I didn’t have high hopes for this episode, but was pleasantly surprised. It was more true to form to the original Magnum, with a derpy run of the mill case leads him into a more important case involving helping someone who needed real help. Plus Carl Weathers wearing a VM 02 Danang hat was a nice Ea...

Hi Reef Monkey. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I don't claim to be the world's foremost historian, and I'm not here to argue. I think my point is true; maybe I chose a bad example, but the Civil War monument topplings I see have nothing to do with restoring history. Either way, I trust that you k...

I think it's supposed to represent "male bonding", that they bicker like brothers because they are so close and care for each other. The problem is, it comes across more as "bro culture", perpetuates an unhealthy idea that men should bust each others' balls to show their affection for each other ins...

Of course even back in the 70s Joni Mitchell was talking about Hawaii when she sang “they paved paradise and put in a parking lot “ in Big Yellow Taxi. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20

Not only was Jack Lord's Steve McGarrett Ex-Navy, he was Naval Intelligence(ONI). Right, I get that, practically everyone of that generation had served in the military, but the original McGarrett didn’t go from active duty Navy one day to being given the leadership of a civilian police force despit...

Applying 2018 ‘standards’ to the 1980s is a fool’s errand IMHO. Applying today's standards to any point in history is a fool's errand, yet that is exactly what a large segment of the population is doing. The results of this exercise are things like the toppling of Civil War monuments -- people tryi...

Lenkov will make the mystery woman a CIA agent or some kind of spy. That's the only thing he knows how to write. Steve's girlfriend Catherine left him for the CIA, his mother is CIA, and on tonight's premiere there's going to be an old girlfriend of Steve's who's also a CIA agent. Lori Weston start...

It's going to be really hard to pull off the idea that Magnum had a romance, let alone married, a local woman he met in Afghanistan, given the very strict muslim culture there that would have precluded her marrying a nonmuslim, even if he had been able to get to know one, which was pretty unlikely g...

Yeah, I think that's me. My wife said you never know, a lot of times the pilot is shaky but it gets better, but I think I may just forget to watch it again instead of actively avoiding it, because it didn't give me a lot of reason to watch it. And it's on Monday nights, not a big TV watching night f...

That's funny, Paddy, I'm the same way about current TV, and I watch the same two shows (though both feel like they've run their course to me and I doubt I'll watch them this season). Also agree about the pacing, everything being over the top, and I thought Magnum being beaten up but left alive when ...

On the grooming issue, since this is not the first time I've seen someone talk about it, I think they have all been honorably discharged from service, so they can grow their facial hair however they want. They are only wearing their uniforms because they are attending a funeral for a veteran presuma...

I would like to ask - respectfully, out of curiosity, not trying to challenge - Magnum ILWU a question: This week you said: It was not bad! If all you are going to do is compare to the 80's series, than there is no need to watch it, or nitpick every little thing! This is a new show, not the old one,...

I was never too much of a racer, my school’s team wasn’t super competitive, more a club that attended about 4-6 regattas a year, and three at least twice as many parties. I was just on it for access to the boats and the social aspect. So I won’t miss not having a fleet to race with. Chasing other sa...

I got a JY 15 back in February 2017 to teach my daughter, who is now 11, how to sail. One day I'd like something bigger, but we're somewhat constrained by the waters we sail in, West Bay, part of Galveston Bay, is really shallow. I hadn't sailed since college, but it really comes back to you fast, t...

One of the things that always impressed me about the show was the easy relationship between Thomas and T.C. It was obvious T.C. was his closest friend, he was there to help Thomas during the most important times, but they never made a big thing out of T.C. being black. He was just T.C., and Thomas ...