Sunday 22 January 2012

Been Watching; The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk.

While poking about Toys Am We* one day I picked up a cheapo DVD that looked interesting.

Yes, I bought it because She-Hulk was in it. 
Now I've never seen the first series but apparently it was a lot darker and featured more plot arcs. Then the network execs stuck their oar in and insisted on a more light-hearted series. They also wanted She-Hulk to feature more prominently.
 Given that series two only lasted 7 episodes I'm guessing the changes didn't go down too well.
So is it any good?
Well the opening and ending episodes are weak. "Hulk of a Different Colour" exists to tie up plot threads from the first series and "Mission Incredible" is a fairly dumb rip-off of "Mission Impossible"
 In between though, you get some good stuff. Mark Hamill and Matt Frewer have a ball  with their recurring roles as Gargoyle and Leader and Cree Summers' She-Hulk can be a lot of fun, being as lively as the comics version.
  Snag is, Shulkie manages to push Hulk into the role of supporting star in his own show and I can't see that pleasing anybody. "Fashion Wars" seems to have been written purely to let the Green Goddess vamp it up on the catwalk and Hulk spends a large chunk of the episode out cold. Incidentally, the close up of Shulkie's toned butt overflowing out of her Daisy Dukes is not something you'd expect to see in a kids show. Clearly a nod to any dads that might be watching and not entirely unwelcome. (That's an issue where I might go into more depth at some point, btw).
  Her constant catchphrase of "Situation Green" starts to get on the nerves too.
 But I maybe protest too much. When all is said and done, it kept me entertained for a couple of hours and that's pretty much all I ever require of a cartoon.

*Supposedly what people from Dudley call Toys R Us. It's a Midlands thing.

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