I noticed that the suit didn't seem to work until ralph took off his shirt even though he had the suit underneath most of the time. One show he was beating some dudes up and didn't take his shirt off with suit underneath.. ???If the suit was so powerful cloths shouldn't have held back it's performance ..
shareThis was always nagging me through the first season. Like, why not just have the suit always on underneath your clothes, instead of having to find a hiding spot and change into the superhero duds during the most critical moments?
Then, the first episode of the second season starts off, and works off the entire premise it was ignoring the prior season: Ralph goes undercover as a pitcher for a baseball team, wearing the suit underneath his baseball jersey to conceal it while he amazes the team with his incredible pitching prowess.
It's explained in the episode that the suit works as usual underneath clothes, as long as just part of it is exposed. *slaps forehead*
That's a major problem with the show: Major plot holes and lazy writing are too glaring to overlook at times, even if the nostalgia is still there for those of us who grew up watching it.
Yeah even with the suit on he couldn't beat andre the giant..but he could slow down a speeding car..
shareJust watching the pilot and we've got to that scene where he, Pam and Bill are shoved into a dungeon, handcuffed. He just pulls his arms apart to break the handcuffs no problem - and then takes his shirt off.
Oh yeah, just to show it wasn't a one-off - Ralph has just accidentally crushed Bill's hand in a handshake.
That came out early on that he needed to be in the suit, or the suit needed to be visible for it to work. I remember the baseball pitching episode.
Funny thing is, I'm watching Live At Eleven now, with William Windom, and he's seeing images and sensing things and the suit is on underneath his clothes, unvisible.
Pretty sure it was an inconsistancy with the writing.
'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'
You guys do realize the concept of the series would be ruined if Ralph could just do all his heroics while hiding the suit under his normal street clothes don't you? Yes it makes more real world sense to do what you guys are proposing, but this is a TV show. You can't add real world logic here anymore then you can to how does Luke Skywalker travel to different star systems in that little X-wing fighter or how is it that Kirk and Spock always came back alive after every mission but the poor unnamed dude in the red shirt was always killed.
The series needed Ralph's suit exposed, so people would seem him in his crazy outfit and think he was either into a kinky sex freak, a comic book lunatic, or just a nutball. The suit had to cause problems for Ralph, this is ruined if the suit can always be hidden under regular street clothes, or if the suit were to have some morphing power. The suit did have the power of invisibility, but if Ralph always used that power, again the series concept is gone.