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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 21, 2017 11:15:29 GMT -5
I was thinking about QUANTUM LEAP the other day and this episode popped into my mind of TGAH.
Had the series continued and been more successful, do you ever see the possibility of SJC and company adding in an evil suit wearer? Similar to the evil leaper in QUANTUM LEAP?
I thought that DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM was a great preview episode for exactly that type of thing. How would the team square off against an evil Bill and evil Ralph? Especially if they had an instruction book and the good guys did not?
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Post by MelMac on Jul 24, 2017 8:51:38 GMT -5
Personally, I think they probably would've since as it's been mentioned an "evil twin" tended to be theme for at least one episode for any and all '80s shows.
Sometimes it wasn't even the main characters - "MacGyver" had it with a twin whose sister cut her climbing rope to save her life (basically went insane).
For a flip of this - "MASK" (the cartoon that is NOT based on the Jim Carrey character) started doing it their (short) second season bringing in a more neutral to good twin for Miles Mayhem of VENOM.
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That said, this is not what I would've wanted.
Instead, it would've been nice to have some glitch or something with the suit that turned Ralph evil at times/want to do the wrong thing instead of good.
More of a Jekyll/Hyde personality so to speak.
In fact, I wish they had rather gone THIS route to remove the suit from him in "GAHeroine" and by removing it, he turned to his normal self, and after the Greenguys fixed the program, realize it will not work on him again and therefore must pick another wearer.
At least it would've made more sense given we ended up with a successor that IMHO was similar to the way Ralph was behaving that CAUSED him to lose the suit in the first place.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 24, 2017 8:58:37 GMT -5
Personally, I think they probably would've since as it's been mentioned an "evil twin" tended to be theme for at least one episode for any and all '80s shows. Sometimes it wasn't even the main characters - "MacGyver" had it with a twin whose sister cut her climbing rope to save her life (basically went insane). For a flip of this - "MASK" (the cartoon that is NOT based on the Jim Carrey character) started doing it their (short) second season bringing in a more neutral to good twin for Miles Mayhem of VENOM. ********************** That said, this is not what I would've wanted. Instead, it would've been nice to have some glitch or something with the suit that turned Ralph evil at times/want to do the wrong thing instead of good. More of a Jekyll/Hyde personality so to speak. In fact, I wish they had rather gone THIS route to remove the suit from him in "GAHeroine" and by removing it, he turned to his normal self, and after the Greenguys fixed the program, realize it will not work on him again and therefore must pick another wearer. At least it would've made more sense given we ended up with a successor that IMHO was similar to the way Ralph was behaving that CAUSED him to lose the suit in the first place. That's an interesting take on the suit, MelMac. I think it would have been a neat way in HEROINE as well to get rid of the suit. Some chemical imbalance between Ralph and the suit. Mentioning MACGYVER though, I think it would have been great to have a fantastic recurring bad guy like Murdoc. That would have made it hard on the team, but still allowing a way for them to bond and do characterizations. |
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Post by MelMac on Jul 24, 2017 13:35:47 GMT -5
[ That's an interesting take on the suit, MelMac. I think it would have been a neat way in HEROINE as well to get rid of the suit. Some chemical imbalance between Ralph and the suit. Mentioning MACGYVER though, I think it would have been great to have a fantastic recurring bad guy like Murdoc. That would have made it hard on the team, but still allowing a way for them to bond and do characterizations. Thanks - I mean there were so many better ways to have handled the changeover than how they did. Reading the summary Mona put about the full pilot, it was clear there wasn't a lot of thought into it, and character canon information be damned. (I mean - let's be honest: Pam was the only one who was even really remotely close to her personality through all of the pilot, and she wasn't in it a lot). A recurring bad guy I think might've occurred had the series got a full third season and more seasons. They would've had to find a way to keep it fresh or shuffle the pace around. Even the Tracys had to deal with the Hood/espionage issues in "Thunderbirds" between their normal rescues. |
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