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I didn't even think of the movie. That's how forgettable it was! I hope we never see Routh/Singer on Superman again. At least we got a little Routh on Chuck.

 

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I loved when Guerrero electrocuted the guy. Awesome!

 

That car fight was fantastic.

The electrocution scene was great!

I liked this episode better than the previous ones because the Client of the Week actually had a decent story that made sense.

However, since she was literally the target, it sort of calls attention to how the show has shifted the character from being a human target to being the bodyguard of human targets.

Also, confusion over a job title does not count as a "identity issues." He's essentially a PI who does close body work. What's there not to get?

Two actors I always like to see: Kristin Lehman and William B. Davis classed up a somewhat wonky hour. I've been into Lehman since college, and the scene in the car about the bug made me smile. Widely.

Loved the CLAAAACK of the baton in the final scene.

The best part about the reveal of where the bug is the way Chance says they don't have time for surgery, implying that if they had a few hours, him performing surgery on her was totally doable.

Ditto. Good, frenetic fun.

Human Target isn't groundbreaking, the writing isn't superb, and the plots aren't bulletproof. But it knows what its aiming for and it does it well.

Its like a weekly dose of Taken.

This episode reminded me of the Buck Rogers episode "Vegas in Space" guest starring Cesar Romero and Ana Alicia:

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi3986423833/

Was it just me?

 

Heh.  Actually no, it wasn't just you.  I literally sat there thinking, "Oh, so she's going to turn out to be the mob boss's long-lost daughter just like Ana Alicia in that BUCK ROGERS episode."

Then I thought, "Wow, Ana Alicia - it's kinda of sad I remember casting that well."

Then, "So she did FALCON CREST after that ep and then...  whatever happened to her?  Hmm... at least Lorenzo Lamas is still around working..."

"Oh!  Guerrero is being a dick again!"

Ha! I knew I could count on you. (I had that exact same thought, verbatim in my head!)

Coincidentally, Cesar Romero also guest starred on Falcon Crest so they were re-united.

I heard she just decided to move on to other things from acting. Who know... At this point I would trade in Lorenzo Lamas to have Ana Alicia back...

 

<-At this point I would trade in Lorenzo Lamas to have Ana Alicia back->

Well... yeah.  ;-)

Why doesn't Autumn Resser have her own series?

Another okay episode. I did not care if geek boy lived or died, so that removed a level of engagement for me.

I did love the scene where Guerro and Winston are at the FBI. I did care what happened to Guerro, and moreover, whether he or Winston was right!

I was thinking this week Reeser would make a great addition to the Human Target cast. She's actually been cast in the Michael Chiklis pilot No Ordinary Family, about a family of superheroes.

Great to see Mitch Pileggi. That's the 2nd big X-Files alum in a row for this show. (Last episode's one being The Smoking Man.)

I was thinking that he and Vivian would be great regular villains for this series, and his fight with Chance was awesome. But as a result it looks like he won't be a regular anything. And Vivian lost her bite a bit without him.

 

She's actually been cast in the Michael Chiklis pilot No Ordinary Family, about a family of superheroes.

Oooh, hope that it's good and that it makes it to air!

2nd big X-Files alum in a row for this show

There's sort of an X-Files-Supernatural-Human Target continuum (overlapping producers). In one scene in the first ep of Human Target, everyone on the other side of Winston's desk had been in Supernatural!

Also in last week's CSM episode was Kristin Lehman, who starred in one of the best XFs ever, "Kill Switch".

I decided to check that episode out and it was great! I loved the tech nostalgia, especially cell phones with antennas. (Oh, and one of the crack dealers at the beginning was Apophis from Stargate SG-1!)

 

It's so freakin' awesome. I love it, partially because I love Gibson, but for two guys new to the show, Gibson and Maddox did a very good jobb of setting up an XF style mystery. That opening sequence is just fantastic.

Did they every do a follow-up to that episode? The ending was awesome. Even though the show is off the air, it was one of those episodes the left you wondering what the AI has evolved into more than a decade later given the advancements in technology. (I swear I heard dial-up in one scene.)

 

No, they never did (Gibson and Maddox' second episode was about virtual reality). And it would make a great plot for the next movie, wouldn't it? Sigh.

I really think it would! It would be nice for them to pick up something from one of the episodes rather than just doing a whole new monster of the weak as a movie. This is just out of the ordinary enough for them and the type of timely and topical thing that would would make a good movie in their signature style without seem like the same old thing. (I liked the last movie, but it really did seem like stuff we'd seen many times before from X-Files.)

 

There was a part of me that liked the last movie. But to fully articulate my feelings on the galpumphing drigible that is I Want to Believe, well, that would take a few thousand words and lots of caffeine. I always wanted XF to go in a more hard science/tech direction, never quite did, no money in it, really.

They've said if there's a third movie, it'll resolve the mytharc.

Yes, it undoubtedly will. Especially if it comes out around 2012.

 

Kinda worried what it says about my character and taste in men that while I find Christopher Chance to be incredibly easy on the eyes, it is Guerro that I find to be smoking hot. There is just something about an efficiently capapble man that trumps physical beauty.

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Chance is boring. I'm just in this for Guerro!

New episode tonight.