More Info About The Human Target Pilot
For the whole interview and to hear the episode it was featured in, click here. Thank you Alix / deutschtard for talking with us.
C: Well, we wanted to know about that. Without, you know, spoilers. Does it offer something that’s worth tuning in for besides seeing Jackie weekly?
A: Oh yeah. I think so. The whole concept of the show is really interesting and you know being able to see- I think you remember the clips that had come out where the main character, Mark Valley’s character, talks to the Japanese guy and has this whole spiel about where he learned it and it’s all a lie and stuff, well. It’s really interesting that he knows all this stuff and he’s able to do all that stuff and he’s like, I don’t remember where he’s gotten all his martial arts training but he knows how to kick butt and there’s some cool fights that happened, at least in the episode.
C: So it’s pretty heavy on the action then?
A: I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily heavy on the action, it’s a dramatic show basically. The plot of the show is that he gets close to a person who pretty much has their life threatened and finds out who it is that’s threatening ther life and takes them down and saves the person’s life, basically. And he has his little team of people, cos he’s like, you have to contract him to do this and there’s Chi McBride who’s like, a manager guy and then Guerrero is his little… I don’t know what Guerrero is but he’s really funny. He’s basically like this hacker guy who can get into anything and can get you pretty much any information, you know. He’s got the hook ups into any number of social circles that might not be to savory and for such a seemingly small guy he can get relatively scary if he needs to, just because of how connected he is.
C: They all said that their characters were dark, even if Jackie made fun of that, if they have a little depth to the character then it might get very interesting.
A: Yeah, they defintiely have depth, I mean, you don’t know very much about Chi’s character but you know that he has known Mark’s character for a really long time. And he seems like he could have something going on in his own life that’s some sort of secret or something just because you don’t really know anything. But it could also be just because it was only one episode that you don’t get to see him too much. And then, Mark’s character just has obviously tons and tons of issues that made him believe that this was the way he wanted to spend the rest of his life. He’s probably got like a Rorschach level amount of issues that will be dealt with in different times and different ways during the series. And then Guerrero, well he’s- I don’t wanna like gush about him too much but he does seem like he is a bit of a bad ass because, you know, I can’t give away spoilers but there’s one scene where he gets out of a situation that would be pretty intense for anybody but he’s just sits there calmly and basically says: “I’m sorry you guys think you’re gonna win but I can pretty much take down everybody with a snap of my finger because I have all this information and all these connections, and I already know who you are.” Obviously he’s got some sort of a history in crime or something else that gives him all these skills.
C: He’s like a reformed criminal? Well, not a criminal, but, he has a little past.
A: I think he’s defintiely had some brushes with the law, considering you know, he’s supposed to be this very high tech guy who knows like how to get into computers obviously and stuff like that. I think it probably, it’s definitely a possibility that he might have done some prison time somewhere.
C: I liked that comparison you made with Mark’s character having Rorschach-style-issues.
A: Yeah, I mean, you know, something big has to happen in your life for you to think “OK, I’m gonna go pretend to be people and probably get killed eventually someday doing this and be put in the line of death pretty much every day just to help these random people who I don’t even know”
C: All in all it looks (good?)
A: It looks good, it really does. There were points in it that were like a little cheesy in the beginning and the end, but other than that it looks like a really good show. I definitely hope that it will be picked up and enough people will like it that it will stay.
