Kono (L) vs. Kono.
We report, you decide...
Posted on 09/21/2010 10:53:23 AM PDT by EveningStar
The new Hawaii Five-O could have been just another gussied-up TV re-launch (no, I’m not a big fan of 90210). Instead, Hawaii‘s premiere episode was fun: Swift, sometimes funny, well-cast, especially in the supporting roles. It’s sure not anything approaching revolutionary TV, but right now, it’s solid 10 p.m.-Monday entertainment.
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I won’t. I’m disappointed - the ads looked much more promising than it turned out to be. I should have known better - remakes usually disappoint.
While I enjoyed the show, I thought it was a little too fast paced. Conflict/cut/resolution/next scene/conflict/cut/resolution/next scene/etc.
Just cookie cutter, I guess.
It wasn’t bad, and a nice way to drift off to sleep.
In the first episode he's investigating his own father's murder? Have they never heard of conflict of interest? If the bad guy is captured alive any defense attorney will have the case thrown out and the criminal back on the street in five minutes.
I already watch far more TV than I should and I don't expect this will make the cut of watching many more episodes.
I didn't watch the original one very often so I couldn't tell if this version copied the original feel much.
We need a new TV show: Alaska Four-Nine. It could star people playin Sarah and Todd Palin, Lisa Murkowski (or however she is spelling it today), the moonbats who filed hundreds of ethics charges to drive Sarah Palin from office—which may be the best think to happen to the conservative movement because it freed up her time, soon to be Senator Miller, people from the fishing and oil industries, etc. The show would cast the moonbats and the Murkowski-ites as the forces of darkness. Instead of the surfing scene to the tropical music, we would have an Aleut spear-fishing for seal to cooler but more sane music and maybe even an Ocra popping up near the shore to eat some of the environmental nut cakes who are trying to “save the whales”.
Kono’s job was always to make Chin Ho look small. A hot 95 pound Hawaiian chick he was not.
Kono (L) vs. Kono.
We report, you decide...
Let’s just say it looks good in HD. I will say the sarcastic banter between policemen on cop shows is growing tiresome when it overshadows the actual story. If the writing ever lives up to the beautiful scenery it will be a huge hit.
Well, that's what I'm looking for. I recorded it. Watching later.
At first, the bickering between McGarrett and Dan-O was getting old. But they eventually moved past it ... a good thing. How believable is it that some little surfer waif can take down a large surfer with one punch or two large gunmen?
They crammed a lot into that hour timeslot ... hopefully they’ll avoid doing that in future episodes.
Other than those things, I kinda liked it ... in a modern day Miami Vice sort of way.
some show just can’t be remade because the star becomes so identified with the character. magnum pi, hawaii 50, true grit.
i will see if they offer episodes on line and go back to watching castle on monday nights.
Too much done in an hour show, it should’ve been a 2 hour show. Character development was too quick, bad guys were found too easily.
But at least there was the obligatory “Babe in bra and panties scene”
The trailer turned me off completely.
The main character is pointlessly haunted by the now-required “back story”, gosh that’s original.
The boss and his number-one have a fistfight on the first show, excuse me?
I’m betting that Magnum P.I. has more similarities with the original show than this one does.
The article says that the only thing memorable about the show is "book him, Danno!" and the credits, but anybody who watched that show has to remember the episodes where he's at a shabby beach house trying to crack some drug ring and grabs some teenager and shakes him for all he's worth, screaming something like, "come on kid, you wanna be HOPPED UP ON SMACK YOUR WHOLE LIFE!?!?!?" You'll never see that on this version.
No sh**. It's tiring. NCIS: Gibbs was a sniper who killed the drug smuggler who killed wife and daughter. NCIS LA: The lead investigator doesn't even know his own name becuase his birth was a mystery. Blah blah blah blah blah blah..... The 'computer nerds' are geniuses who have immediate access to every computer and camera in the Western world. Nurses are the real heroes. no, doctors are the real heros... no wait, the hospital administrator is the realest hero... if only there were a colorful, brilliant lawyer to save the day...
I think this new version--based on the pilot--goes too far in the opposite direction. With all the explosions and shootouts I thought I was watching a Jerry Bruckheimer film. I don't think it will hold up to the original.
Would a military officer in the middle of a prisoner transport actually have a cell phone on, much less answer it? Hell, wouldn’t the truck be JAMMING the cell phone frequencies in order to disable IEDs?
And why is it that it’s still OK to use derogatory racist names for white guys (Howlie?), while every other people group gets protection?
Then there’s the whole getting sworn in by the governor; Not that it was unbelievable, but wouldn’t the cop at least ask to talk to the governor himself — otherwise the guy could have been faking the whole thing...
I don’t know if we’ll be watching or not. My daughter watched because of James Marsters, and I don’t know if she’ll keep watching now. I won’t watch without her, but the first show was at least good enough that I could stand to watch it while freeping.
Forgot to say that I loved the cell-phone ringtone for the detective....
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