Liberties In TV
Don’t get me wrong, I love certain shows on TV - Prison Break, Heroes, 24 and even Lost when it remembers to pull its head out of its arse.
But certain things about TV, especially American shows, just need to be stopped right now. We are not all idiots! We don’t need things laid on a plate - some of us can join the dots ourselves! Also - somethings are just stupidly implausible.
For example, we recently sat down to watch the pilot episode of the Binoic Woman.
Within minutes we were introduced to the shadowy government funded military group making bionic women, the maverick genius doctor, the hardass boss of shadowy organisation, the evil (yet obviously tortured and complex) bad guy who is kept 1000 meters underground. 1000 meters undergound. Yes thats right the prison he was kept in was 1000 meters underground! How far?! 1000 meters! A point laboured so badly, its obvious no one could break out of there, not even a criminal super genius! Oh wait… here he comes plodding across the horizon, very much not 1000 meters underground. He must be super bad ass!
Theres much talk (sorry if you haven’t watched this, i don’t care) of cutting our ladies legs off because other wise she will almost certainly die blah blah blah - and then cut to her waking up. So far, take a leap of faith, supposedly believable. I mean, its not 100% against the realms of possibility that somewhere someone could, given a fiendlishly huge military budget, have created bionic legs that are so flawless no one would know the difference - especially as they’ve used nano machines to make it all good.
Anyway, so far i was drifting along, watching Sci Fi that was at least partially believable, if not a little cheesy.
And then BANG. Outside she comes, punches, kicks, spins and dances with athletic grace before almost cutting a mans head off - at which point i tipped over the edge - “what the fuck is this”, I screamed, “have they copied and pasted Kung Fucking Fu into her head?”.
And then at this point (if it wasn’t bad enough already) the episode nearly slipped away from me - What have you done to me? she asks… “we have put kung fu computer chips in your head” comes the reply.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Filed by Kieran at October 20th, 2007 under TV