Luther Gillis: File #521 (4.2)

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#31 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:31 pm

MaiTaiMan wrote:Gillis sucks!

Them's fightin' words!! Center of town, high noon, be there!

MaiTaiMan · #32 Post by **MaiTaiMan** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:55 am

J.J. Walters wrote:
MaiTaiMan wrote:Gillis sucks!
Them's fightin' words!! Center of town, high noon, be there!

LOL!

This sounds more like Gary Cooper ("High Noon") than Luther Gillis.

Really, though, I'm sure there are many who like Luther Gillis and think he's hilarious...I totally respect their opinions. I just don't happen to share them.

Compared to Bogie and Magnum, I still think Gillis sucked.

But, for those who liked his loud-mouthed, slobiness, know-it-all style, I suppose he could've had his own show--set in St. Louis of course. But, I could not have watched it.

I love the "Magnum" episodes that primarily deal with the regular characters and an action-packed/suspenseful case that Magnum would be working on. Usually the episodes that focus primarily on a recurring, goof-ball, guest-star character (such as Gillis) are not ones I really enjoy that much.

They take way too much away from Magnum and the "gang", and the normal style of the show.

Lt Tanaka · #33 Post by **Lt Tanaka** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:43 pm

MaiTaiMan wrote:Compared to Bogie and Magnum, I still think Gillis sucked.

Think you are missing the point there buddy. Luther is seen as joke at first but is gradually revealed (to the audience and T.M.) as someone Magnum (or any PI) could potentially end up as. The comic relief is in the fact that Magnum finds him a figure of fun at first but continuously, and uncomfortably, discovers they have many things in common.

MaiTaiMan · #34 Post by **MaiTaiMan** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:18 am

Lt Tanaka wrote:
MaiTaiMan wrote:Compared to Bogie and Magnum, I still think Gillis sucked.
Think you are missing the point there buddy. Luther is seen as joke at first but is gradually revealed (to the audience and T.M.) as someone Magnum (or any PI) could potentially end up as. The comic relief is in the fact that Magnum finds him a figure of fun at first but continuously, and uncomfortably, discovers they have many things in common.

I don't really think I'm missing the point...I get it, I just don't particularly care for it.

Perhaps Magnum and Gillis both want to do good or help people in their business...but other than that they don't have anything in common.

I agree that at first Gillis is seen a a joke...and later is more serious when it came to his daughter (but not much). However, he's pretty much portrayed as a joke throughout the episode.

I know this is supposed to be a "lighter", more humorous episode...it just goes too far overboard for my taste.

Lt Tanaka · #35 Post by **Lt Tanaka** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:00 pm

MaiTaiMan wrote: I don't really think I'm missing the point...I get it, I just don't particularly care for it. :

No offense intended. I agree with your opinion on most Magnum points.

Maybe it's just a matter of taste. I like Luther.

MaiTaiMan · #36 Post by **MaiTaiMan** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:27 am

Lt Tanaka wrote:
MaiTaiMan wrote: I don't really think I'm missing the point...I get it, I just don't particularly care for it. :
No offense intended. I agree with your opinion on most Magnum points.

Maybe it's just a matter of taste. I like Luther.

No offense taken at all!

I sometimes differ with others when it comes to episodes like the Luther Gillis ones--some like 'em and some don't.

Overall most episodes of "Magnum" are pretty awesome...and I wish that somehow the show could've made the 10 year mark--but I'm happy with 8!

miltontheripper · Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:04 pm

I originally hated Luther in his episodes, now he has grown on me to where he's just annoying. I like his comic relief but he is a little to ridiculous for me to take seriously.

MaiTaiMan · #38 Post by **MaiTaiMan** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:24 am

miltontheripper wrote:I originally hated Luther in his episodes, now he has grown on me to where he's just annoying. I like his comic relief but he is a little to ridiculous for me to take seriously.

I think the two characters I dislike the most in "Magnum" are Luther and the "fake" Mac!

Both annoy the heck out of me and I don't really care for the episodes they're in.

Croix de Lorraine · Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:41 pm

There's one evident flub in this episode:

When they're walking away from the nun, Luther reminisces about his education with the nuns. Now what kind of Catholic calls their child Luther of all names?

*Spoiler*

Also the beginning when Luther talks down this case as your average case, "Feels like I've worked on this case a thousand times before", etc... is intentionally misleading, given how the girl turns out to be his daughter. I think it's a cheap trick.

#40 Post by **Styles Bitchley** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:40 am

Croix de Lorraine wrote:When they're walking away from the nun, Luther reminisces about his education with the nuns. Now what kind of Catholic calls their child Luther of all names?

Haha - one of the fathers of the Reformation. Clever catch!

Little Garwood · #41 Post by **Little Garwood** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:32 pm

Somewhere I posted that I liked one Luther Gillis over the other. Guess I was confused because I'd fogotten that Artie Keanu was in the first two. Anyway, after having seen Luther Gillis: File #521 last night, I can say definitively that the second, The Return of Luther Gillis, is the best of all the Luther episodes.

Can't remember what I voted on this one, but it's a solid [8.0], because I like Luther Gillis--but not for his own show.

Now I love Film Noir/lone wolf detectives as much as anyone, but I felt that this episode would have benefited from NOT having been filmed in "Smear-O-Vision", which seemed to be a late '70s-early '80s technique of invoking nostalgia or the past. We know how much Bellisario loves that stuff, but I'm glad the technique was dropped for subsequent Gillis episodes.

Seaver41 · #42 Post by **Seaver41** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:24 pm

this one always scored well with me. Loved the Luther Gillis character as the guy Magnum didn't want to become......and I'm sure that is one of the primary reasons for introducing him. It especially hits when Luther shows Magnum his book on how to be a private eye, something Magnum has mentioned he will write someday.

Near the end when they cross the street to the car and Magnum tells Luther he will take him to the airport, I could swear the extra walking by the car, a woman, either aborts a wave at Selleck or is signaling someone. It just looked so awkward.

OR maybe it's you flub guys getting in my head.......lol

Braddah Kimo · #43 Post by **Braddah Kimo** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:49 am

Ever since watching this ep in da eighties, I have always wondered. (and still do to this day, especially as I am watching the movie right now) HOW da heck did they end up giving this character a name so bloody close to "South Pacific"'s almost main character, Luther Billis?!

snp389 · #44 Post by **snp389** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:29 am

John Hillerman and Geoffrey Lewis both starred together in Clint Eastwood's classic "High Plains Drifter".

.45caliber · #45 Post by **.45caliber** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:23 pm

Very funny episode. I love the Luther Gillis character. Some funny parts I remember, Luther Gillis slips Magnum a mickey, Luther punches the old lady training with the butler, the jail cell scenes and Luther's thought of the day for Artie, "Be kind to animals, they're supposed to be dumber than us"

Luther Gillis: File #521 (4.2)

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