Luther Gillis: File #521 (4.2)

[brunoffrance]

Hi the community;
As each sunday familly dinning, we watch an episode and today was this one and we have voted... only 8 ! Not the best one or the more sentimental...
A correct story and luther is more present than TM... even in the speaking back.
some great situation as the one where Luther hit the old lady learning Kun-fu with Higgins...
note that the Honolulu reputation is shown a bit wrong about prostitution... and some views are a bit sexy....

Bruno.

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Very american 4 a french...

[MACattack]

Seems to me that the writers were asleep when they wrote this episode. And sleep is what I did when I tried watching it!

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I just don't give a damn!

[MACattack]

In retrospect, my opinion of Luther Gillis might be a little harsh. He's no worse than Lance White (Tom Selleck's character on Rockford Files.)

I just feel that Luther Gillis needed his own show. His character seemed forced and crammed into the Magnaverse. Higgins already provided enough comic relief. Gillis was such a loud mouth, not smooth and cool like Magnum.

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I just don't give a damn!

[N1095A]

At first I found Luther very annoying. The more I watched the Luther episodes, and grew to understand that Luther was annoying to TM the way TM was annoying to Higgins, the more I grew to like the character. I'm now sorry there weren't more Luther episodes. The expression "Stuff it Scrungo", is one I find myself throwing out there from time to time. Eugene Roche was great. RIP.

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"But Higgins, I can explain."

[MACattack]

Yeah, I found Luther to be annoying as well, but I guess he's ok. He did have some interesting one-liners with that Korean cop with a John Wayne complex in the episode "A.A.P.I."

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I just don't give a damn!

[Jay-Firestorm]

The second review of double review Friday. I quite like the character of Luther, but found the actual case rather dull.

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Magnum finds himself working on the same case as old-school St. Louis P.I., Luther H. Gillis, as they search for a runaway teenage girl. But can they get along for long enough to crack the case? An average story raised by some humorous moments…

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This review contains spoilers.

After the all-time classic 'Home From the Sea', anything was going to be a comedown, but I find this episode mixed at best.

It marks the first of a number of appearances of Eugene Roche as St. Louis private eye Luther H. Gillis. The character seems to split fans – some love him, some loathe him. Personally, I don't mind him too much, and found myself warming to him more in subsequent appearances.

Roche certainly puts in an amusing performance as Gillis, but I found the story itself rather dull and hard to really get into. Thankfully, it is saved from being a truly terrible episode by some amusing scenes and moments; Tom Selleck and Roche bounce well off of each other, and is no doubt the reason that Luther would be brought back so many times in the future.
Saying that, the story still sags in places, and winds up as average at best.

A shorter review than usual from me for this one, simply because I don't have much more to say about it. It is watchable, but hardly one of the greats of the season, or the series overall.

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Other bloopers, notes and misc.:

* After getting Rick and Higgins to always take messages from him, Magnum finally has his own answerphone from this episode onwards (though it’s hinted that he may have stolen it from Rick!). One early first season episode made mention of him having an answerphone, but it quickly disappeared.

* I’m terrible at identifying cars, but am I correct in that saying from the fourth season onwards, a later model Ferrari was used? (Or was it the fifth season? I’m sure they changed it at some point).

* The DVD version of this episode has all of the commercial breaks abridged.

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[Jay-Firestorm]

One thing I forgot to mention: When Five broadcast this episode in 2002, in the scene where Magnum and Luther are in the prison cells for the second time, they partly edited the scene of the other cell inmate trying to hang himself.

It suddenly cut from the inmate being on his bed, to around the floor with the sheet around his neck.

Given they they often edited hanging-related moments (and was possibly the reason they skipped the second season's 'Billy Joe Bob'), it's maybe surprising that they didn't edit the scene even more.

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JAY FIRESTORM

Facebook: Jay Gathergood / Twitter: Jay_Firestorm NEW BLOG: http://thea-teamcaptured.blogspot.com/

My A-Team site - http://thea-team.org aiming to be the most detailed A-Team site on the Net - if I ever get around to updating it!!

[Donuts ensucrats]

Amazing Luther wearing the beautiful orange hawaiian shirt!!

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Mare de Déu Senyor!!!!!!

[gmt16750]

i posted on youtube a bad video (first generation iphone recording...) of one of my favorite Higgins' quotes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdmutp8uoI

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Agatha: Why does he always do that, Jonathan?
Higgins: I don't know, Agatha. I think sometimes our creator is testing me. Indeed it could be for no other reason. If i thought otherwise i believe i truly would go irrevocably irretrievably mad!

[MACattack]

They should do a big screen movie about LUTHER GILLIS. Doubt anybody will go see it though!

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I just don't give a damn!