Paradise Blues (4.15)

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#41 Post by Doc Ibold »

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Now I shouldn't really like this episode as I'm no jazz fan and I tend not to like love-lorn main character based stories, unless their being played for comic effect, like "Tropical Madnesss" and yet it wasn't so bad. The female guest star wasn't annoying (and after a gut load of Kathleen Kennedy I was happy not to see the brillo-pad headed harpie on screen) and the downbeat tone of the story made for a compelling contrast. [/quote]

Do you mean Kathleen Lloyd?

:)

I didn't mind the Carol character. She's a reminder of the things that Magnum does when he pulls them and she reminds him of it (And its pretty true, sad to say)

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#42 Post by charybdis1966 »

Doc Ibold wrote:
Now I shouldn't really like this episode as I'm no jazz fan and I tend not to like love-lorn main character based stories, unless their being played for comic effect, like "Tropical Madnesss" and yet it wasn't so bad. The female guest star wasn't annoying (and after a gut load of Kathleen Kennedy I was happy not to see the brillo-pad headed harpie on screen) and the downbeat tone of the story made for a compelling contrast. [/quote]

Do you mean Kathleen Lloyd?

:)

I didn't mind the Carol character. She's a reminder of the things that Magnum does when he pulls them and she reminds him of it (And its pretty true, sad to say)[/quote]

Ha, you got me there Doc :lol:

Now why did I think of the film producer rather than the annoying female MPI guest star ? I do so wish they'd stuck with Patty McCormack.

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#43 Post by SignGuyHPW »

I think I'm in the minority that liked this episode. What really made it a good one for me was that it gave great character depth to TC. It gave a reasoning as to why his marriage may have fallen apart and why he rarely got to see his kids. I found it a little odd that the fuglehorn player was playing during the conversation with Magnum, but it's logical that he was trying to stay out of it and kept trying to mind his buisness by playing the horn. I thought it was really great plot twist when we learned that Alexis was the one that was dealing drugs. She went from a victim being chased to someone TC and Magnum wouldn't condone and Roger Mosley's expressions in that scene were great. Alexis steering the car off of the cliff was also a great open question because we don't know if she meant for the car to actually go off of the road or just get the men to stop shooting at the Ferrari. I thought they did great with making it a pretty emotional episode.

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#44 Post by DDD »

Early on in the episode, Higgins is quizzing Magnum about what Magnum may have on loan from Robin Masters when Higgins mentions a telescope. Higgins says it is a 500 mm C-70. Magnum says it is in a closet by the frig. Higgins finds it but we don't see it at all well. Later, as Higgins and Alexis are wrapping up the inventory, we see a telescope with a blue tube. Most likely this is a Super C-8 introduced by Celestron in 1983. It is a scope suitable for astronomy and not for observing clients in divorce cases. It has a focal length greater than 500 mm. It would be heavy and unwieldy for PI field work. Perhaps Magnum had astronomy as a hobby?

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#45 Post by Milton Collins »

I really don't care for this episode whatsoever, a 6 for me.

- I love TC but just felt he was pretty gullible to hook up with Alex again. He's smarter than that even though he loved her.

- The guy playing the trumpet or flugelhorn or what ever it was SUCKED! That was one of the most annoying scenes of the series when he kept playing it when Magnum was trying to talk to him at His club.

- Did like the flashbacks to Nam, seemed realistic from what I've seen on TV (wasn't alive during Viet Nam so don't know from experience.)

- Was it really that hard to see that Alex was bad news? Maybe it's just to make the episode work but I liked how TM sniffed her out right from the beginning, seemed pretty obvious to me.

I just didn't enjoy this episode at all, worst one of this season in my book!

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#46 Post by Tesza »

Milton Collins wrote:I really don't care for this episode whatsoever, a 6 for me.

- I love TC but just felt he was pretty gullible to hook up with Alex again. He's smarter than that even though he loved her.

- The guy playing the trumpet or flugelhorn or what ever it was SUCKED! That was one of the most annoying scenes of the series when he kept playing it when Magnum was trying to talk to him at His club.

- Did like the flashbacks to Nam, seemed realistic from what I've seen on TV (wasn't alive during Viet Nam so don't know from experience.)

- Was it really that hard to see that Alex was bad news? Maybe it's just to make the episode work but I liked how TM sniffed her out right from the beginning, seemed pretty obvious to me.

I just didn't enjoy this episode at all, worst one of this season in my book!
Absolutely agree with every single word. TC is determined to re-activate his ages-old romance and will ignore every single signal, TSM spells out for him in large letters that obviously there is something rotten, but TC is still blinded.
Normally it's an interesting feature of MPI that the series is able to also convince me if using sorts of plots I'd normally rather less like. But it won't work for me in this case. The VN flashbacks are still the best of it, I'm normally quite able to listen to jazz, but it was a bit too much in this case (in my humble and non-representative opinion :) ).

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#47 Post by Mark R.Y. »

I fall on the "like it" side of the debate concerning this ep. No, "Paradise Blues" is not a classic Magnum, but it's a good, solid, engaging one.

I had no problem with the much-disliked Mangione & his horn scene with TM, lol.

Okay, I found a mind-bending flub in this episode (and I wish I could do screen-caps, but my computer's DVD drive isn't working. Perhaps the mod here could assist?): Magnum looks at TC's Island Hoppers brochure (at around 41:30 on the R1 DVD). It contains a splendid photo captioned "Visit Scenic Koolaus by Air!!" We then dissolve to the exact same scene where T.C. and Alex are snuggled together on the ground. Clever. Except....go back to the photo Magnum looks at. T.C. and Alex are in it! Clearly, the scene with the two of them was filmed first, and a still from it was used for the brochure prop!

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#48 Post by robburne »

I wetched this episode this morning, agree mostly with what has been written above, I enjoyed the fact that it was a deviation form the typical MPI formula, Thomas was very sullen and the dark ending was very unexepcted.

I'm still not 100% sure what Alex did, like a lot of MPI epsidodes blink and you'll miss a key part of the plot. As far as I can make out she fell on hard times and got involved with a drug deal? Did she steal the consignment that her partner/manager had sold to the guys from Detroit and hence was pursued in this episode?

A small detail I noticed, whilst not a flub is probably worth a mention - when Higgins and Alex are packing and discussing her "LP Recordings" (how dated does that sound) the scene ends when he pours her a cup of tea. She raises the cup before drinking it, holding it like it's a glass of wine. Higgins being a bastion of all things quintessentially British would have surely corrected this social faux par and administered a thorough verbal assault. Anyone British knows that only a builder (construction worked) would hold a cup of tea in such an uncouth manner.

I'll grab my coat on the way out :D

Rob.

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#49 Post by TSM308 »

Milton Collins wrote:
- The guy playing the trumpet or flugelhorn or what ever it was SUCKED! That was one of the most annoying scenes of the series when he kept playing it when Magnum was trying to talk to him at His club.
That was Chuck Mangione... You may not have recognized him but you've likely heard his music before.
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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#50 Post by Milton Collins »

Oh nice! Yeah it wasn't the music but him blasting it in TM's face that bugged me, the guy is clearly VERY talented.

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#51 Post by KingKC »

One word describes this episode for me: forgettable!

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#52 Post by Lord Ickenham »

Maybe I am wrong, but is there a panel pocket on TC's dark red Island Hoppers T-shirt (about 5')?

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Re: Paradise Blues (4.15)

#53 Post by Lord Ickenham »

I don't like the too "dramatic" episodes. When Rick lost his sister it was sad, until he started to fight in a commando uniform.
In this episode I couldn't feel with TC. I didn't feel his drama, and his love with the woman. Although, the end was very tragical, but the singer wasn't symphatic.

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#54 Post by Chris109 »

This is one of those episodes that, when it comes on when bingeing, I skip it.

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#55 Post by K Hale »

Boring episode saved, as usual, by the TM/JH interaction. The guest house conversation is revealing on a couple of levels.
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