Hot Chics, Weak Story

I’m talking about NBC’s Bionic Woman.

Michelle Ryan smolders enough, even in a hospital gown, to cause heart palpitations. Katee Sackoff (of Battlestar Galactica fame) is brutal, gorgeous, and deadly as the show’s shadowy nemesis. It’s really too bad that the show can’t proceed on just eye-candy.

The pilot was choppy, with too many cliches coming too fast for me to really buy into the story. The dark and mysterious elements felt a little too contrived for believability. The notion of a college-dropout bartender with the werewithal to become a super soldier with just a limited stay in a hospital is also suspect. I would rather have had an episode or two to get to know the characters, establish relationships, then see her transition into the role of the Bionic Woman over the course of another episode or two. As it stands, there was too much that happened too quickly in forty minutes of television for me to be really invested in the characters.

I’m going to keep this on the DVR for one more week to see if the show can ovecome a rocky pilot episode.