Season 5 Episode 15: The Retrieval (5.15)
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 2:02 pm
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Good episode. Jin as always is amusing.
Hi Dobie,Luther's nephew Dobie wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:12 amGood episode. Jin as always is amusing.
Today's world of online gaming would be something completely foreign to the world of Classic Magnum over 40 years ago.
40 years! I remember like it was yesterday the moment Magnum shot Ivan, first the shock of it then the wonder of how CBS let the hero of an important series
smoke a bad guy in cold blood. Anyone who ever thought Thomas Magnum was just a partying beach bum in a cool car hasn't a clue, this is a man who, once
determining you were a mortal threat to his people or his country, will calmly and with calculation remove the threat permanently, then continue on his way.
Higgins and Thomas recognize that in each other, part of their mutual bond and shared burden.
Jay's Thomas Magnum is missing that aspect, the heart of darkness and the unhappiness. Ditto for Perdita's Juliet Higgins. To me, that's what the reboot didn't
understand about the original series. They should have watched "Way of the Stalking Horse" a few times first, everything the series is and who the characters
are is laid out in that. For that reason, to me, it is the most important episode, it brutally strips Thomas down to his essence, despair and all.
And clearly marks TC as the best of all of them, the first to start leaving behind the demons the boys came to Hawaii to shed, Higgins included.
KENJI wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:50 pmHi Dobie,Luther's nephew Dobie wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:12 amGood episode. Jin as always is amusing.
Today's world of online gaming would be something completely foreign to the world of Classic Magnum over 40 years ago.
40 years! I remember like it was yesterday the moment Magnum shot Ivan, first the shock of it then the wonder of how CBS let the hero of an important series
smoke a bad guy in cold blood. Anyone who ever thought Thomas Magnum was just a partying beach bum in a cool car hasn't a clue, this is a man who, once
determining you were a mortal threat to his people or his country, will calmly and with calculation remove the threat permanently, then continue on his way.
Higgins and Thomas recognize that in each other, part of their mutual bond and shared burden.
Jay's Thomas Magnum is missing that aspect, the heart of darkness and the unhappiness. Ditto for Perdita's Juliet Higgins. To me, that's what the reboot didn't
understand about the original series. They should have watched "Way of the Stalking Horse" a few times first, everything the series is and who the characters
are is laid out in that. For that reason, to me, it is the most important episode, it brutally strips Thomas down to his essence, despair and all.
And clearly marks TC as the best of all of them, the first to start leaving behind the demons the boys came to Hawaii to shed, Higgins included.
I can only take Jin in really small doses and this episode was an overdose for me.
I agree with you partly in regards to your heart of darkness etc. comment. We do get a glimpse of it with Juliet when she is after the guy who killed Richard. The switch was flipped and she was definitely another person. She even comments to Magnum about....you don't know what I'm capable of....something to that extent.....I'll try and find the exact quote. I wish the writers let that switch get flipped a few more times with her character. I would like to see Magnum's switch get flipped at least once....say in the final episode to add some shock value, but they seem to want to keep his character more on the side of good. Again, they've run out of time, but they could've had a storyline with Magnum struggling with recurring nightmares from the past and Higgins witnesses them while sleeping together. Lots of storyline to work with there. Another thought they could've just had Juliet with the damaged wiring and Thomas slowing bringing her back from the dark side. Oh well, maybe that will happen with the next Magnum reboot