HUMAN TARGET #1:Pilot/Season 1/2010

[Felon]

Question: Was the guy playing Guerroro the same guy who played Rorschach?

Yep. Jackie Earle Haley.

Whole time I was watching this show I was thinking that guy has to be wearing a disguise, because nobody has that much extraneous hair attached to their face unless it's some kind of disguise. Like that Hugo Man of a Thousand Faces toy from the 1970's.

And I see we got that endomorphic guy from The John Larroquette Show, Boston Public, House, The Nine, Pushing Daisies, Killer Instinct, and a bunch of other flops. He must have, like, the best agent in the world, because he's stumbled on to a sweet gig. Look for some show that's bound for cancellation, then after it gets axed, just chill out for a year or so and wait for the next show to come along. Most people couldn't pull it off because eventually the work would dry up, thus the need for a really good agent.

 

[Ghostwind]

I'm amazed that nobody has yet commented on Caprica/Six being in the Pilot or that last minute Cameo by whats his name...Danny Glover.

Doc Cottell also made a cameo as the underworld boss.

 

[coyote6]

The Danny Glover thing was rather surprising. I wonder what was behind such a super-brief cameo -- friend of the producer/casting director/showrunner? Fan of the comic?

The second episode hints at something that sort of illuminates the "leave the poison drink behind" thing.

 

[Felon]

The second episode hints at something that sort of illuminates the "leave the poison drink behind" thing.

Guess I must've missed that, unless you're talking about the general "I'm an ex-spook" Burn-Notice kinda vibe.

 

[Lhorgrim]

Guess I must've missed that, unless you're talking about the general "I'm an ex-spook" Burn-Notice kinda vibe.

I never read the comic, but the second episode (the one on the airliner) led me to think he was more like an assassin for hire than a government sponsered operative.

I could be totally off base on that, but they seemed to be comparing his past to the killers on the airliner.

 

[RangerWickett]

This show is so cheesy, but I'm sort of loving it.

 

[Felon]

I never read the comic, but the second episode (the one on the airliner) led me to think he was more like an assassin for hire than a government sponsered operative.

I could be totally off base on that, but they seemed to be comparing his past to the killers on the airliner.

I think that's about right, but being a freelance killer isn't necessarily exclusive with doing government-sponsored work for organizations like the CIA, particularly in post-cold-war-era fiction.

 

[Crothian]

Is it goverment sponsored? The first two episodes it just looked like he was being hired by these people and nothing to do with a goverment agency.

 

[Felon]

We're talking about Chance's shadowy past, Crothian. Currently he's neither assassin nor spy, but a bodyguard.

 

[coyote6]

The whole bit in ep 2 where Winston basically once had the same conversation with Chance as Chance had with the assassin, except Chance chose differently, definitely made me think Chance used to be in the same business as the assassin. That fits, IMO, with Chance's seeming death wish (mild as it may be), and his leaving the poison on the table where someone else might ingest it.

Of course, this is all probably going to be moot, as Fox is about to show episode 3 on a third different night of the week, which is a freaking terrible way to let a show develop an audience. Fox is the assassin Chance should be most worried about. :-/