Well here comes a late answer. I simply agree on every single point just about.marlboro wrote:Random bits I liked:
"Oh, forget it. That's a stupid story."
Rick checking out his bride's bountiful, heaving...bouquet:
The punchline to the great barroom brawl - the fact that the tough guy was talking about exotic dancer named Cleo on stage and not Rick's girlfriend.
Lads in Tuxes!
A few serious problems I had with the finale:
05. Rick marrying Cleo -My two cents: They missed a great opportunity by not having Father Paddy officiate the wedding.Doc Ibold wrote: Lets have Rick marry some peripheral character that nobody really has embraced due to her lack of time on the show. Hmmm. Who to pick. Oh wait, who was the prostitute in those two episodes? No, not the one who starred in them! the OTHER one. Yeah! that's the ticket, lets have Rick shack up with her!"
04. Quang Ki/Michelle - I don't think Magnum would have rested until he had avenged Michell's murder.
03. Linda Lee Ellison's stalker plot - Just seemed like filler. It wasn't really very interesting and didn't have anything to do with the series as a whole.
02. Magnum reupping:
"What I guess I hadn't considered was that feeling of claustrophobia. Not the kind you get in elevators and airplanes, and small places, but the kind I felt in high school, the IRS office, and sometimes with Higgins. Those situations where other people were making my rules, where I had absolutely no control."
- Magnum in A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken.
I just do not see Magnum ever reenlisting. I know that the last two seasons were about him maturing, but repeating the mistakes of youth isn't a sign of maturity - it's a sign of foolishness. Would Magnum ever put himself in a situation again where he would have to take orders from a man like Buck Green?
01. Not enough camaraderie. The friendship between Magnum, Higgins, TC and Rick is the heart and soul of this series. We've been watching these characters for 8 seasons and it is a shame that so much time was wasted on secondary plots. If the four main characters just sat around a table and discussed their lives over the last 8 years i think it would have been compelling television. Think of all the things they could talk about: Lilly, Michelle, TC's family problems, Rick's sister, Rick's wedding, Mac, Tanaka, Vietnam, and maybe even a story or two about Corky Bostwick. There should have been one last great Higgins/Magnum moment. These are two of the best characters in tv history - they deserved one last classic scene that showed what their relationship was all about.
To me the best scene of this episode was the fight in the nudiebar, really fun, and i would have been happy if they just had gone back to the estate and just sat around in the guesthouse and talked about memories. And as a great ending Maggie could have showed up with Lily. THE END
Why would Rick get married, and TC go back to his family, and Magnum go back to the Navy It´s just to much change for me They all seemed happy with their lifes as it were, and i think most of us viewers loved how they lived, yeah really lived fun actionpacked lifes, and then in the end they took that all away and made them boring by settling down. Not pleased with that.