Airwolf: Season Two
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Movie Reviews of Airwolf: Season Two
Movie Review: Airwolf Fans
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like Season One Set, you must add Season Two Set. It has 2 of my favorite episodes: Moffett's Ghost and HX-1. We see Airwolf out of control, then pitted against another equally advanced helicopter. There were some interesting background story lines about the Hawke and Dominic, but they were never expanded upon...
Season Three Set is just around the corner to complete the collection.
Movie Review: High flying action
Summary: 4 Stars
"Airwolf" is high flying action that stands the test of time. If you are into other series from the 80's like "A-Team" and "Magnum P. I.", then you will like this one. Actors are great, and the helicopter is "cool, fantastic, etc." Good adventure and action for the whole family.Movie Review: airwolf
Summary: 4 Stars
i gave it a 4 out of 5 cause it's still has cheesy lines in it. the acting is getting better too, they're not so stiff anymore. still excellent helicopter action.Movie Review: Season Two Is Here At Last....
Summary: 3 Stars
And it's not quite as good as season one. But that's okay, it's still a worthwhile addition to an Airwolf fan's collection. The overall quality has its moments but isn't up to the level of the first set of episodes. Marella was taken out, only recurring in the rare guest appearance, which was too bad, since she was a great character and knew as much about Airwolf as anyone involved. Caitlin O'Shaughnessy was a fine addition, nice and spunky, well-played by Jean Bruce Scott. Archangel's character suffered, acting less like a suavely pleasant yet potentially dangerous spy with ambiguous loyalties and more like an ineffectual whiner. Worst was the change in String's character from wounded loner with a fear of romantic entanglements to a man-about-town with plenty of female action.
One positive note was there was a fair amount of emphasis on the story arc involving St. John Hawke when there wasn't undue focus on human interest plots. (Blame the network for interfering with Bellisario's vision for his show.) And though there were groaners like Out Of The Sky(a country singer's hubby is out to get her---who cares?), there were also great episodes, such as Moffett's Ghost, where the evil inventor of Airwolf returns as a computer virus trying to destroy his creation so nobody else gets to use it.
Overall, though not as good as the first season, this DVD is a must for those interested in having the entire series done by CBS. It does include the introduction of Caitlin's character and there's more St. John stories than the first go-round. We recommend this as a slightly flawed but still essential part of the phenomenon that was Airwolf, and a great trip back to the best part of 80's TV.
The episodes are Sweet Britches, Firestorm, Moffet's Ghost, The Truth About Holly, The Hunted, Sins of the Past, Fallen Angel, HX-1, Flight #093 Is Missing, Once A Hero, Random Target, Condemned, The American Dream, Inn at the End of the Road, Santini's Millions, Prisoner of Yesterday, Natural Born, Out of the Sky, Dambreakers, Severance Pay, Eruption, and Short Walk to Freedom. (There are a good deal more than the first season, since this is a full as opposed to a half-season.)
Movie Review: Excellent 80's End of the Cold War Fantasy
Summary: 3 Stars
Solid characters but never too deep. As this show does not bear close examination. But that is okay. It is not supposed to.
I am no scholar of military aircraft but the fanciful notion of a supersonic helicopter with a range of several thousand miles, a ceiling of sixty or seventy thousand feet, armor that is nearly invulnerable to machine gun fire, the ability to turn on a dime do immelmans and overhead loops, not to mention the incredible stealth capabilities, stretches disbelief enough but it all falls apart for the slipshod and inconsistent writing regarding the helicopter's armanents.
I don't know how long the Airforce has been using the AIM-120 AMRAAM but flares have no effect on it as AMRAAM stands for "Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missle" and it is radar guided not heat seeking. Sidewinder air to air missles were improved to all aspect heat seeking capability meaning they ignore flares from all but perhaps a forty five degrees field of fire. If you got a sidewinder on your six the chances of a flare diverting it were vastly reduced.
"Hellfires" are air to ground anti armor weapons. "Mavericks", the AGM-65D or whatever the current version is if they are still in use are also guided air to ground missles. Both of these were regularly written as air to air ordinance.
Of course the scripts would not have been nearly as interesting if writers were constrained in such a manner.
Some of the best and most interesting stories were the ones involving the intelligence operative known as code name "Archangel", aka Michael Coldsmith Briggs III who always appeared in his trademark all white suit, and was played with such style and panache by actor Alex Cord.