Most Shocking/Jolting Magnum Moment

[T.Q.]

No idea why I thought of this today.

If you can remember your first viewing, what was the most shocking/jolting Magnum PI moment for you?

Didn't include Ivan because he was evil.

[MagnumsLeftShoulder]

I voted other because the last line of Home from the Sea is the most traumatic moment of the show for me.

[Pahonu]

That’s a tough one! Good idea though.

I think Mac blowing up was the most jolting thing for me. It came so suddenly after a light-hearted, funny scene. When TM shot Ivan, you knew something was going to happen, if not a vigilante killing. There was also a lot of intensity leading up to Diane’s suicide. Maybe less so for Michelle and Lily being blown up, but it was fairly serious up to that point.

I think Magnum’s death was more traumatic, if less jolting. The scene was well done, but again you knew something big was happening. It was the season finale. I think it was more traumatic because I, along with most viewers I suspect, knew that was the end of the series and the character we had enjoyed for seven years. I recall watching him walk into the clouds and feeling a loss at the time. TS only agreed to do part of an eighth season later. It wasn’t exactly jolting or shocking, but ultimately more traumatic, I feel.

I didn’t vote yet because I can’t decide between the two as shocking and traumatic can be very different things. I’m in no way criticizing the question. I just find it hard to answer for the reasons above.

[T.Q.]

That’s a tough one! Good idea though.

I think Mac blowing up was the most jolting thing for me. It came so suddenly after a light-hearted, funny scene. When TM shot Ivan, you knew something was going to happen, if not a vigilante killing. There was also a lot of intensity leading up to Diane’s suicide. Maybe less so for Michelle and Lily being blown up, but it was fairly serious up to that point.

I think Magnum’s death was more traumatic, if less jolting. The scene was well done, but again you knew something big was happening. It was the season finale. I think it was more traumatic because I, along with most viewers I suspect, knew that was the end of the series and the character we had enjoyed for seven years. I recall watching him walk into the clouds and feeling a loss at the time. TS only agreed to do part of an eighth season later. It wasn’t exactly jolting or shocking, but ultimately more traumatic, I feel.

I didn’t vote yet because I can’t decide between the two as shocking and traumatic can be very different things. I’m in no way criticizing the question. I just find it hard to answer for the reasons above.

Shocking and traumatic can be very different things.

That's true.

How about "traumatically shocking"?

I can rephrase the question.

Jolting and shocking was more what I was asking.

[Pahonu]

That’s a tough one! Good idea though.

I think Mac blowing up was the most jolting thing for me. It came so suddenly after a light-hearted, funny scene. When TM shot Ivan, you knew something was going to happen, if not a vigilante killing. There was also a lot of intensity leading up to Diane’s suicide. Maybe less so for Michelle and Lily being blown up, but it was fairly serious up to that point.

I think Magnum’s death was more traumatic, if less jolting. The scene was well done, but again you knew something big was happening. It was the season finale. I think it was more traumatic because I, along with most viewers I suspect, knew that was the end of the series and the character we had enjoyed for seven years. I recall watching him walk into the clouds and feeling a loss at the time. TS only agreed to do part of an eighth season later. It wasn’t exactly jolting or shocking, but ultimately more traumatic, I feel.

I didn’t vote yet because I can’t decide between the two as shocking and traumatic can be very different things. I’m in no way criticizing the question. I just find it hard to answer for the reasons above.

Shocking and traumatic can be very different things.

That's true.

How about "traumatically shocking"?

I can rephrase the question.

Jolting and shocking was more what I was asking.

Got it! I’m going with Mac’s death then.

[T.Q.]

That’s a tough one! Good idea though.

I think Mac blowing up was the most jolting thing for me. It came so suddenly after a light-hearted, funny scene. When TM shot Ivan, you knew something was going to happen, if not a vigilante killing. There was also a lot of intensity leading up to Diane’s suicide. Maybe less so for Michelle and Lily being blown up, but it was fairly serious up to that point.

I think Magnum’s death was more traumatic, if less jolting. The scene was well done, but again you knew something big was happening. It was the season finale. I think it was more traumatic because I, along with most viewers I suspect, knew that was the end of the series and the character we had enjoyed for seven years. I recall watching him walk into the clouds and feeling a loss at the time. TS only agreed to do part of an eighth season later. It wasn’t exactly jolting or shocking, but ultimately more traumatic, I feel.

I didn’t vote yet because I can’t decide between the two as shocking and traumatic can be very different things. I’m in no way criticizing the question. I just find it hard to answer for the reasons above.

Shocking and traumatic can be very different things.

That's true.

How about "traumatically shocking"?

I can rephrase the question.

Jolting and shocking was more what I was asking.

Got it! I’m going with Mac’s death then.

Yeah, me too I think.

Was a toss-up.

Michelle and Lily blowing up was pretty jolting. Mac was more memorable for some reason.

[Pahonu]

That’s a tough one! Good idea though.

I think Mac blowing up was the most jolting thing for me. It came so suddenly after a light-hearted, funny scene. When TM shot Ivan, you knew something was going to happen, if not a vigilante killing. There was also a lot of intensity leading up to Diane’s suicide. Maybe less so for Michelle and Lily being blown up, but it was fairly serious up to that point.

I think Magnum’s death was more traumatic, if less jolting. The scene was well done, but again you knew something big was happening. It was the season finale. I think it was more traumatic because I, along with most viewers I suspect, knew that was the end of the series and the character we had enjoyed for seven years. I recall watching him walk into the clouds and feeling a loss at the time. TS only agreed to do part of an eighth season later. It wasn’t exactly jolting or shocking, but ultimately more traumatic, I feel.

I didn’t vote yet because I can’t decide between the two as shocking and traumatic can be very different things. I’m in no way criticizing the question. I just find it hard to answer for the reasons above.

Shocking and traumatic can be very different things.

That's true.

How about "traumatically shocking"?

I can rephrase the question.

Jolting and shocking was more what I was asking.

Got it! I’m going with Mac’s death then.

Yeah, me too I think.

Was a toss-up.

Michelle and Lily blowing up was pretty jolting. Mac was more memorable for some reason.

I remember very clearly TM’s reaction to the videotape of Michelle and Lily in the blown up car. I agree though, somehow Mac’s death, with TM and his date being blasted by the explosion as being more shocking. Perhaps because it was depicted as being live rather than recorded? Of course, there was also the following scene of Mac’s burned remains that added to the trauma.

[damrod]

Limbo would have been the end, but we got one more season

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Come on, T.Q. gotta put spoilers on these things! I didn't know about Michelle and Lily.

Was expecting to see Mag blowing Ivan away on your list but didn't. I went with Mac getting blown up. That was a shocker!

[ConchRepublican]

Tough call .... I finally decided on Mac going being the most shocking even though Magnum dying in Limbo was for me the most traumatic and a REAL close #2 for shocking.

I give it to Mac more due to context, it was a split second shock that hits you right there. For Limbo the opening scene, and whole episode honestly, was so well done that while I was slack jawed and teary eyed throughout, it was more like a rough boxing match that beat me down instead of a Tyson 30 second knockout.

But ...... it's REAL close.

[T.Q.]

Come on, T.Q. gotta put spoilers on these things! I didn't know about Michelle and Lily.

Was expecting to see Mag blowing Ivan away on your list but didn't. I went with Mac getting blown up. That was a shocker!

Really???

Sorry about that.

[Pahonu]

Come on, T.Q. gotta put spoilers on these things! I didn't know about Michelle and Lily.

You haven’t seen all the episodes? I had no idea.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Come on, T.Q. gotta put spoilers on these things! I didn't know about Michelle and Lily.

You haven’t seen all the episodes? I had no idea.

Nope, I've only seen the first 3 seasons, season 4 up to "Letter to a Duchess", and a few from season 7. That's it. I know, I need to get back into it.

[Pahonu]

Come on, T.Q. gotta put spoilers on these things! I didn't know about Michelle and Lily.

You haven’t seen all the episodes? I had no idea.

Nope, I've only seen the first 3 seasons, season 4 up to "Letter to a Duchess", and a few from season 7. That's it. I know, I need to get back into it.

You might want to be careful poking around here then. There are tons of potential spoilers in these threads. Most of us have seen them all multiple times and we post on the assumption that fellow Maniacs have watched the series. That’s completely fair, I think, for a series that debuted over 40 years ago. TQ references several deaths from the final couple of seasons right in the quiz choices.

[T.Q.]

I didn’t even think of putting a SPOILER ALERT on a forty year old show.

Sorry again Ivan.