Why Do Many Hulk Fans Detest The Later Television Movies?
While it certainly was nice to see some new Hulk adventures in the late eighties when NBC resurrected the great green one for three TV movie adventures, these new films were filled with inconsistencies and problems. While I can’t speak for all Hulk fans on their opinions regarding the new movies, here are some general themes that have come up when this topic is brought up. (Thanks to Jeremy Laskey for his help with this section) The biggest problem, seemed to be the fact that Kenneth Johnson was not involved. It seemed as though everything the series built up was ignored in these new films. There were also many events which occurred in the new movies which were inconsistent with the original show. Among them: • In the “Incredible Hulk Returns” movie, both Thor and the Hulk cannot keep a helicopter from taking off. In the old Hulk episode “The Lottery”, the Hulk effortlessly holds a helicopter down without any assistance. Mind you, in the reunion movie,the Hulk was hit with a dart just
