Note to Mods, I realise that this might actually be more suited to CS, but since it is really mundane and pointless, I put it here. Move it if you wish. On to my pointlessness.
Last night, my husband and I were watching the new Bionic Woman. I used to love the show way back when I was a kid. It was easy to believe back then. Technology was advancing so quickly, that yeh, I could believe those things were possible.
The new show, at least IMO, is tolerably well done. The characters are cute, if wholly unrealistic. Side note, yes, I do want 3 dimensional characters, but not everyone is a Stan Lee, I suppose
Now, I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept a clandestine operation with the funding to come up with bionic technology that is indistinguishable from “real” flesh, only stronger. I can suspend my disbelief enough (SMDE) to accept that this groups works with, for and sometimes in opposition to the government to “save the world” with, obviously, no visible means of outside financial support (especially in light of the ‘sometimes in opposition to’ part). I can even SMDE to accept that they would allow the guy to turn Jaime into the Bionic Woman because he loved her, without knowing that she was Miss oh-so-smart-the-only-reason-I-didn’t-go-to-Harvard-was-I-have-to-care-for-my-little-sister.
I cannot SMDE to accept, however, that a town of 201 people in the United States could be cordoned off and quarantined by the government and not one leak get out as to the fact that all 201 residents died of some unknown airborne toxin. Sorry. Seriously, we’re not talking some “third-world” country like Myanmar…oh wait, we even have documentation of the shit going on there. Think about it people.
I was very hopeful about the new Bionic Woman series, I really was. I should have known I would be ultimately disappointed after the pilot episode. I freely admit that I am a Stan Lee fanatic. I love that his characters are thre-dimensional. I love that Spiderman/Peter Parker has killed out of a desire for revenge. I love that he actually had to think about it before deciding to discard Venom. He is a real person (inasmuch as any fictional character can be real, I don’t honestly think he is real-real). But honestly, a 20-something bartendar gets approached by a knife-wielding guy in a dark alley alone. She’s not stupid (she got accepted to Harvard, so we know she’s book-smart, and she’s a bartendar, that implies street-smart), she knows he is planning on raping her at knife-point, but does she kill him when she turns the tables? Does she even wound him? No. But she’s going to be able to go out and beat up “the bad guys” as the story progresses, right? Nope, not buying it. My daughter is a rare, honestly nice person, but I can almost guarantee that in that situation, she would have sliced the jerk’s pecker off. Meh.
Mundane and pointless, but I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the new Bionic Woman and that makes me a sad panda. How 'bout you?
On a semi-related note – doesn’t the guy in that show that follows (I think it’s called Life) look like a grown-up Frankie Munez? Weird.