@MickyMac said:

One of the problems of this show it was the same thing over and over, basic premise that never changes, and rooted in a cops and rubbers type formula. It was a very 70's type of show with them being the same thing every episode and nothing ever changing.

There's some truth in that. It's certainly formulaic. But it had plenty of interesting and varied near misses between Banner and McGhee.

For me. Watching the many transformation scenes reveal something, perhaps, about the Banner character. How many times does he find himself in a Hulking out situation where you wonder how it didn't see this coming much earlier? How many times does he let himself get very attached to vulnerable people whom the Hulk later protects? And how accident prone is David? How much of jerk magnet is he?

The way he's portrayed in the TV show provokes a lot of questions like that for me. Yes they may well be just a means to an end, but if the end is that transformation scene, one of the best special effects tricks ever filmed, then I'll take them.

@Tector_lives said:

@MickyMac said:

One of the problems of this show it was the same thing over and over, basic premise that never changes, and rooted in a cops and rubbers type formula. It was a very 70's type of show with them being the same thing every episode and nothing ever changing.

There's some truth in that. It's certainly formulaic. But it had plenty of interesting and varied near misses between Banner and McGhee.

For me. Watching the many transformation scenes reveal something, perhaps, about the Banner character. How many times does he find himself in a Hulking out situation where you wonder how it didn't see this coming much earlier? How many times does he let himself get very attached to vulnerable people whom the Hulk later protects? And how accident prone is David? How much of jerk magnet is he?

The way he's portrayed in the TV show provokes a lot of questions like that for me. Yes they may well be just a means to an end, but if the end is that transformation scene, one of the best special effects tricks ever filmed, then I'll take them.

Certainly a bully magnet? was odd there seem to be one everywhere he goes, he always seemed to take the risk of going in civilized places not living in isolation like in a cabin in the woods and was odd he never wore a hat while hitchhiking in case McGee saw him.

Well he couldn't have been very bright to begin with, shooting gamma rays into his own noggin, so he's just not smart enough to avoid trouble.