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You know The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978) was really of its time because the idea someone would become a [calculates] Forty Million Dollar Man today out of being a government employee is laughable

What it really was was a post-Vietnam fantasy that if the government ruined your life it would feel at all driven to make it up to you

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Also, its Bigfoot stuff and the X-Files nicely bookend a period of Weird vogue: as an ‘80s kid the Bermuda Triangle and spontaneous combustion seemed like real dangers, my mom was into near-death experiences (which in retrospect yeah, that’s disassociative anaesthetics plus advances in emergency medicine that made once-hopeless cases recoverable), the alien-abduction classic Communion was 1987

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