Sunday, 29. October 2006, 05:14:09
A Team, Mr T
Have you ever aked yourself this question
What Would the Punisher Do? (or The Executioner, or The Destroyer, etc)
Well it appears that Mr T has a brand new show in the US - I PITY THE FOOL where Mr T helps people.
I saw this on the news the other week and the news suggests that Mr T offers people an A Team approach to their problems and really could we ask for more? (well except for Dwight Shultz and Dirk Bendict to show up).
Mr T seems to think that Dr Phil is a fool (whom of course he pities)and that the people that Dr Phil helps are fools too.
Hopefully this show will come to Australian Television so I can watch it.
Over the next few weeks I'll be reviewing a few Mr T related items including Mr T's animated series from the 80's, Mr T's comic from the 90's, as well as several A Team related items. I'll be mixing it in with other reviews such as The Death Merchant's other book, The Death Wish series and a new source of Aggressor Information I've found.
Brad
Wednesday, 5. July 2006, 11:05:50
A Team, Aggressors, Television
This was the finale of the fourth season of the A Team. What an episode!
The episode opens with Gen. "Bull" Fulbright attempting to capture the A-Team as he has for all of this season, but there's a twist Fulbright wants to hire the A-Team. It turns out that Fulbright has recieved intellegence that Col. Morrison is alive.
Morrison is the man who sent The A Team to rob the bank of Hanoi, to take money from the North Vietnamese war effort. Whilst the A Team is doing this, Morrison and his Headquarters are bombed destroying all of the evidence that the mission was sanctioned. So in 1972 the A Team was court marshalled for robbing the Bank of Hanoi. They escaped from the stockade and became soldiers of fortune aiding the oppressed and downtrodden.
The A Team and Fulbright fly to Viet Nam (in a nice touch Fulbright mentions that in Viet Nam he's a war criminal) and we quickly discover that Morrison is dead and Fulbright has tricked the A Team into helping him find his son, the son he never knew he had. But a young girl tries to kill him and we find that she's Fulbright's daughter, who spun the story of a son to lure Fulbright to Viet Nam.
The Vietnamese Army discovers that war criminals are in the country and try to capture. Fulbright dies in the fight making the dying declaration that the A Team were good soldiers and that his daughter is beautiful. The A Team escape and take Tia, Fulbright's daughter to America.
It is suggested that Tia will be joining the A Team for their future adventures, since Tia was played by Tia Carrere (Relic Hunter) this would have been very cool, but Tia was unable to get out her contract to General Hospital.
There are some beautiful moments as the various members recall their time in Viet Nam and the flashbacks in sepia are accompanied by the sound of helicopters.
I've recently been rewatching the A-Team on pay TV and this would have to be one of my favourite episodes (now I just need seasons 3 -5 to be released on DVD)