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Ladies and Gentlemen! In This Corner, A Real Bionic Arm …

Alas, no new episode of The Bionic Woman tonight. Instead, let’s ponder who would win a bionic arm wrestling match between Jaime Sommers and Airic’s Arm. The challenger is a robotic limb created by German company Festo, which incorporates 30 “fluidic muscles” operated by compressed air and supported by a computer-designed bone structure mimicking that…

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Licensing Problems Wreck Bionic Woman’s Cyber-Limbs

Why are there no cool cybernetic limbs (like on the left) in the new Bionic Woman TV show? Many of us speculated that the creators thought nanobots were cooler, and regular old cyborgs were too old-school. But it turns out the answer has more to do with legalities, according to creator David Eick: Part of…

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Poll: Which Katee Sackhoff Would Win?

This fall, Katee Sackhoff is playing two different cyber-bitches: the maybe-Cylon Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, and the whacked-out beta-bionic lady Sarah Corvus in Bionic Woman. Who would win in a robo-faceoff?

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Bionic Woman Gets Another Upgrade

Can an award-winning writer from The Sopranos save Bionic Woman? The Jaime Sommers saga continues to trend downwards in the ratings, achieving a lackluster fourth place last night. Jason Cahill, who won a WGA Award for his work on The Sopranos, replaces Friday Night Lights’ Jason Katims, who in turn replaced Glen Morgan, who left…

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The 50 Million Dollar Dame: Jaime Sommers, Coed

Evil Islamofascists are implanting neural chips into the brains of American POWs and turning them into what Jaime calls “human car bombs,” though there’s less exploding and more shooting and stabbing than this implies. To solve the problem, Jaime goes undercover as a British exchange student at the local university, a twist that allows actress…

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Jaime Sommers, Total Woman?

Transhumanist philosopher Natasha Vita-More on the characteristics of a “Post-Bionic Woman” in today’s New York Times: “Her most important ‘superpowers’ would elaborate on the attributes of being a ‘woman’: healing, love, knowledge and forgiving.” This just may explain Jaime Sommers’s wishy-washy attitude towards the men who manipulate her. Thank goodness, Sarah Corvuss has yet to…

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The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 4.

Oh, Sarah, Sarah. It’s you who are truly transgressive and powerful—why else would you be strapped to a gurney for much of this episode? It’s you who are the true bionic ballbuster, as you so capably showed tonight—unlike that weak sister, Jaime Sommers, who needs boss man Antonio to tell her what to do. Then…

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Time for a Bionic Upgrade?

I’m not the only person calling for a rewrite of The Bionic Woman. Over at Ti-Faux, Dan calls for more Katee Sackhoff/Bionic Woman #1 (yes!) and less little sister (double yes!!), among other sensible suggestions. Meanwhile, the imminent Writer’s Guild strike might make it all a moot point.

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Three Ways To Escape High-Tech Surveillance

In our surveillance-obsessed era, it’s no surprise that science fiction is packed with stories about people going to extreme measures to escape being tracked. Just think about Tom Cruise’s character in Minority Report, swapping out his eyeballs and taking a pill that transforms his facial features in an incredibly painful process. It seems like every…

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The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 3.

If I was a high-paid Hollywood writer, this is what my version of the Bionic Woman would look like. Upon realizing that her boyfriend has not only been keeping a dossier on her but apparently waiting to pounce upon her first near fatal mishap to implant her with $50 million of his employer’s goods, Jamie…

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Lindsay Wagner, I Miss You!

If the new Bionic Woman is making you long for the old one—I sure am—I have some bad news: neither the original show or its counterpart, The Six Million Dollar Man, will be released on DVD in the U.S. anytime soon. It’s a matter of licensing, according to David Lambert at TVGuide.com. Apparently the only…

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The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 2.

This week’s show opens at a funeral; apparently Will didn’t survive the shooting. Which immediately leads me to wonder: if the Berkut Group (a private, clandestine group dedicated to stopping rogue organizations from ending civilization as we know it) has all this Bionic technology, why didn’t they apply it to Will? Of course, with Will…

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Bionic Sex Leads To Broken Ribs!

Things couldn’t get any worse for Jaime Sommers last night on Bionic Woman. Another bionic woman shot her fiance to death last week. To make matters worse, Jaime found a secret dossier in dead fiance’s house that was all about her, dating back to years before they met. Creepy. And just to add insult to…

Television Annalee Newitz

When Do I Get My Bionic Babe?

The long-awaited season premiere of Bionic Woman airs tonight at 9 PM, and I know what you’re thinking. When will my girlfriend get a nanotech immune system and deadly superstrength? I want a bionic babe in my living room, hopefully sitting on the wireless network, acting as a firewall and a Slingbox all at once!…

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Bionic Woman Gives Us a Titanium Tent

Rarely does a woman herself qualify as a gadget, but this time, Michelle Ryan, star of the upcoming NBC remake of Bionic Woman, perfectly fits the bill. At least that’s the best excuse we could think of to find some sensational shots of her and bring them to you all in one place, clickable with…

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Ladies and Gentlemen! In This Corner, A Real Bionic Arm …

Licensing Problems Wreck Bionic Woman’s Cyber-Limbs

Poll: Which Katee Sackhoff Would Win?

Bionic Woman Gets Another Upgrade

The 50 Million Dollar Dame: Jaime Sommers, Coed

Jaime Sommers, Total Woman?

The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 4.

Time for a Bionic Upgrade?

Three Ways To Escape High-Tech Surveillance

The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 3.

Lindsay Wagner, I Miss You!

The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 2.

Bionic Sex Leads To Broken Ribs!

When Do I Get My Bionic Babe?

Bionic Woman Gives Us a Titanium Tent

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