Magnum Mania!

“Same charm, more diversity in Magnum P.I. reboot”.

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ ... -pi-reboot

Glad it’s behind pay wall. Saved my computer monitor.

They must mean an actual charm from the original show that someone is wearing because "charm" as in "the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration" is not to be found.

ConchRepublican wrote:They must mean an actual charm from the original show that someone is wearing because "charm" as in "the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration" is not to be found.

I don’t get it.

There is ZERO charm to the new Magmum.

T.Q. wrote:“Same charm, more diversity in Magnum P.I. reboot”.

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ ... -pi-reboot

Glad it’s behind pay wall. Saved my computer monitor.

Charm was not quite the word I had in mind for the new Magnum. How about same broadcasting system....and that would be as far as I go with the word same.

The "diversity" in the original series was more or less equal or slightly greater than the "diversity" in the American population of the time (assuming we are talking about ethnicity). Of the core cast of 4 people, one was "diverse" which was pretty much the same as the US population of the time. An additional one was foreign born (acting as such). The guest and background characters episode to episode may have been a bit underrepresentative of 1980s Hawaii in terms of ethnicity/race, but one has to consider that the show was aimed at a national audience. They certainly did have plenty of local "diverse" characters in the show throughout its run. Compared to many shows in the 1990s, many of the 80's shows equally or even over-represented "diverse" groups in comparison. Today, the opposite is true, and "non-diverse" groups tend to be under-represented, which is what is now called "diversity." Also, today, "diversity" means more than ethnicity, which is another subject entirely. Nevertheless, to claim the original Magnum wasn't "diverse" is ludicrous, it just wasn't over-diverse like shows now are supposed to be.

giant_albatross wrote:The "diversity" in the original series was more or less equal or slightly greater than the "diversity" in the American population of the time (assuming we are talking about ethnicity). Of the core cast of 4 people, one was "diverse" which was pretty much the same as the US population of the time. An additional one was foreign born (acting as such). The guest and background characters episode to episode may have been a bit underrepresentative of 1980s Hawaii in terms of ethnicity/race, but one has to consider that the show was aimed at a national audience. They certainly did have plenty of local "diverse" characters in the show throughout its run. Compared to many shows in the 1990s, many of the 80's shows equally or even over-represented "diverse" groups in comparison. Today, the opposite is true, and "non-diverse" groups tend to be under-represented, which is what is now called "diversity." Also, today, "diversity" means more than ethnicity, which is another subject entirely. Nevertheless, to claim the original Magnum wasn't "diverse" is ludicrous, it just wasn't over-diverse like shows now are supposed to be.

I'm not sure what "over-diverse" means here. It seems like you're suggesting that a show that features characters at the same ethnic ratio as the country as a whole would be accurate. But specific shows and stories (or whatever) don't need to aspire to that. You could have a show about a farming community in Iowa and it might be mostly Hispanic leads even if Iowas as a whole is mostly white. It depends on the nature of the story the creators want to tell. This also explains how you could have a show with no Asian American leads that is set in Hawaii (the original MPI). The reboot has its own dynamics, but that doesn't mean it's "over-diverse."