Director of Photography John McPherson
Written by Dan Ullman; Produced by Nicholas Corea;
Directed by Jeffrey Hayden
David is helping out the family of an army officer who is blinded a few hours after handling a chemical cannister, although the affliction is put down to the neural shock of a damaging fall in the night. The soldier who was with him is later found to have crashed his vehicle, being killed in the accident. Obviously the two events are not the product of coincidence when both had contact with the cannister. David investigates, uncovering experiments in chemical weapons and military cover-ups.
When I read Hulk comic-books in the seventies one of his greatest foes was the army itself and whilst the TV series actually has little to do with its literary (if I may call it that) source material, this episode provides the opportunity to witness the TV Hulk do battle with a small portion of the army. Naturally, the conflict is better realised in the Ed Norton movie from 2008 (back when Marvel in cinema showed tons of promise, yet to morph into the unnecessary social preaching flag-carrier that it eventually became), but for someone who grew up in the seventies reading those comics (and watching this series) there is a degree of satisfaction to be derived from Hulk going up against a tank and being shot at by soldiers.
Written by Dan Ullman; Produced by Nicholas Corea;
Directed by Jeffrey Hayden
David is helping out the family of an army officer who is blinded a few hours after handling a chemical cannister, although the affliction is put down to the neural shock of a damaging fall in the night. The soldier who was with him is later found to have crashed his vehicle, being killed in the accident. Obviously the two events are not the product of coincidence when both had contact with the cannister. David investigates, uncovering experiments in chemical weapons and military cover-ups.
When I read Hulk comic-books in the seventies one of his greatest foes was the army itself and whilst the TV series actually has little to do with its literary (if I may call it that) source material, this episode provides the opportunity to witness the TV Hulk do battle with a small portion of the army. Naturally, the conflict is better realised in the Ed Norton movie from 2008 (back when Marvel in cinema showed tons of promise, yet to morph into the unnecessary social preaching flag-carrier that it eventually became), but for someone who grew up in the seventies reading those comics (and watching this series) there is a degree of satisfaction to be derived from Hulk going up against a tank and being shot at by soldiers.
Number of Fists: ***
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