Pahonu wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:18 am
I just checked my DVR recordings set for Hawaii Five-O on MeTV+. They go from the two-parter A Lion in the Streets today and tomorrow, to Woe to Wo Fat on Monday and the pilot Full Fathom Five on Tuesday. So season twelve is just the first and last episodes. Sorry Dobie and anyone else looking to see the whole series.
This really stinks. I was so looking forward to seeing the William Smith episodes. MeTV Plus seemingly was run by TV aficionados, then they pull this garbage.
Wouldn't common sense dictate running all the episodes available so the viewer doesn't eventually become bored by too many repeat showings in a given time?
Yesterday they ran "The Skyline Killer" Season 11 Episode 20.
This series always had great character actors and this one features the always good Charles Cioffi as a sleazy author and a young Rita "Mrs. Tom Hanks" Wilson as his daughter
targeted by a serial killer.
I recall reading somewhere on this thread that the cast/crew assumed this was the last episode of the series, so with that in mind it seemed to me the cast seemed
downcast. The stunt work was terrific though, breathtaking even.
At the end a lone McGarrett waits for the killer in the next victims room.
The killer easily escapes thru a window and Steve has to call for backup from blocks away.
It made no sense tactically, no doubt in previous seasons real life retired cop Kam Fong (Chin Ho Kelly) would have pointed out how ludicrous it was not having more men on scene
in and around the apartment.
Steve: " Book him Danno, book him."
Danno's last word's on the series: "Sure will, Steve".
I paused it there and James McArthur is definitely teary eyed and sad.
In the end scene there's a lingering shot of Steve high up on the scaffolding of a building, gazing down over the city and on to the far mountains.
It nicely bookends the classic opening of every episode with Steve towering over the city on top of a high rise.
This was definitely composed as a classic farewell shot, with music soaring for the final closeup, nothing but mountains and blue sky behind Steve
as he gazes off into the distance, a one man Mount Rushmore.
But then the series got the unexpected renewal.
A little research revealed -
The two part misfire "Year of the Horse" was filmed before the first 20 episodes and was tacked on as episode 21, but for practical purposes episode 20
was the "last" episode, in the minds of the cast and crew at least before the surprise renewal.