Why is she a blur when she is running as fast as a car? Cars aren’t blurs.
Sure, maybe her bionic legs and one bionic arm (how does the other one pump fast enough?) but not her body.
I thought the running FX were cheesy as hell.
The only halfway-reasonable approach to this is that she keeps her non-bionic left arm tucked close to her body as she runs. Of course, she obviously has bionic dental work to resist the damage of running into bugs at 50mph. She should also make murmmmmmmmmm! sounds as she runs so people think she’s on a motorcycle.
I’m not expecting even halfway-reasonableness here, though. I just hope the writing doesn’t disappoint. One big indicator will be if she suddenly possesses whatever convenient skills she needs because of her “implants” and yet forgets these skills in later episodes for dramatic purposes, rather like Star Trek: TNG did with every technological breakthrough.
I also flashed (heh) back to the early train scene in Superman.
I can deal with her running 50MPH, but thru a forest? that she’s (assumedly) never been in before? at 50MPH, trees (and stumps, and rocks, and holes, et al.) come at you mighty fast - so apparently she’s got super reflexes too…
Wouldn’t having only half your hearing or half your eyesite during that run affect lots of things?
And she;s got ‘super healing’ …
Do we start the “how many times does she have to save lil’sis” pool? is it even odds how many times “lil sis” saves the day?
A wizard did it.
Well, seriously, it’s just a silly show based on another silly show. I don’t think real bionics would work like Ms. Summer’s. (Or Mr Austin’s.)
Cars are much larger than humans. Harder to blur them out. Also, cars travel at more than one speed. Actually, I’m impressed that she could navigate through those woods at those speeds on a human brain.
You think those were cheesy, you must have missed the 1970’s version.
Oh, yeah, I have an issue. I guess it’s actually “Anthrosytes” or something, but who names their nanites “Anthracites”?
Well, after looking on IMDB for some more info it turns out that Anthros is the name of the doctor who invented them.
Nothing I’ve read about this show makes it sound like its very good.
By the time i get to see the pilot it’ll probably be cancelled.
The original pilot for the 6 million dollar man had a long sequence showing Steve austin getting used to his bionic limbs, and fighting depression and suicide. I think the pilot for this show might have been a lot more interesting if they had tried that approach.
The show’s faults aren’t yet enough to detract from the bionic babes. Jeez, at least give it a chance to get stale.
Yeah, let’s at least wait for a Fem-Bot episode or 2. 
Of course, from what Sarah Corvus said during the “time-out”, she’s apparently trying to become one.
OK. A motorcycle. Or a horse. Whatever. No way a human being becomes a blur at 50 mph. Or 150 mph.
A motorcycle traveling 300 mph isn’t a blur.
I think you’re trying to apply too much logic to what is essentially fantasy. She has to look like she’s actually running really fast, but realistically. Hard to replicate, it most likely looked silly no matter what they tried. If you just speed up running it won’t look right. So they hid it under a motion blur, which for stylisation purposes tells the story.
Originally posted by Larry Borgia
Heh. Yes, but he was smiling in a dapper fashion at a young lady in his arms. He got mondo points for style. A wizard can convert style to energy. Didn’t you know that?
How did Michelle Ryan deal with the American accent or is Jamie a Londoner this time round?
I lusted over her curves when she played Zoe Slater in Eastenders.
Her accent was okay, but a lot of her line readings were bizarre, as if she didn’t speak English and learned her lines phonetically. It was especially noticeable early on, during the scenes with the sister and the boyfriend before the car accident. She would run sentences together, or put the emphasis on the wrong word in a sentence which would alter the meaning of the sentence. It was weird. It truly was one of the worst performances I’ve seen by an adult actor on prime time TV in quite awhile.
I’m really okay with that. I’m glad they skipped over all the “ooh, you changed me, I’m bionic, need to adjust” stuff. Modern (and I) TV audiences may not stick around long enough to see how she adjusts, if it takes a few episodes to do it. We’re already familiar with the whole bionic idea, and she’s got the anthrocites which seem to do a pretty good job of healing her up and blending the bionic parts with her normal parts. She did freak out when she first woke up and couldn’t feel her legs, but after they sedated her and gave the anthrocites time to heal everything up I imagine most of her parts feel pretty normal.
The combat implants were originally designed to allow disabled vets to quickly get used to their new parts, so it makes sense to me she’d adjust pretty fast.
Something I’m wondering about though, is just what those anthrocites can do. Corvus said she replaced one of her eyes herself, and advised Jamie to do something about that non-bionic arm. If you rip out/off a body part, will the anthrocites rebuild a bionic part?
I’m wondering that about the first Bionic Woman. She mentioned that she had since made herself even more bionic than the government originally made her; did she do it herself? If so, how?
And don’t forget, the government shot her in the head and she got better, too. There’s more to her and the anthosites than meets the eye (be it real or bionic.)
And what about they guy she was hanging out with in the sleazy flat? Was he a failed experiment, also? The one who wrote, “You failed me” on the wall.
Did he write that, or did she? Our original bionic woman ain’t all there.
I just finished watching it. Overall, I liked it. Girl playing Jaime is a terrible actress, but being that this is a pretty schlocky enterprise altogether, I can deal with that.
Hated the boyfriend. I’m hoping he died in the back of the ambulance. Didn’t care for the little sister either – I have a 20 year old and a 21 year old, teen-angst is still too recent for me to find it charming.
I’ll keep it on my DVR for a couple more episodes and see how it rides.
Yeah, we’ll give it one more try, too. If it doesn’t enthrall me next time, I’m done. I hated the actress who played Jaime; I loved Katee Sackhoff - she needs to make a career out of playing bad girls. She does it sooo well.
The little sister can fall off a bridge next episode and die. Die die die.