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What an excellent old show! You know, and besides, Lee had society's consensus of the hottest wife on the planet there for a few years to boot. Steve Austin, was actually a man sincerely alive! (in those daze anyhow) This is odd, but I watched both the TV pilots (mini movies) for the Six Million Dollar Man not too long back. Maybe a year or so. They were horrible! But somehow I struggled through them.:p Man did I ever love that show as a 12-14 year old boy. I don't know precisely who it was I found most thrilling in those days, Evil Knievel or T6MDM. I'm thinking Steve would win it though hands down. I mean, he only crashed once really bad and whereas that Evil guy, well, I never met a fountain with a stretch of pavement nearby that liked him. Whew! Did that guy not know the meaning of "damage control", or what? :eek:

Then again Mike, it's shocking to me that at one time I was so terrified by the soap, Dark Shadows, that I shamefully closed my eyes during some of it's more Gothic and horrifically intense moments.:( I was assuredly a tad younger than 12-14 at that point however, maybe 6, possibly 7, but that Barnabas Collins now...holy mother of Beelzebub! I couldn't even think about him and hope to get any sleep that night. So I ordered up a Dark Shadows netflix disc here about 3 or 4 years ago. I didn't know what to think, but I guess at the time I was a bit excited for my childhood's once powerful fright and all that nostalgically useless clutter lingering about.

I made it through approximately 3 minutes the first time I put the disc in, and honestly, I don't think I was able to invest that much time when I had a second go at it. From the long term, guilt inducing duality, represented within the shameful framework of my childhood's mortal innocence, I was at once liberated. This shit was shot on little better than SUPER 8 for pete's sake! The ego is indeed a fragile thing. :D
 
That i wasnt killed or badly injured jumping off roofs and other heights in slow motion going Dud-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh amazes me to this very day

 
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This is much like comic books that I enjoyed as a kid. Those comics are long gone thanks to my tidy mother. I decided to buy the hardcover reprint editions to some of the old Marvels I enjoyed. Well, the art seemed to hold up (Jack Kirby) but the stories seemed lame for the most part. The villain, of course, can never die. He or she has to be available for a future issue. Plus all the campy dialogue of the sixties is now dated with the times.
 
DaveM said:
This is much like comic books that I enjoyed as a kid. Those comics are long gone thanks to my tidy mother. I decided to buy the hardcover reprint editions to some of the old Marvels I enjoyed. Well, the art seemed to hold up (Jack Kirby) but the stories seemed lame for the most part. The villain, of course, can never die. He or she has to be available for a future issue. Plus all the campy dialogue of the sixties is now dated with the times.
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I recently DL'd a massive 28 gig torrent of a weekly comic book series i loved in the 70's (2000AD)
Am having a similar reaction.
The art is as fantastic as it ever was, and im really enjoying the nostalgia it sparks, its really "taking me back" to the places i was when first i read them.
But there is also an element of a sense of having outgrown them too
They just dont seem as sophisticated now as they did way back then
 
Steve Austin was god-like to me back in the 70's. I mean, he was just awesome! He was a test pilot, an astronaut, he had super-powers that technically were scientifically feasible, he was a spy, .....and he got ALL the chicks! He was everything I wanted to be as a 12 year old!
I even had the Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.......but alas, it's lost forever.
 
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