As most of you know, I have begun a new podcast based on my love for The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman called Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast.  Every two weeks, "Voice of the Rift" Paul K. Bisson and I dissect an episode of either series with a guest host.  Despite our love for both series, we knew that this simply couldn't be a love fest or we would never be taken seriously.

Last night, we recorded the first two true episodes.  We are starting with the TV movies that developed into the weekly series.  It's interesting to note how when you turn a critical eye to something you truly love and break it down, it doesn't seem as great as it would appear at first.

Without giving too much away, we all seemed to be in consensus that the pilot movie was close to perfect.  We noted the flaws and managed to give it a high number of bionic limbs for our rating.

The second movie, "Wine, Women, and War", didn't fair as well.  On the surface, I like it.  It's a decent movie - on the surface.  But when you really stop to think about the motivations and actions of Steve Austin in this film, it doesn't ring true with the man he was in the first film or the man we'll come to know in the series.  When you look at the clearly sexist atitudes being flaunted in this movie, it suddenly loses a lot of its shine.  And then there's the ridiculous way he took out the baddie.  Stay tuned to hear about that.

My whole point in saying all that was to say this.  Sometimes, it takes a true reflection of anything you truly love to see if it's really as good as you might hold it up to be.  It could be a beloved television show, an article of clothing that has clearly gone past its fashion sense time frame (if it ever really had one), or even a simple love for hamburgers (I'm so missing hamburgers at the moment).  We all have blinders when it comes to the nostalgia of what was, but the reality of what is can often be harsh and so much easier to avoid.  We like to think it's perfect or that we're perfect, but there is the harsh reality of it all and that's often hard to accept.

Just try not to be so harsh when you're watching those old episodes of the public access Rift.  I try to keep the shine on them myself.  I can't help it.