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Great characters but fake predictable recurring action scenes

posted 12 years ago by WWu777
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The characters on Airwolf are great. String and Dominic are very likable and have natural chemistry. But the action scenes are way too fake, predictable and cliched. Same thing happens every episode. Every aircraft with rockets misses Airwolf. But Hawke has a 100 percent ace marksman hit rate and hits his target every time. Yeah right. It's not believable at all. And every episode is repetitive with the same ending. Everyone misses Airwolf, and Hawke ends the battle with one shot. Yeah right.

Moffett's character was wasted in the pilot episode. There should have been some confrontation between him and Hawke. Instead, Hawke just blows him up while he's standing on the ground. What a waste and what a terrible ending of what could have been a good pilot episode.

Also, the death of Hawke's girlfriend Gabriela was senseless too. She could have left after Airwolf was found. But she decided to stay and endanger her life even though there was no tactical advantage in doing so. No one would have stayed there after that.

So Moffett doesn't want sex, but he wants to take women to the desert and watch them bake? That's sick and stupid.

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[–] stuartcork7 12 years ago

A couple of inconsistencies to clear up there:

Whilst I wont question that it was a repetitive show in the climax of most episodes, there were reasons that Airwolf was rarely hit by enemy missiles. As explained in the pilot, Airwolf could jam the frequency of radar guided missiles, and was manoeverable enough to evade or outrun heat seekers. One of the few (or possibly only) times Airwolf was shot down was when Archangel was in the Engineers seat, and did not know how to operate the controls quick enough to jam or destroy an incoming missile.

Moffett's character would have been better utilised as a recurring villain. But, he could only have been used a couple of times before he became a joke. How believable would it have been for him to nearly beat Airwolf but then still escape to try again every few weeks. Although he did actually come back in one episode in a video message. It turned out that he had designed Airwolf with a "deadmans' switch" of sorts. Where a computer virus had been activated because he had not entered a security code every so often, and Airwolf had become something of a 'Christine'.

And Moffett was most definitely not impotent. It was stressed several times in the pilot film that he raped and murdered women with impunity. After a 'Jack the Ripper' type of spree in the White sands which the Firm chose not to penalise Moffett over because he was a military genius, he then continued the same acts in Libya after his defection.

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