It was alright. On a scale of 1 being horrible and 10 being a MUST see I give it a 7.5. It is NOTHING like the 60s/70s series but in and of itself it is more of a Miami Vice/A-Team type show. I will probably watch it again.
I watched last night.
I was not impressed.
A shortened version of a hyped movie.
It doesn’t have the same ‘feel’ of the original.
I saw it last night. It was no 24 or The Unit, but it wasn’t half bad. I liked it better than I liked the first episode of NCIS LA last year.
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I’m watching the next episode with Wo Fat.
But does it have a cool theme song? (Can’t watch vids at work)
It was terrible, like a bad buddy cop flick, but I’ll give it another shot as it was just the pilot. Jack Lord (eccentric as he was) had gravitas. Alex O’Loughlin is too young by 10 years and doesn’t nearly have the chops. Scott Caan was Ok, and the other two were barely on the screen. The villians were one-dimensional, the violence overdone, and the haole-native tension done in typical PC crap fashion.
Personally, I think the children that infest Hollywood are incapable of re-creating this show, even in an updated version.
I did like the redone credits and the Mercury under the tarp, though.
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.
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.
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.
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....