{"id":641,"date":"2007-08-02T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2007-08-06T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:08:02","slug":"we-can-rebuild-herand-she-kicks-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/08\/we-can-rebuild-herand-she-kicks-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"We can rebuild her&#8230;and she kicks ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen the pilot for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Bionic_Woman\/\"><em>Bionic Woman<\/em><\/a> and it doesn&#8217;t completely suck.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the editing is a little first-year film school: bump cuts with virtually no narrative transition.  Yep, they need to work on the tech; those heads-up displays need to be readable or they need to go.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely, the dialogue is a little flat, as is the lead actress (note to Michelle Ryan: develop more than one facial expression; the deer-in-headlights look is only going to carry it for about another episode, maybe an episode and a half).<\/p>\n<p>And sure the inciting incident in the narrative (yes, I&#8217;m like that little kid in <em>The Sixth Sense<\/em> only with story structure instead of dead people) is a brutally realistic car accident that will have you flinching harder that those execrable VW commercials from last year.<\/p>\n<p>But Will Yun Lee and Miguel Ferrer look like they&#8217;re ready dig in and create characters with believable conflicts and motivations, and damn Katee Sackhoff does evil so well; she makes me want to be bad.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what NBC does with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/17\/AR2007071701928.html\">the pilot<\/a> given the protests from deaf advocacy groups over the fact that Corporate &lt;gasp&gt; didn&#8217;t have the foresight to cast an actually deaf\/hearing impaired actress to play a deaf character.  But given the way they&#8217;ve reframed the organization behind the bionics program, if they can get their act together once they&#8217;ve gotten by all the backstory the series looks like it will be chock full of chewy, conspiracy laden, good vs. evil vs. man&#8217;s inherently grayscale nature goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen the pilot for the new Bionic Woman and it doesn&#8217;t completely suck. Sure, the editing is a little first-year film school: bump cuts with virtually no narrative transition. Yep, they need to work on the tech; those heads-up displays need to be readable or they need to go. Absolutely, the dialogue is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}