The Sydney Morning Herald report that ratings for Bionic Woman in Australia have slipped to below 1 million in the main land capitals after initially peaking with 1.5 million with the premiere. This follows the US decline in ratings which has prompted many a commentator to rub their hands in glee at the prospect of the show not surviving the writers strike.

All I can say that it is a sad sad state of affairs that so many people want this show to fail..and I’m not just speaking about now..even before the show started there were many people doing their best to turn potential viewers off from the show before a single episode had aired! Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for people expressing their opinions, but you and I know the difference between constructive criticism and all out flaming. Many ‘media’ sites have flamed BW since June and I for one hope the show turns itself around and becomes the quality series that we know it should be.

As I’ve previously stated, I know the show has major problems, not helped by all the back room re-shuffling, but what we are witnessing is a show that is undergoing an evolution right before our eyes. I’m not ready to give up on BW just yet - if I truly didn’t think the show had potential then trust me I wouldn’t be blogging about it. I have criticised BW when I felt it was deserved, but I feel that my criticisms have been constructive and honest..too many ‘media’ outlets (I wont name names) are too happy to give unsubstantiated and often unfair comments in order to make traffic building headlines and gain cheap clicks. As an owner of several dedicated fansites, I blog primarily because I enjoy talking about my favourites shows (although BW doesn’t quite fit into that bracket yet, but still, it has potential), to interact with others who either agree or disagree with my outlook and to hopefully provide a good resource for the show. In fact I sense that most of the BW ‘fansites’ out there give much fairer reflections of the show than these “smash and grab” sites.

I just feel that I had to stand up for the show and the BW community because along with Margie over at WBW.com, I feel that certain quarters have been too quick to put the boot into the Bionic Woman. Like I said, I will always be honest in my opinion of the show, but I will also be ‘fair’.

So come on BW, you may be the underdog but every dog has it’s day!

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