Oh really? I'd love to hear what people think about NBC executives declaring that our time is post-feminist. Even with the changing definition of feminism, from the third wave to the "we don't need another wave" ideas of what feminism is, I'd say that NBC executives are the last people I want defining feminism. But then again, feminism gets defined everyday in our lives, not on NBC.
David Eick, executive producer of NBC's new series Bionic Woman, told journalists that the feminist metaphor of the original 1970s series has been updated because it no longer applies to modern society.
"It's not about cashing in on the history of the title," Eick said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 17. "I think what's interesting about the old show is that that came about at a time when there was a great deal of discussion in the popular culture about equal rights for women. And the [Equal Rights Amendment] movement was very much alive, equal pay for equal work, women's lib. ... And the statement was very simple: See, woman can do what men do. And I don't think we're talking about that anymore. ... There are a lot of different discussions being had now. It's not so much, 'Can a woman do what a man can do?' It's, 'If the answer's yes, what does that mean? How do we feel about it?'"
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In the new series, Michelle Ryan takes on Lindsay Wagner's original role as Jaime Sommers, a woman who undergoes surgery after a serious car accident and has several of her body parts replaced with bionic ones, which give her superhuman abilities. Unlike the previous incarnation, however, Ryan's version will have some difficulty adjusting to the upgrade. (Eick is also executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica.)
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