Magnum Mania!

Something Magnum said in "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" got me thinking about this:

"I mean what am I really saying goodbye to? I'm saying goodbye to constant complaints, constant arguments... put-downs! Threats! Early wake-ups, long boring stories -- and always, always, somebody coming into MY HOUSE without knocking!"

If you replace "house" with "room", this sounds a lot like something a teen would say about their mom. (It also sort of makes the Higgins-as-Robin-Masters subplot make more sense to me, as the surprise twist is "Mom is really Dad".)

Anyone thought about this? Am I being delusional?

I feel like Higgins is a dad figure more than a mom figure. But certainly there’s a parental element. Meanwhile Magnum acts like the teenage kid Higgins doesn’t have.

Your avatar made me laugh, by the way.

Also, isn’t it funny how Magnum complains about Higgins not knocking, even though Magnum never knocks either? He is always entering the main house without knocking! Ha!

My kids and I often refer to my wife as "Higgins" due to all the, er, nagging she does. Naturally, she only does this when I am acting like a slob, not cleaning up after myself, you know, all the usual TM kinds of stuff.

K Hale wrote:I feel like Higgins is a dad figure more than a mom figure. But certainly there’s a parental element. Meanwhile Magnum acts like the teenage kid Higgins doesn’t have.

Your avatar made me laugh, by the way.

I agree . . . to me that was a big part of the depth of the series, the older authority figure with a military background who, when not being an adversary, is a mentor to Thomas. Steps in well for the missing father who was shot down during the Korean War.

ConchRepublican wrote:

K Hale wrote:I feel like Higgins is a dad figure more than a mom figure. But certainly there’s a parental element. Meanwhile Magnum acts like the teenage kid Higgins doesn’t have.

Your avatar made me laugh, by the way.

I agree . . . to me that was a big part of the depth of the series, the older authority figure with a military background who, when not being an adversary, is a mentor to Thomas. Steps in well for the missing father who was shot down during the Korean War.

And going back to the rest of what I said, Magnum fills the other half, the kid Higgins doesn't have, from any of those failed relationships with all those women who kept leaving him. We see in "Luther Gillis #001" that he might ache a little about what he sees as a missed opportunity to be a father.