Bionic Woman

Today we continue the Will Anthros Wish List, a list of ten actors we wish had been cast as Will Anthros on Bionic Woman instead of Chris Bowers.  This is the eighth person on the list, whose previous members have included Michael Rosenbaum from Smallville, Blair Underwood from Dirty Sexy Money, and Bionic Woman’s own Will Yun Lee.

While previous entries have focused on people who have had notable television roles, today’s entry is a shoot-for-the-stars wish for an actor who has never taken a series role on television:  Matt Damon.

How You Know Him:  He’s an Academy Award winner, an A-List celebrity, a member of George Clooney’s new Rat Pack, the other half of Ben Affleck’s life-long bromance.  He rose to fame in Good Will Hunting, and has continued to find success with the Ocean’s Eleven and the Bourne trilogies among other movies.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  He’s cute, he’s talented, and he’s freaking Matt Damon.  We had to include one huge reach on the list, and we included Matt because he has an Academy Award for writing.  Given Bionic Woman’s script troubles, why not choose an A-lister who could have helped writers with the script problems?

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Yep.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Yep.

Would He Have Taken the Part?  Not a chance in hell.  He’s rarely appeared on television, aside from a few guest appearances and the reality show he and Ben did about filmmaking (Project Greenlight).

Clip of Evidence:  We could have picked any number of Matt’s great performances, but it’s Matt’s real life comedy that often goes unnoticed when people talk about his work.  So check out this great moment from The Late Show With David Letterman, where Matt does a spot on impression of the frequently-shirtless Matthew McConaughey.

It’s Monday and we are back with the rest of our Will Anthros Wish List, a list of ten actors who we think would have been a better choice to play Will Anthros than Chris Bowers.  So far the list has included Michael Rosenbaum, Sean Maher, Ian Somerhalder, Will Yun Lee, and Blair Underwood.

We also included Jennifer Connelly, asking you guys to "imagine for a moment that "Will" was short for "Wilhemena" and Will Anthros on Bionic Woman was played by Jennifer Connelly … how hot would that be??"  We got great response from that, (although several folks reminded us that Jennifer has already played a scientist in The Hulk), so we changed our list a bit to add another fierce female: Gina Torres.

How You Know Her:  If you like science fiction, you have probably seen Gina.  She played bad ass Zoe on Firefly, and has played serious spy games on Alias, The Matrix movies, and Standoff, and last year she played Chris Rock’s wife in How I Met Your Wife.

Why She Would Have Been a Good Choice:  She’s a bad ass who can play the femme fatale or the noble soldier, who can handle both complicated dialogue and crazy stunts.  And she’s hot.  Why does this woman not get more parts??

Could She Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Probably, she can play serious and she has a history of handling dialogue with a lot of syllables.

Could She Have Played a Convincing Girlfriend?  She seems to have chemistry with all of her costars, so there is no reason to think she can’t handle making out with Michelle Ryan.

Would She Have Taken the Part?  Possibly … she has done a lot of television, and a lot of scifi (did anyone see Cleopatra 2525? or remember her on Xena: Warrior Princess?), which indicates she is open to the possibility.  And we will see her on the small screen sometime soon: when Dirty Sexy Money comes back on the Gina will guest star as the ex-wife of Blair Underwood’s character, Simon Elder.

Clip of Evidence:  This passionate and pragmatic moment from The Matrix trilogy.

We are taking a break from The Will Anthros Wish List this weekend to talk about an actor who was actually cast on Bionic Woman.

Before he was working with the CIA and romancing Michelle Ryan’s Jaime Sommers in Paris on Bionic Woman, Jordan Bridges was suffering through the horrors of an early law career on the short lived Dick Wolf drama Conviction.

If you missed the series, Jordan was the fresh faced son of a legendary lawyer who passed up the opportunity to practice with his father’s "tall building" firm in order to prosecute cases in NYC.  The series also starred Stephanie March, reprising her role of attorney Alexandra Cabot from Law & Order: SVU, and Julianne Nicholson who went on to play a detective on another Wolf series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.  Eric Balfour played yet another character with intimacy and dependency issues, and Milena Govich was a D.A. here before she went on to play another D.A. in last fall’s K-Ville.

Conviction did not last a full season, as it suffered many of the problems that plagued Bionic Woman.  Last minute casting changes, inconsistencies of character and plot, and a lack of firm direction eventually tanked the series.

Nevertheless, all thirteen episodes feature Jordan Bridges’ charm and big brown eyes so I suspect I will be checking them out eventually.  But here is a bionic mystery: how big of a strike sin am I committing by actually watching them on Hulu?  And is it a sin I can wash away by, say, buying x dollars worth of pencils for the Pencils to Media Moguls campaign?  If you have any thoughts on that, please let me know.

Today we present entry number six on our Will Anthros Wish List of ten actors who we wish had been cast as Will rather than Chris Bowers.  Chris did not work in the part and they had to kill off his character, and when they did most of the stories that had been planned for the season died with him.  If a different actor had been cast, the storylines could have been kept and the show would have been stronger as a result … thus, the Will Anthros Wish List.

Previous entries on the list have included Michael Rosenbaum, Sean Maher, Ian Somerhalder, Will Yun Lee, and Jennifer Connelly.

How You Know Him:  Blair’s currently playing mind games against Donald Sutherland on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, the latest in his long line of sexy roles going back to his days on L.A. Law.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  He’s smart, he’s hot, and he can (and has) played just about anything.  He’s old enough to convince us he is a world-famous surgeon but young enough to still look damn fine without his clothes on (as Dirty Sexy Money fans saw when he recently bedded Darling socialite Karen).

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Sure, he’s played everything else … including another doctor who mixed business with pleasure, when he romanced Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbs on Sex and the City.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Definitely, see the love scenes referenced above and the many others on his resume.  The man has moves.

Would He Have Taken the Part?  A better than average chance of yes, as his role on Dirty Sexy Money indicates he was entertaining roles during last year’s pilot process.  Back then Bionic Woman was a hot property, although from today’s perspective he made a wiser choice.

Clip of Evidence:  Watch Blair stay cool during a poker game so high stakes that money becomes meaningless and the players wager Manhattan real estate.  Dirty Sexy Money, indeed.

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Imagine for a moment that "Will" was short for "Wilhemena" and Will Anthros on Bionic Woman was played by Jennifer Connelly … how hot would that be??

Today we present entry number five on our Will Anthros Wish List of ten actors who we wish had been cast as Will rather than Chris Bowers.  Chris did not work in the part and they had to kill off his character, and when they did most of the stories that had been planned for the season died with him.  If a different actor had been cast, the storylines could have been kept and the show would have been stronger as a result … thus, the Will Anthros Wish List.

Previous entries on the list have included Michael Rosenbaum, Sean Maher, Ian Somerhalder, and Will Yun Lee.  To get to Jennifer, take a step back and think about the role which was centered around love, manipulations, and a potentially overwhelming need to break out from the long shadow of a genius father.  Jennifer could definitely handle that type of complexity, and by making Jaime Sommers a lesbian the show could have played to the gay audience that still adores the original series.

How You Know Her:  Jennifer’s been acting in films and on television since the 1980s, with roles that included Russell Crowe’s wife in A Beautiful Mind, a journalist attracted to Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, and a young girl pursued by David Bowie in Labrynth.

Why She Would Have Been a Good Choice:  She’s got more acting awards and nominations than you can shake a stick at, she’s smart, she’s hot, and she would make a damn fine love interest for Michelle Ryan’s Jaime Sommers.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Yep.  See the "more acting awards and nominations than you can shake a stick at" part. 

Could She Have Played a Convincing Girlfriend?  If she can create chemistry with Bowie, she can create chemistry with anybody.

Would She Have Taken the Part?  The changes are about as good as NBC allowing Bionic Woman to write the Will Anthros role for a woman.  So … probably not.  Jennifer has a couple more good movies coming out this year, plus she has a kid who is starting school so we don’t see her moving to Vancouver.  Still, this is a "wish list" so we can dare to dream.

Clip of Evidence:  A scene from the money-obsessed show The $treet, where Jennifer puts a subordinate in his place.

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Today we have part four of our list of ten actors who we think would have been a better choice to play Will Anthros, Jaime Sommers’ scientist boyfriend. 

We have been vocal about our thesis that casting Chris Bowers as Jaime’s boyfriend, Will Anthros, is a big part of what went wrong with Bionic Woman’s first season.  He was not a convincing scientist, he was not a convincing boyfriend, and he was not a good package overall.  

When the show was forced to kill Will because his character was not working, they also had to scrap most of the plotlines they had planned for season one.  Gone were the plot lines about Will’s true motives for making Jaime bionic, his ongoing troubles with his mad scientist father, the connections between Michelle Ryan’s Jaime Sommers and Katee Sackhoff’s Sarah Corvus, the whole season … wiped away, because of one actor’s onscreen death.

So for ten days we plan to present, in no particular order, ten actors we think would have been a better choice for Jaime’s boyfriend.  Previous candidates have been Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor on Smallville, Sean Maher, who played Dr. Simon Tam on Firefly, and Ian Somerhalder from Lost.  Today we suggest another Will who is already familiar to Bionic Woman viewers: Will Yun Lee.

How You Know Him: He currently plays Jaime Sommer’s trainer and Sarah Corvus’ former lover, Jae Kim, on Bionic Woman.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  Have you seen the show?  There is no question that Sarah Corvus not only gets the better lines, she got the better guy as well.  Will Yun Lee’s calmly seductive performance has won rave reviews from critics and won Will many new fans.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Definitely.  Will has already convinced us that his character has a grasp of the bionic technologies pulsating around the Berkut group, and it’s not hard to see his steady and serious hands performing surgery.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Probably, if his scenes with Sarah Corvus are any indication.  And Will certainly had chemistry with Michelle Ryan as well, although the show has not taken their roles in that direction (yet).

Would He Have Taken the Part?  Probably … he is playing Jae already, and based on the pre-show publicity Will Anthros was originally written as a larger and more challenging role.

Clip of Evidence:  .Since most of the readers of this blog are already familiar with Will, we offer up this tribute video from YouTube set to the song "Secret Agent Man."

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This is the next part of our list of ten actors who we think would have been a better choice to play Will Anthros, Jaime Sommers’ scientist boyfriend.  

Earlier candidates have included Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor on Smallville, and Sean Maher of Firefly fame.  Today we suggest yet another scifi alum: Ian Somerhalder.

How You Know Him:  Ian played doomed plane passenger Boone on ABC’s scifi juggernaut Lost.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  If they were intent on having Will Anthros be smirky and stubbled, Ian would have been a good choice … and much better eye candy.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Perhaps.  Ian has certainly had his share of serious moments on Lost and in his other roles, but whether he could talk confidently and passionate about bionics is still a mystery. 

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Probably, because anyone who could create chemistry with a cross-dressing Katherine Moennig on Young Americans and still make it feel wholesome has a gift.  Although Ian can also play creepy very well, as he showed on Lost and in Smallville’s third season.  Now that we think about it, Ian has a strong run playing characters who come back from the dead so perhaps he would make a good bionic partner for Jaime Sommers someday.

Would He Have Taken the Part?  Ian is currently playing Nick on HBO’s nudity-filled romp Tell Me You Love Me, which has a ton of sex and is probably a lot more fun to shoot than Bionic Woman.  We’ll go with "probably not," but you never know.

Clip of Evidence:  This mega creepy clip from Lost’s third season.  The boy looks hot and scary, a good combination for a scifi show.

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Today we have part two of our list of ten actors who we think would have been a better choice to play Will Anthros, Jaime Sommers’ scientist boyfriend. 

We have been vocal about our thesis that casting Chris Bowers as Jaime’s boyfriend, Will Anthros, is a big part of what went wrong with Bionic Woman’s first season.  He was not a convincing scientist, he was not a convincing boyfriend, and he was not a good package overall. 

So for ten days we plan to present, in no particular order, ten actors we think would have been a better choice for Jaime’s boyfriend.  Yesterday we suggested Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor on Smallville.  Today we suggest another scifi alum: Sean Maher.

How You Know Him:  Sean played another brilliant scifi doctor, the gifted Dr. Simon Tam on Joss Whedon’s Firefly.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  We know from Firefly that Sean can handle the science part of playing Will, and we also know he is willing to tackle some of the crazy stuff that scifi actors have to do.  He has already walked the ethical line of science and strange implants with Summer Glau, who played his sister River Tam, and … he’s just so darn cute.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Definitely.  Sean rattled off medical terms with ease on Firefly, no reason he could not convey the type of serious ambition that was needed with Will Anthros.  We are a bit worried about his ability to play a potential devious manipulator, but Simon lied plenty of times to protect River so we feel he could probably pull it off.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Yep.  He already locked lips with hottie Jewel Staite in Serenity, and if we could have had a third of that chemistry between Will and Jaime in the premiere we would have had a better Bionic Woman.

Would He Have Taken the Part?  Maybe … Sean has unfortunately been without a big part since Firefly ended, and it would have been nice to see him on our screens again in another potential hit show.

Clip of Evidence:  This chilly scene from Firefly, where Simon Tam confronts his frenemy Jayne Cobb about his previous betrayals and lets him know who is the better man.

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How You Know Him:  He played billionaire patron of the sciences Lex Luthor on the WB’s Smallville.

Why He Would Have Been a Good Choice:  Michael has a proven ability to play complicated characters with shady motives.  He made it possible for the audience to actually care about Lex, a character who was often Clark Kent’s greatest ally and his greatest enemy - at the same time.  The ability to be both charming and manipulative would have been a huge asset to any actor playing Will Anthros.  And as a bonus, he also has experience playing someone with severe daddy issues.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Scientist?  Probably.  Michael has played smart before, and he managed many a scientific sentence while playing Lex.  He certainly would have been more convincing with his interest in bionics than Bowers’ bored playboy of a surgeon.

Could He Have Played a Convincing Boyfriend?  Definitely.  On Smallville Michael had convincing chemistry with everyone from Chloe to Mrs. Kent.  And, he’s hot.  He beat out Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer for the TV Guide title of "Sexiest Villian" and was one of People’s Sexiest Men Alive in 2006.

Would He Have Taken the Part?  Sadly, probably not.  Michael was still shooting Smallville when they filmed the Bionic Woman pilot, and has been clear that the next chapter of his Hollywood life will be focused more on directing than acting.  Ah well, dare to dream.

Clip of Evidence:  Check out this clip from Smallville, where Michael’s ability to be cruelly condescending is on vivid display.

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We have been vocal about our thesis that casting Chris Bowers as Jaime’s boyfriend, Will Anthros, is a big part of what went wrong with Bionic Woman’s first season.  Will Anthros was the reason Jaime was made bionic in the first place, when the supposedly brilliant scientist was forced by an unfortunate accident to perform surgery on the woman he supposedly loved.  But in the Bionic Woman premiere Chris Bowers had little enthusiasm for science, and even less enthusiasm for Michelle Ryan.  As a result the premise of the series seemed flat and forced, and the bad casting combined with some other questionable choices to mean the series got off to a shaky start.

If Jaime would have had a better boyfriend, then the writers could have kept the whole story arc involving Will Anthros, his mad scientist dad played by Mark Sheppard, and mystery surrounding Will’s real motivations for implanting Jaime with her bionics.  The series would have had more purpose for its characters, the Berkut Group, Sarah Corvus, and the bionics that draw them all together.  And most importantly, Jaime would have had more to do then beat people up and worry about her sister.

Alas, none of that happened.  Chris Bowers was cast and then mercifully killed off, but when the character of Will Anthros died almost everything else that was intended as a Season One story arc died with him.

Thus the Will Anthros Wish List, a wistful look at ten actors who would have been better choices to play Will Anthros than Chris Bowers.  We will be listing one actor every day for the next ten days, in no particular order, for your comments and contemplation.  If it goes well we may even extend the project, so if you think of an actor who would have made a Winning Will let us know.

So without further ado, let’s get started.

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Lucy Hale will be on the big screen this summer, when The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 premieres in August 2008. 

The Sisterhood movies are based on the popular novels by Ann Brashares, which follows the adventures of four teenage girls and their magical pants.  The original movie starred Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) as Tibby, Alexis Bleidel (Gilmore Girls) as Lena, America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) as Carmen, and  Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) as Bridget.  All of the stars will be back for Part 2, which focuses on the events of the fourth Sisterhood book.

The sequel also adds Lucy, whose character Effie is Lena’s younger sister in the books.  The novel version of the character is more talkative and outgoing than Lena, who is typically described as a quiet and contemplative beauty who feels apart from the rest of the world.  Effie helps Lena be bolder and connect with others, and the choice not to include her character in the first Sisterhood movie was unpopular with many fans.  Effie’s character in the books is also clearly less beautiful than Lena, which may inspire some Lucy Hale v. Alexis Bleidel debates when the movie comes out. 

While the girls were in high school during the first movie, Part 2 expects to find them muddling through the summer between their freshman and sophomore years at college.  Effie plays a huge role in the events of the book, both in the romance department and in relation to the mystical pants.  The Sisterhood movies have been fairly liberal with the events of the books, however, so we are not sure how things will actually play out when Part 2 debuts in August.

No matter what happens, this is a great opportunity for Lucy.  All of the ladies in the original Sisterhood have had strong careers since the first movie debuted, so hopefully the Traveling Pants will be magic for Lucy as well.

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Mae Whitman, who played Becca Sommers in the unaired pilot of Bionic Woman, was seen on another NBC show earlier this month. Mae was a central character on Law & Order: SVU on the January 1, 2009 episode “Streetwise.” You can see glimpses of Mae in the promo for the episode, shown above.

Mae’s character was Cassidy, a runaway who found shelter and security with a street family that was run by a man who manipulated the street kids he collected and eventually became a murderer. During the course of the show Mae morphs from a freaky looking street kid with two-tone hair and a pierced lip to a sleek potential society girl. She also gives a great performance.

Mae comes from a showbiz family and has been acting since she was three years old. Her first film role was playing the youngest daughter of Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia in When a Man Loves a Woman. Over the years she has played the daughter of many other Hollywood legends, including George Clooney (in One Fine Day) and Sandra Bullock (in Hope Floats). She played the daughter of Mary McDonnell and Bill Pullman in Independence Day, and in recent years has guest starred on everything from Grey’s Anatomy to Desperate Housewives to The Wild Thornberries. She also won rave reviews for her portrayal of Ann, the religious girlfriend of Michael Cera’s George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development.

Later this year Mae will star with Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Richard Gere, and James Franco in Nights in Rodanthe which is based on a novel by the author of weepers like A Walk to Remember and The Notebook. Mae will also play the title character in Tinker Bell, and will reunite with her Arrested Development costar Will Arnett in the teen comedy Spring Breakdown.

There’s a new kick butt girl in town, and she has her own cyber secrets.  The Sarah Connor Chronicles premieres Sunday night on Fox, and if you are intrigued by the concept of female fighters and the intertwining of biology and technology, it is worth checking out … especially since Bionic Woman is still off the air.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a continuation of The Terminator movies.  It stars Lena Headley in the title role, Thomas Drekker as her son, and Summer Glau as the butt kicking hottie robot sent from the future to protect them.  Just like Bionic Woman’s Michelle Ryan, Summer is a lovely brunette (as you can see from the photo at the left, which was taken earlier this week at the show’s premiere party at Los Angeles’ Cinerama Dome).

The Sarah Connor Chronicles centers around what happens to Sarah Connor (played by Linda Hamilton in the movies) after she vanquishes the robot sent to kill her son, and the plots center around her attempts to keep him safe from the attacks of more deadly robots.  While Sarah does a fair amount of butt kicking herself, the primary fight scenes will belong to Summer’s character Cameron.  To get a small taste of her talents, be sure to check out the preview clip above.

Many scifi fans are already familiar with Summer, who played troubled genius River Tam in the Joss Whedon series Firefly and the subsequent movie Serenity.  To see another sample of Summer’s fight skills, check out the clip from Serenity below … and be sure to notice her back kick to the guy’s head.  Someone titled this clip "Summer Glau Kicks Ass."  We agree.

Bionic Woman has dropped from first to third place in TV.com’s voting for the Best New Fall Show. Quite depressing, as the show was easily leading the pack a few days ago by at least 30,000 votes. And while TV.com said it was going to end the contest the day of the People’s Choice Awards, voting has continued.

Unfortunately, most of the voters have not been clicking on Bionic Woman.

Instead, their allegiance has been with Californication and Pushing Daisies, both of which got a huge amount of click votes this week. In fact Californication’s total rose by around 200,000 clicks!

Current totals show Californication with 37% of the vote and 516,129 clicks, Pushing Daisies with 32% of the vote and 449,608 clicks, and Bionic Woman with 27% of the vote and 369,515 clicks.

Still a respectable showing for Jaime & Co., but I can’t help but be disappointed after becoming convinced that Bionic Woman would win earlier this week. It just goes to show you … in viewer polls, and in presidential elections, it is never good to call a winner until the polls are closed and all of the votes are in.

One contest I was happy to call wrong (so far): Tuesday I blogged that Battlestar Galactica’s Grace Park was second only to Heroes‘ hottie and It Girl Hayden Panettierre for the Hottest Actress of the 2007. Well Grace’s fans have helped her surge ahead, and now she has 1,155,089 votes and a whopping 44% of the vote! Keep it up Grace fans, as this would be a nice accolade for the beautiful yet soon-to-be-unemployed Ms. Park.

In another good sign about NBC’s intentions for Bionic Woman, NBC has added two Bionic Woman tees to its merchandise offerings on NBC.com. This addition of the shirts gives a positive clue to how the network is feeling about the show, and the possibilities of allowing the five remaining episodes to be filmed after the end of the writers strike.

The addition of the shirts is good news, and let’s not forget about the main NBC.com banner, which went up in December and is designed to promote the network’s hottest shows. Bionic Woman Michelle Ryan’s gorgeous head is the first in the lineup, which also features Heroes‘ Hayden Panettiere and Zachary Levi from Chuck.

Both of the Bionic Woman tees are hunter green and feature dark writing. The first one, shown above, references the Berkut Group. Berkut is the shadowy government agency Jaime works for on the show, who funded her bionic implants and may or may not be the “good guys.” The second one says “Science Fiction Isn’t Fiction Anymore” with the Bionic Woman logo.

Both shirts are one hundred percent cotton and retail for $24.00 USD, plus tax and shipping.