You are correct. He would get a bad scrape from the action of the semi-auto is he had fired it. I wonder if he held the gun this way entirely or if the screen capture took place while he was in the process of getting a good grip on the pistol?
BTW, the picture is not Valerie Cane from Thespian. The gap between the fron teeth is nowhere near large enough...
Years of extensive knowledge, semi-obsessive behavior, and cutting off our pinkies all make us this powerful!
(Actually, its the very friendly forumites here who are more than pleased to share their knowledge to whomever asks!).
The best part is that even if the question has been asked numerous times before (I've given up SEARCHING for the threads), it will invariably end up taking us to a tangent that HASN'T been discussed before.
Back to discussing this episode... I did not love this one. It seemed like all of the writers were hung over and they realized they needed to put in another script at the last minute. This one could have been written in just a few minutes...
Who's Dot Matrix, and what has she got to do with this?
I agree Luther. Plus, you'd think that eventually Jim/Mac would go to jail for some of his transgressions. At least they didn't give us a metaphor and have Magnum make lemonade at the end.
A new week, a new batch of reviews. This has to be one of the daftest entries of the entire series, but I have to say, I don’t completely dislike it.
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Mac (mk. II) has landed in trouble with the Japanese Yakuza, and to get the money he needs, he tricks Rick into buying a stolen sailboat, complete with three geishas – landing Rick in trouble with both the Yakuza, and Ice Pick. A very silly, but watchable ep…
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This review contains mild spoilers.
I know that a lot of people don’t like this episode. But, while it is far from being a favourite of mine, I personally can bear it – it is a very silly story, and doesn’t take itself at all seriously.
The episode is penned by J. Miyoko Hensley and Steven Hensley, their second of only two works on the show – the other being the third season episode ‘The Arrow that is Not Aimed’. The pair obviously have a love from all things Japanese, as both that episode and this one feature Japanese elements. (And yes, Miyoko does sound a Japanese name, which probably does have something to do with it).
It is good to see Mac, mark II, otherwise known as Jim Bonnick (amongst other names) to get a lot of screen time in this one. I love how the original Mac was always being conned himself, but this second incarnation of Mac instead spends his time conning everyone else!
One element I really like is Magnum, travelling from airport to airport trying to track down Mac – each airport is clearly the same set, just with a different poster on the wall, changing with each city visited. It is tongue-in-cheek things like this that made the series so fun. I haven’t a clue what all the lemons were about though!
The story is a fun one (although it doesn’t seem to completely make sense in places), and the climatic scene, with the brawl on the stolen sailboat, complete with Magnum lobbing lemons at a brute brandishing a meat cleaver, sums up how delightfully daft this instalment is.
In a way, this episode falls into the “so-bad-its-good” category, but as I say, I personally find it quite bearable. Although it is a long way from being one of the shows finest hours, I can personally think of far worse in the MPI barrel.
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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:
* I don’t think this is really a flub, but something that did stand out to me. When Rick first meets Mac in this story, Rick is wearing a red and white striped polo shirt. Then in the very next scene on the sailboat, Rick is suddenly in a same design shirt, but now the stripes are green and white. Mac has changed too, but I assumed he had clothes with him or on the boat. I assumed one scene followed on from the other, but maybe the second scene was actually supposed to take place a little later?
* The DVD version of this episode has all of the act breaks abridged.
* As I said with ‘All For One’, I can’t find my off-air recordings of when Five broadcast this episode in 2002 at the moment, so I can’t compare. But I’m pretty certain that the knife-cautious Five would have removed some of the shots of the meat cleaver.
Ok, I wanted to inquire as to if anyone thinks this may be a flub, but this more of a "what the heck is that" sort of flub.
The moment after Kanki's newphew fires 2 shots at the chopper Mac used to take the girls away from the estate (about 40+ minutes in. The scene shifts to the outside of the estate (Higgins, Rich and TC are tied up) where you here Higgins say:
"I have never seen such a craven display of cowardice in my entire life"
You will notice on the far right you can see a white door opening, and a person gets out and closes the door. Who is that? And why is that person not saving the others? Stage crew person perhaps?
Clearly this episode is ridculous. After a long day at work though, it's a great stress reliever because of the absurdity...
Alarming that Higgins feels comfortable to walk in on TM in the shower (even though he walks in on one of the girls... Or maybe he knew it was one of the girls?)
Bowls of lemons are dangerous.
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