Magnum P.I.

[godisawesome]

Finally got around to watching this show via my uncle’s Prime account.

The Higgins and Magnum thing is definitely the bigger selling point to the reboot. What can I say, I’m a sucker for a rough and tumble American man and more eloquent but still steely British woman romance.

 

[Dr.]

The season premier was okay. "Comfort food" TV.

 

[Dark Raven]

Good to have this series back. Who is the mysterious person in the white SUV?

What did Magnum really want to say to Higgins at the end while in the car? Is he jealous of the doctor?

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Good to have this series back. Who is the mysterious person in the white SUV?

What did Magnum really want to say to Higgins at the end while in the car? Is he jealous of the doctor?

The proverbial player to be named later. I wonder if the SUV was following Higgins or Magnum. We already had people trying to find the secret of the White Knight so I guess it is the Higgins ex spy turn.

It looks like they are going the Harm/Mac JAG route and for a few years Thomas and Juliet will have other love interest and pretend they are not jealous of the other. I am almost willing to bet that years from now when Hawaii 5-0 version 3.0 comes on there will be 60 something Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks making a cameo still playing the Thomas/Juliet will they or won't they like the JAG duo did with their NCIS Los Angeles appearance.

I did notice a time jump to an optimistic post COVID world. A quick mention by Flippa that business had not returned to Rick's bar was it. I have been worried about Taylor Wiley for a while as a retired sumo wrestler he wasn't in the best of shape and rarely stood on Magnum or Hawaii 5-0's last few years. And the Hawaii 5-0 crossover reoccurring characters. Kamekono, Neolani and Duke have been pulled rom the opening credits.

 

[Dark Raven]

The proverbial player to be named later. I wonder if the SUV was following Higgins or Magnum. We already had people trying to find the secret of the White Knight so I guess it is the Higgins ex spy turn.

It looks like they are going the Harm/Mac JAG route and for a few years Thomas and Juliet will have other love interest and pretend they are not jealous of the other. I am almost willing to bet that years from now when Hawaii 5-0 version 3.0 comes on there will be 60 something Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks making a cameo still playing the Thomas/Juliet will they or won't they like the JAG duo did with their NCIS Los Angeles appearance.

I did notice a time jump to an optimistic post COVID world. A quick mention by Flippa that business had not returned to Rick's bar was it. I have been worried about Taylor Wiley for a while as a retired sumo wrestler he wasn't in the best of shape and rarely stood on Magnum or Hawaii 5-0's last few years. And the Hawaii 5-0 crossover reoccurring characters. Kamekono, Neolani and Duke have been pulled rom the opening credits.

I hope they don't go the JAG route of NCIS LA. That's taking things a bit too far. I don't mind them having other love interests for a while, but it will get boring if nothing ever progresses.

I wasn't sure if it was a post-COVID world or whether they were trying to make out that it never was as serious as it has been, almost like an alternate reality. In some other shows (eg FBI) they briefly had masks in one scene the season premiere but then ditched it and now everyone's acting as if it's not even a thing. The only show I've really seen constantly making it a part of every episode is All Rise, but then it does also get tiring having to be reminded of real life.

What do you mean they've been pulled from the opening credits? As in not listed?

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

What do you mean they've been pulled from the opening credits? As in not listed?

Yes after Danial Dae Kim and Grace Park exited 5-0 they were all in the 5-0 and later the Magnum opening credits to make up for the lack of Asians if memory serves right.

But of course they have some Asian representation with Kumu who took many of the old Jonathan Quayle Higgins moments from the original show that he shared with Agatha, who has already been exiled to the mainland like many of the original show's reoccurring cast,

 

[Dark Raven]

Yes after Danial Dae Kim and Grace Park exited 5-0 they were all in the 5-0 and later the Magnum opening credits to make up for the lack of Asians if memory serves right.

But of course they have some Asian representation with Kumu who took many of the old Jonathan Quayle Higgins moments from the original show that he shared with Agatha, who has already been exiled to the mainland like many of the original show's reoccurring cast,

Oh, I wasn't sure what you were saying before. Kamekono, Neolani and Duke were in the Hawaii Five-0 opening credits but never in the Magnum opening credits. They appeared after the credits when the guest actors' names come up on screen while the episode is playing, but that's what I thought you meant - that they were even pulled from that and stuck at the end credits of the show.

They could always give Juliet a friend named Agatha. Does Juliet have a middle name?

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Good to have this series back. Who is the mysterious person in the white SUV?

What did Magnum really want to say to Higgins at the end while in the car? Is he jealous of the doctor?

I'm wondering if the white SUV is maybe tied to Peter Facinelli's Ivan, who we last saw escaping in Central America in S2.

 

[Dark Raven]

Another episode this week where Higgins is injured.

Who had hired them to retrieve that plane? I forget. Was the person more interested in the stowaway onboard or just the plane itself?

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Another episode this week where Higgins is injured.

Who had hired them to retrieve that plane? I forget. Was the person more interested in the stowaway onboard or just the plane itself?

It seemed like a legitimate leasing company, except they didn't give Higgins a warning about a drug cartel holding the plane
I was thinking that her new boyfriend must have an amazing plastic surgeon on call.

It felt like a McGarrett episode with Magnum playing Danny to me.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Die Hard in a building. Even if every clone has had a special operator going against the crroks a Marine a SEAL and a spy against 5 mercenaries just doesn't seem fair, even unarmed.

 

[Dark Raven]

I thought of Die Hard as well when I was watching.

It's funny to see Juliet playing vulnerable twice in the episode (the first when she pretends she has commitment issues and the 2nd when she said she did gymnastics as a child).

I would've liked to have seen the end of the fights though and not that Katsumoto and the rest of HPD rushed in to see the villains already defeated.

I thought this one could also have been a H50 episode as well. When I think back to the original Magnum series, they wouldn't really have had plots like this. It was less action-oriented and more offbeat.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

I can't recall Tom Selleck going hand to hand, except in one of the first episodes before changing to the permanent theme music. And as it was Thomas pulled his weapon and most likely blew off the head of a martial artist hitman off camera. I do remember after Starsky introduced two handed shooting in the 70s, Magnum almost a decade later was one of the last holdouts of one hand pistol shooting

 

[Dark Raven]

I was wondering: was that meant to be their Christmas episode since it was a take on Die Hard, even without any Christmas trees and decorations etc? I'm sure it was filmed a while ago anyway. I'm guessing there won't be any new episode this weekend.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

I was wondering: was that meant to be their Christmas episode since it was a take on Die Hard, even without any Christmas trees and decorations etc? I'm sure it was filmed a while ago anyway. I'm guessing there won't be any new episode this weekend.

They firmly planted themselves in a post COVID world. I doubt if we see any reference to a holiday or annual sporting event this season.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I do remember after Starsky introduced two handed shooting in the 70s...

That iconic freeze-frame in the S&H opening credits

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

That iconic freeze-frame in the S&H opening credits

They pulled that frame from a very special episode where Starsky shot a kid. Along with all the modern combat shooting that Starsky brought to TV was that he did not throw out "warning shots", except in that scene, which was used in his defense with Internal Affairs I am thinking that Paul Michael Glasser was in a low key war with the old TV writers and their go to plots.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

They firmly planted themselves in a post COVID world. I doubt if we see any reference to a holiday or annual sporting event this season.

The writer's room for the show said on Twitter that there weren't going to be any holiday-themed episodes this season due to all the uncertainty of filming and when episodes would actually be shown.

 

[Thome216]

Just FYI, the original Magnum is being played on Hallmark Movies and Mystery channel in the mornings.

 

[Dark Raven]

This was pretty much a Hawaii Five-0 episode this week apart from the Magnum-Higgins dynamic. Not all that eventful or interesting with the hurricane storyline.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

This was pretty much a Hawaii Five-0 episode this week apart from the Magnum-Higgins dynamic. Not all that eventful or interesting with the hurricane storyline.

Aside for the occasional Kumu B story I think most of them are private sector 5-0 with The McDanno substituted out for Juliet and Thomas. So far TC and Rick being the other legacy characters don't equal the rest of the 5-0 squad.

If you add in MacGyver reboot I think Magnum is most like the original, even though they have all but eliminated the Navy calling him back and made it impossible by retiring Buck Green. Along with the cops with Detective Katsumoto do a lot more than Lieutenant Tanaka every did.

 

[Dark Raven]

I knew it was the husband who kidnapped and killed the wife in this week's episode as soon as he was getting the ransom calls.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

I knew it was the husband who kidnapped and killed the wife in this week's episode as soon as he was getting the ransom calls.

Blowing off any proof of life was a dead give away.

 

[Dr.]

Renewed:

‘NCIS’ Renewed For Season 19 By CBS, Mark Harmon Expected To Return – Deadline

 

[Dark Raven]

Was the season finale of Magnum this week and Higgins left for Kenya with Ethan. I'm guessing she'll be back by the time it starts up again though.

Did they ever resolve this mystery of who was following Magnum earlier in the season? Because I don't recall them explaining it. And it was brought up in this episode.