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"Does anyone else think that Jaime is sort of dumb? "

I think the 6+ million people that have ditched the show since the premiere agree with you 100%. She's an idiot. They should have just had the woman who plays Starbuck play the part instead.

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This show is OK, its no "Alias", which I think this show more then anything (steals from) seems to remind me of. Everything from the heroine working for an organization against her will, to her finance dying. And this episode was very "Alias" reminescent. Two characters who are attracted to each other going undercover as husband and wife. The bit where Jamie had to look the man in the eye to confirm his identity with that spy technology. Maybe I liked this episode because it reminded me of "Alias".

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Before the show premiered, there were little "what is it about" specials on TV, in which they interviewed the show's writers / producers. The main thing they all said in those specials was "Jamie Summers is the portrayal of a true American woman."

I suppose the fake American accent, the excessive drinking and general slutty behavior really paints an accurate picture of an American woman. Maybe the writers of this show *should* be on strike more often, or maybe forever.

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Whew! Another missed episode watching and I am again all caught up by reading Bob's review! It sounds like I didn't miss much yet again.

Thanks for the update Bob! =)

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I was SO excited for this show, coming from David Eick and having Sackhoff as a regular (sort of)....I am now completely disappointed. Last night's ep was painful to watch. If it wasn't for the occasional Galactica guest stars (the main bad guy from last night plays a cylon on BSG), I'd ditch the show forever. I get more out of watching "Hotel Babylon" on BBC America than I do watching "Bionic Woman". (Wow - I can believe I just wrote that).

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I didn't lol at all during this episode, rather, I cringed. The writing is bad and the acting by Ryan is even worse. I'm ready to say with certainty that they miscast the lead character! Unfortunately her performance is so bad that even the work of the supporting actors, who are really good btw, aren't able to save this show for me. I found myself shaking my head during this episode (more than I usually do) at the portrayal of the lead and at some of the situations the writers put her in. If they were going to copy or do some of the things Alias did for example, they should have first started with making the Bionic Woman(spy) a tad smarter. For these reasons there is no emotional investment in the character/story and if you don't care about it, why watch? Blah. It's not a good sign when I noticed that I was actively paying more attention to scenes that excluded the title character, especially the side story with the sister which should be the boring part of the show. The creators should either keep the current format and make it a guilty pleasure for those that like Michele Ryan for her looks; or recast the part, improve the writing and market it as a younger version of Alias.

Ryan's fake accent doesn't bother me at all and I don't think about it as I watch, however, her portrayal of this stupid-American-girl-turned-bionic-spy is plain terrible. I gave this show a chance...

Click.

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I think I may actually give up on this show, which is such a shame since it had so much potential. The producers made a huge mistake in hiring Michelle Ryan -- huge! They would have been better off hiring Katee Sackhoff to play the lead, she would have been perfect in the role of Jaime Sommers -- perfect in all the right ways. While I like the addition of Tom, Jordan Bridges is a breath of fresh air, I'm not sure it's enough to save this series. With the writers' strike sure to shut the series down in a few weeks I doubt Bionic Woman survives -- unless the strike runs well into the new season and NBC has little else to put on the air.

For those who think this should should be better because David Eick is involved, I would say Battlestar Galactica owes it's limited cable to success to a great group of writers and especially Ron Moore. Along with Ira Steven Behr, Moore brought much of this BSG quality to the later seasons of Deep Space Nine, vastly improving that show. Anyone who's seen Eick's resume on IMdB would see a string of one failure after another.

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ive had it with this crappy show. it should be cancelled

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God, Jamie is dumb. The whole Rules thing, the whining about nine days (geez, what, you never dated before)- man, I was agreeing with Becca, for godsake.

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It will be canceled after they run out of new episodes. The only way it will be saved is if the strike goes on for so long that they don't have any pilots for next season and need to bring all the shows from this season back.

But even then I think it would just be better to make a new gameshow.

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I completely agree with the review.

Maybe I missed something, but why isn't Tom allowed to know that Jaime is bionic? He knows that the company goes after the bad guys, so why partial disclosure? I kept wanting to scream, "TELL HIM YOU'RE BIONIC!"
There were times that I thought he'd figure it out, such as when she jumped down onto the bad guy from the rooftop and Tom asked where she came from.

Maybe the show is best interpreted as a parody of the genre. Take the obvious bad wire stunts, the accent-switching from last episode, comments such as Ruth's "getting locked in the wine vault is so cliche.", and the view from the hotel, for example. Maybe if we looks at these as examples of self-referential bad, it will seem less bad.

Or maybe not. I highly doubt that David Eick set out to make something less than good but the viewing approach might make it more palatable.

I still want to like the show. While watching it last night I realized that even though it wasn't very good I still liked it better than I liked this week's episode of Heroes and I still like BW better than this season of Heroes.
(I specifically say that "I liked it better" not "It was better" because it's subjective and debatable.)

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The show is not gaining any speed with me. The sister seems like such throwaway plots, but I did like Jonas's way of handling her and his calm phone call at the Police Station authorizing 8 million dollars. Very cool. Jaimie and the sister seem to the worst characters so far. Should've made Jaimie english, she was so much more natural with her accent. Could have had some story that the sisters were raised in different countries or something, would add or even explain the rift between them. But too late for that.

Any one else catch the Battlestar actor of the week?

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Yeah I so wanted to like this show, but I've got this episode on my PVR and I can't bring myself to watch it.

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I watched some of the show last night. I didn't really pay attention to the missing plot or anything. Was it just me or were the wires and harnesses more visible last night? I guess the less I care, the less they care.

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Someone at NBC should stick a fork in this show, because it's way past done. It's practically burnt.

Let's see:

- Bad acting by a bad actress? Check.
- Bad writing on top of that? Check.
- Poor production values by a producer who does better elsewhere? Check!
- Inability of this poster to think of anything else to criticize? Check.

I do have to say that I cringe anytime Jamie jumps through the air because her legs are STILL running in mid-flight, looking stupid. And although that younger sister is a hot-lookalike for Winnie Cooper (Wonder Years), her entire sub-plot is brutally painful to watch.

David Eick might have to bring ALL of the BSG cast over to save this sinking ship.

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I missed this episode. Judging from what I've read here, I didn't miss much.

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I agree that the show started off slow (OK...it started off sucky) but the last 2 episodes have definitely been better (I mean, it had no where to go but up but still).

Tom is a good addition (great work by the actor). I hate Antonio...I think his character adds nothing. I ESPECIALLY hate the sister, even though she was the least annoying that she's ever been this episode.

We all complain that studios make too quick judgments on shows. Strike aside, I hope NBC gives this show a chance and I hope the show's producers use that chance effectively.

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Isn't "Chuck" already on TV? Does NBC really need another spy show with cute banter? With the BSG pedigree I expected this show to be a much darker and better written update of the original. At the very least, I expected the acting would be.

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this show blows so bad it's not funny, and its ashame because I was looking forward to it all summer(even though I'd already seen the crummy first episode) did I mention this show blows?

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The only good thing to come from this show IMO was that I probably would have never taken a look at Life which airs after it.

Another case of the follow up show being superior to its lead in.

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