Things on tv shows I never understood.......

[pops_mcfly]

These are meant mainly for humorous sake.....


1. Why that bonehead reporter insisted on following David Banner around in the Incredible Hulk show . I mean for one thing the guy gives him a vauge threat in the opening credits "Don't make me angry Mr. Mcgee--you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!" it was clear he had anger manegment problems--why keep problems up? Also why was it everyone except the reporter figured out David's secret except the reporter who mercilessly hounded him? And was I the only one who hated the sleazy evil reporter enough to want to see him get killed or at least get his butt whipped by the Hulk?

2. Why the DS9 folks replaced the original Dax with a lame one--even if she was leaving the show, were they doing so badly that they couldn't find a better person to take over?

more to come......

[trekgeezer]

1. They wanted  to heighten the tension when McGee almost catches up with him every week. Kinda like the Fugitive.

2. Don't be knocking Nicole DeBoer. Yes a lot of people hated her, but I am not among them. When Jadzia died they had to put Dax inside someone to keep it alive, so they put him in Ezri. She had not been prepared for the blending (which was apparently a lifelong thing for the host), so she acted very squirrelly for a while.

[odinn7]

Ah....
Some A-Team questions:
*Is it really possible to throw so much lead around and never really hit anyone with a bullet? Why even carry a gun?
*Why does shooting tires always cause a flash of fire and some smoke when the tire blows?
*Why does shooting a radiator on a car cause the hood to explode open?
*How is it that when a car crashes (usually flying up into the air and landing on its roof), the occupants are able to just climb out with no injuries?
*If the general population was able to find them for help so easily, why did the government have such problems?
*Most everything they did was for free out of the kindness of their hearts...how did they ever afford anything like, say, food?

[BTM]

*If the general population was able to find them for help so easily, why did the government have such problems?

You know, it's funny, I remember reading a hysterical parody of that show years back in Mad Magazine.  There's a part in the opening splahs where they have all the team members in the street firing guns while people in the background are commenting on various members.

On BA (Mr T's character) a woman says, "Well, if they can't find him in THAT outfit, justice really IS blind!"

Hehehe

[Menard]

pops_mcfly Wrote:
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> 2. Why the DS9 folks replaced the original Dax
> with a lame one--even if she was leaving the show,
> were they doing so badly that they couldn't find a
> better person to take over?

Now wouldn't that have been an interesting predicament for Worf if instead they had found a guy to be the host?

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I didn't mind Nicole de Boer as Dax.  I mean you couldn't just have someone just like the original.  (Geek warning)  The hosts are different people.  Just with access to the same set of memories.  There were whole shows on how the host is not the symbiont.  A whole new character.  Its not like replacing Darrens on Bewitched, and we were not supposed to notice.  

Besides, Nicole is cute!
-Ed

[akiratubo]

Nicole deBoer is cute, though from the wrong angles she sometimes looks like a twelve-year-old boy.

[pops_mcfly]

trek_geezer Wrote:
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> 1. They wanted  to heighten the tension when McGee
> almost catches up with him every week. Kinda like
> the Fugitive.
>
> 2. Don't be knocking Nicole DeBoer. Yes a lot of
> people hated her, but I am not among them. When
> Jadzia died they had to put Dax inside someone to
> keep it alive, so they put him in Ezri. She had
> not been prepared for the blending (which was
> apparently a lifelong thing for the host), so she
> acted very squirrelly for a while.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> You misunderstood my first question--I know why the writers put him in there, I was wondering why he was so stupid as to follow Banner character-wise..

[Shadowphile]

When they first introduced the Trill in TS:TNG, there was a very definite continuation of emotional attachments from one host to the next (and Riker managed to nail Crusher because of this).  When they switched hosts on DS:9, suddenly recalling previous relations was verboten.  Gotta love continuity errors....

[LH-C]

Shadowphile Wrote:
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> When they first introduced the Trill in TS:TNG,
> there was a very definite continuation of
> emotional attachments from one host to the next
> (and Riker managed to nail Crusher because of
> this).  When they switched hosts on DS:9, suddenly
> recalling previous relations was verboten.  Gotta
> love continuity errors....

Yeah, and originally, they looked completely different as well. What happened in production there? Who decided on an overhaul?

[AndyC]

Jack McGee wasn't after Banner. He was a tabloid journalist following up on sightings of the Hulk. Banner couldn't be seen by him, because McGee thought the Hulk had killed him (that 'don't make me angry' bit was from the pilot, before Banner disappeared), and finding Banner someplace where the Hulk has been spotted would raise a lot of questions. Later on, McGee starts to figure out that the Hulk is normally human, and apparently a good guy, yet he never puts two and two together.

The question I have is why McGee's paper keeps paying to fly him all over the country for stories on a monster they consider the equivalent of Bigfoot. Why isn't he just making it up, like all the other tabloid journalists?

Another, perhaps more serious question: If Banner is serious about hiding his identity, why does he always pick some form of David B. as an alias. The guy's a genius and everything, but the idea of an alias being different from his real name seems to escape him.

And I also wonder how Banner fits all his belongings in that tiny, little tote bag, especially when he goes through two or three sets of clothes every episode.

[LH-C]

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Remember McGee was a legitimate journalist, and because of the Hulk story, was fired and could only get tabloid work. Yet he still approached his work in an entirely legitimate manner.

[pops_mcfly]

Speaking of overhauls, what about the Klingons? Oh-sure they gave a slight explanation for the physical change from the original series to  TNG and later series but what about the thirty or so changes Worf seemed to go through? He started off kinda wussy looking and wearing that butt-ugly gold sash but they improved him a little later on and made his skin darker and his forehead bigger as well as improved his sash and made it look more warrior-like.

So what I want to know is why they made him look weaker when he transferred to DS9---they made his forehead small and lightskinned again and if memory serves me they gave him back the stupid gold sash..........

[raj]

A Klingon doing Tai-Chi.  Sorry, at that point there is no bringing him back from wuss status.

[BTM]

> Yeah, and originally, they looked completely
> different as well. What happened in production
> there? Who decided on an overhaul?

From what i understand, they started out with her in the original, TNG makeup, but then they kept redoing it, putting in less and less prostestics, until it was finally phased out all together.

To me, they should have just said it was a different race, one similar to Trills but not the same.