical of NBC. In the future I suggest you all only watch premium channel series. At least they finish what they start.

I really hope another network picks this show up.

Macklin Crew