Most Shocking/Jolting Magnum Moment

[Pahonu]

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

Sorry again Ivan.

TQ, I completely understand. I’ve been on this forum for well over a decade and I honestly don’t think it’s fair to ask for a spoiler alert by a fellow member. This isn’t a show currently airing where perhaps some may have missed the last episode or two. This is a forty year old show that’s been syndicated almost as long and been available on DVD and by streaming for many, many years. I too was surprised Ivan hadn’t seen the series. I understand his disappointment but don’t think it should in anyway drive the comments on this forum, nor is it fair to ask that we do that.

[Little Garwood]

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

…Whined the same dude when I posted Hawaii Five-0 reviews from 1974.

Consistency, man!

Ivan is hands down the series’ most shocking moment…”good guys” just didn’t blow away villains in cold blood in 1982…it just didn’t happen…until Magnum did it.

[T.Q.]

…Whined the same dude when I posted Hawaii Five-0 reviews from 1974.

Consistency, man!

LOL

On the Hawaii Five-0 thread...

Where you know I've never seen the series and I'm actively watching through.

And it was hardly whining.

It was a "Hey man, please slow down and wait a few days I'm getting there".

Man, everyone so sensitive on the Internet.

[Little Garwood]

On the Hawaii Five-0 thread...

Where you know I've never seen the series and I'm actively watching through.

How’s that any different from spoilers on Magnum, a 40 year old show? Consistency, man!

It was a "Hey man, please slow down and wait a few days I'm getting there".

Why not just catch up with the thread after you’ve watched and then posted your latest episode review?

Man, everyone so sensitive on the Internet.

“Welcome to hard times, pal!”

~McGarrett in Stringer, Hawaii Five-0 season 11. (spoiler)

[T.Q.]

On the Hawaii Five-0 thread...

Where you know I've never seen the series and I'm actively watching through.

How’s that any different from spoilers on Magnum, a 40 year old show? Consistency, man!

It was a "Hey man, please slow down and wait a few days I'm getting there".

Why not just catch up with the thread after you’ve watched and then posted your latest episode review?

Man, everyone so sensitive on the Internet.

“Welcome to hard times, pal!”

~McGarrett in Stringer, Hawaii Five-0 season 11. (spoiler)

We'll agree to disagree.

I don't see the logic.

If there was a first time Magnum viewer who was participating in a thread and said "Next up Limbo in two days"... I certainly wouldn't jump in and post a detailed review of the episode. I'd wait. Guess that's just me.

Wouldn't take potshots at their posts either.

No worries. There's in ignore button.

Cheers.

[Little Garwood]

On the Hawaii Five-0 thread...

We'll agree to disagree.

I don't see the logic.

If there was a first time Magnum viewer who was participating in a thread and said "Next up Limbo in two days"... I certainly wouldn't jump in and post a detailed review of the episode. I'd wait. Guess that's just me.

Wouldn't take potshots at their posts either.

No worries. There's in ignore button.

Cheers.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Whoa, fellas. I'm gonna have to ask you to keep your voices down. My baby is sleeping.

I guess it's alright about the spoilers. Tanaka's death was ruined for me earlier, as was Sharon Stone's suicide. What's another one, eh? I guess that's what happens when you lurk around here.

Pahonu says it's a 40 year old show. But for some of us who are stuck in the past this may be a brand new show. Since we don't watch modern TV and instead prefer to discover/rediscover the classics. Mentally I'm in the 70s and 80s so watching a new MPI episode is like me watching it for the first time in 1983. Since mentally I'm in 1983 it's not a 40 year old show. Makes sense, right?

[ConchRepublican]

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!

Wait . . . seriously? You joined in 2011 yet haven't seen the whole series at least multiple times yet?

You're pulling our leg.

If not, I think you should be careful around here as it's assumed everyone has been through the series, most multiple times. I don't expect there to be a need for any spoiler warnings anywhere within the OG series threads. That's like talking about Butch and Sundance going out in a blaze of glory at the end of their movie . . . at this point we assume everyone knows.

[Pahonu]

Ivan and TQ, I understand that you’re coming to these shows late and they are new to you in that way. I wouldn’t want these surprises ruined either. I think what Conch just posted and what I wrote earlier was simply a fair warning that this forum is populated by big fans of the show. For many years we have discussed almost every nuance possible, but it is based on the assumption that you have seen the series. I don’t recall ever seeing a spoiler alert in a post about any Magnum episode. So I guess “proceed with caution” is the best advice to be given. You are in a place with more information about MPI than anywhere else on the planet, I believe. So enjoy, but be prepared to learn more than you wanted perhaps.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

That's like talking about Butch and Sundance going out in a blaze of glory at the end of their movie . . . at this point we assume everyone knows.

Wait... what???? You're pulling my leg!! Spoilers, man, spoilers!

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

I'm trying to remember if I knew about Mac's demise when I first saw "Did You See the Sunrise?" I remember being really shocked so I don't think I saw that coming. But I think I knew about TM killing Ivan. But it was still a powerful moment.

[80s Big Hair]

3.23 Faith and Begorrah's final scene came out of nowhere. Rick and TC are chatting while taking pictures of a woman arguing with her boyfriend on a lighthouse. It is part of a divorce case. Then all of a sudden this happens:

The guy just tosses her into the ocean. Was this ever explained?

[Pahonu]

3.23 Faith and Begorrah's final scene came out of nowhere. Rick and TC are chatting while taking pictures of a woman arguing with her boyfriend on a lighthouse. It is part of a divorce case. Then all of a sudden this happens:

The guy just tosses her into the ocean. Was this ever explained?

That was indeed a shocking ending. I think it was less powerful though, because we didn’t know the victim nearly as much as Mac. As an unexpected finale, it is still a high ranking episode.

[Styles Bitchley]

That was indeed a shocking ending. I think it was less powerful though, because we didn’t know the victim nearly as much as Mac. As an unexpected finale, it is still a high ranking episode.

I don't know. There was something truly unsettling about that scene. Even more so than Mac in a way. Mac's death was surprising, but it wasn't super shocking for some reason. Perhaps because it lacked some finality. I'm sure I'm not the only one who expected Mac to miraculously appear again.

I'm always unconventional and I'm going to vote for -- SPOILER ALERT (this entire thread should be treated as such, of course) -- the final scene of Paradise Blues when Alexis goes over the cliff in the car. I'm not sure why, but this scene really comes from out of nowhere. It's almost like they didn't know how to end the episode and...wham!

[Pahonu]

That was indeed a shocking ending. I think it was less powerful though, because we didn’t know the victim nearly as much as Mac. As an unexpected finale, it is still a high ranking episode.

I don't know. There was something truly unsettling about that scene. Even more so than Mac in a way. Mac's death was surprising, but it wasn't super shocking for some reason. Perhaps because it lacked some finality. I'm sure I'm not the only one who expected Mac to miraculously appear again.

You watched the episode when it first aired and thought he would be back! I didn’t have that kind of foresight when I was twelve.