On the Fly (7.15)

[Croix de Lorraine]

"South American mafia?" Since when Mexico is in South America, Higgins? Shame on you!

Also, although Mac v2.0 speaks good Spanish, he manages to get the singular of "federales" wrong. It's "federal", not "federalee".

[Higgette]

I admit to some confusion on this one - when the police are en route, why would Magnum and Maria - if she were a Mexican Federal agent - leave? And how would Higgins explain their departure? When hiding out, why did Magnum tell Rick he was gong to Mexico but insist to Maria he was not? Was she really a Federal agent? Either way she certainly seemed cold about her partner getting killed...

I thought she was really pretty. But their liaison didn't seem to fit...unless it was to show how far she'd go to manipulate him.

[Doc Fred]

Watch the Federalie witch in the final scenes before Mac (Jim Bonnick, Joe Travis, Father Jim Hiller, Noel Thompson, Trany Oliva, or whatever the heck his name is) offs her. Her hair is suddenly teased and puffed out to the max. What a hag!

This broad is a dog.

Different tastes, I guess.. I thought she was super hot...

[Doc Fred]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Jim Bonnick (or however he spells his name).... I wish they'd have had a sequence where TC takes him into a room by himself, and work him over... then let Thomas take over, and finally Rick.

If I had been Thomas, I'd have shoved him out of the plane from 2000 feet over the ocean... well, not really, but would have liked to have done it.

[Stelth]

Sanitized for your protection.

[Doc Fred]

Is there ANYTHING Higgy can't do?

[Croix de Lorraine]

I admit to some confusion on this one - when the police are en route, why would Magnum and Maria - if she were a Mexican Federal agent - leave? And how would Higgins explain their departure?

Yes, I wouldn't like to be in Higgins' shoes trying to explain to the police how he defeated a whole private army on his on with the only help of a revolver.

Unfortunately Annette Cardona (Maria) died in 2011. Funnily enough this Magnum episode was the last credit ever to her name.

[Milton Collins]

I thought this was a great episode!! Very unique and different and Jim Bonnick is always a treat in my book. What a shootout at the estate, that was soooo cool!. Loved seeing Higgans blasting Valez's men away with his old school shooting style, cracked me up. Also loved the scene where Higgins is celebrating with the air workers in the tower, (does anybody really say hip hip horay? I guess Higgins does lol.) Overall a really enjoyable episode.

[SignGuyHPW]

This was a pretty good episode. It blended some comedy in with the action and drama pretty well. It was also interesting to see Magnum wanting to pick up a steady job so far from Hawaii.

The part I didn't totally enjoy was Magnum's landing the plane played mostly as comedy. I wouldn't mind some comedy thrown into it, but it seemed to be going for an Airplane like feel to it. It was also kind of hard to buy Mac pulling off that whole deal in Mexico by himself. The scenes where Magnum and Maria were alone at the hideout seemed awkward to me, but not bad. I think the chemestry was perhaps not as strong as other characters had in the series.

I think this episode had one of the better shoot outs of the entire series when they were caught at Robin's Nest by the drug cartel. The dogs being at the groomer and the extra ammo not being moved back to the main house yet were good comedy devices that didn't take away the seriousness of the scene. It was also interesting that TC was shot by mistake and the build up to that realisation. Mac not mentioning he was shot the day before until he was passing out was classic Mac too.

[J. Rickley Schneider]

It was pretty clear from the start that "Mac" was the one who impersonated Magnum.

I was not prepared for the revelation that the latin babe was really a crook.

And her demise mere seconds later really caught me off guard.

Not a bad episode. I would put it in the upper quartile of episodes.

[Mark R.Y.]

Pretty dreary going. I gave it a 7 because it has a few good things, but still probably my least favorite ep. of season 7.

By the way, Karen Black is in "Airport '75," not the first one as TM says in his narration.

[thechickinthemiddle]

Cha Cha DiGregorio! I knew I recognized her from somewhere!

I read another user here said she looked ashen and grey in these scenes this episode. I know that's also the case for other darker-lit scenes this latter part of the show ("A Girl Named Sue" has a bit of the same problem in the warehouse scene). As I'm sure the color saturation and stuff changed as the series went on, the DVDs don't help sometimes, even between episodes close in order.

[Little Garwood]

I think many otherwise-attractive women looked worse during the 1980s than they did before or even many years after that decade--and it only got worse the deeper into the '80s one got. The big hair, squared, large-shouldered, form-obscuring outfits so popular in the second half of that decade did very few women any favors. The Kona Wind's Cynthia Sikes is a prime example of this. She looks much better twenty-plus years after her MPI appearance.

The '70s had its fair share of wretched styles--primarily mens styles--but for the most part, womens fashions weren't so bad. The 1980s, however, did no one any favors!

[thechickinthemiddle]

I think many otherwise-attractive women looked worse during the 1980s than they did before or even many years after that decade--and it only got worse the deeper into the '80s one got. The big hair, squared, large-shouldered, form-obscuring outfits so popular in the second half of that decade did very few women any favors. The Kona Wind's Cynthia Sikes is a prime example of this. She looks much better twenty-plus years after her MPI appearance.

The '70s had its fair share of wretched styles--primarily mens styles--but for the most part, womens fashions weren't so bad. The 1980s, however, did no one any favors!

I think the only people on Magnum who got out relatively unscathed (other than the main four) were the guest stars in seasons one and two, as the period was still shaking off the 70s, and before the big hair and power suit trends of the 80s really took hold.

[☨magnum.t]

I cant believe nobody has mentioned Magnum eating a strangers sandwich in the plane, literally when he thinks he might die attempting to land this plane and he's sweating like crazy and clearly nervous haha. Priorities I mean a mans gotta eat. One of the funniest parts ever for me.