Laohu wrote:KENJI wrote:I liked parts of this one, but feel they still squish to much content in the episode (i.e. two storylines) and then when it comes to the end of the show everything is too fast/rushed and convenient because they ran out of time. I would rather see in some episodes like this one ,only one storyline and use that 10 minutes to do a better job on the main storyline.
Does anyone have a guess on what the T.R. Belle stands for?
Not sure what T.R Belle stands for hope they come back to it in another episode and just don’t drop it .
I agree with you Kenji about running short on time . I think the problem is that they have to many characters . Each week they pair Magnum with one character this week Higgins that leaves pairing two other characters this week it was Rick and T.C. .that leaves Kumu,Katsumoto and and whatever guest characters not much screen time .
This was a good episode I really think having Justin Lin direct the pilot of the series was a huge mistake . He went to far over the top and set the wrong tone for the show . As the season has progressed we have seen it dialed back and as a result has gotten better.
Laohu,
I think you put your finger on a big drawback, too many characters with the result much of the input by the support cast isn't needed, they are just shoe horned in.
It occurs to me that the way Rick and TC are presented, they are stand ins for the Fan Boy demographic that tunes in for the Bullets & Babes action and dream how
cool it would be to be Magnum's sidekicks.
A flaw in this episode's logic is why when Higgins and Magnum got the original SOS call, they didn't themselves call the Coast Guard as they raced to the 'sinking'.
They wouldn't have been stranded in the ocean and later on the island if they had done that, which is what any sailor would have done right off.
Later, when TC and Rick discover where Higgins/Magnum's actual last location was, they head out without telling the Coast Guard when every second counted and a
rescue helicopter would have made better time.
Again, some of the banter doesn't make sense given that Magnum is a highly educated Annapolis grad, who worked in Intelligence. He seriously tells Higgins he doesn't
know what "major domo" means. He acts like a yokel with the vocabulary of a 12 year old when in a flashback scene, he first enters the guest house at Robins Nest:
"Wow! This place is the most insane place I think I've ever seen in my life. This is crazy!"
Once at Annapolis Magnum and his classmates would automatically been invited in to the High Society swirl of the Maryland horse country and northern Virginia.
He would have been to Deb Balls hosted at estates that dwarfed Robins Nest in scale and history, serious old line money. He wouldn't deem it 'crazy' that the
guest house was plush. Again, I'd bet the producers are wedging in awkward dialogue into a character's mouth that would more fit what a Fan Boy would say
to appeal to that demo, instead of being true to the character.
If they would stop doing that and realize these guys are combat veterans, people who made life and death decisions, who gave commands knowing others
would likely die as a result, that they wear big boy pants and aren't 17, then the show would be much better, IMHO.
It doesn't help that the mutt playing Rick is a poor actor with no gravitas.
That said, I think the series has improved weekly over the last 7 episodes, the mass firefights are gone.
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