Hawaii Five-O: Any Fans?

[Sam]

Hey Ivan if you're looking to liberate some of the hotel property.. book the Kahala. better stuff but it will cost you more..
About 700 a day for a mountain view and a grand a day for Ocean view.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Hey Ivan if you're looking to liberate some of the hotel property.. book the Kahala. better stuff but it will cost you more..
About 700 a day for a mountain view and a grand a day for Ocean view.

Yep the Kahala has some great views! Plus the hotel looks nice and I'm sure it's not as crowded or noisy as with Waikiki hotels.

[T.Q.]

The Sunday Torch

Pretty decent.

Started slow but built up nice.

Felt so sorry for the poor guy battling his demons.

Great way to force the confession at the end.

Excellent ending drawing out the real baddie and McGarrett coming through the 'smoke'.

Season 6 is turning out top notch.

MPI: Kwan Hi Lim makes an appearance as a firefighter this time. I was going to mention a few episode ago he played an actual Lieutenant (as in Tanaka). Not sure the episode now. Might have been end of season 5.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

The Sunday Torch

Pretty decent.

Started slow but built up nice.

Felt so sorry for the poor guy battling his demons.

Great way to force the confession at the end.

Excellent ending drawing out the real baddie and McGarrett coming through the 'smoke'.

Season 6 is turning out top notch.

MPI: Kwan Hi Lim makes an appearance as a firefighter this time. I was going to mention a few episode ago he played an actual Lieutenant (as in Tanaka). Not sure the episode now. Might have been end of season 5.

I love this one too! It's a great arson episode. Michael Anderson, Jr. (you missed an MPI tie-in there) was very good as Ray Stokely, the poor patsy who really gets put through the ringer. You really feel for him! He played the draft dodger whose Vietnam vet brother committed suicide in season 3's "To Kill or Be Killed".

Glad you're enjoying season 6.

[T.Q.]

The Sunday Torch

Pretty decent.

Started slow but built up nice.

Felt so sorry for the poor guy battling his demons.

Great way to force the confession at the end.

Excellent ending drawing out the real baddie and McGarrett coming through the 'smoke'.

Season 6 is turning out top notch.

MPI: Kwan Hi Lim makes an appearance as a firefighter this time. I was going to mention a few episode ago he played an actual Lieutenant (as in Tanaka). Not sure the episode now. Might have been end of season 5.

I love this one too! It's a great arson episode. Michael Anderson, Jr. (you missed an MPI tie-in there) was very good as Ray Stokely, the poor patsy who really gets put through the ringer. You really feel for him! He played the draft dodger whose Vietnam vet brother committed suicide in season 3's "To Kill or Be Killed".

Glad you're enjoying season 6.

Oh yeah.

Didn’t clue in to that one.

[T.Q.]

Murder Is a Taxing Affair

Another good episode.

Figuring out who the bad guy was.

Lots of twists and turns trying to track down that money.

Murder and mayhem all over the place.

What a demise at the end. OUCHIE.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Murder Is a Taxing Affair

Another good episode.

Figuring out who the bad guy was.

Lots of twists and turns trying to track down that money.

Murder and mayhem all over the place.

What a demise at the end. OUCHIE.

Yet another winner!! Easily a top 5 for the season for me! I remember this one from when I was a kid and remembered the IRS guy being particularly brutal. That was before I even knew what IRS was LOL! I just remembered he was some government guy who was a killer. It took a long while before I saw this episode again and I remembered why I loved it so much. Don Porter was really good as Jonathan Cavell, the murderous IRS agent. Loved how his desperation grew as the money kept slipping away from him. Loved the trap our guys laid for him by having him come back into McGarrett's office to take a look at the hotel guest list. Loved McGarrett's brainstorm about Cavell when he began to shade in the beard and sunglasses on Cavell's picture. Really good detective work in this one! I gotta say that the casting of the couple was interesting because Sally Kirkland was young enough to be Jack Dodson's daughter. But somehow she looked older than she really was so it worked pretty well. Dodson played the town clerk Howard Sprague in the color episodes of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. You really feel their terror at the end when Cavell is about to order them to drive forward off the cliff. Cavell was one obsessed and cold-blooded dude! Yes, his leap off the cliff (major OUCH!!!) is probably my favorite ending of any episode! What a way to go and he sure deserved it.

Oh, and one of the reasons I was looking to stay at the Marriott is because of this episode! Always loved the scene where Cavell goes from one balcony to the next after tossing the room. Those Marriott balconies are very recognizable! Of course at the time it was the Hawaiian Regent.

[T.Q.]

Murder Is a Taxing Affair

Another good episode.

Figuring out who the bad guy was.

Lots of twists and turns trying to track down that money.

Murder and mayhem all over the place.

What a demise at the end. OUCHIE.

Oh, and one of the reasons I was looking to stay at the Marriott is because of this episode! Always loved the scene where Cavell goes from one balcony to the next after tossing the room. Those Marriott balconies are very recognizable! Of course at the time it was the Hawaiian Regent.

They renovated the Marriott recently too. We booked there 4 or 5 years ago and were put in the tower on Kuhio. If I ever stay there again I'm going to make sure we get booked in the old tower.

Flub: When they pointed camera down from lanai it appears it was stock footage of the Ala Wai boat harbour taken from the Ilikai. It wasn't Kalakaua. Just something I noticed.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Murder Is a Taxing Affair

Another good episode.

Figuring out who the bad guy was.

Lots of twists and turns trying to track down that money.

Murder and mayhem all over the place.

What a demise at the end. OUCHIE.

Oh, and one of the reasons I was looking to stay at the Marriott is because of this episode! Always loved the scene where Cavell goes from one balcony to the next after tossing the room. Those Marriott balconies are very recognizable! Of course at the time it was the Hawaiian Regent.

They renovated the Marriott recently too. We booked there 4 or 5 years ago and were put in the tower on Kuhio. If I ever stay there again I'm going to make sure we get booked in the old tower.

Flub: When they pointed camera down from lanai it appears it was stock footage of the Ala Wai boat harbour taken from the Ilikai. It wasn't Kalakaua. Just something I noticed.

Yep, I was adamant about getting the tower closer to the beach. I wanted ocean view. Or at least partial ocean view. I didn't want the rear tower. That's before I decided to go with the Hyatt.

Haha, yeah I've seen that a few times on the show. They would show one hotel but then when the camera points down from the balcony it's a different location. MPI did that too. In fact didn't this same exact thing happen in "The Jororo Kill" where they filmed at the Marriott (Regent at the time) where Zulu from Five-O was the doorman? TM tries to sneak in to see the foreign dignitary (at the Marriott) but the balcony shots where the dignitary is sitting you can see it's the Ala Wai Harbor outside (probably filmed from the Ilikai balcony).

[T.Q.]

Tricks Are Not Treats

Pimps, pimps, pimps everywhere.

Pretty poor episode.

Didn't enjoy it at all.

The stereotyping was hilarious. Was that JIVE?

Liked seeing the Barney Miller actors and Pat Morita.

MPI: Moe Keale (but he's in a lot) and Seth Sakai with hair.

[T.Q.]

Why Wait Till Uncle Kevin Dies?

Enjoyed this episode.

Lawrence Pressman (recognized from MASH and some other stuff) did a fine job.

Learning the role he was going to play was cool.

The whole premise was cool actually.

Good one.

MPI: Tommy Fujiwara, Douglas Mossman (notice he just died last month RIP).

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Tricks Are Not Treats

Pimps, pimps, pimps everywhere.

Pretty poor episode.

Didn't enjoy it at all.

The stereotyping was hilarious. Was that JIVE?

Liked seeing the Barney Miller actors and Pat Morita.

MPI: Moe Keale (but he's in a lot) and Seth Sakai with hair.

Haha! Pimps, pimps, pimps! Doesn't Lolo (Gregory Sierra) call them "pimples"? But that's what's so funny about this episode. Out of nowhere we find out that Honolulu has a major black pimp problem! Never mind that we rarely see a black person on the show. Now all of a sudden there's a whole black ghetto here! Never to be seen or heard about again. This was at the height of blaxploitation cinema so I can see why they made this episode. Though ultimately it makes no sense, given the population demographics on the island. That's why we typically see rackets run by Asians, Hawaiians, and Caucasians - which makes more sense. That said, I do enjoy a lot of the jive talk here! It's certainly an oddity of an episode and not a great one by any stretch (ultimately it's near the bottom of season 6) but I don't hate it. It has its strange charms here and there. And I really do like the twist with the hitman at the end and who the REAL target was! But I do like the turf war episode from season 4 much more - "A Matter of Mutual Concern". There you had a real "race-o-rama" between the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Samoan crime bosses.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Why Wait Till Uncle Kevin Dies?

Enjoyed this episode.

Lawrence Pressman (recognized from MASH and some other stuff) did a fine job.

Learning the role he was going to play was cool.

The whole premise was cool actually.

Good one.

MPI: Tommy Fujiwara, Douglas Mossman (notice he just died last month RIP).

Yes, this was a good 'un!

Actually the first time I saw it I thought it was just okay. Then on repeat viewings I liked it more and more. The whole scam run by Reversions, Inc. was pretty clever and cold-blooded. Murray Matheson (who was in the George Peppard TV show BANACEK around this time) was really good as the slick and oily head of this "corporation". I liked the trapping of the bad guy in the house at the end to force a confession out of him. Pretty tense with the ticking clock! It actually reminded me of something out of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE tv series, where they would set up a clever sting to entrap the baddies.

Yep, RIP Doug Mossman. He will become a semi-regular by the middle of season 7, once Al Harrington departs.

[T.Q.]

I liked the trapping of the bad guy in the house at the end to force a confession out of him. Pretty tense with the ticking clock! It actually reminded me of something out of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE tv series, where they would set up a clever sting to entrap the baddies.

Yep, RIP Doug Mossman. He will become a semi-regular by the middle of season 7, once Al Harrington departs.

Yes, should have mentioned the trap.

That was cool.

And now I learn Ben leaves the show too? Noooo.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

And now I learn Ben leaves the show too? Noooo.

I never know if these things should be considered "spoiler-ish" or not. It's not like any of these characters have some kind of story arc or some dramatic exit that's best not to disclose. They just disappear. Like in most shows back in the day. Let me know and I'll keep my mouth shut in the future.

If this were the reboot there would be some surprise twist that Ben is really working for Wo Fat, who is the illegitimate son of the Governor, who is actually Danno's uncle that Danno never knew about, and Danno and Chin discover they are step brothers but McGarrett knew this all along but didn't tell them because of some nightmares that were plaguing him. Ben is discovered to be the mole but discloses that there's more... he and Wo Fat are lovers. Wo Fat is pissed and kills Ben.

Now, this I would definitely never ruin for you with spoilers.