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"Hello, my name is Steve McGarrett . . ."

posted by [personal profile] revdorothyl at 01:48pm on 21/09/2010
". . . You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Yes, I enjoyed the premiere last night (though I didn't love it, and there were parts of the dialogue that seemed fairly cringe-worthy, like Steve McGarrett of course having broken all of Chin Ho Kelly's football records as quarterback in High School, because obviously the tall pale-skinned guy has to be the best at everything . . .). However, my main gripe was that there simply wasn't nearly enough James Marsters screen time.

Yes, as a connoisseur of vampire detective shows of all sorts, I enjoyed watching "Spike" beat the heck out of "Mick St. John", but if Victor Hesse (Marsters) doesn't make a return appearance as the baddie/nemesis in future episodes then it'll all be a giant rip-off, from my perspective.
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posted by [identity profile] goddessofbirth.livejournal.com at 11:33pm on 21/09/2010
Oh, I'm glad to hear this is worth a watch. I'm hoping to find it on Hulu tonight! I was super excited to find a show with Mick in it, and then when I heard Marsters was guesting, I was sold!
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posted by [identity profile] goddessofbirth.livejournal.com at 03:53am on 22/09/2010
Okay, so I finally got a chance to watch this and...Holy Batman! They need a new script writer. That had to be some of the cheesiest line-age that I have EVER heard. Like, BAD. I was embarrassed for my poor Moonlight and BSG alumni. But, I do agree that Marsters was awesome kicking St. John in the face. And, yes, we will be seeing him again. But I have one question...How come the two co-leaders gotta be white guys?
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 03:31pm on 22/09/2010
I had high hopes for the writing, since Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman cut their baby teeth as staff writers for "Xena" and then grew up to do a very impressive job on last year's "Star Trek" movie, but then I saw that the actual screenplay for the pilot episode was credited only to their new third wheel, Peter Lenkov, and apparently Orci and Kurtzman were involved more in the concept and series development stuff than in what actually ended up on the screen.

And yeah, I like the idea of "Danno" as a mature police officer, rather than the fresh-faced kid I vaguely remember James MacArthur's character being (they've let Grace Park take over the fresh-faced, inexperienced kid role, along with the 'eye candy', 'bait', and 'everybody's baby sister' roles -- or at least that was my initial impression), but it would've made so much more sense for Chin Ho Kelly to be the automatic 2IC, given his greater experience in policing the islands and his more personal stake in what happened to Steve's dad as well as in uncovering police corruption. They're going to have to work on their multi-culturalism 'street cred'.
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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 22/09/2010
I thought there was some nice chemistry between the characters and I plan to watch this one on a regular basis. It'll be interesting to see where it goes. In any case, I saw enough that I liked to give it a chance. More than I can say for The Event.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 03:20pm on 22/09/2010
I completely missed "The Event", so I'm glad to know I didn't miss out on much. I only managed to set the DVR to record the "Hawaii Five-O" premiere Monday morning because NPR was airing a piece on Hawaii's efforts to entice more film crews and TV shows to shoot there and they mentioned the show and that it was airing its pilot episode that evening.

I liked the show well enough, and the character interaction was really growing on me by the end, so I'm planning to keep on recording and watching . . . as long as they don't just drop all the loose ends they left dangling in this episode (which I'm sure they won't, or else why introduce stuff like the father's unfinished investigation into police corruption, etc.?). A season-long story arc will keep me coming back for more.
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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 10:07pm on 25/09/2010
And they put more clues on the corruption thing in when they traced the call. I think we're looking at an arc.
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