Steve wrote:I thought the Magnum episode was better than the H-50 episode but that is mainly because I think H-50 has too many main characters now, and that is with Scott Caan only appearing in about 1/3 of the shows .......There were just too many plot holes in both episodes for me to rate either very high and in my opinion if CBS wants to do a crossover in the future they should make a two hour episode with just Steve and Thomas, two ex "team" members that seem to have legendary pasts.......
Steve,
I want Hawaii 5-0 to be good but this "part 1" brought back to me why I stopped watching.
Instead of good writing, Lenkov as always substitutes his trademark awkward, inept, unending exposition by the characters. Looking at the actors you can tell they
aren't thrilled with doing that either, it's a dramatic 'cheat'.
Dumb stuff:
McGarrett meets two complete strangers, Higgins and Magnum, and invites them into a murder investigation!
The two 5-0 female cops are wearing 6 inch heals - apparently stolen from Scott Caan's wardrobe - which would render them unsteady if not unfit in a brawl.
Higgins barely has time to say hello and reveals she was MI6!
Not in a million years would that happen. For that matter, with TM's background she would have been a tad suspicious from the day of his hire that he was placed
there to observe her actions, even if it was supposedly Robin who had shared her background with TM. These people don't blab to outsiders, after all how many people
knew David Niven and Cary Grant performed still unspecified services for MI6 in America before we entered the war in late 1941?
Another dumb Lenkov move has the CIA using police powers to raid 5-0 HQ and round up it's members. When our heroes are about to raid a house, the CIA arrives and
takes over - "CIA just pulled jurisdiction."
Only the CIA has no jurisdiction to operate in the USA, no police powers. It's in their charter, at J. Edgar Hoover's insistence.
In Classic Magnum (the one about Rick's bud Waldo?) Higgins observes that as well, that the CIA has no authority to operate in America.
As regards "part 2", the Magnum half of this story, it is generally better. The two guesting female 5-0 cops are Nubile City(of course, on a Lenkov series) and unlike
their male 5-0 partners can actually act. They mixed well with the Magnum cast, you can easily see them migrating to MPI once the very tired 5-0 buys the farm.
I could put up with the above negatives but someone has once again taken a rusty garden shears to Perdita's hair! That is bloody outrageous!
Hopefully Larry Manetti while guesting as Nicky De Marco on Five-0 gave Scott Cann one of his old pairs of "lifts" from Larry's days on classic Magnum PI. 
