Jamie Sommers is a hard-working woman struggling to take care of her younger sister. But after a serious, life-threatening accident, Jamie is saved by a top-secret procedure that makes her much more than just an ordinary woman?it makes her superhumanly bionic. Starring hot newcomer Michelle Ryan, as well as Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan), Molly Price (Third Watch), Will Yun Lee (Witchblade), Lucy Kate Hale (How I Met Your Mother), and guest stars Isaiah Washington (Grey's Anatomy) and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), it's a non-stop thrill ride unlike anything you've seen before!

Bionic Woman - Volume One

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• Battlestar Galactica - Season Three
• Birds of Prey: The Complete Series
• Painkiller Jane
• Heroes: Season 2
• Witchblade - The Complete Series
• The 4400 - The Complete Fourth Season
• Stargate - The Ark of Truth
• I Am Legend (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition)
• Stargate: Continuum

This vacuous excuse for a television show is strictly for the teen demographic who don't want thought provoking programming in their lives. This updated version of Jamie Sommers wears boots with an uncomfortable heel whenever she goes on a mission. If I can't reach you on some deeper level, then I'll leave you with these choice words: "If I'm lying, I'm dying." We should consider it a blessing that this stinker of a series lasted eight episodes. And to think that one reviewer thought the original Bionic Woman was much worse than this crap. Imagine running sixty miles per hour in shoes like that. The creators of the show sure did, which is why they're most likely on the unemployment line. For those of you who fondly remember the original series, the one and only Lindsay Wagner, please do yourselves a favor and don't even consider renting or purchasing this lame show.

OK, I admit it. Remember all of the buzz about the show being one of the best the season had to offer. Then, inexplicably, I picked up the show on DVD and gave it a second chance. The production was troubled, true - the ratings may have been low. I wasn't thrilled with the show when it aired either. There's a reason behind that - this is a compulsively watchable show, especially on DVD, where the plot can unfold at your leisure. Her American accent is flawless, and those of her fans more familiar with her British work (such as Jekyll), will even have the opportunity to hear her native accent in the season's fifth episode. Bad timing and a lack of faith from NBC prevented this show from becoming a much more popular presentation.

The initial eight episodes (of a reported 14) are presented here for you in an attractive 2-DVD set. Strong characterization, effects that eventually hit their stride and growing chemistry between the castmembers make this a can't-miss release. while it's still available. After making it through the pilot and part of the second episode, I stopped watching. But discover some of the best TV work you've seen in a while at a bargain price (and hope for the release of volume 2). At the price, you're not likely to find a more entertaining show - Isaiah Washington hands in another impressive performance, Jose Ferrer is an effectively grey villain/mentor, Katee Sackhoff is menacing as the unhinged first attempt at bionics and the lead, Michelle Ryan, should have been the breakout star of 2007. Fans of Battlestar Galactica's rich characterization as well as of the original show(s) have much to rediscover here.

I grew up on the original "Bionic" shows, both loosely based on the novel, "Cyborg." I stress loosely.not that the novel was all that great, as it rambled along. (let's face it, fembots are cheezy) Anyways, this new incarnation featured a beautiful woman who could act. But at least it was not campy cheese or (in the case of the original Six Million Dollar Man) who was the flavor of the week. The storyline was a bit choppy, but they were playing up to the "mystery" behind everything. I think there was even a bionic sasquatch.

And as guest stars go, Katee Sackhoff was perfect, playing the "badguy" with emotional issues, all centered around the bionics and the breakdown in the technology. However, the original shows, while entertaining for children, got bogged down in idiotic ideas like bionic dogs and bionic teenagers. Her character was well written, possessing the real life personality a woman would have from her background, thrown in with some nice sci-fi sass, and some actual character development in the form of her family life (something lacking in most adventure sci-fi shows). Michelle Ryan did a wonderful job. The only sad thing was the show couldn't show the bionics, as the original show had.

Its plotting is hurried at best, awkward and disjointed at worst. Too bad it doesn't even begin to compare with the original. Though the pilot is promising if rushed in terms of plotting, BIONIC WOMAN rapidly squanders its best concepts and becomes a second-rate ALIAS clone (maybe they should have called it ALIAS 2.0).

Unlike GALACTICA, it is unable to find its own identity. Like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, BIONIC WOMAN shares little other than its name with its predecessor. Everything else, from Sommers' the struggling to live a "normal" life with younger sister to the shady past of the organization and people she works for to the random globe-trotting missions is ripped so directly out of ALIAS that I'm shocked Sydney Bristow hasn't shown up to teach Sommers how to REALLY kick some tail and not be quite so annoying and hypocritical.

Fault can't be placed on the cast, who give it their all, but more on the show's writers and producers, who can't seem to figure out where they are going with the show, or what episode of ALIAS they want to steal from next. Imitation is supposedly to be the highest form of flattery, so I suppose JJ Abrams should be very flattered by David Eick and Jason Smilovic's imitation. There is some potential in the relationship between Sarah Corvus (GALACTICA's Katee Sackhoff) and Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan), but Corvus' presence is over-used and rapidly grows tiresome.

I won't be watching any new shows this season because just when they get good they get gone. They did it again. NBC manages to take another good show and let it go. Not that I am even keeping count but I am still stuck on E-Ring, then went Journeyman and now Bionic Woman. Chuck was barely safe.