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I've been watching re-runs of The Greatest American Hero, one of those Great-When-You're-Eleven-type shows that isn't quite the same 25 years later. The main theme is that a teacher for troubled youth is given a superhero suit by aliens so he can fix the world. Naturally, he immediately loses the manual. After six or seven episodes, I was already getting tired of watching him unable to get off his normal clothing (does the suit not work when he's still wearing it?) and flail screaming every time he flies. However, the straw that broke the camel's back was when a government bureaucrat, after having been merely *accused* of being responsible for a string of arsons, pursues our hero's FBI friend while wearing a fire proximity suit and wielding a flamethrower on a motorcycle in broad daylight.

I'm watching one specific episode, The Beast In Black, that I seem to remember fondly, and then it's toodles for this 1981 masterpiece. That part of my hard drive could be holding *porn* for God's sakes!

Date: 2009-03-08 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knighthorse.livejournal.com
That show really was aweful, but I loved it when I was a kid. Yup, that's some time we'll never get back.

Date: 2009-03-08 08:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] errantember.livejournal.com
There's a lot of things I like about it, but it's hard to get over the bad parts. It would be a great TV show for kids now.

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