One of my favorite...no scratch that...my favorite TV drama as a kid was Hawaii 5-0. Steve McGarrett, Danno, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono (the big guy) and even Al Harrington were solid people with good hearts, guts and no crazy skeletons in their closets. Sunday nights I looked forward to a taste of island life and cool cops who always got the bad guys. Life was great!
So it was with great anticipation that I waited for the new 5-0 to come out. At first the characters seemed pretty legit. Kono looks better as a skinny girl and I think the new Danno expresses himself with more eloquence than the old Danno. Chin Ho is cool, someone you'd want to hang out with. No body to dislike really, but something's missing. Oh yeah, legitimate scripts. I missed a few episodes and now I'm totally screwed up on the spaghetti-like twists and turns and side plots where everyone in the cast has some deep secret that gets thrown into every-freakin' episode. I mean, come on! Whatever happened to just simple-to-follow and compelling plots? Jack Lords must be rolling over in his grave.
So my two favorite Hawaii-based TV shows are:
1. The original Hawaii 5-0
2. Magnum PI (Seriously, everyone wished they were Tom Selleck back then).
The new 5-0 is quickly dropping off my radar, sorry Danno!
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