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J.J. Walters
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: Little Girl Who (7.7) |
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This is the official MM thread for Little Girl Who (7.7). All discussions and reviews for this episode should go here. If you wish to rate the episode, please do so with the poll. The avg. score will be the official 'community rating', which will be used on the episode page (updated monthly).
This thread is also linked in the episode page of the Episode Guide.
Original Air Date: 11/5/1986
Magnum's fatherly instincts kick in when his ex-wife Michelle goes on the run and leaves him in charge of her little girl.
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| I like this episode so much I bid on and won a script of it on eBay. It wasn't autographed or anything, but I still treasure it. It is interesting to read, because it wasn't the final script that they filmed for broadcast. It was fun to see how it differed from the way the episode was actually filmed. For instance, Lily's name was Leah in this script incarnation. With all that aside, I think this episode shows Magnum's "softer side", when called upon to take care of Lily.
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| Wow, that's really cool SelleckLover. Any other major changes in the script vs. the final episode?
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I finally got around to viewing this episode recently on the Season Six DVD. What an episode! Simply one of the best MPI episodes of all-time. This watershed episode continues the "Michelle/Magnum" storyline and has a little bit of everything - great plot, good pacing, heavyweight recurring characters (Michelle, Buck, Maggie, etc.), apt narration, classic on-location settings (Valley of the Temples, Parke Chapel, Little Saigon) and a near perfect climax/ending! What an emotional ending, with Lily and Michelle walking away, across the bridge, at the Byodo-In Temple. The tears were flowing big time, let me tell you!
A couple of nice touches in this episode: Towards the end, when Magnum is leaning over Michelle, there is nice shot with the camera looking up at Magnum (from Michelle's point of view on the ground) and the sun is peaking out from behind TM's head. This exact same shot was seen in Memories Are Forever, only with the roles reversed (Michelle was looking down at Magnum). Then at the very end, as Magnum and Michelle are saying their goodbyes, there is a very effective long pause and then Michelle begins to walk away. After what seems like minutes, Magnum then finally asks the question we've waiting for him to ask the whole episode - Is Lily my daughter? Great stuff!
And I loved that bright yellow Eddie Robinson t-shirt T.C. was wearing. T.C played Tight End at Grambling. Nice touch!
Higgins said something that confused me, however. Maybe you guys can clarify it for me. Higgins said of Lily, "Yes, you can certainly see her mothers oriental heritage". Her mothers oriental heritage? Michelle is French is she not?! 
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| Right, but maybe she had an oriental mother/father?
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Viet Nam was at one time (prior to our war there) a French colonial nation.
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| Quote: | | Vietnam's independence ended in the mid-1800s, when the country was colonized by the French. The French administration imposed significant political and cultural changes on Vietnamese society. A Western-style system of modern education was developed, and Christianity was introduced into Vietnamese society. |
As a result of this, many Vietnamese spoke French as a second language.
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| Quote: | | The French language, a legacy of colonial rule, is still spoken by some older Vietnamese as a second language, but is losing its popularity. There are however some French-language newspapers in the country as Le courrier du Vietnam[2] and several French-language immersion programmes and French schools as the école française Colette[3] in Ho Chi Minh City. |
When you consider that Michelle is Thomas Magnum's contemporary, and would have been born in the fifties (or perhaps the late 40's), it seems perfectly reasonable to suppose that at the time there were more than a few people of mixed Vietnamese and French background. This is what I have always taken Michelle to be. The Wikipedia article says that the French language is not spoken so much nowadays, but in Michelle's youth it would've probably been the second language of the privileged and even the middle classes.
Rather than being an anomaly, her character fits extremely accurately within the Vietnamese culture. As far as I'm concerned, her character added one more chink to the solidity of Magnum PI's portrait of Vietnam.
There's a lot of things that we who love MPI can chuckle over, but the way that this show handled all things pertaining to Viet Nam is anything but cheesy or campy.
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I mean, sheesh, how many shows would kill to just be around for a couple of years, and here's 
