David Eick, among other things, the producer of the re-imagined and lauded Battlestar Galactica, is doing some re-imagination of his own with the new Bionic Woman, premiering on NBC this fall. Bionic Woman is about, well, a bionic woman, but don’t shy away from the series based on the cheesiness of that one-sentence-premise. After all, how silly and clichéd doesn’t Galactica’s most basic premise sound? Man creates Cylon, Cylon kills man. And Galactica has, as we know, incredible depth and great dramatic gravitas.
Bionic Woman then, is about Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan), a woman and a bartender, working hard to make ends meet, who following a would-be fatal “accident” is made bionic. Now both she and her surroundings need to come to terms with what she has become - and no-one is particularly happy about it.
According to Eick, similarly to the new Galactica, the new Bionic Woman will be a radical re-conceptualization of the original series. This is of course as it should be. After all, it’s a re-imagination, not a remake, and it will be very interesting to see how Eick and his crew handle it.
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