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What did Katee Sackhoff really say?Ever play a game of telephone as a child? What starts out as "Katee Sackhoff is frakking hot" somehow becomes something like "my kids are smoking pot."
Apparently, we adults are not immune to such childish pastimes. Last week, reports began circulating that Katee Sackhoff had been loudly distancing herself from not only Bionic Woman (not that I blame her), but also Michelle Ryan. One blogger reportedly attended a recent sci-fi convention at which Sackhoff spoke publicly about both Battlestar Galactica and Bionic Woman, and has insinuated that Sackhoff said some not-so-nice things about both the show and Ryan.
Those insinuations seem to be based not on any of her public statements, but on bits and pieces of private conversations between Sackhoff and parties unknown. Does it sound like a good idea to you to pass on bits and pieces of a conversation to which you are not a party? It certainly seems like a bad idea to me. Of course, I never really enjoyed playing telephone as a child. It would always be my unfortunate luck to have to spout drivel like "Mary Poppins saved Uncle Sam" when what my friend originally said was "Michelle Ryan has nice abs."
Turns out, other reports from the same convention insist that Sackhoff said no such things. In fact, those reports insist that she simply indicated she had completed filming the episodes for which she was originally contracted, but made no assertions about her possible future on the show should Bionic Woman somehow survive the writers' strike. These other reports also insist that she made no derogatory statements of any kind about Ryan. What the various sources do agree on, though, is that she did call the show a "clusterfrak." Really, who could argue with that?
Bionic Woman has been swinging and missing since episode two. And frankly, if Sackhoff wants to leap off the sinking ship, then I say by all means jump. I'll catch you, Katee, I promise.
Submitted by on November 30, 2007 - 11:25am. |
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Ahh, Miss Sackhoff!
Ahh, Miss Sackhoff! Whatever you said I would take as gospel :) Its funny how things can get twisted, happens all the time. I would like to say that person was toally out of line for posting those things, but sadly that is how people are these days and if they hadn't someone else would have, if it had actually been true, glad to know it appears not to be though!
I think I am one of the few viewers still watching Bionic Woman, probably helped by the fact that I watch it really late at night when I am too tired to acknowledge the poor scripts and am happy to just oogle Michelle Ryan's (and formerly Katee's) goodies.
The show's one saving grace is gone.
I had such high hopes for the show. I really did. I muscled my way through the first clump of episodes, clinging desperately to the flimsy hope that the show might get better.
Obviously, it hasn't.
What did make the initial episodes bearable (and even somewhat interesting) was Sackhoff and her cheesy lines. Granted, i did have difficulty seeing her as anything but Starbuck at first, but that didn't mean i disliked her character. If anything, without Sackhoff and her character, i have absolutely no motivation to watch Bionic Woman. Ever.
As for the reports from the conventions, i wouldn't be surprised if all that jazz was fabricated just to cause some drama. It seems to me that people will pay more attention to something if there's disagreement involved rather than enthusiastic cooperation.
I must have low TV standards...
Then I'm an (oxy)moron too
Though there's something kind of oxymoronic about the idea of "low TV standards" in the present reality TV, go-go-gameshow era, I'm right there with you, Weryd1 :: I kinda like Bionic Woman, too. And, at risk of stirring up some kind of hornet's nest, I'll go ahead and say I think the whole thing only improves the more it gets away from both the Sackhoff and Washington storylines. Really :: the more we see of Jaime and the more the show grows into itself as an ensemble cast kind of thing, the better Bionic Woman becomes, IMHO.
Also, I'll stick my neck out just a bit more and ask :: Does anyone else think Sackhoff just wasn't actually all that hot in her Bionic Woman incarnation?
The pictures above are case in point for me :: both on Battlestar and out and about in the world offset, Sackhoff is one fine gal. But psychocyberSarah never made my heart (or anything else, for that matter) go pitter-pat. And fun as those lesbionic scenes could be, they didn't really help much of anything. OK, sure, as a plot device, the whole Sarah storyline allowed a lot of information to be relayed, relived, and (thank goodness) laid to rest. But overall I have to say, all that externalized angst really killed the campy before it could happen, and none of it got me to do what I really should have been doing :: either empathizing with or identifying with the characters--and, of course, drooling . . . .
It's kind of the same issue with Painkiller Jane...
Hmm...
BW
Bionic acting
I too gave up Bionic Woman a couple of weeks ago. My girlfriend is watching but treats it more like homework or a dose of medicine. Something to be suffered through in hopes of a happy outcome on the other side.
Sackhoff may have been misquoted or misrepresented, but it must be frustrating to be involved in a production that has so much wrong with it. Especially when so much could have been so very right about the show.
Katee is a class act
I attended the XWP and Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek Convention in Chicago in October 2007. Katee brushed off the fans call that she should have been cast as Jamie Sommers and also defended BW when saveral fans said series wasn't very good. Katee explained that all shows start out slow, took time to develop (have better written scripts) and encouraged us to hang in there. She also said that it wasn't Michelle Ryan's fault that her character wasn't as interesting as hers and said that the bad guy roles are always written better. Katee was a total class act at the convention.
As for my opinion of BW, I think the show is boring, and full of uninteresting and unlikeable characters. As I said in a previous post, I can't believe that the folks who created and wrote Battlestar Galactica and also worked on Xena Warrior Princess developed the Bionic Woman. i also thinik Michelle Ryan is too young to play the Bionic Woman. I miss Lucy Lawless playing the feral and tough Xena. Jamie Sommer as a character seems unformed, uninteresting, and doesn't have much of a personality. How can you care about a show when you don't care about the main character??!! By the way, the guy who went to bat to cast Lucy Lawless as Xena, and also got Lucy a part on BSG is working on BW (and it ain't Rob Tapert.)
As for Ron Moore, who worked on Star Trek, Xena
Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica and Bionic Woman, nobody bats .1000.
Ron Moore is not associated
Mea culpa
I agree
BW
I liked what I saw at the ComiCon viewing. Had they left the show as it was, had they allowed the Galactica guys to make the show, the way they wanted to, I think we'd all be happier...or happy.
What a wasted opportunity.
For the record...
BW miscast
Just about done
In sync
GirlieGirl, I agree with your comments. I too am still hanging in there with the Bionic Woman. I think they have to play around with the characters a bit, but it's better now that 'Burke' is killed off. Perhaps, like Jamie getting used to her powers, the writers have to improve with their writing powers. Forgetting about all of that, I just like looking at Michelle Ryan. OK, at least I'm an honest little perv.
I too, did not like Katie on BW. I think her Starbuck character is much more appealing.
@#&%!
It seems Katee was tired of using faux expletives, and that’s why she trashed BSG. She was overheard calling the producers “a bunch of punk ass motherfrakkers.”
The producers responded with, “Ms. Sackoff is going straight to H-E-double-hockey-sticks.”
remember, kids: “Frak is Whack!”
Technology Etc...
First things first, being and avid Starbuck fan I've sought out a great deal of online Katee/Starbuck material online...and it seems to me the our dear Ms. Sackhoff is becoming pretty famous for shooting her mouth off. So if I had to venture a guess in this whole matter even though she may not have said those things she must have been up to her usual tricks. Don't get me wrong she's gotta be one of the best new sources of talent to hit the TV/film industry in a while...she could just use a publicist or some kinda PR training!
That said I think she was pretty much the only redeeming aspect of BW. The episodes without her are dry and uninspiring. I was really hoping the show would really delve into the bionic aspect (hence the name) but save for bending a little metal and leaping around Jaime Sommers seems like any other tortured unwilling hero on TV. The writers had a huge well to draw from here (heck a cheap 1994 made for TV movie called 'Running Delilah' featuring a pre-SATC Kim Cattrall did more to deal with the aspects of the human to cyborg transition in 2 hours that BW has in nearly half a season). David Eick has really let us all down in a big way. And David we all know you have it in you...3 seasons of BSG have shown us you're not afraid to touch on some pretty sensitive stuff!