Cinema Blend’s Kelly West has reviewed the Pilot episode of Bionic Woman. She gives it the thumbs-up and suggests that it’s not just ‘sci-fi’ show, but a show which also has character development which the viewer can potentially invest in.

Careful: Some Spoilers from the Pilot follow:

Bionic Woman has a number of things going for it. For starters, while it does drift occasionally into sci-fi territory, it looks like it will be very accessible to non-geeks. The relationship between Jaime and her sister will most likely be developed throughout the series. There was enough of that shown in the first episode to suggest that there are some problems with Becca that will need to be addressed at some point.

There is definitely more to Jaime’s back-story than we got to see in the first episode. One of the things that struck me as a bit odd was how, with the exception of her initial freak-out over the powers she has, she appeared to take to her new super-strength fairly quickly. Normally, I’d complain about this because frankly, it’s unrealistic, even for television. After all, she is just a bartender. But it was mentioned at one point in the episode that she has some kind of criminal record – an incident from her past that was sealed by the courts. This could explain her somewhat tough-guy attitude.

I find this interesting as I have been thinking about how quickly Jaime becomes ‘assured’ of her abilities. I had put it down to one of two things – one being that the (pre-aired) Pilot had alot of stuff happen and so they wanted to expedite Jaime’s ‘realisation’ – and the other being that her Bionics had actually started to influence the way she felt about herself..almost as if her ‘machine-side’ was beginning to take hold of her – an issue which we may see develop in future episodes.

Anyway, you can read the whole review HERE.

I’m planning to get my BW Pilot review posted soon.