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The Bionic Woman: Max (1977)
Jaime's in the hospital -- again
Another terrible Season 3 episode. Once again, Jaime is sidelined to make room for characters we don't know or care about. This time it's to find out if Max deserves his own spin-off. Spoiler alert: he doesn't. The episode consists almost entirely of people yelling things at Max: "Max, go! Max, stay! Max, don't! Max, pull it! Max, run! Max, come back! Max, Tommy fell down a well, get help!" Riveting stuff. Fortunately someone at the network had the good sense to pull the plug on the Bionic Max and His Idiot People show. They should have pulled the plug on the Season 3 writers and directors while they were at it.
The Bionic Woman: The Antidote (1978)
Bionic garbage
It would take too long to describe every stupid thing in this episode, so I'll just mention a few. First there's the terrible acting by many of the supporting "actors" --especially the actress who played Sarah, whose line delivery is terrible and who worked in every possible unnatural gesture she could think of. Then there's the stupidity of having the bad guys getting one of their own into the hospital as a nurse, who has the poison on her in case they need to kill Jaime immediately, and yet one of the bad guys shows up with some sort of deadly audio frequency thing that's tuned to bionics. Why??? The evil nurse had the poison! (Which would have worked because the antidote hadn't been worked out. Then there's the nonsense about the search for Rudy, whose out for a hike on a military base where he's surrounded by death rays and land mines. (When Max jumped out the window, and before the military guy said Max was going to die, I said to my wife "I bet he'll have to run through a mine field.") And what does Rudy contribute to the plot? Nothing. When Chris gets the poison from the evil nurse, the doctor at the beginning of the episode then had the information he needed to create the antidote. Rudy was completely unnecessary. Another thing: the bad guys call Jaime's buddies at the hospital THREE TIMES before they tell them what they want. The writers clearly had no plot and were just stalling for time. Let's see, what else did I want to complain about? How about the tube that's taped to Jaime's chin for no reason? How about sidelining your main character and making her groan and whimper for the entire episode? I could go on, but I won't.