Bionic Woman’s Rockin’ U.K. Promos
Someone was kind enough to put the U.K. promos for Bionic Woman up on YouTube, and they are a treat.
Combining some of the best moments of the first few episodes, the above promo features lots of butt-kicking by Michelle Ryan’s Jaime Sommers. There are a few good one liners, an earnest plea from Miguel Ferrer’s Jonas Bledsoe and that is it … no Sarah Corvus, no Jae, no Becca. And the promo is better for it.
The promo below is for the premiere, and watching it makes it clear why Bionic Woman pulled in ITV2’s biggest audience to date. With lots of action sequences interspersed between scenes of Michelle with her hair blowing attractively yet menacingly in the wind, the promo did a better job than the show of explaining the intriguing concept of a woman forced to become a war machine against her will.
Even better, this version of a premiere promo cut out the long and horrid scream that was featured so prominently in the United States’ teasers. It’s a promo that really is better, faster, and stronger … and more suited for a show that was meant to be a fast paced look at the moral dilemmas associated with Jaime’s unique opportunity/horrific situation.
The promos make me long for what the show could have been, before the network meddled too much and the show went through three show runners in its first third of its first season. Ah, Bionic Woman … we never got to see how strong you could become.
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