I loved watching this show when I was a kid and was thinking about revisiting it on DVD. Obviously special effects will leave room for improvement, but how would you rate the writing, production values, and overall entertainment factor?
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It's okay, but The Terminator endoskeletons really make the The Six Million Dollar Man androids look a little silly now -- especially how those androids looked totally human with the masks on, with a mouth and everything, but when the masks fly off, there's no mouth, nothing resembling teeth, just a speaker amplifier and transistors.
shareYou don't have an opinion. You are an ignorant, immature little troll who was probably neglected as a child. Nobody cares, child.
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The first three seasons to me are pretty good (though the first season was a little slow moving) but the show is somewhat aged. Still it is good fun. I actually am a bigger fan of The Incredible Hulk when it came to the superhero shows.
shareBut the Bionic Man was never a superhero. He was not part of The Avengers or Justice League
shareYou can never compare a show by today's standards. To many kids it was the greatest show in the world and as I belong to group people who watched it as kids they all seem to still enjoy it very much. I am a Lee Majors fan but I am seeing it for the first time on TV and loving it.
shareThe show does show it's age but I still like it. It's cheesey as hell but good cheese. BTW, I was ten yars old when the first movie came out😧
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I have recently introduced my 9-year old grandson to the show and he told me tonight it is already one of his favorite TV shows of all time.
shareThe History Channel uses it as scientific evidence for bigfoot and aliens.
shareDated of course. But still worth watching big-time. 👍👍
shareSadly, I don't think it holds up terribly well. I watched the show in prime time when I was a little kid, and I have to admit, even at that age I thought just showing Lee Majors running in slow motion was a pretty lame way of showing him running at superhuman speed. If you ever read the Martin Caidin novel "Cyborg" that the series was based on, you can also see how Steve Austin was toned down and made "kid friendly" for network television.
I'd love to see a reboot of the series, showing the more ruthless, harder-edged Steve Austin of the original book, and with modern special effects technology to depict all of the abilities his bionic limbs give him, but also showcase some of the limitations too. In the book for example, his bionic eye was just a useful hidden camera -- he couldn't see out of it, as they lacked the technology to tie it into his optic nerve. His left arm, not his right was, was the bionic one, and while it had superhuman strength, he didn't have the same dexterity with it, and no sense of touch. It was also attached to a shoulder that was still human flesh and bone, so unlike in the series, he couldn't flip cars over with it. I think they could do a fantastic job if they recreated this series (and provided they don't make it woke as shit, like everything else these days).
Holds up like the bionic man lifting a car off a kid.
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