If by “almost killing a dude as he talked to her in a bar” he means “Hulk-bellowing at three dudes seriously menacing her in a rapey manner in a bar parking lot”, sure.
And if you actually listen to the other lawyer’s courtroom statement, it becomes rapidly clear that they weren’t really going for any semblance of plausibility there. The courtroom scene was LITERALLY INTENDED to be a joke.
Episode 2:
It’s always great seeing Mark Linn-Baker show up in anything. Love him as Jen’s dad.
I like the conflict/resolution to the Abomination situation. Then again, I haven’t seen anything that I haven’t liked Tim Roth in.
I’m confused about the fourth-wall breaking. In the first episode, Bruce looks back like he heard Jen’s aside. But she was ranting while walking with her new boss, and he gave no indication that he heard her.
All in all, not a bad episode. I’m anxious for more.
It hasn’t been said but I appreciate the 30min format. It’s alot easier to find time to watch a 30min show than a 1hr long serial. I thought the first one was pretty good though I’m really disappointed with how MCU has normalized Smart Hulk for yuks and basically jettisoned the real Hulk. Smart Hulk was the worst phase of his arc in the comics because he just became a really smart, really strong green guy. Very generic.
Wow, talk about agree to disagree. Like, I guess I can see your point, as far as the comics go but, in the MCU, there aren’t enough smart guys or strong guys for a “smart, strong guy” to come across as generic, IMO. And I’d definitely seen all of Rampaging Hulk in the MCU that I needed to see.
For the show, I’m loving it! We’re still very early in the series but, so far, this show is exactly what I was hoping it would be. My only nitpick (if you can even call it that) is, I thought that GLK&H was based out of New York City? I thought that her taking a job with them was going to be the contrivance for her leaving LA, and her eventual encounter with Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
I totally marked out like a little kid when they showed the footage of Blonsky’s fight club battle with Wong, and it provides an explanation for that imminent guest appearance.
I also really like Smart Hulk, although I think the best MCU Hulk was the one in Ragnarok, where he’s still different from Banner, but not just an incoherent rage machine. But what I really want to see in the MCU is Devil Hulk.
Again, I was asking questions about what some of the reviewers said. I have only watched the trailers.
The only thing everyone (even the positive reviews) was that the CGI was poor.
Skipping to the end of the thread since I haven’t seen Episode Two yet.
I liked it. Wasn’t a great first episode – the pacing felt rough and didn’t flow smoothly – but that’s a pilot. I did think some of the CGI was a bit janky. Not in Jen, though, but Bruce - tiny bit jerky. Also that bit at the end came out of nowhere, and felt like a quick-and-dirty way to publicly out her as She-Hulk. (I chuckled at her not wanting to ruin her outfit, though).
Pros – light, don’t-take-it-too-seriously tone; Tatiana Maslany already looks comfortable in the role, and made Jen interesting and appealing; the humor (I also want to know why Bruce has a spinning-blades-of-death-chamber in his lab).
Cons – poor pacing, plot holes.
But the pros outweigh the cons. I’ll watch more.
My wife squeed a bit at Bruce’s references to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. It’s a therapeutic modality she’s trained in and uses with some of her clients. According to her, Bruce’s line that everyone is doing the best they can, but need to do better, is straight out of the DBT playbook. Me, I liked that Bruce said DBT was scientific and evidence-based, not spiritual woo.
Watched episode 2. Good news is that it preserved what was good about the pilot. Bad news is that it has the same problems, principally (1) overly hectic pacing, and (2) really badly written dialogue, especially comedy dialogue.
The setups were all good, but poorly executed, like the family dinner scene. That should have been funny. Instead, it was really painful to listen to. Not funny.
Some of the CGI was really painful. Worse than the first episode. I otherwise enjoyed it.
It was funny how they didn’t even bother coming up with a complicated way of getting Bruce out of the picture. Just, “and now he’s in spaaaaaace!”
My guess is that was a lead-in to a future MCU show or movie - most likely GotG 3.
Come to think of it, was he on the scout ship that caused their crash in episode one?
he was indeed
The shot of her drinking looked really really off.
The CGI is really jarring in a lot of places.
She’s not fantastically huge. I don’t feel like it would’ve been impossible to find a super tall muscular actress to be physically present. Green makeup. Deep fake the face. Voice over.
But I’m sure I’m just ignorant to all the ways that would’ve been too difficult.
Me too! My wife and I have been having that exact same argument for almost a decade, and I win! It’s canon!
No, I got that you were reporting what others were saying. It’s just that those others were saying silly things.
I think they do have a person for something similar. I read that they hired a very tall actress to do stand-ins and such and help them see how a person with that height would really move. Can’t find the name just now.
Yeah, but audiences today…
(Some years ago an Avengers porn parody had the late Joanie “Chyna” Laurer in greenface for that role.)
There were also vague plans for a She-Hulk movie in the 90s, intended to star Brigitte Nielsen.
This is the first thing in the entire MCU I actively dislike. There were a few meh movies but watching this is an active chore. I agree with the horrible CGI (love the Fiona comparison) but what really throws it of is that Hulk looks like Bruce Banner - only hulkier. When Jennifer turns into She-Hulk, it’s all about boobs, butt and short curly hair becoming long straight hair. It’s like they based the CGI on a different actress. Oh, and now Bruce Banner / Hulk is a complete ahole.