Thread: The Six Million Dollar Man

Quote: Originally Posted by alphaboi867 Didn't the Bionic Woman remake handwave problems like that away by saying Jaime had nanites all throughout her body altering her physiology? Hand-waving is for sissies and Welshman. The way to handle scientific impossibilities is by sheer audacity and never, EVER going into technical detail. Nanites . I spit on nanites and their inbred cousin, midichlorians .

Quote: Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer Third, the studio guards must be ordered to shoot Jerry Bruckheimer on sight, just to be safe. More as it comes to me They should probably shoot Michael Bay as well, just to be sure. Quote: Originally Posted by kenobi 65 Ah, but prices for bionics have gone down dramatically since the 1970s, even after you factor for inflation: Lee Majors Bionic Hearing Aid Get your own Bionic Hearing aid, one of...

As I recall, the Cyborg Austen also had metal rib replacements, that could act as a broadcast antenna. Or so it was written, I don't think it was actually used in the plot.

Six Million bucks would probably buy you a pretty impressive set of Prothetics these days. Prosthetics have come a very long way in 35 years. But try to lift a car with an bionic arm and bionic leg and it won't be the limbs that break, but something will if you don't have the torso/spine conditioned for heavy lifting.

Quote: Originally Posted by FallenAngel If they do a remake, they should make him much more like the character in the books. Much more of a badass. Roger that. The Martin Caidin Cyborg was not at all camp. He kicked ass (bionically) and took names.

Yeah, in purely relative terms, six million isn't a whole lot of dough in this day. I mean, I'd be happy to win that much playing lotto, but I can't imagine that the bionic replacement limbs it could buy would be all that impressive. $60 million might be a bit more realistic. I had the Steve Austin "action figure" as well. My personal favorite Steve Austin adventure was the one with the Venus probe - basically...

Quote: Originally Posted by pan1 ...But try to lift a car with an bionic arm and bionic leg and it won't be the limbs that break, but something will if you don't have the torso/spine conditioned for heavy lifting. Didn't the Bionic Woman remake handwave problems like that away by saying Jaime had nanites all throughout her body altering her physiology?

Several people here have hit on why this would probably not work. Any time they try to update one of these series they feel the need to do one of two things: 1. Make it way too silly. Since the old special effects look campy to us today, they will play it up to be intentionally campy turning it into a comedy even if it wasn't intended to be. 2. Make it DARKER AND EDGIER!!!! Since people today are far more jaded (in the eyes of the...

Ah, but prices for bionics have gone down dramatically since the 1970s, even after you factor for inflation: Lee Majors Bionic Hearing Aid

Quote: Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer Those not familiar with Nell should click the link in the spoiler box. SPOILER : Yowza ! Yowza, indeed. 6 billion seems very reasonable.