Human Target: Season 2 on FOX - Discussion & Spoilers
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Well, I did end up watching both episodes. After disliking the first one, I really liked the second.
Ilsa annoyed the hell out of me in the first episode and Chance was acting stupid and irrational. Seeing her try to neuter him, talking about lawsuits and the fact that every bad guy knows where they are (second episode here) are why I hate the new direction. Chance's line said it best. "Yeah we were poor but we still had fun." On the plus side, the fight on the helicopter was definitely first season Human Target. The action at the end was good and the cliffhanger was effective.
Like I said, really liked the second episode. Both storylines are good here. Chance and Ilsa are stalked in the jungle by Anton Chigurh and Winston and Guerrero have to protect Tony Hale. The villain was effective here and as mentioned, bore a resemblence to Javier Bardem's character Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. We finally get back to the Winston/Guerrero feud that has largely been ignored and the fact that Chance was screwing with them about Bangkok was great. I really don't like the dumbing down of Chance though...it's bad enough he doesn't feel as involved in the missions anymore.
Very effective end sequence with Ilsa and her confrontation with the bad guy. Well carried out and edited and acted. So I score this one a win.
Janet Montgomery is an attractive woman but could do with a meal or two. They keep giving her stuff to do but her character remains pointless and Miller seems to love the cheap T and A with her. She supposed to be a "master thief" but all she is is a glorified pickpocket.
Ilsa annoyed the hell out of me in the first episode and Chance was acting stupid and irrational. Seeing her try to neuter him, talking about lawsuits and the fact that every bad guy knows where they are (second episode here) are why I hate the new direction. Chance's line said it best. "Yeah we were poor but we still had fun." On the plus side, the fight on the helicopter was definitely first season Human Target. The action at the end was good and the cliffhanger was effective.
Like I said, really liked the second episode. Both storylines are good here. Chance and Ilsa are stalked in the jungle by Anton Chigurh and Winston and Guerrero have to protect Tony Hale. The villain was effective here and as mentioned, bore a resemblence to Javier Bardem's character Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. We finally get back to the Winston/Guerrero feud that has largely been ignored and the fact that Chance was screwing with them about Bangkok was great. I really don't like the dumbing down of Chance though...it's bad enough he doesn't feel as involved in the missions anymore.
Very effective end sequence with Ilsa and her confrontation with the bad guy. Well carried out and edited and acted. So I score this one a win.
Janet Montgomery is an attractive woman but could do with a meal or two. They keep giving her stuff to do but her character remains pointless and Miller seems to love the cheap T and A with her. She supposed to be a "master thief" but all she is is a glorified pickpocket.
I agree. With Chance racing to Ilsa, and Hector Lopez (the killer) just waling away on her, it was clear she was in danger - and the kind that's visceral, palpable, and in some ways relatable. Even though it's happened like this before, the dramatic intensity was kicked up a bit to just the right tone. The fact that it was Ilsa that was protecting Chance in a way. I'm not saying she was proud of it, and Chance was only preachy about it since he's been there, but in a life and death struggle, in those circumstances, you understand and sympathize. And I think Ilsa and Chance will have a little more understanding now.
And with more of her background coming to the surface, with her early life in Belfast and working her way through school, I think she understands the world a little more than most of the others believe.
As for Chance, he was in the background a little more this time, but his timing is impeccable.
As for how Lopez knew where Ilsa was: he could have have the planes records searched, as well as extrapolating the location from Ames' near statement from the earlier episode.
Speaking of Ames, I didn't like her being the distraction late in the second ep, but I'm also not complaining. I also like her sort of being the one in between Guerrero and Winston. And with her being the youngest on the team, you're going to have certain situations come up, like not hearing the phone because she was sunbathing and had her earbuds on at a higher volume. In fact, I'd like for that to come up a little more. Many would call it camp, but I think those kinds of moments build characters we all grow to like.
We need more shows like Human Target. Seriously.
Intense ending, yeah. And her pilot's dead too. She's definately in over her head.
I also have to mention that the new opening theme is growing on me.
I also have to mention that the new opening theme is growing on me.
I liked when Chance and Pucci were holed up in the cabin and Chance was talking about the bad guy's humanity along the lines of... "He's a person too. Revenge is a valid justification for murder. I killed his brother and watching me die will make him feel a little better." We got to see some of that first-season Chance right there.
I figured that he looked at the number on the tail and used that to track her down. I was actually concerned about that when they were on the run.
I didn't make that connection, but I did think of Khan when I saw him.
That remindes me of Guerrero. I like the character, but it seems like we only hear about how dangerous and menacing he is and don't actually see it. The constant references to his mysterious past, the name dropping of exotic locales and him always having a guy in the trunk of his car makes him come off more as a poser than the semi-gag he's supposed to be.
Pretty cliched as well.
Gee, they're struggling with the gun, I wonder what's gonna happen.
Gee, the gun went off, I wonder which of them got shot.
Gee, the bad guy stood up, I wonder if that means one of the main characters of the series got killed.
What is this, a bad 1967 Mannix episode? We've seen this trope a billion times before.
On the other hand, Indira's expression there at the end was an exquisite bit of silent acting.
I just meant that on a show where a lot of people get killed and there's usually not a lot of emotion to it (Chance is usually cracking jokes as he gets beat up), that scene was played seriously. And regardless of whether we'd seen those parts before, I thought it worked.
I can agree to a degree, but the cliches I mentioned pulled me out of the action for the moment. But yes, her being realistically beaten by a sociopath was very dire, and, as I said, her heartbreaking expression at the end, saved the scene.
Another thing that was weird was the rocket launcher. The rocket shouldn't have gone out the door from where Winston was standing in the plane.
Chance and Ilsa try to take in an opera along with Ilsa's sister-in-law, Connie, but get more than they bargain for when criminals take the audience hostage.
During a visit to the south, the locals frame Guerrero for his friend's murder and send him to prison, and the team have to get him out.
I really hope those 'tag lines' aren't wholly descriptive of these episodes.
Earlier guidance had them showing one of the two hours of human target after the speech. Later in they evening they decided to preempt it altogether after they expanded the speech window from 30 to 45 minutes.
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Meanwhile the Human Target airing scheduled for 01/26 has been bumped for an expanded episode of American Idol, so it's been moved to Monday the 31st.
This show can't catch a break.
This show can't catch a break.
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