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Poll: Is Higgins Robin Masters? Why or Why Not?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:14 am
by IslandHopper
Is Higgins really Robin Masters? Did Higgins hire an actor to portray Robin so he could remain anonymous? Or, Is Higgins really the caretaker of the estate owned by Robin Masters? Please place your vote in the poll, and give your reasons why you believe Higgins is either Robin Masters, or just the Jonathan Quayle Higgins we all have come to know. We have discussed this at various places on the forum, but I thought this is such a popular subject it deserved its own thread.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:59 am
by Coops
Yes. Everyone has a 'dark side' and I think JQH channeled his through his nom de plume, 'Robin Masters'.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:09 am
by Coops
One other thing that convinces me JQH was RM: Higgins' love of telling stories whether anyone wanted to hear them or not. A typewriter doesn't talk back and doesn't walk away.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:30 pm
by Carmen
No, he isn`t, he tried to quit in J.Digger Doyle, there would be no reson for such a thing when he`d be Robin Masters.
Maybe he was a kind of a ghostwriter later.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 3:13 pm
by lutherhgillis
Due to continuity problems, Higgins could not be the real owner of the estate and the author of the romance novels. It would have been fun to think that he was however.
It would be the perfect cover. Be a Major Domo at your own estate and write "cheap pulp" while no one suspects. Hire some other dude to make all of your public appearances and generally behave like a rich novelist.
I do believe that Higgins played a large role in Robin Masters' success however. Long live JQH!
Luther
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 3:16 pm
by Steve
I say "NO". It was an interesting sub-plot to the series for the last few seasons but just doesn't hold water watching the entire 8 seasons. I take Higgins for his actual words "I lied" in Resolutions and not having the meaning he lied about his entire existence. The Higgins/Magnum relationship over the years was one of the best parts of the series for me, and I think if JQH was indeed Robin Masters, Magnum would have been gone from the Estate in season one......Just my opinion.........
Steve
Chicago
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 3:44 pm
by MPS
While watching each season, I kept waiting for something definite that would prove Higgins was Robin. Much as I was hoping Higgins was RM, it just doesn't work, when considering all eight years; too many inconsistencies in the plot.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:03 pm
by IKnowWhatYoureThinking
I agree with you MPS. There are just too many things over the course of eight seasons that lead me to believe no.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:54 pm
by maveriks
I believe that Higgins is the caretaker of the Robin's Nest.
I write so because any times Higgins speack with Robin with phone and next Magnum speack with Robin in the same time
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:29 pm
by Doc Ibold
I don't think Higgins was Robin either.
I'm sure they were planning on doing some big "reveal" w/ Orson Welles as Robin,but he passed before they could do it.
Since they were pretty much up a creek w/o a paddle, I think they threw in the "Higgins is Robin" thing at the very end.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:57 pm
by J.J. Walters
As much as I would like to see Higgins be Robin, the evidence just doesn't fit. As others have pointed out before, two episodes shatter this idea - "J. Digger Doyle" and "Birdman of Budapest".
IslandHopper wrote:the bad guys were trying to steal Robin's tapes of his newest novel. Robin even came to Hawaii and was picked up by TC in his chopper in order to retrieve his tapes from Magnum. If Higgins was Robin Masters, wouldn't he have known where the tapes were? Magnum said that Robin had given him the tapes for safe keeping. Why would Higgins have gone through this elaborate charade of the tapes kept in Magnum's guest house if he was really Robin, especially considering that there were bad guys willing to kidnap and kill in order to get the tapes. Would Higgins have willingly endangered Magnum, TC, Rick and himself and exposed them to automatic weapons and possible death merely to perpetuate this charade? I don't think so.
IslandHopper wrote:Robin's former teacher was coming for a visit. If Higgins was Robin, he would have known right off that she was an imposter. I don't think that Higgins would have gone through this charade either, especially considering that the woman, who was not Robin's teacher, but a Soviet agent trying to kill the birdman. Again, this involved possible death to TC, Magnum, and Higgins, which I'm sure Higgins would not have allowed to happen.
If it wasn't for these two episodes I could totally buy in to the idea that Higgins has hired some guy to go around pretending to be "Robin Masters" for twenty plus years.
I still like to think that Higgins did some uncredited ghost writing work for Robin over the years.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:17 am
by 308GTS
Yeah, I agree with James, it's a nice idea but Higgie was not Robin.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:30 am
by N1095A
I know all the proof otherwise, but I say yes for the simple reason that once in an interview TS said he believed he was.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:24 am
by MagnumPI_Cat
I believe that Higgins
is RM because Magnum does.
There. I said it.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:56 pm
by foggydayz
If the movie ever comes out (with different cast and is presumably bad) I hope they DO NOT try to answer this question once and for all.
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