Rapture (6.11)

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I know that some don't like the "other world" kind of shows on MPI, but the occasional ones.. this one, Mac's Back, et al... really appeal to me.

Magnum's empathy for the boy's mom was well played and very moving. It was easy to be affected by the mother's loss and Magnum's concern for her. There were other parts of the episode that were fine, but this part was enough for me to think it was an excellent episode, despite some flaws which others have detailed.

The humor in the library was needed to balance the somber feeling regarding the young boy and his mom. Magnum's unequaled destruction of the library bothered me some, as I really don't think he'd just pull the books and then throw them on the floor or wherever they landed. But, when Higgy Baby entered and Magnum tried to hide under the table, now that was funny. I also love how Magnum intentionally uses the wrong words or identities to annoy Higgins, such as call the mounted animal head a "moose".

The interaction between Magnum and Higgins throughout the series is fantastic, and despite the bickering, yelling and angry words, I see their mutual respect and admiration as a major theme in the entire series.
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Doc Fred wrote:I know that some don't like the "other world" kind of shows on MPI, but the occasional ones.. this one, Mac's Back, et al... really appeal to me.

Magnum's empathy for the boy's mom was well played and very moving. It was easy to be affected by the mother's loss and Magnum's concern for her. There were other parts of the episode that were fine, but this part was enough for me to think it was an excellent episode, despite some flaws which others have detailed.

The humor in the library was needed to balance the somber feeling regarding the young boy and his mom. Magnum's unequaled destruction of the library bothered me some, as I really don't think he'd just pull the books and then throw them on the floor or wherever they landed. But, when Higgy Baby entered and Magnum tried to hide under the table, now that was funny. I also love how Magnum intentionally uses the wrong words or identities to annoy Higgins, such as call the mounted animal head a "moose".



The interaction between Magnum and Higgins throughout the series is fantastic, and despite the bickering, yelling and angry words, I see their mutual respect and admiration as a major theme in the entire series.

That's one of the things that worries me about a major motion picture movie. I think the easy way out would be to make Higgins a thorn in Magnums side rather than explore the complexities of his character and the underlying respect they have for each other.

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#43 Post by SignGuyHPW »

I liked this one. It was one of those "Magnum's going to solve this case no matter what it takes even though he's not actually hired by anyone to do so" episodes. The mother relapsing into her despair the more Magnum tried to help was kind of unique plot. They did stretch in a couple of places, but not to the point that I thought it took away from the logic of the episode.

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#44 Post by magnumette »

Rapture is one of my favorites. The library scenes are hysterical ( zaftig clerk, the mind of magnum) and just wonderful. The denouement is perfect. And I love Magnum's weirdly psychic ways. Maybe it is becasue I lost my father and mother when i was fairly young and used to sleep to see them much like the mother does in this episode. Grief is such a powerful emotion and it is portrayed so well by the local Hawaiian actress . BTW- Titantic has the same theme - a decade later..."ill see you in my dreams" celine dion -

this although melancholy is one of my top 10 magnum's.

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Found on incredible blooper in this episode. TC van pass when Magnum is in the bar after arrived with Ferrari :D

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This show ranks as one of the most memorable of all time for me. I can still see the child in the water motioning to TM. To find out the father and money was the "culrpit" was pretty rough as a reason for the death of a child but to let him just fly off was kind of a "non-ending." I know I like the shows with kids in them but in this one the truth about the child was discovered but there was no justice. MPI had a reputation of not always ending well. Maybe this was just another one of those episodes.

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mandolabar wrote:
Lily wrote:Yes! I also thought that the roller stool was rather strange, as it looked very out of place in a library that size! I would have expected to see Robin Masters library lined, floor to ceiling with books, and one of those ladders on a track to reach the higher shelving.
Even a library that size must make allowances for the size of its librarian...and Higgins would need the rolling stool, even if Magnum didn't. :lol:
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A great episode.

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Kwanzaa wrote: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:12 pmI enjoyed seeing the library and watching the guys hang the waterbuffalo head. That was a great scene.
nha trang wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:01 amI also enjoyed the library scene - hanging the CAPE BUFFALO not the water buffalo - Higgins would go stark raving mad! lol
According to the subtitles, you are both wrong, it is a KEG buffalo. I wonder where the tapper is?

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Doc Fred wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:29 am Magnum's empathy for the boy's mom was well played and very moving. It was easy to be affected by the mother's loss and Magnum's concern for her. There were other parts of the episode that were fine, but this part was enough for me to think it was an excellent episode, despite some flaws which others have detailed.
Maybe I'm being melodramatic, but when she says "I've been trying to figure out all afternoon how it is that some people lose everyone who's close to them", you can almost see Magnum ticking off the names in his head....

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EPISODE: 6.11 RAPTURE

Famous guest stars:
Hawaiian shirts: 1
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OMG: 1
Higgins Organizations: 1 Anglo-Hawaiian Aeronautical Enthusiast Society
Higgins musings: 2
Negotiations:
Gun Play:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking: 1
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4th wall breaks: 1
Magnumometer: 8
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Blood and Honor and Rapture, which scored 7 and 8 on the Magnumometer, put an end to a long streak of really low scoring episodes. Prior to them, you have to go all the way back to 5.10 Luther Gillis: File #001 to find an episode scoring that high. The intervening 21 episodes averaged only 3.78 on the Magnumometer, with two zeros! (The zeros were the second hour of Deja Vu, and Paniolo.)

Also of note, we’re 10 episodes and 11 hours into Season 6 and this is the first time we encounter a Higgins Musing (at least we get two here). Makes me wonder if I missed one. And Magnum breaks the 4th wall for the first time in Season 6. It’s almost like a “return to normal” episode.

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#52 Post by charybdis1966 »

I have a confession- I gave up on this one 10 minutes in.
Prolonged underwater scenes are a bit of a turn off for me and annoying kids in episodes are another deterrent.
I know - there’s no Carol Baldwin so it can’t be that bad ?
Something about the story just made me bored.

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charybdis1966 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:33 pm I have a confession- I gave up on this one 10 minutes in.
Prolonged underwater scenes are a bit of a turn off for me and annoying kids in episodes are another deterrent.
I know - there’s no Carol Baldwin so it can’t be that bad ?
Something about the story just made me bored.
No judgement here, but there are a lot of divers here on the forum who enjoy the underwater scenes. :wink: Lots of kayakers too who enjoy the paddling scenes. :D I count myself in both groups! TM does a lot of open water swimming to so my wife would agree, but me less so. I prefer sailing which is remarkably absent from the series.

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Pahonu wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:11 am
charybdis1966 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:33 pm I have a confession- I gave up on this one 10 minutes in.
Prolonged underwater scenes are a bit of a turn off for me and annoying kids in episodes are another deterrent.
I know - there’s no Carol Baldwin so it can’t be that bad ?
Something about the story just made me bored.
No judgement here, but there are a lot of divers here on the forum who enjoy the underwater scenes. :wink: Lots of kayakers too who enjoy the paddling scenes. :D I count myself in both groups! TM does a lot of open water swimming to so my wife would agree, but me less so. I prefer sailing which is remarkably absent from the series.
You know, as I wrote that last night I felt a bit guilty of not being open to something new to me, even if I usually found that tedious, but as you get older I suppose one can get a bit more narrow minded.

Different strokes and all that - you may recall I'm a big fan of cricket and I know what you're thinking - how can someone who enjoys a very tedious sport find diving boring ?

I'd love for there to have been an episode centred on that sport where Higgins turns out for the Anglo-Hawaiian Cricket Association first XI but 99% of the intended MPI audience would have been bored rigid by that. :higgins:

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charybdis1966 wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:30 am
Pahonu wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:11 am
charybdis1966 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:33 pm I have a confession- I gave up on this one 10 minutes in.
Prolonged underwater scenes are a bit of a turn off for me and annoying kids in episodes are another deterrent.
I know - there’s no Carol Baldwin so it can’t be that bad ?
Something about the story just made me bored.
No judgement here, but there are a lot of divers here on the forum who enjoy the underwater scenes. :wink: Lots of kayakers too who enjoy the paddling scenes. :D I count myself in both groups! TM does a lot of open water swimming to so my wife would agree, but me less so. I prefer sailing which is remarkably absent from the series.
You know, as I wrote that last night I felt a bit guilty of not being open to something new to me, even if I usually found that tedious, but as you get older I suppose one can get a bit more narrow minded.

Different strokes and all that - you may recall I'm a big fan of cricket and I know what you're thinking - how can someone who enjoys a very tedious sport find diving boring ?

I'd love for there to have been an episode centred on that sport where Higgins turns out for the Anglo-Hawaiian Cricket Association first XI but 99% of the intended MPI audience would have been bored rigid by that. :higgins:
Different strokes for sure. I do remember some of your cricket comments in the Squeeze Play episode. Did Higgins even reference cricket in the series? I don’t recall. With all Higgins’ British oriented activities, including polo and snooker, it is curious the lack of cricket.

I’ve always thought, given its location in Hawaii, that the show had very few surfing related stories. There were only two, I think, and one was only tangentially. Also, while there were many boating scenes, sailing is surprisingly absent. They managed to create an Ironman episode when triathlon was still incredibly obscure, so something like a story about Higgins involving cricket could have worked also.

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