December's Mixer thought that the discussion with the doctor about his psychic powers seemed a little too casual and matter-of-fact.
As it should be, since Olson gets to the point that there are natural senses humans possess, but are not of the hand-waving, hocus-pocus variety. Note that this conversation occurs before she reads all of his test results, so she's basing her comments on some accepted beliefs not the supernatural or Banner's unique situation.
It seems odd that they'd do another psychic episode so soon, even including the angle of establishing another psychic who'd been working with the police...and committed suicide two years before...which is a particularly macabre coincidence, as our previous psychic, Bixby's ex-wife, would commit suicide two years after her episode.
Yes, no one saw that coming at the time this aired, so any re-runs were sure to remind viewers of Benet's fate. Regarding doing another psychic episode, one could argue that anything connected to or enhanced by Banner's condition is on the table for use, whther its healing, a Demi-Hulk state, a violent sociopath state, etc.,
The premonitions do keep the Hulk in the middle of the episode, though.
Yes--as a threat / reference, instead of just tagged on because of something more random.
It seemed odd to me that everyone would go to such lengths to find David specifically.
Thanks to the impression that Tucker had not protected the jobs of his co-workers and later made a "deal" for his pension, he was anything other than close to the workers, while he grew close to David (recall his demanding David stay with him after being released from the hospital). For that reason it was assumed David would be the only person Tucker would listen to.
And McGee hears David's name on the radio, after which he turns around, clearly realizing that this Benton guy is likely John Doe...so it stretches credibility that he hasn't made the "David B." connection by now.
Remember, in-series, "David B." aliases are just common names. There's no logical conclusion one would reach were such a common name--even if connected to John Doe--should mean he's David Banner. More than enough episodes have pointed out that McGee does not question the fact that Dr. David Banner died in the lab explosion. All he believes is Banner and Marks must have experimented on a faceless, nameless stranger who becomes the Hulk.
And this part makes no damn sense. When David was having visions of the Hulk looking like he was going to kill Edgar, the natural assumption was that we weren't seeing the circumstances behind the Hulk's actions, and there'd be some sort of explanation for his unusually aggressive behavior when we did. But no such explanation was forthcoming. The Hulk was rarely so threatening to the bad guys, never mind somebody whom David was friends with.
Visions are not a play-by-play guide to an entire incident; he could not know what happened before which made the Hulk attack Tucker, or that his new condition would make the Hulk realize he was close to fulfilling a disturbing prophecy.
Which he identifies by the label! Hulk...READ!!!
As the series progressed, the Hulk's intelligence climbed the intellectual ladder so he was more than a monster operating on pure extremes of emotion. Sensible.
Mmmm...I don't think I'll be counting this as condition-related though...if that were the case, every episode in which he heals quickly or something would be condition-related. Just schlepping at the power plant.
Its condition-related because anyone else absorbing that amount of electricity would have died, while Banner not only lived, but according to the dialogue, its strongly implied that he gained psychic ability from the charge's effect on his altered physiology.
Typically lazy of the site. This year, the PTB dedicated more time to whining about / mind controlling / ending their message board than providing the correct photos of actors...sort of their job.
"Same Old Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg
The most memorable of the lot.
