Bionic Woman is incredible!

[Orrex]

I mean, I suspected that it would suck, but it has so greatly exceeded my expectations of suckage that I can hardly contain my astonishment!

In just three short episodes it's jumped way past "curiously engaging" right into the midst of the very worst that the X-Files ever had to offer: dubiously ponderous government conspiracies; whispery voices dripping with earnest self-importance; and a penchant for referring to every character by his or her full name as often as possible!

I wouldn't have thought that the series could possibly have sucked so bad right out of the blocks!

If they don't settle down into some self-contained oneshot episodes before too long, then we won't have to wonder if there'll be a reincarnated Steve Austin or Max the Bionic Dog.

Keep up the great work, NBC!

[Dr. Strange]

1. What I learned from watching Bionic Woman:

there are no "normal woman" roles for Katee Sackhoff.

[Frank Cannon]

2. The replaced the show runner and much of the writing staff

before the show even aired, but after several episodes were already in the can. That's never a good sign.

I had high hopes for this show, but I tried to make it through the pilot and just couldn't. Special effects or no, this just doesn't compare to the Lindsay Wagner original. I don't know if it was Wagner's acting or the way her character was written or both, but it just seemed like Wagner had a lot more sympathy for the role.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. The original was put together by entertainment people, who...

knew how to tell a fun story without taking it all so seriously. We LIKED Lindsay Wagner, and not just because she was gorgeous and sexy.

This mess was put together by a few dorks who think they're a lot smarter than they are and then "polished" by network suits.

[Mojambo]

4. Yeah. I want to give it at least 5 episodes

But I've been incredibly underwhelmed.

[Kutjara]

5. I have an additional problem.

Michelle Ryan, who plays the new Jaime Sommers, previously starred in the long-running UK soap opera Eastenders. She played teenaged-tearaway Zoe Slater in a long series of plot lines involving drug use, prostitution, rape, unwed motherhood, mistaken parentage and all the usual guff that soaps do so well. I can't look at her without hearing the hideous Cockney screech that was her preferred style of dialog delivery. "Oym the fackin' Bionic Woman, i'n oy? You lookin' for a fackin' slap inna maff, or wot?"