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Saturday, 21 August 2021

Cyborg TV Shows - Six Million Dollar Man and Now and Again

So I have recently finished two cyborg related shows, The Six Million Dollar Man and Now and Again
The Six Million Dollar Man was great to rewatch as my very young self only dimly remembered most things but some episodes were quite familiar. The three original TV movies, that started the series, were all surprising to me. In particular the first two were very serious spy style plotlines while the third had a wonderfully cheesy theme song by Dusty Springfield. It was interesting to see the tropes become solidified as the series progressed. For instance the trope of the bionic sound effects were not in the first several TV movies nor episodes so it took me off guard. By the end of the first season it was firmly episodic and slightly wacky. It was great to revisit but I am ok with not watching more.

Now and Again was a refreshing take on the everyman "recruited" by the government trope. This is because the everyman's brain is put in the biologically created body and his family is not only still alive and unaware of his recruitment but featured in every episode (although not always interacting with the male cyborg lead. In fact the family storylines are sometimes more interesting than the cyborg ones, because of the concepts of loss and despondency. This series I would have liked to have seen more of, but it ended after one season.

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