Blue Sky Limousine

The Sci-Fi Channel has been airing a bunch of Hulk TV show marathons lately, so I watched a few episodes. They must have been pulling content from later in the series, because I saw some amazing stuff.

I used to watch The Hulk a little bit a few years ago, and I think at that point Sci-Fi was airing mainly early episodes, in which the Hulk was establishing first that he was strong, then that he was super strong, and so on. So his feats of strength were slowly ramped up. Obviously the series continued to ramp up the action and take the story to new places.

I just saw one where he was captured by the government when a meteor landed, and they thought he was an alien. The space rock emitted Gamma Rays, which prevented him from fully returning to normal once going Green. In that state, he was confused, but somewhat able to reason and speak. He had big eyebrows and a big nose, was flesh-colored, and quite muscular. It seemed that they used Lou Ferrigno for some shots of the body, and Bill Bixby for others, of the face. Then when he transformed again, they showed him increasing in size, to make the Hulk more sensational, even though his final form would still be played by Lou Ferrigno.

In another episode, somehow some old guy could become a second Hulk, a weird gangly tall thin green angry snarling smiling monster, who reveled in murder. He allowed himself to kill a guy just to prove how tough he was. His goal was to use his weird Hulk to achieve his dream life, but he wasn’t very good at controlling it. Give him a break, right? He hasn’t been at it very long. Still, David Banner’s a lot smarter, and with his experience has calmed his Hulk down a bit. Banner wanted to first cure the second Hulk, and then himself. The second Hulk destroyed the cure, Banner freaked, Hulked out, they fought, and then the cops came in and killed the second Hulk. I’d like to believe that Banner’s Hulk would have survived a similar shooting…