I liked that closing piece of narration so much that I ripped it off to use on one of my sports blogs as the closing line also.

It's here if anyone is interested : http://arsenalarsenal.wordpress.com/201 ... frenchman/

I feel like most that can be said about this episode already had been. I notice that there seems to be a major split in the ratings on-site for this one. I thought that as a castaway episode, it was just okay, as a poker episode, it was just okay, but altogether it was pretty good.
I didn't like the woman in this one, her character was annoying and undeveloped and the face that she wasn't willing to tell any details about herself was annoying. Some movies use that to their advantage, adding intrigue to a character. In this, I felt like it detracted from the 50 minute episode we were given.
As previously said, the closing minutes brought the episode up a notch, once again because of the conviction Selleck brings to his role. The mourning scene, which should have been so strong, was actually somewhat weak. The guys drinking was appropriate, the dialogue told me that they were very heartbroken over Magnum's "death," however, the scene didn't share that feeling of heartbroken-ness that they felt with me.

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This episode was allright, I guess. Not a "Blockbuster", but not terrible either. For some reason it just kind of bored me, and couldn't keep me interested. The woman who was the supposed spy was also not that believable. But, overall the episode was decent.

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I'm a little conflicted by this episode. It seems to lack an even tone. Bits are really quite brutal, even if its just implied, the island stuff is mostly light comedy; we then get some great ariel action and the ending turns poignant. Now such twists can be great, and MPI is good at them, but here they didn't quite string together.

I think possibly the problem might be Julie Sommars for me. I note that, despite being a major guest, she's barely been mentioned personally in the forum here. There is nothing actually wrong with her, but she doesn't project the air of mystery, intrigue or depth to really sell the ending, despite the great closing line. The grief of Higgins, TC and Rick over apparently losing Magnum seems to play weakly, too.

I liked the clever cut early on between the two uses of the word "wasted". The simple shot of Higgins and Magnum sharing a drink also struck me as really nice. And the script seemed to have been added to slightly, out on the boat, to allow for the overcast weather!

A solid episode, but one that for me seemed justy a little short of the sum of its parts. All the elements are there, but it didn't come together quite as strongly as I'd have liked.

I don't know........it seems mor to me that some writer came up with that line and they force fed it to a never-should've-been-romance. I mean, CMON. He figures out she is a spy and has been lying to him, and then we are supposed to believe he is falling for her when he doesn't even know who she really is, inside and out? It's a great line in a bad spot. Still a good episode, but as alluded to earlier by another poster in his review, it falls short of where it could have landed.

Btw, where did the sub go in all of this? What were they waiting for?

I liked the exchange at the hospital and it was done, but when they had Magnum run after her and the subsequent line.......it lost steam.

AWESOME point......just saw this one and they never sold it...........even though we knew he was alive and well, they did not portray that scene with conviction. I get it that the characters probably felt he wasn['t, but come on......try a little.

A pretty good episode. Not nearly as good as "Try to Remember" (where Lt. Tanaka really stole the show) or "Italian Ice" (it's a bloody gouge!!) but certainly better than "One More Summer".

No mention of Julie Sommars. I guess I like her because she was on MATLOCK as the assistant D.A. and I loved MATLOCK growing up. Not sure what I would think of her if I didn't have the MATLOCK background on her. But there's something about her voice (it has a certain "honeyed" sound to it) which I find very unique. Can't think of another actress that sounds quite like her.

The episode I think has a pretty strong start (with some vicious killings - 2 guys by knife and about a dozen live pigeons being shot as part of target practice by Jack Hogan... who needs skeet, eh?) and a pretty strong later section with the reveal that Jeannie's a spy and some fantastic aerials between the two copters!

Unfortunately much of the middle section is a bit on the dull side - with lots of annoying bickering between Magnum and Jeannie. Plus I didn't buy their romance at all. The very end where Magnum rushes out after her and looks like he's about to cry or something is just plain... weird!! There was absolutely nothing that we saw during the episode that would warrant that type of reaction from him. You'd think his true love Michelle Hue (from "Memories are Forever") just left him or something. I didn't buy it for a second! There was no time for their relationship to develop, they didn't have chemistry, and she lied to him every step of the way. So I have no clue what that was all about. Plus, didn't she look a bit too old for him? Julie Sommars IS older than Selleck.