SyFy Portal report on the style and direction that the Bionic Woman series will be adopting.
“Battlestar Galactica” may have lost viewers due to its very dark and sinister storytelling. Fortunately for them, “Bionic Woman” will be dark, but not quite that dark.
“That’s not really the style of show you would want to do with someone like Michelle Ryan, who is so appealing and winning and charismatic. You don’t want to put her in ‘Taxi Driver,’” executive producer David Eick said. “That being said, it’s a darker show than the old ‘Bionic Woman,’ and I think that’s a good thing. Darkness doesn’t mean depressing. This is meant to be an exciting show with a lot of optimism and hope.”
Eick, who also serves as an executive producer on “Battlestar Galactica,” also emphasized that like “Galactica” this show will take the best and worst of the series and give it a serious face that everyone will be able to accept. In this version of the series, Jamie is forced to undergo the experimental bionic enhancements after being hit by a truck. Following her augmentation, she then takes on a series of missions for the corporation that saved her life in order to bring down rogue prototype Sarah Corvus who is played by “Battlestar Galactica” alum Katee Sackhoff.
As well as the core feministic attitudes of the original series, “Bionic Woman” also will tackle some very personal questions for Jamie, including how she keeps in touch with her humanity after her near-death experience. In particular, her resistance to become the same monster that Corvus became.