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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 263366" data-attributes="member: 23">Over The Hill Spy / All For One / The Pyramid <img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmVhYmUxNDMtNzA2Mi00NTEyLWFjM2EtZmM3MGJhM2FkOTBmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MzIxNjQ@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 688px" /> As I’ve said before, this series works best for me when it’s not too fantastic. Aliens with futuristic technology and noisy flashing “hi-tech” machines are a turn-off. As are superhuman powers, beyond bionics or that which can be scientifically explained. This is why the humdrum Over The Hill Spy and All For One are far preferable to the fantastic elements of The Pyramid, even with its higher stakes and key moments such as the atomic power pack for Jaime’s bionics being removed. The Pyramid is played for truth as much as possible, but can never look anything but dated and I found myself tuning out for much of the episode. Christopher Stone from Fly Jaime is back, now playing Chris Williams who has O.S.I. connections and is apparently firmly established with Oscar as Jaime's latest beau (poor Raymond must have got tired of waiting for Jaime to return). He's got a similar rugged charm to Steve Austin (and even Steve's old moustache), but at the moment it's a bit meh. I found him more engaging in Fly Jaime, so if we can't have Steve or Roger Grette, I do wonder why not simply have Stone playing Marlowe whose doctoring skills had brought him onto the O.S.I.'s radar. Back in humdrumsville, Over The Hill Spy and All For One both see Jaime chloroformed and bound. How many times has this happened during the series now? We must be onto fingers and toes. In Spy the perpetrator, Terrence Quinn, explains to the recovering Jaime his reasons for favouring chloroform. One being that it has “minimal side effects”. Dr Google tells me it can cause asphyxiation and arrhythmia leading to heart attack, in addition to being a carcinogen. Good job Quinn isn’t trying to harm her. Quinn himself is Jaime’s odd couple pairing for the episode. An O.S.I. agent and master of disguise whose age forced him into retirement against his wishes and so the titular Over The Hill Spy. The price for him to assist Jaime and to allow Oscar back into his good books is ten years’ salary with benefits to which Oscar readily agrees. Where do I sign up? In All For One, along similar lines, Oscar also authorises the government to put thirty eight students through university. Deep pockets indeed. Raising an eyebrow or two, many of the lighter notes in Spy come from Quinn’s age, most notably his myopia. After losing his glasses, he basically becomes Mr Magoo. Meanwhile, All For One features Over The Hill Student Mrs Simpson. Something about her hanging out with the three fast talking young criminals, keeping watch as they pull their tricks and chatting away to Jaime as the roofie in Jamie’s coffee takes effect puts me in mind of the jive talking pensioner from Airplane!Linking the campus antics of All For One with the high sci fi of The Pyramid is future Mr Lindsay Wagner Henry Kligi. He effortlessly goes from playing a grungy student to an Inca Warrior. And I didn’t even notice until after the fact. </blockquote>

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