Human Target
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Oct 4, 2026
speaker_3HOST
The procedural format actively destroyed the narrative momentum that Matt Ryan's performance was trying to build.
speaker_2HOST
And the most egregious, baffling example of the Trojan horse failing is a character named Christopher Chance, the Human Target.
speaker_2HOST
The networks actually tried this twice.
speaker_3HOST
Twice.
speaker_2HOST
He's great in action roles, but what do the network executives do? They decide the disguise gimmick is too weird for a mainstream procedural audience, so they completely abandon his only superpower.
speaker_3HOST
They stripped away the literal title concept of the character.
speaker_2HOST
They made a show called Human Target where he doesn't disguise himself as the target.
speaker_3HOST
Exactly.
TonyHOST
[metal music]And that was Azathoth with, uh, Lost in the Dark, and the Ruins of Humanity demo comes out, uh, 2022, and you guys are doing a lot of shows.
TonyHOST
Uh, Nocturnal Mortuary, you guys are playing with, uh, Human Target, Cadaveric Incubator.
TonyHOST
A- And are you guys starting to notice attention coming from that Ruins demo outside of Finland? Like, when is that starting to happen, where you guys are starting to, like, you know, "Hey, something's catching on outside of here"?
Juuso HämäläinenGUEST
Mm.