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My favorite Six Million Dollar Man episode is where Steve Austin had to fight a Soviet Venus rover that accidently landed on Earth. It was autonomous, obviously, and because it was designed to survive on Venus, it was nearly indestructible.

No one comes up with plots like that anymore!

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Also similar to the strange subplot in "Until the End of the World" [1] where a damaged Indian nuclear satellite threatens to fall to earth destroying civilization.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/

wow that's an old movie call back I hadn't thought about in years. I loved the whole sub-plot of the repercussions of being able to record and replay ones dreams.

> Wim Wenders' original rough cut for this film was twenty hours long.

Holy hell

I'm still working on all 83 hours of Suits

That movie has one of the best soundtracks ever. Highly recommended - it was released as an album and you can find it on Spotify and similar services.

Ah I've been trying to dig up that episode from my faulty memory for years! I was convinced it was an episode of the A-Team fighting a killer tank instead.

Glad to help! I was 12 at the time, proving the adage about the "Golden Age of science fiction."

Kenner also released a surprisingly large toy version of that probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

Considering the GI Joes I had, that was average size for toys like that.

That scared the snot out of me as a little kid. I half want to see it again, and half know it’d be so cheesy that it’d ruin the memory of watching from the safety of underneath the coffee table.

Did Steve have a mustache? Those are the epic seasons. Imagine fighting a CCCP Venus rover with a glorious 'stache!

Was that the episode where it was defeated by screwing an eye hook into the top of it and lifting it to immobilize?

Its a dalek: Just climb stairs.

America doesn't have a clear "Antagonist" anymore to unify media, news, and discussion in an "us vs them" way. Instead lots of groups have found and formed their own bad guys and media is largely fractured on that parameter.

This is why lots of boomers think the news is "biased" now too, because they grew up with all of society unified against a common EXTERNAL foe, for better or worse. There was nobody saying "actually the USSR shouldn't be the enemy", mostly because socialist everything was snuffed out by WW2.

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