Human Target

[headprogrammingczar]

Basically, Human Target is the ultimate action movie condensed into a TV show. Regular actors on the show are Mark Valley, Chi McBride (Vogler in season 1 of House), and Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach). Guests on the show include Alessandro Juliani (Felix Gaeta of BSG) and Sean Maher (Simon Tam). With a cast like that, this show cannot fail.

[BlackSails]

Its pretty awesome so far. Its sort of smiliar to burn notice, but more ass kicking.

[Xeio]

Its pretty awesome so far. Its sort of smiliar to burn notice, but more ass kicking.

Well, burn notice with much more cliche characters...

I guess it's ok for the action though.

[BlackSails]

Its pretty awesome so far. Its sort of smiliar to burn notice, but more ass kicking.

Well, burn notice with much more cliche characters...

I guess it's ok for the action though.

They supposed to be cliches though - it makes no attempt to hide that this is a 60s or so action comic.

[Nath]

This thread persuaded me to go watch the pilot on Hulu. Yep, it's basically a 70s action show with modern production values. Mindless but entertaining. I quite liked the fight in the crawley tubey thing. Nice to see a bit of groundwork on TV .

[MiB24601]

The main character isn't played by Colin Ferguson but Mark Valley, of Boston Legal and Keen Eddie fame.

I like the show but I keep thinking that Chance as his team burn through favors from contacts and through their resources way too quickly for them to sustain the pace the show uses them. Unless Chance is doing a lot of work in exchange for favors that we don't see and he's actually able to cash in the items he's paid in at some point, the characters will be out of money and out of favors real quick.

[headprogrammingczar]

Whoops! They look exactly the same. I'll fix the OP.

[Xeio]

I like the show but I keep thinking that Chance as his team burn through favors from contacts and through their resources way too quickly for them to sustain the pace the show uses them. Unless Chance is doing a lot of work in exchange for favors that we don't see and he's actually able to cash in the items he's paid in at some point, the characters will be out of money and out of favors real quick.

Well, the did get paid by the mobster (or at least, it was implied), and I'd assume that likely covers other expenses as well...?

Favors on the other hand... yea

[cv4]

I also can see the resemblance to Burn Notice.

I also find it funny that it is called Human Target, as an adaptation of the DC comic, but it is nothing like the comic. Purely using it to cash in on the fledging comic book adaptation market.

Either way, it is just a fun, entertaining action show. Thumbs up from me.

[ArgonV]

I like the show. It's just unpretentious fun. I was just wondering, can you really

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fly a commercial airplane upside down? Wouldn't that creat lift in the wrong direction, sending you crashing to the ground?

I was also quite amazed this show hasn't a female lead. I'm not saying it's wrong or anything, it just feels strange, since all modern shows seem to have at least 1-2 female leads.

[BlackSails]

I like the show. It's just unpretentious fun. I was just wondering, can you really

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fly a commercial airplane upside down? Wouldn't that creat lift in the wrong direction, sending you crashing to the ground?

Nope. Most planes will fly just fine upside down. The cause of lift is not that air takes more time to flow over one side of the wing.

[ArgonV]

Really? I always thought wings did create lift because the airspeed over the wing was lower than that under the wing

Now I want to fly in a passenger plane that's flying upside down

[Technical Ben]

I like the show. It's just unpretentious fun. I was just wondering, can you really

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fly a commercial airplane upside down? Wouldn't that create lift in the wrong direction, sending you crashing to the ground?

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A car can turn right and left, right? And a plane can fly up, and also down, else you could not land. So turn the plane upside down and press down on the control stick. You now go up.

My Google Fu tells me that you can have symmetrical wings. These still work by being angled correctly. The air still takes longer over one side than the other due to the angle of travel. I am not sure how you would do it in a commercial jet though. Or even if a large passenger plane could survive the stress. Let alone if its wings are shaped and angled correctly. So I suppose your assumption of some panes not being able to do it is quite right.

[Not_an_S]

I saw it once, since the only station I got at that time was Fox. It was the one where he needed to find someone at a monastery, and then he needed to find a scroll there.
I really thought it would be a bad, generic show, but it was really entertaining, and I think I might want to watch it more.

[Soralin]

I like the show. It's just unpretentious fun. I was just wondering, can you really

Spoiler:

fly a commercial airplane upside down? Wouldn't that creat lift in the wrong direction, sending you crashing to the ground?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHiYA6Dmws

[Nath]

And it's back, under new management. They've changed things around: gotten rid of Bear McCreary's score, added a couple of new regulars, and swept last season's plot under the rug.

[Xeio]

Shhhh, this show doesn't have plot. It's just action smothered in something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike a plot.

[headprogrammingczar]

I liked the old musical intro... :(

[ArgonV]

It also seemed a bit more gory... Detective Lassiter's hand, the eye... Not saying it's a bad thing though

[ArgonV]

Thanks for the fanservice?

[Technical Ben]

Shhhh, this show doesn't have plot. It's just action smothered in something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike a plot.

99% of TV right now.
I would not even mind if it was Star Trek Based, individual stories*. With no real link, but sometimes bringing up the past. Or a general one, such as voyager where you have to get home.
but instead we get Lost, and all the other imitations. Even my favourites such as Heros loses the plot after the first series. They just get random stories, forget things, logical opposites or none at all, and then wrap it up with an ending that makes no sense. Or has no explanation.


I suppose this is where CSI and shows like the Mentalist work. You miss an episode? Does not really matter. But I gave up on Lost as it just refused to make any sense whatsoever.

[BlackSails]

Shhhh, this show doesn't have plot. It's just action smothered in something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike a plot.

no, it has a plot, its just not advanced in every episode.

Spoiler:

This week promises plot, Baptiste comes back

[Xeio]

Shhhh, this show doesn't have plot. It's just action smothered in something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike a plot.

no, it has a plot, its just not advanced in every episode.

Spoiler:

This week promises plot, Baptiste comes back

Good guy, bad past (re-explain to every new client)... ACTION