# Hold onto your butts, SDMB! "Human Target" is back on tonight!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021 "2010-11-17T21:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/21 "2010-11-19T05:39:23Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Loved it! I think the new cast additions will work well. The new benefactor promised to be “hands-off” so I wonder if we’ll only see her now and then. I took “hands-off” to mean only that she wasn’t going to be issuing orders as though she were Charlie and they were her Angels. There’ll be plenty of reasons to have her around, like when the group needs her to buy them a new toy or when Baptiste inevitably snatches her. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/22 "2010-11-19T06:02:25Z")
It’s definitely the Guerrero show for me, and I am very glad it’s back. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/23 "2010-12-31T15:13:48Z")
Maybe I’m an emotional sap, but I think it will be hard to top the episode where Ilsa Pucci gets rescued. I would almost watch the show just for Guerrero. But I do wish he’d stop calling his car the Eldo. I guess it’s part of the story, but Chance seems like a blank slate. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/24 "2010-12-31T15:17:36Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > It’s definitely the Guerrero show for me, and I am very glad it’s back. \<3 I didn’t come alone. I brought another guy with me. Plus he’s totally believable as a janitor. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/25 "2011-01-02T05:44:50Z")
I have only seen parts of the premiere episode. Obviously, I need to catch up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/26 "2011-01-02T06:58:16Z")
> [@11811](#): > > I didn’t come alone. I brought another guy with me. > > Plus he’s totally believable as a janitor. “Yeah, I’ve got to go meet up with the plumber.” “A plumber? At midnight?” "No dude, not a plumber; THE Plumber. He’s…oh just never mind. " ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/27 "2011-01-02T10:57:15Z")
Even if I didn’t love Guererro, and Emerson Cod, and Indira Varma, I would still love this show for the sweet, brief, glimpse of Lennie James. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/28 "2011-01-11T02:53:23Z")
I noticed that they are doing back-to-back episodes this week again. Made me wonder if they were burning the series off, but apparently it’s just a temporary thing. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/29 "2011-02-10T15:01:33Z")
Along with tugging on Superman’s cape, spitting in the wind and pulling the mask of the Lone Ranger - don’t threaten Guererro’s kid. Joe ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/30 "2011-02-10T20:09:57Z")
Well, that was thoroughly unsatisfying. I’m not going to be disappointed if it doesn’t get renewed, it just wasn’t very good this year. The retooling decisions were either bad (Ames is possibly the worst character on television and Ilsa is very near the bottom) or badly implemented (really heavy handedly relating _every single episode_ to their personal lives) and while there were cool scenes here and there, the overall episodes just weren’t good. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/31 "2011-02-11T19:26:27Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Well, that was thoroughly unsatisfying. > > I’m not going to be disappointed if it doesn’t get renewed, it just wasn’t very good this year. The retooling decisions were either bad (Ames is possibly the worst character on television and Ilsa is very near the bottom) or badly implemented (really heavy handedly relating _every single episode_ to their personal lives) and while there were cool scenes here and there, the overall episodes just weren’t good. I have to disagree, I think it was a very successful season. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/32 "2011-02-11T19:31:34Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Well, that was thoroughly unsatisfying. > > I’m not going to be disappointed if it doesn’t get renewed, it just wasn’t very good this year. The retooling decisions were either bad (Ames is possibly the worst character on television and Ilsa is very near the bottom) or badly implemented (really heavy handedly relating _every single episode_ to their personal lives) and while there were cool scenes here and there, the overall episodes just weren’t good. Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/33 "2011-02-11T20:17:14Z")
At the risk of being viewed as a threadshitter (which is not my intent), I’d like to ask what it is about this show that has people so lathered up. I watched a couple of shows from last season, was completely unimpressed, and gave it another try this season. We sat down and watched a couple of episodes (the one where the thieves took the high-brow party hostage while they drilled under the building, and the one where Guerrero was chucked into an Alabama prison for killing some guy). At the end, my wife and I looked at each other and kinda went, “Meh. Lame.” What are we missing? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/34 "2011-02-12T06:53:24Z")
If the show doesn’t end up being renewed, I won’t really care. The changes they made for the second season didn’t work particularly well. Neither new character is very good, and the idea of taking the low-rent group and putting it in the lap of luxury would have worked a lot better, I think, if we had had more time to appreciate them in their low-rent days. _Angel_, for instance, gave us four seasons before pulling that move. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021/35 "2011-02-12T14:17:51Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > What are we missing? Sadly, not much, anymore. They have undergone major changes and I have to agree with a few others who think it has declined. In the beginning, there was a lot of potential for a fun action show. I kind of think the showrunners, who were replaced for season 2, blew it. I was hoping it’d be as fun as early seasons of Alias, if you liked that. It wasn’t. I assume it will be canceled. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-sdmb-human-target-is-back-on-tonight/561021.md?page=1)