Cable Surfing: I’m gonna tell ya what ya need to do
You need to turn this mutha up real real loud…by which I mean watch Human Target.
Human Target rocks the cock — uh, I mean the block. Rocks my socks? Something like that.
No, really, this is the best action show since… uhm … gimme a minute … I’m drawing a blank here.
Human Target is The Violence, and, in the words of Beavis and Butthead, TV Violence rules.
EDIT: Oh, for the comic book fans, this will be pretty different from the book (which I haven’t read), in that it’s basically a pure action show without all the Stupid Mission Impossible Masks and impersonating the target (they kept the title anyway….)
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February 10th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
But, but, but, THE MASK IS THE WHOLE POINT. Sure, a stupid point, but the point. That would be like making a Superman show with no cape! Or a Batman movie in Gotham with the whole extended Batman Family and no Batman. Or a Hulk movie with no Bruce Banner! Or a GI Joe cartoon where the vast array of interesting and diverse soldiers are boiled down to a single stereotype + single defining feature.
Wait, did the GI Joe cartoon or comic book come first?
*consults wikipedia*
Yeah, like a GI Joe cartoon where the vast array of interesting and diverse soldiers are boiled down to a single stereotype + single defining feature.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:18 am
And if there were already a plethora of solid action shows on TV I might care about the preservation of its unique and defining feature, but there aren’t so I only care about The Violence.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:21 am
You do know that I was pointing out that Smallville, Birds of Prey, The Incredible Hulk, and GI Joe managed to make those changes without being unwatchable, right?
February 12th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Yes, Smallville is unwatchable for entirely different reasons.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Well, no, not really, but I haven’t seen Smallville or Birds of Prey, don’t recall a Hulk without Banner (which one was that?), and I think I missed your point on GI Joe. Also I appear to have made that comment somewhat after my modern bedtime.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:03 am
In the show, Bruce Banner’s name was changed to David Banner. It sent dorks into a tizzy.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I’d forgotten there was a Hulk show. I could only remember the movies. =\