The Bionic Woman Trailer
All of the 20 and 30 somethings are all excited these days about the film adaptation of Transformers. Not me…the Transformers were never part of my childhood. It was always something I saw as a silly, poorly drawn cartoon based on a weak premise and physics defying concept (many times the robots added and lost mass through their transformations.) And to what end? Why would a 60ft tall mechanical robot of death need to transform itself into a tractor trailer?
Dumb.
So anyway, I don’t get it. It’s probably because I grew up watching Lost in Space, The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. And yeah I know they’re hardly paragons of television excellence, but this is MY childhood we’re talking about here. My robots looked either like tin cans or like people, not cassette tapes or super cars.
Now comes the news (via my friend Brian) that The Bionic Woman is going to be remade into a television series on NBC. The trailer can be found here. As is usual these days, the 4 minute trailer is about 3 minutes too long. They show too much and not enough and it looks dorky as a result. I’ll probably give it a shot, if for no other reason than to ridicule it, but I definitely do not have high hopes for this one. Now that my current guilty pleasure (Pirate Master) has started its spiral down the toilet bowl (both in quality and viewership) I have little else to watch except the Food and Travel Networks.
Just so you’re not totally depressed, I leave you with a clip from the best Six Million Dollar Man episode ever – “The Secret of Bigfoot”.
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If nothing else, Steve Austin’s double-knit Haggar slacks held up nicely against Bigfoot !
I was a HUGE Six Million Dollar man fan. I had a ton of action figures, the rocket, etc. The Bigfoot episodes are the ones that I “remember” the most from when I was a kid – especially the cave/tunnel. I remember having a plastic model of Steven and Bigfoot. Excellent.
With proper writing and the write people behind it, a re-image or even continuation could work. I generally don’t like re-images, but I was completely wrong with BSG, it turned out fantastic.
One of my memories as a child is having “slow motion bionic fights” with my friends. We’d even make the “nanananananana” sounds as we slowly lobbed punches at each other.
And of course it was a requirement to hum the theme song as you ran (in slow motion.)
No other show could simply use a slow-motion shot of someone running, add a little music and that “bionic” sound and make it seem exciting.
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