Hey Zig Forums what do you think about the incredible hulk (1978)

I think Lou was a fucking monster. 10/10 body, much respect and envy.

It was great for it's time, but looking back objectively, their adherence to formula really hurt the potential directions they could have gone. Still a fun series, though. Bill Bixby was a fucking charisma machine and Lou Ferrigno is the quintessential live-action Hulk for a reason.

What's really disappointing about it is they don't get other body builders to play outrageous villains. Seriously I think it would have been a much better show if they had done that.

But the wondering Banner aspect and the Hulk "SMASHING" local small town/city problems is fucking great. And even with what I just said, maybe contradicting myself a bit, the story and theme of the show about a guy just looking for a cure to the monster he created is pretty great. It lacks action to a degree but makes up for it with tone and feeling.

Also one of those old shows that makes you appreciate the creativity of prop and special effects guys and directors of the time.

>It's really funny the example the intro used of him getting anrgy is him struggling to change a flat.
it's because that's the first time he changes into Hulk, he's already frustrated that the gamma testing he did on himself apparently didn't work and then starts raining and he gets a flat tire. It's also significant because the reason he started experimenting was his obsession about how he couldn't lift his crashed car and his wife died while some people could perform "miracles" and lift the car etc. So the first time he turns into the Hulk, he lifts a car.

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The dude they got to play Thor was pretty hueg

Hulk not good at changing flat tires!

>Also one of those old shows that makes you appreciate the creativity of prop and special effects guys and directors of the time.

Seriously. I'm still impressed by the scene from the pilot where the Hulk rips his way out of the hyperbaric chamber.

Yea, but that was for the movie. I meant more like throughout the show itself. Like every three or four episodes bodybuilder in SFX makeup fighting Lou Ferrigno.

Damn. That’s actually pretty poignant.

>Did it have a proper conclusion?

Hulk/Banner die at the end of the final TV movie that concluded the series. So yes.

A documentary on the Hulk tv show
youtu.be/TtCyyLKXFec

The guy in charge of the show, Kenneth Johnson says:

He hated comic books and wanted the show to be as far away from the comic as possible:

*He changed Bruce Banner's name to David Banner in the tv show because he wanted no connection to Bruce Banner in the comic

*He based the Hulk tv show on Les Miserables to make a comic book story "legitimate"

*He called up Stan Lee saying he did not want the Hulk in the tv show to be green. He wanted Hulk to be red or another color other than green. Stan Lee told him the Hulk had to be green.

>*He changed Bruce Banner's name to David Banner in the tv show because he wanted no connection to Bruce Banner in the comic

I thought was because everyone involved thought Bruce made him sound gay

There's a weird breed of autism where some people refuse to accept TV movies as canon to the TV shows they accompany, so they insist that those conclusions don't count since they weren't episodes of the show. So the TV movie that concluded the cliffhanger from ALF "doesn't count" and the TV movie that concluded Incredible Hulk "doesn't count" etc.

I meet these people all the time and I don't know what their logic is outside of crippling autism.

Anime.
Movies are never canon.

FUCK, I don't understand attitudes like this at all.

>I hate everything about this and don't want to use anything from the original material.
>But I totally don't mind using the concept and the name to make money off this property that I can't stand.
>No I won't just make my own thing that might be kind of similar but incorporates all the changes I want to make...which is basically changing everything.

That explains the autism. Retarded to think anime rules apply to live-action American TV shows from the 70s and 80s, but autism is a hell of a disability, I guess.

There was also once a plan they considered to have Hulk meet the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man, but they couldn't come to an agreement. One of the unused plans was that Hammond would be wearing the black costume that was being used in the 80's.

That's fair.

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I was fine with Incredible Hulk trying to be a "grounded" sci-fi drama series and not a comic book show, mainly since it was trying to shake the stigma of what comic book shows were after 1966's Batman. But I was more annoyed by the precedent Hulk left, that ALL shows adapted from comic books had to avoid being "comic booky" and that meant "no supervillains from the comic EVER!" Like Wonder Woman, Amazing Spider-Man, even TV movies like Dr. Strange just wouldn't use super villains from the comics.

It got ridiculous by The Flash series in the 90s. They finally relented and started adding villains from the comics by the back half of the first season, but the show was cancelled by that point and it was too little, too late. Funny, considering most people cite the Trickster episodes of The Flash as the best.

I like that they literally changed his name from Bruce because they thought that name sounded gay lol

The Flash was a special kind of retarded about it. Like they refused to use super villains from the comics but still used super villains, they just made up their own like Nightshade and the Ghost. But sometimes they would make new villains that were EXACTLY like the ones from the comics, just not the villain from the comic.

"So we're gonna have a super villain. He's an evil duplicate of the Flash who wears a costume just like the Flash's only it's a different color."

"So, Profess Zoom?"

"No, it's a totally original villain named Pollux!"

I mean, I'm glad we got the Trickster, Captain Cold and Mirror Master, but that was at the very end of the series. 75% of it is generic mad scientists, generic mobsters, and "new" villains that could easily have been ones from the comics but weren't because "we gotta do what Incredible Hulk did!"