User Reviews

So here we have a bionic comedy. At least that's what it tried to be. It's mildly amusing at times, only vaguely interesting, and generally not what I hope to see when I sit down to watch a show about an astonishing and powerful woman. The Bionic Woman is basically wasted in this episode. She's reduced to being a side kick. Sure, they work together, and she does her bionic magic here and there, but it's still playing Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis. I will say that the last scene is the best scene. They did save the best for last. I won't spoil it. But it's a nice little scene.

Quite an enjoyable episode with some interesting ideas. How old is too old ? And the clash between Jaime and retired agent Terry Quinn as they try to overcome the generation gap and learn to trust each other and work together is fun to watch. Older doesn't necessarily mean wiser and younger doesn't necessarily mean stupid is a good message to put across to the audience in a family show. It was a good message to put out that old enemies can finally reconcile and that the Cold War didn't have to last forever too. I think that was a message that the audience and the world needed to hear in 1977 when we were all living under the shadow of nuclear armageddon. So, yeah, some good ideas. Just a shame that the episode never quite manages to pull it off and sits uneasily between spy drama and slapstick and never really succeeds in either. Like much of series 3 you can see the enthusiasm and the energy starting to run out of the show. And, if you want to look for things that were maybe never there, it's more possible foreshadowing and another reminder to Jaime of just how hard it is to leave the espionage world behind you.

Solid enough but could have been better.