The Greatest American Heroine

[Jo Pierce - GAH Noir]

How do you rate the Greatest American Heroine?

SOLID GOLD *****
GREAT GAH ****
Average GAH ***
Bad GAH **
Schlock *
Sub-Schlock --


Feel free to explain.

[Jo Pierce - GAH Noir]

I must admit. I was tempted to just put

No stars - schlock!!

for every option.... but we'll let you decide.

[Houdiniderek]

Hard for me to put in the ranking system. After all, it was NOT GAH, but HEROINE. It had elements of GAH, but that would skew the rankings. I consider it canon of course, but not pure GAH...so how am I to vote for that?

[billswoman]

As I've mentioned before, both GAH and GAHeroine have their pros and their cons. I had to rate this lower than the GAH pilot, of course, because no scene in GAHeroine could top the great diner scene in the GAH pilot when Bill & Ralph encounter one another for the first time. However, GAHeroine has some cool scenes (like the goodbye for our original team), and the ending when Holly's telling the brat more about the suit, and Bill. And I'll maintain that overall, I like this one hour of not-GAH.

[melmac]

I don't like it because:

• The writer, who had written for GAH, had all three characters wrong from the get go. Ralph, Pam and Bill were out of character, the worst offender is Ralph. This is not on the part of Katt, who plays the role well, but he had to play the character out of character.
  
• The suit transfer reason was lame. I know one whom will disagree with me, but if this is to hold true, Ralph should've lost the suit for his ego in "200 MPH fastball" as he offended more than one person and was on national TV for his celebrity.
  
• The training sequence and the fight at the saloon was lame. They could've had a better training session with real scenario uses, such as in "Here's looking at you kid." Sure, Ralph learned invisibility, but he was trying to set fire to stuff, which would be useful to stop someone.
  
• The little girl was a good idea but played as a brat. Holly was flat out annoying once she got the suit on. I will concede that part of this was the fault of the writers, but Stewart could've taken tripe and made it filet mignon. The original trio did with weaker episodes.
  
• There were more green guys and no little green guy to give a translator to. The fact that the translator was missing was also a sticking point to me because it's contrary to the original show.
  
• THe suit was wrong on several parts. Other than material (which I can understand in this case why Katt hated the suit), it was styled differently to be one piece, which was unnecessary. Worse still, it has 3/4-length sleeves, which ruins the philosophy the powers were in the suit and not person.
  
  I did some thinking about Ralph's head and such, and came to the conculsion the reason why it didn't protect him from being knocked unconscious sometimes was that there was more uncovered space to protect, so the powers were thinner. His hands, which were smaller, could get "thicker" coverage as it were. Therefore, having more of the arm showing would risk Holly having her arm broken say if a metal beam hit it.
  

I will say the goodbye scene with the group and the ship part from when Ralph finds out he has to resign to when they leave was good as well. You could see the true Ralph and Pam in that scene and the desert scene, their true emotions. The rest of it, it was a good concept, but just didn't work. I doubt the 2-hour version would work given how Ralph lost the suit and the casting.