Last night we watched the pilot ep of the new Bionic Woman. A review I read (Tom Shales?) reminded me of what was missing – and by “missing” I mean “not there,” I certainly don’t mean “lacking.”
In the original series, Jaime Sommers had a bionic dog named Max.
I searched my archives because I was pretty sure I posted about bionic dogs a couple of years ago. I found the post, “In the future we will all have…robot dogs,” but notice I forgot (repressed?) Max.
70’s television writers always seemed to pull the robotic dog out of the Big Bag of Hackneyed Plot Devices when their show started to go to ground, didn’t they? I’d try to answer the question of which came first, a show’s implosion or the addition of a robotic dog, but it seems a rather “chicken or the egg” proposition. Plus, much like the last time, I’ve gotten distracted thinking about zombie dogs and already lost interest in the subject.
The real question is how was the new Bionic Woman, even with the missing bionic dog? After seeing the commercials, I’m a little bit scared that it’s going to send me into a very bad place.
I mean, the crash was horrifying and I wish for a bionic leg almost every day these days. I even have the potentially bionic dog to go with it. Maybe I missed my calling, yet again.
so, will you be including a bionic dog in your nanowrimo this year?
Eh, faith, I think you’d be OK with bionic woman. I was more concerned that you’d watched the office. One character hit another with his car and fractured her pelvis. Boris already has bionic powers of
cuteness.
I think Dr birdcage is spoiling for some NaNo word wars or at least some quality write-in time…