Lafayette
Man of Artistic Fingers
When you say campy I think of the old Batman tv show which in the long run was a disappointment to me.
I never thought of The Greatest American Hero in the same way. Batman and Robin were corny and not very believable where as The Greatest American Hero was. The poor guy, Ralph Hinkley, half the time didn't know what the powers were or how to use them, wasn't crazy about being a super hero in the first place, and on top of that had to contend with a gung ho FBI agent Bill Maxwell. Even if you (the viewer) couldn't identify with Ralph you could sympathize with him.
And on a minor note (again my opinion) Ralph Hinkley in his red underwear didn't look as bad as Batman and Robin in their costumes.
I believe if the network took the program more seriously it would have turn into a less cheesy program and made the Super Hero genre a more respectful genre than the big and bad joke that Batman was.
I never thought of The Greatest American Hero in the same way. Batman and Robin were corny and not very believable where as The Greatest American Hero was. The poor guy, Ralph Hinkley, half the time didn't know what the powers were or how to use them, wasn't crazy about being a super hero in the first place, and on top of that had to contend with a gung ho FBI agent Bill Maxwell. Even if you (the viewer) couldn't identify with Ralph you could sympathize with him.
And on a minor note (again my opinion) Ralph Hinkley in his red underwear didn't look as bad as Batman and Robin in their costumes.
I believe if the network took the program more seriously it would have turn into a less cheesy program and made the Super Hero genre a more respectful genre than the big and bad joke that Batman was.