# She-Hulk: Attorney at Law **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591 "2022-05-18T02:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/1 "2022-05-18T02:56:20Z")
(Streaming August 17th on Disney+) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gim2kprjL50/maxresdefault.jpg "Official Trailer | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | Disney+") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gim2kprjL50) It looks very promising, and if they can match the tone of the comics (which it seems like they’re trying to do) it could be a lot of fun… …but oh, that CGI. It’s easy enough to ignore dodgy CGI when it’s not essential to the story, but this is (half of) the main character we’re talking about. Hulk looks decent enough, but he has an extensive movie library behind him. She-Hulk … does not look decent enough. She’s deep in the uncanny valley, and her expressiveness comes off as pretty iffy. These are undoubtedly not the final effects, as they still have three months of postproduction left - but then again, I’m sure the budget is not movie-scale either, and it’s nine 30-minute episodes with two or three of the principle characters being CGI, so … I’m starting to get a bad feeling about this. I hope I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/2 "2022-05-18T03:11:53Z")
Law & Order: MCU: “In the cosmic justice system there are two groups: the sorcerer/inventors, who create problems; and the plucky superpowered idealists, who fix them. These are their stories.” This promo looks terrible, and as good of an actress as Tatiana Maslany was in _Orphan Black_ and _Perry Mason_, she can’t save this by personality alone. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/3 "2022-05-18T03:18:56Z")
Agreed about the CGI. But I think the Hulk looks better also because he’s not trying to look like a regular human. She-Hulk looks like she should be a real (buff) woman, so she looks off. Honestly, I think it would work better if they did the opposite: getting a buff woman and using clothes + CGI to make her look less buff. Maybe they could accentuate her buffness, but creating it out of the full cloth doesn’t seem to work. It doesn’t blend with everything else. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/4 "2022-05-18T03:23:28Z")
That CGI would barely be acceptable in the 90s. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/5 "2022-05-18T04:41:09Z")
In the modern comics, Howard the Duck’s detective agency and Jennifer’s law office are in the same building, and they interact a lot. So, please? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/6 "2022-05-18T04:51:03Z")
I hope they dont do the thing they did in she hulk cartoons where because she was pretty much a quiet bookish “mouse” then when she becomes she hulk she turned into this obnoxious southern accented sexpot … ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/7 "2022-05-18T05:06:54Z")
I wonder if she’ll break the fourth wall as often as John Byrne’s version did. Meta-fun ensued. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/8 "2022-05-18T05:33:21Z")
She-Hulk’s CGI legitimately looks like a skinnier Fiona from Shrek 2. The CGI is horrendous. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/9 "2022-05-18T12:50:08Z")
The premise looks fun but yeah, the CGI is going to be offputting. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/10 "2022-05-18T20:55:50Z")
I don’t see what’s so horrible about the hulk cgi, I’ve seen worse. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/11 "2022-05-18T22:55:01Z")
It would be pretty impressive if this was 1995 and on the USA Network. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/12 "2022-05-18T23:36:09Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > That CGI would barely be acceptable in the 90s. Wow. What did we have on television in the 1990s that looked as good as She-Hulk? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/13 "2022-05-19T02:37:09Z")
You got me! Your internet award is in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/14 "2022-05-19T02:42:58Z")
I haven’t been this excited since Marvel Comics awarded me a No-Prize in 1982 for pointing out a continuity error. In the _Amazing Spider-Man,_ issue 233, Noose Norton had brown hair. But a few issues earlier, he quite clearly had blonde air. I explained away that continuity error by saying Noose had been in disguise from gangters who were looking to collect on his gambling debt. And, yes, I’m as amazed as you that I managed to get married. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/15 "2022-05-19T08:15:47Z")
_Babylon 5_ was probably the show for cutting edge television CGI in the 1990s, and that hasn’t dated entirely well. _She-Hulk_ looks better than that, but is still heavily in the Uncanny Valley with regard to an effect that pertains to the main character and is going to be onscreen a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/16 "2022-05-19T13:05:02Z")
> **[Those ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ Visual Effects Can’t Possibly Be Finished,...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/those-she-hulk-attorney-law-035733742.html)** > > Marvel drags She-Hulk into the "Sonic the Hedgehog" zone ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/17 "2022-05-19T16:07:21Z")
It’s weird that it finally twigged with me whilst I was IVing caffeine this morning, but another watch of the trailer made me reinterpret a line to what was probably intended. When She-Hulk talks about superheroes being billionaires and narcissists, and adult orphans for some reason, I immediately thought ‘Batman and Iron Man.’ But this morning my brain saw it as ‘Oh, she’s riffing on her Orphan Black days.’ Which begs the question, at what age do your parents die and you’re not considered an orphan? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/18 "2022-05-19T16:08:54Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Which begs the question, at what age do your parents die and you’re not considered an orphan? By definition, an orphan is a child. So if you’re an adult when your parent dies you’ve never been an orphan. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/19 "2022-05-19T18:12:50Z")
My mother took a 5am call, turned to my dad and said “Honey, you’re an orphan.” (Note: HE’S usually the one who would make jokes like that. So he laughed. And by way of explanation, his mom died early; the phone call was when he was fifty-ish, and his dad had been circling the drain in a home for ages) But back on topic: I loved her “orphan” line… I immediately thought that it fit Batman and Superman and Orphan Black. I hope the CGI was a rough cut, and we don’t have to protest like Sonic fans did… but that worked! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/20 "2022-05-28T19:35:56Z")
> **[She-Hulk trailer CGI updated following Marvel fan backlash](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a40115405/she-hulk-trailer-cgi-updated/)** > > Some fans were less than pleased with the original. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591.md?page=2)