There are so many twists which undo previous continuity in this episode that I am reminded of Ebert's review of The Usual Suspects -- "to the degree that I understand, I don't care."

Were these songs muzak covers in the original broadcast, or only on the DVD version? Anyway, the muzak cheapens the episode, in more ways than one.

As enjoyable as I find this episode, there is just no way that the airplane explosion would have fooled anybody. Planes don't blow up in the sky, and the NTSB would certainly have investigated it thoroughly. The fact that there was no trace of the body would prevent a declaration of death. McLeish w...

1. How did Tanaka know he would need to be in Martin's hospital room carrying a tape recorder set to record a confession?
2. How did Tanaka get into that room before Ross, or without Ross knowing about it?

Deus ex machina ending.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but in the few segments of the reboot that I've observed, the tone of the two shows is very different. The original had a light touch, with most of the detective work being done by Rick & TC, and sometimes Higgins, magnum having promised them favours or money which wil...

I'm not sure if it's just me, but in the few segments of the reboot that I've observed, the tone of the two shows is very different. The original had a light touch, with most of the detective work being done by Rick & TC, and sometimes Higgins, magnum having promised them favours or money which will...

I'd also be curious if the audio has been improved, since the DVD audio and video are equally bad.

Here are some additional shots, with colour-corrected versions below. All I did to "correct" them was use the "Auto" button in Gimp -- Colors>Levels. If you want to try this yourself, you can take screenshots using vlc if you play the discs on your PC. The filter is definitely lossy, and the picture...

@MaximRecoil In retrospect, I guess, as bad as the DVDs look at times, they're much better than the other two shows I mentioned. I didn't mention DGIndex's judgement because I'm not sure I trust it as much as you. I've seen too much weird crap for that. I'm also too cynical about the decision-making...

@MaximRecoil Thanks for the post. I agree with everything you say, except that I doubt if film elements were used in any of the Magnum DVDs. I think it's more likely analog tapes were used instead. That's how, for example, Dallas and Banacek were handled. That kind of cheap decision won't work in an...

Hi, every so often I take screen grabs and manipulate them in GIMP to see if I can get the sky and water to look blue, the grass to look green etc. Most of the frame grabs I've taken have had purple skies and whites tend to look reddish. When desaturating the red, green appears. A typical frame has ...