K Hale wrote:If you ask me -- and nobody did -- here's what they should have done if they wanted to make another Magnum show for the modern era. Make it a sequel, not a reboot.
1. Make it about Lily. She's come back to Hawaii and is struggling to fill her father's shoes as a private investigator. This way, Selleck can do cameos since he would be playing Magnum.
2. Use Perdita Weeks (since y'all tell me she's the only one who can act) as Juliet Higgins, but make her a relative of Higgins, perhaps a niece. She's inherited the estate from Robin/Higgins/however you want to arrange it. Higgins would not be in the show but would be present in the dialogue/script.
3. For extra points, make one of them (but only one) gay.
4. Cast two guys in supporting roles, but do not call them Rick and TC.
5. Make one of the guys Hawaiian (PLEASE!)
6. Make one of the guys 10-15 years older than the other three characters. This could be the Hawaiian guy or the other one.
I would watch the hell out of this show. The reboot mess? Forget it.
Exactly.
1. Make it about Lily. She's come back to Hawaii and is struggling to fill her father's shoes as a private investigator. This way, Selleck can do cameos since he would be playing Magnum.
And that was laid out on these boards in a few different ways, ways in which they could have tied things together to keep everyone somewhat happy. Sure, Eva Longoria didn't get it when she wanted to make Lily a "kick ass action hero" or somesuch, but . . .
2. Use Perdita Weeks (since y'all tell me she's the only one who can act) as Juliet Higgins, but make her a relative of Higgins, perhaps a niece. She's inherited the estate from Robin/Higgins/however you want to arrange it. Higgins would not be in the show but would be present in the dialogue/script.
Absolutely. Also make it a mother/daughter situation similar to Thomas/Higgins since Michelle died when she was young and Thomas raised her far from family while he did the best he could, there's a missing thing there.
3. For extra points, make one of them (but
only one) gay.
Seems a bit pandery to me like "hey we need a (fill in the minority/under represented demographic) to even things out" but whatever. Just write good, interesting characters
4. Cast two guys in supporting roles, but do
not call them Rick and TC.
T.C.'s son and daughter fit this bill perfectly.
5. Make one of the guys Hawaiian (PLEASE!)
Bring in a kid of Keoki or Kenji
6. Make one of the guys 10-15 years older than the other three characters. This could be the Hawaiian guy or the other one.
Maybe do something with Kenji himself, read Doc's side stories. Pretty cool view of the show from a different angle.
K Hale wrote:giant_albatross wrote:The original Magnum had lots of gratuitous violence, car crashes, and sex.
Not at all.
The only gratuitous violence I can recall is that guy throwing "Legs" off the lighthouse. All other violence in the show was necessary to the plot. Nor was the violence always all that violent — sometimes someone would be shot and killed but there’d be no blood!
There were some car crashes, but very few over 162 episodes.
I recall two sex scenes, one in Memories are Forever and one in Echoes of the Mind. Both were discreet and carefully placed in the context of romantic love. Unless you count sex as Magnum taking his shirt off or a girl in a bikini appearing?
Agreed, it was the anti-A-Team if anything.