This is not as bad as people make it out to be...
..It's actually quite entertaining if you look at it for it's own value, and don't compare it to the main TV series. I think the characters could have worked well if they had left the immortal angle out altogether, and just played Amanda as a straight forward professional thief. The trouble was that the "game" or whatever you'd like to call it became a distraction from the story, rather than the main focus.
No one jokes when they talk to Terry Tibbs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYW-4zPKLE