I grew up with all those series from the end of the seventies, early eighties so when they become available I try to pick them up. So I did with The Bionic Woman but it just couldn't fulfill my expectations.
I have seen The Six Million Dollar Man last year and it was great. I never had any problem with the way it was done with the effects. But here with this series it sometimes do has a cheesy feeling. I have seen so many things that looked laughable and didn't stand up for the time being. I mean, if a door is blocked by a stone and Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) is given her force against the rock it's so easy to spot that it isn't a real rock and when she do split the rock with her feet just look, you could see that it was made from styrofoam. It never occurred to me that I saw those cheesy things with the Six Million Dollar Man. Some effects were rather good, like her leg being damaged and it reveales the wires inside.
Don't misunderstand me, it isn't all that bad, Lindsay do give a good performance and being a spin-off of the Six Million Dollar Man it do works sometime but when Lee Majors do appear it do level up a bit.
Let me also say that Claws was the strangest thing to experience. Back then everything was possible. There weren't any restrictions and it shows. Just see how a real lion walks in a class full of children. They even may touch him. Can't think that's possible nowadays. In that particular episode all animals do walk around on a ranch, from ape to lion to elephant to everything you get in your mind. But not only that, in Claws the lion even opens a door. It's a close-up of his claws opening the door, and it's so clear that it was a fake leg from the lion. It makes it all so cheesy, really.
They also used real footage from the army when necessary, a thing they also did in The Six Million Dollar Man. For me it's between The Six Million Dollar Man (the use of the sound and slo- mo when using her bionic powers) and Wonder Woman (the cheesy use of styrofoam). A mediocre series.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
I have seen The Six Million Dollar Man last year and it was great. I never had any problem with the way it was done with the effects. But here with this series it sometimes do has a cheesy feeling. I have seen so many things that looked laughable and didn't stand up for the time being. I mean, if a door is blocked by a stone and Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) is given her force against the rock it's so easy to spot that it isn't a real rock and when she do split the rock with her feet just look, you could see that it was made from styrofoam. It never occurred to me that I saw those cheesy things with the Six Million Dollar Man. Some effects were rather good, like her leg being damaged and it reveales the wires inside.
Don't misunderstand me, it isn't all that bad, Lindsay do give a good performance and being a spin-off of the Six Million Dollar Man it do works sometime but when Lee Majors do appear it do level up a bit.
Let me also say that Claws was the strangest thing to experience. Back then everything was possible. There weren't any restrictions and it shows. Just see how a real lion walks in a class full of children. They even may touch him. Can't think that's possible nowadays. In that particular episode all animals do walk around on a ranch, from ape to lion to elephant to everything you get in your mind. But not only that, in Claws the lion even opens a door. It's a close-up of his claws opening the door, and it's so clear that it was a fake leg from the lion. It makes it all so cheesy, really.
They also used real footage from the army when necessary, a thing they also did in The Six Million Dollar Man. For me it's between The Six Million Dollar Man (the use of the sound and slo- mo when using her bionic powers) and Wonder Woman (the cheesy use of styrofoam). A mediocre series.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5