So why is it that remakes of my favorite television shows are being produced by people who admittedly didn't watch them or hold them in such contempt that their "reimagining" rejects everything that made them popular in the first place?

Wasn't a fan of the new Battlestar Galactica, so, natch, it follows that I'm not that hot on the gang's recent take on The Bionic Woman. I'm only speaking having seen the pilot episode, but I found it too dark, too depressing, too confusing, and too unlikeable to even think about following it through a whole season - if it lasts that long. Sure, I was only a fan of the original series because I was a bigger fan of Jamie Summers' boyfriend, The Six Million Dollar Man, but still ... when when writing about the "slick, edgy" reboot, critics have called the original show "cheesy" and "campy." And I ask, "So what?" and "Define 'campy.'" You talking about the sound effects, which people to this day imitate? Well, then your "campy" is my "indelible," ol' chum.

I dunno. Maybe these Gen-X bones are just getting old, but what's so slick or edgy about two chicks fighting it out in the rain? Saw it on "Alias," like three years ago. What's slick or edgy about a car accident that costs the passenger her legs, an arm, eye and ear, while the driver not only walks away, BUT performs her life-saving, beyond-cutting-edge surgery!!?? I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Eh. Yeah, the new Jamie's a tough broad alright, but that cool exterior over a technotronic frame doesn't make for good TV in my book. For those already hooked, hope that NBC ties up the loose ends before the bionic babe's batteries run out. As for me, I'm already pulling the plug.