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2. |
Prisoner of the
Monster |
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=
3.75 |
4. |
When Monsters
Meet |
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=
3.75 |
3. |
Origin
of the Hulk |
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=
3.25 |
13. |
The
Hulk destroys Bruce Banner |
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=
3.25 |
11. |
Enter:
She-Hulk |
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=
3.25 |
6. |
Bruce Banner:
Unmasked |
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=
3.00 |
1. |
Tomb of the Unknown Hulk |
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=
2.75 |
7. |
The Creature & the Cavegirl |
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=
2.75 |
10. |
Punks on Wheels |
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=
2.75 |
5. |
The Cyclops Project |
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=
2.50 |
8. |
It Lives! It Grows! It Destroys! |
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=
2.25 |
9. |
The Incredible Shrinking Hulk |
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=
2.25 |
12. |
The Boy who saw
Tomorrow |
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=
1.25 |
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That list looks about how I
expected it to. Jon, our opinion on this show is shockingly
similar. I actually had a hard time trying to not repeat what you
said in your reviews. I doubt "Prisoner of the Monster"
would have been that high on my list as a kid, but it is certainly an
episode that has dated well. I'm glad to see that "It
Lives!" and "The Boy who saw Tomorrow" found their
proper place on the list. Like you said in your review, "It
Lives" is a memorable episode. If you had asked me to name five
episodes of this show a couple of years ago, it would have been one that I
thought of. Unfortunately I didn't like it but it was strangely
unforgettable. "The Boy who saw Tomorrow" I wouldn't have
remembered AT ALL. Funny, little similarities pop up when you look
at the shows from Marvel Productions: Dennis Marks wrote "The
Boy who saw Tomorrow" and for Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends
he wrote "The girl from Tomorrow"; Michael Reaves wrote
"Bruce Banner: Unmasked" and for Spider-Man and his Amazing
Friends he wrote "Spider-Man: Unmasked". Then you have
the shrinking episodes of both Spidey and Hulk. Funny stuff. I
enjoyed reliving this show, but it hasn't dated that well. Michael
Reaves seemed to be most responsible for making the show a part of the
Marvel Universe and I feel that a bigger push in that direction from the
other writers would have made this show more memorable. Hindsight is
20/20 though. But, seriously, what a terrible, terrible decision to
have Banner's clothes return after transformations. THAT has nothing
to do with hindsight. It was insulting even at the time.
I heartily agree with you Jon, in that the list as it stands doesn't
really contain any surprises. "Prisoner of the Monster" is the
series' undoubted highlight, but I have to disagree with you and say that
even as a kid that episode was special to me, as it was the final one
shown in the original run in the UK (someone must have realized that the
episode worked far better as a final episode than a middle one). The best
example of an episode successfully writing around network restrictions
would have to be "When Monsters Meet", which is the only episode
to finally give the Hulk a decent fight in a refreshingly new locale as
you said in your review. I've never been a big fan of Dennis Marks'
episodes, so it comes as no surprise to me that "The Boy Who Saw
Tomorrow" didn't fare so well on the list. It's a pretty illogical
episode and I agree with you that it's also a forgettable one - which is
pretty ironic since that was the first one I ever saw! "Origin of the
Hulk" seems to have fared quite well, however. My thinking is that
since so much of that episode is based on the original comicbook, that the
newly added elements do successfully make the episode a piece of sci-fi
drama for the 80s. From looking at the list we both seem to agree that
writer Michael Reaves was the one who wrote the Hulk closest to the
original comics, producing some solid episodes of the show. As for
Banner's clothes; well to me it just comes across as an extremely lazy
plot device to let Banner keep his secret, rather than have him use his
intelligence to prevent anyone from knowing. After all, even in the comics
he kept his secret for a few years, so the writers could have easily dealt
with that problem for a mere thirteen episodes!
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