Episode #20 - The Lost Village
Original Airdate 16th November, 1997

Banner travels to a small village in Tibet, where he hopes to finally find his cure.

Credits
Written By: Ann Knapp Austen, Douglas Sloan
Directed By: Ron Myrick
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Animation Services By: Sae Rom Productions
Guest Starring: Neal McDonough as Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk and Cree Summers as She Hulk.

Review: In case you’re wondering if this episode is good or not, it’s not. Whilst it’s not as atrocious as some of the other previous season 2 episodes, it’s still not a good episode, nor is a patch on the previous season’s standard.

It does feature one of the season’s worst lines, the dreadful “Garbage in, garbage out” speech, commonly mocked throughout the Internet. I understand that this season was supposed to be a lighthearted buddy comedy, but there’s no excuse for anything being this bad.

The beginning segment didn’t actually feature She Hulk at all which left me with hope that they might leave the silly cow at home, but alas, she appeared and the episode became all the more excruciating for it.

The villain wasn’t anything memorable, despite a great performance from Tom Kane. Kane is probably best known to Marvel fans for his portrayal as HOMER, the smart ass A.I computer over in Iron Man.

Once again the episode fails to heed to the most basic of Hulk characterisations. This time, Hulk fails to turn back into Banner when he’s calm. It’s a simple thing to remember… Hulk smash. He doesn’t do a whole lot else, that’s Banner time.

Oh, and for those of you who haven’t seen it, Banner gets cured this episode. It’s lost in some other story about 2 relics and a disobedient family member. It doesn’t last long, and neither did my attention span, unfortunately.

One of the better season 2 episodes. And it’s still terrible!