Bionic Aya?

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The Albany Times Union‘s book blog points out a mysterious similarity between a promo for the new version of The Bionic Woman and the cover of Extras.

Of course, as we 1970s kids already knew, the Bionic Woman’s right eye was bionical, whereas Aya’s eyescreen is on the left. So it’s totally different. Totally.

Still, this frame is kinda spooky:


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145 thoughts on “Bionic Aya?”

  4. Fist post- maybe? I really hope so, but if I didn’t make it, at least I’m getting close!

  41. closest I’ve ever been. 🙂

    freaky, Scott, freaky. YOU SO DID IT ON PURPOSE!!! naw, just kidding.

  42. o my word!!!!! Eleven?????? u hav GOT to b kidding me!!!! grrrrr!!!!!!!!!! o my word. that refreshing thing is really annoying! o well. at least i tried. good job sylvia. i guess i actally read the post now. 🙁

  45. Wow! I now know what its like to madly refresh and now i’m all jittery. Computers are fast! When i clicked on comments it said 0. Now ther’s like 22 in a minute.

  46. wow. i was constantly refreshing, like every second, and there were 18 posts by the time i got here. wow…
    i’ll never win this.
    its harder than calling on a radio contest… i’ve won those before…

  47. Dang! That is a lot of refreshing. I was no where near close.
    And now I need to see Bionic Woman.

  49. So close…well I suppose I should actually read the post now…That frame IS kinda creepily similar.

  51. …I hate being dragged around to birthday parties when I could be having the most fun of my life obsessively refreshing [/sarcasm]

    But really, barzul!

  52. o my word. im still shaking. who knew obsesivly refreshing could give you such a shot of adrenaline. :-0

  53. ShellTheShark- i swear it’s karma. You can only win one contest in life. I won a grocery store contest.

  58. Well so far I’ve gotten third then second, oh well I can always try again on….Saturday!?! No, any day but Saturday. That is the one day of the week I have a life on.

  60. I think the only reason you’re having this contest is to get more hits on your site. And more comments. Not that I mind(or anyone else, probably).

  62. Emzie – in what sense? I am confused.

    Amber – well, if you get more hits and stuff I’d run one on my blog if I had anything to give away that people would be interested in! 😉 But yeah, that’s probably one reason

  63. Nooooo! I just realized I won’t be able to check for a week starting Saturday! Eeeeevil! …Waitaminute, his Saturday is my Friday. Maybe there is still hope?

  64. holy crap,
    there are 28 comments within one minute!!!!!!
    I should have gone straight home after volleyball but NOOOO we had to get icecream

  65. You know why I missed this? I was looking up ‘Scott Westerfeld’ on Google because my dad wanted to know if he was the only one. He is. That’s why I wasn’t hitting refresh enough to be closer than comment 30 back there.

  66. I’ve won a couple radio contests before.. like, A LOT… but the closest I got was 3rd… -crys- OHHHHHHHHHHHH DANGGGITTT. I’ll be babysitting during the time he posts next.

  67. wow… 28 people in one minute.
    that’s intense, man.
    this whole thing cracks me up really

    note to self – don’t multitask when trying to win contest…

    see you all on saturday!

  68. ahhhh man …. saturday!!! i work so i won’t be able to check till, like, hours later :[ pooo … oh well, until next time i guess ….

  69. Soo…I’ve never commented here and I’ll probably never win but whatever, I’m going to try starting now…or well, you know saturday.

  72. well that was stupid of me – i was sure yesterday was thursday, and so i was actually really confused when i spent about 3 minutes from 5:27 to 5:30 repeatedly refreshing and then..nothing. but i see i was mistaken about the date. i might as well give it up and buy extras in october. i’m still really excited for it though!!

  73. Congrats to the winner 😉 Better luck next time to me, I hope the rest of you fail. ha, kidding.. Maybe.

  76. well, i knew that i wouldn’t win this one b/c i was working at that time. but luckily i’m not working on saturday! i probably won’t win anyway, but maybe i’ll be close…

    Cat-kha: scott’s in New York now, so if you’re in the US/North America, then his saturday IS your saturday.

    and AWESOME! i live less than an hour away from albany! haha it’s cool living in the same state as scott!

    CONGRATULATIONS, SYLVIE!

  79. man this stinks. i was hoping that i would win today because its my birthday, but im as unlucky here as i am every where. ive never won a contest in my life!

  80. the reason i lost is because i was scrooling down when all of a sudden, it stopped for a second! i was mad

  81. Scott–on one of your next posts you should ask a question or two and the first one that has it right wins!!!! It needs to be more challenging and people need to actually read the post before commenting.

  83. Yeah when i saw the Bionic woman commercial, I thought that it looked soooo close to the cover. Maybe you shuold sue, Scott……..

  84. OK, I was coming home from volleyball practice that i didn’t get to check !!! Aghhhhhhh….i’ll have better luck on Saturday.

  85. um… wow? this competion is becoming kinda sad (no offense to the maker of course) it all comes down to lucky timing with the fastest computer… that really sucks. the bionic woman look alike thing is wierd in its similar way. o and wow just finished peeps last night and i was unsure about another “lame” vampire novel but i was like wow that rocked. i am now reading midnighters, i hav mentioned that scotts books rock!!!

  86. I was on a plane when Scott was posting and no one would lend me their lap-top. They were probably scared by the note of urgency in my voice. I’m so glad I got my mom hooked on the Uglies trilogy, she is too, because I forgot to pack Pretties for her to read on the plane ride back, and now she can read it. I also forgot Magic’s Child, which was one of the books I was going to read on the plane. Darn, but I’ll read it tomorrow. I think I’m rambling… G’night!

  88. Yea that is creepyness, and even though they look the same, there is almost no comparison behind the story of them and that’s what matters because people will always have the same ideas every once in a while.

    Heh today at work I thought I saw a guy that looked almost exactly like Scott and a woman who resembled Justine and I was just like O___O Heh I had to do a double-take just to make sure it wasn’t him xD

  89. ok, there is a spider in my room and i dont know how to get rid of it. i dont want to squish it because spiders eat bugs and i hate bugs, but it is in the coner above my bed. i cand capture it because like i said, its in a coner! please help. (its just a plain old spider, no venom)

  93. nbc has some weird commercials! when heroes first came out, i was like “no way”. but one night there was nothing else on, and i was hooked. yatta!!! (if u dont watch heroes, or speak japanese, u probable dont know what that means. yatta means “i did it!”)

  95. BOOKS IVE READ BY SCOTT:(in order)(if listed twice, i read it twice!)

    1 uglies
    2. pretties
    3. specials
    4. uglies
    5. pretties
    6. specials
    7. peeps

    BOOKS IM CURRENTLY READING BY SCOTT:

    1. midnighters 1

  96. have you ever noticed how a lot of scotts books are plural. ex. uglies, pretties, specials, extras, midnighters, peeps

    thats kind of weird (2 me)

  105. Hmm I’ve read uglies, pretties, specials, midnighters secret our, midnighters touching darkness, midnighers blue noon, peeps. (don’t ask me how many times I’ve read each…I’ve lost count!)

    My christmas list : Extras, So yesterday, The last Days. Plus other books by other authors!

    Woo yay for Friday the 13!

  108. He means that since he posted a time frame for when he was going to post, that during that time everyone was refreshing like crazy and in the 20 minutes of waiting for him to post, everyone managed to reload about 2,500 times. Heh that’s awesome!

  109. This is getting totally crazy. Like, comment n° 45 says “A second too late!” Huh!? You guys are insane.
    The frame looks kinda alike, but… Not that much. I wouldn’t’ve noticed at all if you hadn’t pointed it out.

  117. well congrats the person that won ☺!!! and i have to try harde on the next post {cant wait for EXTRAS}

  125. I no what u aaaall r thinking. “How many people are we up against”. Well i can answer that lol. Me and Kheidi-la figured it out for you. There are 180 and different people that have commented since the Extras Page 1 post so theres probably more. Here they are: and sorry if we missed you. it wasnt the easiest thing in the world lol:

    Sylvia Ertert Emzie Kayily Mayre Poodle Margan Marflanda Ryan Brila Chelsea-wa Iminlovewithjon. Ally Quinton Amber Olivia Kjait Ash Dawn Kristen Amy-la Morgan Olivia
    Capt. Cock. Kim Maria-wa Kaylee Peyton-la Haddy-wa Korbe Lauren Luna Megan D. Mandy
    Oltiana Raychii-wa Kali Alyssa Ali Ruhi Chellebelle Nessa-wa Kaitlyn Pryme Sophie-la
    Elaine Bri-la ShellTheShark Kailyx Cat-kha Rainy Mayra Reyna Allichie Kali Meghan d. Aubrey M Isabel Zo-la *Jessie* Taylor ~Kathy Kheidi-la Hannah-chan Soxy AshAngelAk
    Rosie-la Mary Missy Maya ccandyc Rae Jackie Rebecca Gwendolyn Shan Eka-la Charlye
    Jessi-wa Vanessa Gabby Shelby L. Sarah-la Nanner-la Gabroelle Alissa Ana Jessie**
    Courtney-wa Meg-la Reyna Haley Rae bassoonbabe Claudia Kadie-wa Ekic Letticia Alaina Camille Un.Un.Wo. Hannah Nichole Jess Katerate Shelby Lil Anna-wa Emily Peep Grrl Amy
    Mayrabchillin Aye Isabel Loej Lindsey-wa Jen Kelbey Danica Nick Bob Dawie Alex
    Nel-wa Breanna Zachary D. Maddie-la OsrisOmega IndigoEyes Bnicki Heather R. Jenny
    Greeneyes Nona Dawn Chelsea Drake Keia drianna SCOTT Heather W. Rose Casey-wa Patricia Kaliana Kelly Dream_Writer Sammie-wa Holly Steph-la Dee Tara-wa Kimberly Ayre-la Dennis JD Addie-wa Matthew-wa Jessica Fig Jillian Abbey Marie Chima-la Lindsay Stephanie Punkroxta

    they arn’t in order or anything.. hmm its 1:30 here i think im going to watch tv

  131. i doubt i’ll win a copy. but by some mirical i do, well you’ll just see (or read) what happens.

  133. YAY! i’m on the list! hehe i feel famous (pathetic i know). and I WANT A SAMPLER TOO! but is there anyone here who doesn’t? besides the luckyluckylucky people who already one…hey is it good? (dumb question, but w/e)

  135. Happy Bday Amy-la (or if it’s past your bday then happy late bday). I’m turning 15 in February and I’m already trying to think of great party ideas. I think ice skating would be fun…OMG I’m soooo excited another post is today!!! I hope I can win (or at least get Top 5)!!!

  136. Omg Sylvia u already won one??? LUCKY!!! You gotta post once you get it and tell everyone how it is (if ur allowed)…seriously I really really want one! Uglies/Pretties/Specials are my FAVORITE books!!!

  138. @ Morgan: haha, duh I won one, look @ teh first commenter of this blog. x] And no, I won’t post it cuz I don’t wanna spoil it for everyone so.. :p

    @ Taylor: I’ve haven’t recieved the sampler yet, Scott has to mail ’em first so probably in a couple of days or something.

    Good luck to everyone who wants to win the next one :]

  140. Sylvia: Oh sry haha didn’t look. Aw man well I guess I’ll just have to win one myself!

  141. Well Well Well…..

    The competition is too stiff, I don’t stand a blooming chance here. Ah well…I’m just biding my time until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out, and then until Extras comes. 🙂

    Ah, the life of a book-nerd. What agonizing bliss.

  142. youre not a nerd nor a book nerd for tht matter. dont degrade yourself. labels only downgrade your self esteem. be happy who you are and anyways technically we all are “book nerds” as you refer to, we all love the books Scott wrote. and other authors write for that matter. it still doesnt make us any “nerds”

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