Posted on 09/25/2018 6:50:17 PM PDT by pboyington
John Hillerman lived here in Houston, and just recently passed away.
We tuned in to see it but I immediately tuned it out. This guy doesn’t have the Thomas Magnum “it”. We won’t be watching next week.
It wasn’t awful. The original show was cool to a HS/college guy (like I was when it ran) but honestly, I wouldn’t have been interested had I been 10 years older at the time. So it isn’t like the original was some sort of classic.
With that said, my standard wear in college was shorts, a polo or t-shirt, a baseball cap, white Pumas, and a Rolex, though mine was a Submariner and Magnum’s (for later seasons) was a GST. Actually, my wear still is like that, sans the watch (sold) and running shoes rather than tennis type.
From the lyrics to "Cause I'm a Blonde" ---
"They say to make it, you need talent and ambition
Well, I got a TV show, and this was my audition
Um, okay, what was it .... Ok, um, don't tell me .... Oh yeah, okay
DUCK, MAGNUM, DUCK!!!"
I bet the Vegas bookies already have odds on how long before the show gets altered. Reviews coming in are killing it, which means advertising will drop so no ad revenue.
FOX should come up with their version, what could be worse?
I was willing to give it a chance. I was hopeful. the fact they decided to change Higgins sex was annoying but this is not the same show I can always watch the old show if I want. the problem with the show is real bad writing. the script, directing and prop management was so bad that at one point they had a screen with a recovered gold bar the size of two standard chimney bricks that was treated like it weight was under 10 pounds rather then the 80 pounds that it actually would weight. this show is not worth watching. the best way you can show your disgust for the show is to not watch it amd instead watch the old shows.
I watched it and it was appalling.
The new guy playing Magnum was terrible and rather puny compared to Selleck.
Right in the first episode the Ferrari was totaled. I don’t think Selleck’s character ever did that in the entire run of the original show. Robin Masters must be Tom Clancy style rich if he has a garage full of exotic cars in this new show.
Also I don’t remember exactly what kind of books Masters wrote in the original show but I don’t think they were adventure novels based on Magnum and his buddies as they seem to be here.
The new Higgins isn’t much but she is more interesting that the new Magnum. They still had that ugly helicopter that looked like it the same one from the original show.
All in all a unnecessary reboot that I doubt makes it.
I didn’t make it through 5 minutes. I loved the old Magnum, not even sure WTH this crap is. Any similarity ends at the names of the characters.
Have Zeus and Apollo been replaced by Hers and Artemis? Why can’t they do an original series rather than wrapping unpalatable ideas in familiar packaging?
The old Magnum was beefcake for the ladies.
I visit friends often that watch the old shows, esp Magnum PI.
While visiting them I pointed out that in one scene Tom was wearing long pants. A first. Lol
There's hints and insinuations that there will be a romance between Higgins and Magnum.
In the original, even though Higgins and Magnum toyed with each other, over time it was clear they had built a bond of brotherly love and respect for each other. To turn that into just another "romance" is just wrong.
No wonder the ratings sucked.
I couldn’t even bring myself to watch it for the Dobermans.
And you know that’s a major statement, right there.
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First of all it was a jump from high altitude using a balloon and capsule. Not the space station. He even left the door open so when it fell into the ocean it would sink rather than float.
Next bad scene is him crashing through a brick wall with some tiny old Asian sedan which would have crushed the front end of that car in real life. The full automatic gun fire from a high position in a military off road Humvee style vehicle that fails to hit anyone in the back seat or even the back window from 20 feet behind is ludicrous. Hispanic Magnum is driving through a jungle where every bit of concentration is absolutely needed but he still finds time to look back at the N. Korean family reassuringly for a long time. Then right when Magnum needs to signal the helicopter where they are in all that jungle foliage; Magnum manages to spin the car and with one or two shots from a handgun finds the sweet spot on the chase vehicles gas tank making it blow up in a fireball signalling the copter.
Nothing about that opening scene was remotely believable. Being a glutton for punishment I watched the rest; more to see how much more they could screw it up.
I’m so sick of PC Hollyweird and its sick need to be inclusive. Next thing you know they will remake Superman into a black guy. Sheesh!
I watched a Rockford Files episode on DVD.
Sticks & Stones May Break Your Bones But Merrihew Will Bury You.
A favorite from season 3. Cleavon Little and Simon Oakland guest starred.
Just the ads for it were enough to turn me off...some classics can’t be bettered by replacing an aging man of class with a tank-top clad young blonde woman...getting too far away fro reality with some of the “action” crap too. Will check out the updated Lethal Weapon to see how that goes though.
Another show that CANNOT be redone. James Garner IS Rockford, and no one else can play the role.
Period.
100% correct.
Stuart Margolin is Angel Martin and is in a class all by himself.
Some of “MANIFEST” was caught, and found to be intriguing. Until TPTB transform this into “The Invaders”, they might have found a viewer here.
Who is making and where is the the remaking of “SOAP”? Would any dare today to attempt such a feat?
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