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[Raph's Girl]

NBC has given a cast-contingent pilot order to a reimagined version of the 1970s TV series The Bionic Woman, from Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick, Variety reported. Eick is co-writing and co-producing the project with Laeta Kalogridis (The Dive).

Eick has said that he's been combing through the library at Universal, where his production company is based, to find another title to revive following Battlestar. The original version of The Bionic Woman—a spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man— starred Lindsay Wagner as a woman whose body is mechanically enhanced to save her life.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39391

Raph's Girl note: So of all the shows to pick he chose Bionic Woman. Welp....it's the 70's all over again... we got BSG on Sci-fi, Bionic Woman on NBC, and A-Team on CW.

[Anarky]

Wait, they're remaking the A-Team? How's that humanly possible without losing the last bit of dignity they have? The A-Team was abysmally bad back then, for which it was loved, but remaking it? Nah...

[ZariusTwo]

The A-Team was'nt bad at all, it was INTENTIONALLY tounge-in-cheek, with only a few subversive, darker episodes, but this remake will no doubt depict the team as "Iraq war desserters" or worse, start some psudo-religious monolouge in the manner of Galactica and bore the audiences to death whilst still being good

[Mandi-chan]

I loved watching the Bionic Woman when I was a kid (they used to show the repeats...and I loved it!).

I hope the remake lives up to the original!

[ZariusTwo]

Look, it's not going to be, like Galactica, it's going to be more "reallistic" and world weary, focusing on having cybernetic enhancements yet living a modern women's life, that sort of thing.

That does'nt mean it's going to be a bad thing, but Galactica certaingly does'nt live up to the original, because it's a completly different series and lives on it's own, and is treated and respected as it's own more and more. Heck, since it's lasted longer than the original series, to most people it's the definitive version of the franchise without living up to it. Living up to the original means incorporating it's original attributes.

Doctor Who lives up to the original because it's a continuation, and therefore contains the original attributes, Smallville lives partially up the Superman mythology because it incorporates all aspects of the mythology, Galactica only borrows certain parts neccersary to continue and expand it's own story

[MadPirateBunny]

The best part of Eighties TV line up was the era. The Eighties. It was the times. The hair, the attitude, the hope.
I can appreciate the want to rebirth what was laid to a decent rest but I do not believe it can be duplicated.
As with Miami Vice, they wanted to get it a 2006 polish. Gave it an edge that those shows were never supposed to have. Yes, there were serious moments and sometimes the drama got intense, but if you watch the first few seasons, it was not only fun but innocent.
As we were.
We were naive or at least allowed ourselves a cushion of gullibility.
This day and age we have exposed ourselves to too much. We know too much and can no longer allow ourselves to sit back and let Hollywood fool us.
We have watched too much of Myth Busters and watched too many episodes of CSI to know that a car will simply blow up on impact.
We have seen OJ on trial, have watched real life ER shows and, worse yet, have had kids massacre kids in actual real-life-this-is-not-special-effects classrooms.

Over the past 20 years we have been diluted like pure rocky mountain water into the chemical enhanced junk we drink out of bottles and our innocence eked out like viscous liquid from a filled balloon.

Cold and messy on the floor.

So let them make these modern versions of favorite classics.
But don’t expect that same warm fuzzy feeling you got when Jamie tucked the hair behind her ear. Or they did another wild and crazy trick to get B.A on the plane.

They’ll do it, but it won’t be the same. It’s a marvelous idea born of good intentions and teenaged dreams but in the end it comes out twisted and deranged like warped metal caught in the machine of change.

As long as we know that going in, we won’t cry too many tears over that which we have lost.

[ZariusTwo]

I actually enjoyed Miami Vice, Mann knows the series inside and out, and it was a great reflection of contemporary Miami

And shows like Nip/Tuck are keeping up the honourable legacy of The A-Team...I mean, come on, plastic surgeons taking on masked serial killers and transexual teen-screwing life coaches is just glorious stuff. :)

I also love the current Galactica, but it bores the s*it out of me, sometimes it's the most intense thing on television, then there's...well...The Kobal arc.

[MadPirateBunny]

The best thing about Galatica is that they make Starbuck a chick. Not only was it ballsy but it also let any of the ones from the original fans know right out front that things were going to be different. There weren’t any false pretenses of how it was going to mirror the First Galactica.

[Raph's Girl]

British actress Michelle Ryan has landed the title role on NBC's drama pilot "The Bionic Woman," a re-imagination of the 1970s series that starred Lindsay Wagner

Ryan, best known for her five-year turn on the popular BBC soap "EastEnders," will play a bright woman who is transformed into a technological wonder with $50 million worth of bionic components implanted in her body.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070213/tv_nm/bionic_dc_1

[Anarky]

Could be worse... could be better too. I'll need to see her in action before I either say she sucks or that she's awesome.

And for all those who don't know what Michelle Ryan looks like...

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9008/michelle101024x768fs8.th.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9008/michelle101024x768fs8.jpg)

[Raph's Girl]

Katee Sackoff (BSG's Starbuck) will be in the pilot of the upcoming Bionic Woman remake. Playing Sarah, an evil bionic woman and nemesis to Jamie Sommers.

AHA! Starbuck's a Cylon...just on another show.. :lol:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=40674

[LogicDonny]

Katee Sackoff (BSG's Starbuck) will be in the pilot of the upcoming Bionic Woman remake. Playing Sarah, an evil bionic woman and nemesis to Jamie Sommers.

AHA! Starbuck's a Cylon...just on another show.. :lol:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=40674

No she's not a cylon. she died in the jet at the end of episode.

[Time Mistress]

Very cool news! Sackoff will be great as the Bionic Woman.

[Raph's Girl]

Very cool news! Sackoff will be great as the Bionic Woman.

Yea but she's an evil Bionic Woman...not the good one. :lol:

[GK Punk]

No she's not a cylon. she died in the jet at the end of episode.

She was joking. She was refering to her being Bionic in the new show.

[ZariusTwo]

No she's not a cylon. she died in the jet at the end of episode.

Fix your sarcasm radar. Please.

[LogicDonny]

No I wasn't sartastic. She did die at the end of battlestar galactica.

[GK Punk]

You misunderstood Zarius as well. He was telling you that you didn't see the sarcasm in what Raph's girl said about the Cylon, and took it seriously.

[Anarky]

Cool, she isn't a bad actress and I think she could totally pull off a bad guy role.

And as for the Cylon comment, here I am, completely ruining the joke. Cylons are robots, no? And the skinjobs (Like Caprica or Athena) look human but aren't really. They're robots looking like humans. Now a bionic woman is part robot but looks human. And they're evil. So naturally, you could say, as a joke (jokes don't need flawless logic by the way), that Katee Sackhoff plays a Cylon on "The Bionic Woman", because she's an evil, humanlooking part robot. The fact that she died on Battlestar Galactica, which she hasn't by the way, and that there are no Cylons in "The Bionic Woman" are not important for this joke.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

No I wasn't sartastic. She did die at the end of battlestar galactica.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch at the end of the season :D

I guess Sackhoff only being the villain means she probably still has plenty of commitments on BSG still

[Raph's Girl]

Just saw the pilot ep of Bionic Woman (yes...it was leaked) and LOVED it. It was SOOO awesome!! Starbuck kicks bionic butt!! :lol:

This is a re-imaginging of the series. Basically this man named Dr. Anthros created these machines that have been dubbed Anthrocites. Initialy created to help gulf war amputees he then realized the soldier aspect. The anthrocites make people stronger.

It's unsure how many test subjects there have been but there was at least one other woman before Jaimee Sommers, that being Sarah Corvus (BSG's Katee Sackoff).

Sarah was a soldier and initially had both her arms and legs and 1 eye done....but it seems she's had more done (her other eye and a boob job :roll: ). She's a rogue who went awol from the program and loves killing things....she's also a bit responsable for Jaimee ending up the way she is.

Sarah purposly hit the car that she and her boyfriend (Dr. Will Anthros, son of the inventor of the anthrosites) were in nearly killing them both (but only killing Jaimee's unborn child...DOH! ).

Will of course saved her by giving her the bionic implants (2 legs, 1 arm, 1 eye and 1 ear). Initially Jaimee didn't want anything to do with the program. But after a rooftop battle with Sarah, she changed her mind. So she'll be working with the government to stop Sarah and other baddys.

Jaimee has a younger sister named Becca (their mom died of cancer) who was deaf in the pilot (she has since been recast and they've dropped the deaf angle).

Will Anthros father is also somewhat demented (he was in jail but then released) and another bad guy along with the guy who plays the Chief in BSG.

The cast is:
Michelle Ryan: Jaime Sommers
Miguel Ferrer: Jonas Bledsoe (director of the Bionics program, Jaime's boss)
Molly Price: Ruth Treadwell - another person who works in Area 41 (their HQ :lol: )
Will Yun Lee - Jae Kim: Another Area 41er. Former lover of Sarah Corvus
Lucy Hale (originally Mae Whitman) - Becca Sommers. Teen sister of Jaimee. She's a hacker now.

Katee Sackoff - Sarah Corvus, the "original" Bionic Woman.
Will Anthros - Jaime's boyfriend. He's a college professor when he's not giving people bionic implants.

Isaiah Washington: The name of his character has yet to be revealed but he's described as "outsider with a mysterious agenda" with the power to either help Jaime or bring her down.

This series premiers Sept 26th at 9pm on NBC.