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Hawaii Five-0

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2010 07:56 AM

Worth a shot or no? I don't remember much from the original version so I don't have any goofy emotional ties to it. I recall the theme music of course and the huge wave during the opening credits. But I think it must have been on right after something I usually watched and became one of those shows where I watched the opening but only occasionally the show itself. I also remember it being kind of a big deal when my Hawaii living cousins told me about seeing an episode being filmed. Anyway, the new version gets a kick off at 10 tonight and has gotten decent to good reviews. I rarely pick out more than one new show to try out in a given season so I may start by giving this one a try.

Edgy DC Sep 20 2010 08:12 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

The track record of updates of old shows isn't strong. The New Leave It to Beaver bombed. What's Happenin' Now bombed. The Brady Brides bombed. The Bradys bombed. The New Love Boat bombed. The New Fantasy Island bombed. Melrose Place II bombed. But Battlestar Gallactica killed, so...

Benjamin Grimm Sep 20 2010 08:45 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

It seems to be getting a good buzz as a fun action show. I'll give it a try. I've already signed on for Boardwalk Empire and will be watching No Ordinary Family, mainly because it sounds like it's based on the Fantastic Four (although that may not be strictly true.)

dgwphotography Sep 20 2010 08:47 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the update that all other updates should be measured against, IMO. Speaking of which, Here's a Star Trek First Contact intro using the Five-0 theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI2Ljtk-sLY

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 20 2010 09:26 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

I'll probably end up watching at least an episode or two of this, as the cable-less aren't so picky as the encabled. But I'm about as excited to see it as I am to find out what family secret is haunting Mark Harmon on whatever titled-with-initials cop procedural he's inhabiting these days. (I've mentally "signed on" for "Treme," "Boardwalk Empire," and the dark-as-night comedy from Louis C.K., "Louie"... but the last one is the only one of which I've seen an episode.)

Benjamin Grimm Sep 20 2010 09:40 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Treme's first season ended about four months ago. I'm sure HBO will rerun it again in the run-up to the second season premiere.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 20 2010 09:42 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

We just finished season 4 of Dexter on dvd last nite. Though I felt it came very close on several occasions of jumping the shark, it gave me the creeps as much as any season so far, so bully to those sickos. They shot all the exteriors of Boardwalk Empire just around the corner from me, though they were kinda shitty and stacked up boxcars all around so we couldn't see what they'd built. Don't have HBO or Showtime so I guess we won;t see that stuff for awhile. The only chef without big asshole tendencies won Top Chef for the first time.

soupcan Sep 22 2010 07:55 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

I watched Hawaii Five-O. I chose against my better judgment to believe the hype and give it a shot. When was the last time a network cop drama was any good? NYPD Blue? Anyway H5-O was - as expected - nothing special. Same old, same old, not worth your time. Bad acting (save for Scott Cann who I like), bad writing.

metsmarathon Sep 22 2010 08:16 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

i liked the premiere of the event. i mean, the title music is trying a little too hard to be exciting and all, and it kills me every time a black suv chases down a jetliner taking off on a runway (one tops out at 110 mph. the other has big honkin' jet engines. there's really no race), not to mention the awful animation of the jet plane taking off, but on the whole, the show was interesting, well paced, and mysterious. i feel like there were a lot of actors playing roles i've seen them in a hundred times before, but i don't know if that's good or bad. maybe the casting is just that good that it seems like i've seen these people playing the same parts. if anyone saw it, i was starting to get all annoyed by the gusts of wind blowing around preceding the plane, like, ok, the wash from the engines would not be in front of the damned plane, but then it made sense at the end. lots of questions. many probably have predictable answers. and of course, the us military is up to shady, shady things. we're always doing shit like that.

Edgy DC Sep 22 2010 08:24 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

I saw David Caruso in an SUV overtake a private plane taking off last week. I was dubious. The pilot just pulled over remorsefully and impotently.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 22 2010 08:55 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

soupcan wrote: I watched Hawaii Five-O. I chose against my better judgment to believe the hype and give it a shot. When was the last time a network cop drama was any good? NYPD Blue? Anyway H5-O was - as expected - nothing special. Same old, same old, not worth your time. Bad acting (save for Scott Cann who I like), bad writing. It was stupid. It was sorta fun. Having someone who's better at establishing characters handling the head writing/showrunning would close to double the enjoyment factor; so would have making the leads' initial dislike for each other more genuine (and/or lasting-- as cliche as the "48 Hours" dynamic is, it works). Half the fun with a procedural like this-- the successful ones, anyway-- is the lead character relationship/interactions. The leads' "tension" and character development for virtually the entirety of the hour was all "told," rather than "shown;" it's a shame, because guys like Caan and the guy from "Lost" can handle subtler stuff.

metirish Sep 22 2010 09:29 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Raising Hope on FOX looked OK last night....

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 22 2010 09:40 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

How'd the one with Will Arnett and the "Arrested" pedigree look?

Frayed Knot Sep 22 2010 11:13 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

It (back to H-50) was packed with incredibly implausible nonsense but probably no more than usual as far as living in TV land goes. - from the speed and haphazard manner in which this governor invented task force was assembled, - to the over-the-top action sequences: Choose either the multiple gun fights per day or the skinny surfer chick kicking the shit out of two bodyguards ... in her underwear of course, - to the quickness in which they nailed some renown int'l criminal: "you can't touch get to him, he's too deep underground" -- "Wait, I know a guy who can help" ... and ten minutes and a $40 bribe later they're in. Obviously reality need to get blown to bits in deference to fitting things into a one hour time frame, but hopefully things get at least a little bit more realistic now that they've established the characters and such. If not I don't think I'll hang with it.

Fman99 Sep 22 2010 08:13 PM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Pass. I'll stick to the crying obesity of "The Biggest Loser," which I prefer to watch while eating corn chips and drinking stinking gin.

soupcan Sep 23 2010 07:36 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

metirish wrote: Raising Hope on FOX looked OK last night.... Yup. I thought that was really funny and I'll watch that one. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: How'd the one with Will Arnett and the "Arrested" pedigree look? Ugh. That was horrible. Too bad too because I think Will Arnett is great, but even he couldn't do anything with this. The guy that played his rival/friend/neighbor was funny but other than that this show was really bad and unfunny.

Kong76 Sep 23 2010 07:18 PM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Couldn't find a tv thread for 4-5 pages back so ... Big Bang Theory and $#*!MyDadSays were pretty funny tonight. I don't know how far they can take Shatner's cantankerous character without it getting quickly played out but he was funny tonight.

metsmarathon Sep 27 2010 09:08 PM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Holy cow, the event has some terrible visual effects. I mean, the plane crashing scenes looked no better than airplane!

metirish Sep 28 2010 09:25 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

metsmarathon wrote: Holy cow, the event has some terrible visual effects. I mean, the plane crashing scenes looked no better than airplane! Oh yes, it looked just weird and really stuck out didn't it?, the show itself has some promise and I'll give it a few more episodes. Blue Bloods on CBS was OK, Tom Selleck is the NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan , all the Irish American cliches are ticked here.... The whole family is in law enforcement , going back generations...big Sunday dinners at the family home, lots of shouting and drinking. Selleck - strong and silent , innner demons Len Cariou plays Franks father , he was in the NYPD and by all accounts never got the top job because he has a big mouth.... - says what's on his mind even when he shouldn't... Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan , he's the bad cop.....bends the law.....just got back from Iraq, one assumes he wasn't there on vacation.. Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan is the Asst. D.A......of course she is.....she and Danny have their conflicts....he bends the rules that's why Will Estes as Jamie Reagan is the baby of the family and just graduated to "the uniform" , wnet to Harvard but the NYPD was his calling...."it's in the blood I guess". Token black guy plays token black guy as Danny's partner. You can tell how the hsow will play out , there will be a crime to solve weekly , only becasue they have to I guess, they are cops after all.....the real drama is the family itself...

HahnSolo Sep 28 2010 09:37 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

You had me at Bridget Moynahan. And the Event sucks. Don't get caught up in the mystery only to be disappointed when cancellation inevitably comes calling.

Willets Point Sep 28 2010 09:44 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

Does Tom Selleck have Irish ancestry? People used to say that my Dad looked like Selleck so maybe so.

MFS62 Sep 28 2010 09:57 AM Re: Hawaii Five-0

I'm holding my breath for the season-ending episode of The Glades. Will they or won't they? If you haven't been following the budding romance between the two main characters, its complex. And if you have been following, "its complex". Later