Ok, let me declare an interest here. I was a wee child when Bill Bixby and Lou Ferringo burst onto our TV screens and that series is the reason why Hulk became my favourite character. It remains the only successful non animated TV series featuring a single Marvel character (the 70s Spiderman series lasted but one season) and has dated better than some other 70s TV shows (WW anyone?). Neither of the Hulk movies to date has been a commercial success. Ang Lee's art house effort followed a disappointing Daredevil early in the Marvel cinematic story and was perhaps a bit left field to be universally popular. The second Hulk film had some good moments, but lacked star quality, with Ed Norton not really convincing that well. Its a shame because the core elements were there, with an Abomination giving a super climatic battle, but for me the Ed Norton Hulk needed to do some weight training, as only at the end of that film did he show the true power of a Hulk! The Ruffalo Hulk has been a major success and had most of the funniest moments in the Avengers movie, but doubt still lingers as to whether another Hulk movie would deliver. So, with DC showing that a TV series can be successful, with their Arrow and Flash programmes, would a Hulk TV series actually be more sensible and replicate the success enjoyed by the original? Here's why I think it might. A key component of a good Hulk story is the relationship with Bruce Banner and the Hulk and it would be possible to build stories exploring that relationship in a TV series. The Hulk works well on screen when the anticipation builds in advance of Bruce "hulking out". Again this would be a core component of a TV show. The Hulk sometimes lacks a convincing villains roster, but it would be an opportunity to gradually introduce the Leader, Ross, Modok etc...Finally, the story of Hulk is essentially a greek tradegy, a modern day Jekkyll and Hyde tale and this might work better in gritty weekly episodes than in one of Marvel's movies, with their need to be bouncy and witty. Anyway, those are just my thoughts, obviously I would love to see a Hulk movie like anyone else, but a TV show, that could really work!
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