Find Me a Rainbow (6.18)

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#46 Post by SignGuyHPW »

This was one of the many episodes where Magnum's client lies to him to get to some other hidden agenda and he has to solve the case while sorting through all of the lies on both sides. This one was a little sloppy about it because not everything ended up adding together, but I liked the overall story. It had a little of everything in it which normally makes for the better episodes.

The first thing I had trouble with was that Lydia had taken her file from the first detective's office by gun point, but then never showed that side to her personality again. It almost seemed like an extra scene to fill time that they tacked on as an after thought. Then you had the whole swerving scenes such as she's rich/not rich, the guy stole jewels/he stole her baby, the baby was dead/the baby was still alive, the adoption was legal/it was illegal. That made it a little confusing until towards the end. I kind of get the vibe that the parents of Lydia didn't want any scandal so they kept quiet on the matter, but if she was 17 at the time wouldn't she be able to still charge him with statuatory rape? They never really delved into that aspect of it. There was also no real explanation as to why Rick was helping out with this camp other than they had nothing else for him to do in the episode. The ending was perhaps the worst in show history. It took me a bit to recognise they were still sitting on the same property as before because since it switched scenes and they were just sitting there I thought they had gone to some park or something which made it really bizzare to me. Knowing, now, it was the same property it makes more sense, but was not done well.

What I liked about it was how Magnum was determined to solve the case despite both sides being dishonest about what was happening. He also turned down the extra pay which he seemed to do when he was most determined to solve a case for some reason. Higgins being completely frustrated at the inability to instill discipline into the children was great. You know he was wanting to run things like a military camp and just was not allowed. I really enjoyed how they tied the sub plot in with the main plot out of no where, but yet had it make total sense. That was well done. Magnum's bemoaning the snacks during the stake out was one of the better scenes I thought. His let down of the snack being a food he dislikes to his excitement as he thinks she may have chocolate chip cookies to the return of the let down when she doesn't was great.

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#47 Post by thechickinthemiddle »

Higgins: "Oh. My. God. Magnum! What are you doing here? Leave the premises E-ME-diately before someone sees you!"

I don't know why, but that scene always cracks me up. I think it's the way he acts horrified that someone might actually see Magnum there. :lol:
LOL! This despite Magnum actually being in a decent suit and Loretta dressing in all her 80s attire. :P
The thing that really shocks me about the whole thing is that all the states that require seatbelts, yet have no helmet law for motorcycles.

That actually shocks me too. (For the record, here in British Columbia seatbelts have been mandated since 1977. I'm guessing our large hills and mountains and highways had caused more accidents in general.) Motorcycle accidents happen way too often sadly, even when the cyclist is protected and quite experienced.
I kind of get the vibe that the parents of Lydia didn't want any scandal so they kept quiet on the matter, but if she was 17 at the time wouldn't she be able to still charge him with statutory rape? They never really delved into that aspect of it.
The age of consent in New York is 17. Even if Lydia's father wanted to press charges, he couldn't. In that and her owning a gun (21 being the minimum for a handgun), the writers were surprisingly accurate with ages in this episode.

I did find the ending a touch contrived too, though I do know that kids can wander off far from where they started. It would be a lot more contrived to me if Jesse had wandered off on foot in that short time.

Speaking from experience here. A couple years back at my job, this father had lost his two small kids and after a store-wide search, the police were called. They searched the general outside area as well. Eventually, after about an hour I heard that they had found the kids. They had apparently left our store, had gone through the (likely very busy) parking lot, and had ended up at the Costco across the street :shock: , that street being a busy section of highway. :oops:

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The thing that really shocks me about the whole thing is that all the states that require seatbelts, yet have no helmet law for motorcycles.

That actually shocks me too. (For the record, here in British Columbia seatbelts have been mandated since 1977. I'm guessing our large hills and mountains and highways had caused more accidents in general.) Motorcycle accidents happen way too often sadly, even when the cyclist is protected and quite experienced.

The story we bikers like to tell whenever legislators in non-helmet law States try and enact legislation is the following ...."40,000lb semi crosses two lanes of traffic, hops two curbs, hits and kills a motorcyclist in line at a burger king drive up....The motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet"...
I kind of get the vibe that the parents of Lydia didn't want any scandal so they kept quiet on the matter, but if she was 17 at the time wouldn't she be able to still charge him with statutory rape? They never really delved into that aspect of it.

The age of consent in New York is 17. Even if Lydia's father wanted to press those charges, he couldn't. In that and her owning a gun (21 being the minimum for a handgun), the writers were surprisingly accurate with ages in this episode.

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#49 Post by thechickinthemiddle »

To clarify, I do know above all (and what I meant before is) that the main cause for these accidents is driver disregard for motorcyclists and it's awful. :(

I don't know if Magnum's dive for the football into the bushes is the first Chariots of Fire homage (probably not), but it's certainly one of the earliest. :P

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J.J. Walters wrote:Just found it - It's in Way of the Stalking Horse! Somehow I missed it, initially.

Hark! A seatbelt has finally been spotted in the show!

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Vanity wrote:Don't know if this is the right place to post the blufs, but there is one in this episode where, very seldom case of Magnum driving the Ferrari with his seatbelt on. Few secs later, he's still driving, but without the belt on.
Regarding the matter of seatbelts in the show, this flub is absolutely hilarious! Six years into the show, Magnum finally puts on a seatbelt, only to take it off again seconds later after finding it unsatisfactory! LOL!!

I don't think we see another seatbelt until Season Seven.
Way off topic but Higgins wears a seat belt in the three-wheeled car in S6 "Deja Vu." I was watching it last night and that was so incongruous that it stood out. Perhaps U.K. laws were different/better enforced?
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#51 Post by Mad Kudu Buck »

I think it's strange that Canadian seat belt laws/attitudes seem to have been decades ahead of the US. I remember always wearing seat belts from the late 70's. Where I was, it was still optional, but most people were wearing them consistently from the very early 80's.

Of course, Canadians had the common sense to go metric in 1977 and the Americans still haven't gotten around it.

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#52 Post by marlboro »

Why should the government force an adult to wear a seatbelt? I get it for children, but what right does the government have to tell an adult what to do in their own private vehicle if it doesn't endanger anyone else? Most accidents happen inside the home, should you be forced to wear a helmet and other safety gear in your own home? If not, then how is that different than the seat belt laws for adults?

You might almost think it's an excuse to extort money out of the citizenry or give cops a cheap excuse to pull people over and search their cars.


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#53 Post by Mad Kudu Buck »

Well I would actually agree with you there. I was mostly commenting on voluntary usage based on common sense/ scientific evidence, not strictly enforcing it with monetary penalties - like American law enforcement always likes to do. See, what happens is that American police turn it into a profit-making policy that eventually makes it so profitable that it eventually becomes policy even in Canada. I absolute HATE for-profit-policing - police going out and getting people going slightly over the speed limit that aren't harming anybody just because they have a quota and need to do it to finance the police department. This should be stopped! Also, police should have a warrant to search any vehicle and checkpoints should be totally ignored because they are ILLEGAL!

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I saw that video when it came out and I'm as disgusted now as I was then. I realized that the US is not a free country and something radical must be done to restore freedom to this country. I think it's too late though. The American public are too ignorant, apathetic and obsessed with meaningless things like Facebook, reality TV and the latest iPhone.

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#55 Post by J.J. Walters »

"Seat belts save lives!"... :) I wonder what TV show first showed a car scene with a seat belt? Dragnet? Adam-12? Hill Street Blues? ... The world may never know. :)
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If only Blue Boy had worn a seat belt, he might still be alive today. :(


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#57 Post by nha trang »

The two playmates plus lots of bikini bottoms in the beginning - can they give the viewer a break? (Or maybe an ice cold Coops and an ice bag? I might have to go rest on a couch at the KKC) Stella certainly aged well!

Ok so on a serious note, touching episode, pacing slightly off and could have benefited from some appropriate musical scores and some more distinct peaks and valleys (car chase or something) so as to not drag.

I rated it an 8.5, that ending (and the adoption ring) was emotional. Sad to think of that stuff going on. The show was ahead of its time.

Also, too bad the villain from Stalking Horse didn't sell Higgins a full glass coverage policy for the estate, he's putting someone's kids through college with the glass repairs at the estate! Wait til Robin sees his insurance premium at renewal!

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eegorr wrote: Fri May 25, 2007 3:30 pm
James J. Walters wrote:Regarding the matter of seatbelts in the show, this flub is absolutely hilarious! Six years into the show, Magnum finally puts on a seatbelt, only to take it off again seconds later after finding it unsatisfactory! LOL!!
Selleck probably wears his seat belt in real-life, but his alter-ego Magnum would not. TS probably automatically put his seat belt on when he got in the car and they had to tell him to take it off! I'm surprised they did not simply remove the damn thing -- maybe they did in most of the cars and this one was a stand-in.

Otherwise, I'll bet there were lots of times this was caught and this is one instance where they missed it.
Not sure if this is related to the seat belt issue at all, but there was definitely something different about the Ferrari from Way of the Stalking Horse to Find Me A Rainbow. In Stalking Horse, there’s a black sheet of plastic behind the seats, but in this episode it’s back to the usual brown carpet. I wonder what was behind the plastic? I think I remember reading something about the top being stored behind the seats when not in use, but I'm not sure about that. But even if that's the case, they don't have it there for most of the shots where the Ferrari is being driven in the show, so I wonder why they would have it there for that particular shot.

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firefly wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:37 pm one possible flub i noticed while watching this episode last evening.

higgins was relaying what susan brandis said about her emergency that forced her to suddenly leave the estate, but higgins wasn't present when she took the phone call, only rick and tc were there. in addition, susan did not even say anything (well other than she will be back in time for the luau) to rick and tc yet higgins relayed detailed dialogue.

i suppose that she could have called higgins from her office, but that doesn't seem likely.
Higgins doesn't actually relay anything that Susan said (and he was in the vicinity when she took the call, but you are correct that he was otherwise engaged and probably couldn't have heard the conversation - see pic below). What Higgins actually says is that someone else (Georgia) called, and that Magnum would know what it was about. Here's the actual dialogue:

Magnum: I need to talk to Susan Brandes.
Higgins: Luckily for her, she's not here.
Magnum: Do you know where she went?
Higgins: No. But someone else called. She said it was urgent. She said her name was Georgia and that you would know what it was all about.

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ENSHealy wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 2:44 pm
eegorr wrote: Fri May 25, 2007 3:30 pm
James J. Walters wrote:Regarding the matter of seatbelts in the show, this flub is absolutely hilarious! Six years into the show, Magnum finally puts on a seatbelt, only to take it off again seconds later after finding it unsatisfactory! LOL!!
Selleck probably wears his seat belt in real-life, but his alter-ego Magnum would not. TS probably automatically put his seat belt on when he got in the car and they had to tell him to take it off! I'm surprised they did not simply remove the damn thing -- maybe they did in most of the cars and this one was a stand-in.

Otherwise, I'll bet there were lots of times this was caught and this is one instance where they missed it.
Not sure if this is related to the seat belt issue at all, but there was definitely something different about the Ferrari from Way of the Stalking Horse to Find Me A Rainbow. In Stalking Horse, there’s a black sheet of plastic behind the seats, but in this episode it’s back to the usual brown carpet. I wonder what was behind the plastic? I think I remember reading something about the top being stored behind the seats when not in use, but I'm not sure about that. But even if that's the case, they don't have it there for most of the shots where the Ferrari is being driven in the show, so I wonder why they would have it there for that particular shot.

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The top could be stored behind the seats on a 308 GTS, and it even had a black vinyl bag to store it. The real problem with the top suddenly being shown stored there is that they had to modify the seat to fit 6-4 Selleck in the car to begin with. They removed padding from the seat to lower him, and it seems unlikely that he would have enough legroom if the seat was moved forward to fit the top behind it.

I actually sat in the driver’s seat of a 308 GTB when I was in late college and I’m 6-7+. It was a neighbor’s friend’s car. The seat base was all the way to the rear and the seat back was reclined and touching the top stored behind. I couldn’t have driven it safely if at all. (I wasn’t offered to anyway :lol:) I had no where near enough room to operate the clutch. What I remember most was a severe lack of legroom, my knees being very bent and close to the steering wheel, but strangely the wheel was quite a far reach with my arms being straight out. I also recall the wheel being angled more than I would have expected with the top being almost out of reach. Nothing like my current VW bus of course. :lol: I remember thinking Italians must have short legs and long arms! :P

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