midnightx wrote:terryfromkerry wrote:Hi Milton
I am a big fan of the new show also ! The iconic score. Great "fast and furious" action and dialogue, great escapism, great aloha shirts, great cinematic post card scenery. It does not pretend to be anything other than what it is. An all action show that does not take itself too seriously.
The original show was iconic. This new version is second-rate, loaded with modern television police/"CSI"-inspired clichés. It is disappointing that the 5-0 legacy is now being shared with this inferior product. I hope Magnum PI does not have the same fate.
Hi Guys,
The new Hawaii 5-0(the "o" in the original is now a zero) suffers when compared with the original but is okay on its own terms, but it could/should be much better considering it's budget and good supporting cast. I think the big problem is that Alex O'Loughlin as Steve McGarrett is seriously miscast. He can't act.
He's just another Hollywood pretty boy with the obligatory 3 day beard, which denotes what? Manliness, that he's a tough guy, can't afford razor blades perhaps.
Hello, its been 30 years and 6 presidents since Don Johnson started this look and its more than stale now.
I don't know what Alex and the producers are going for but its ridiculous that the commander of THE elite police unit of a state looks like a teenage slob 99% of the time, his clothing more like what a 16 year old slacker wears. I suspect that soon he will be wearing his pants at half mast in the rear. Someone in his senior position should be wearing big boy grown up clothes as he constantly would be dealing with governmental and civic leaders(as Jack Lord was shown to be).
Jack Lord, a niche actor if ever there was one but born to play McGarrett, easily dominated and owned every single scene he was in. With O'Loughlin, I'm checking out the cute Hawaiian babes strolling by in the background or looking at storefront glass/car windshields to see if the camera crew is caught in the reflections.
Hopefully - I know, fat chance - O'Loughlin will be replaced in the role. It's worked out with replacements before, for instance the 2 Darrins on Bewitched and on various other series such as The Jeffersons, Roseanne, The Waltons, Alias Smith & Jones(ok not so much it got canceled) not to mention when they replaced the Lads on Magnum and Data's cat Spot on Star Trek. Though rumor has it the latter was a shape shifter, explaining why in later episodes Spot was a different color.
and kills someone in cold blood....I won't say anymore.
