YES! And finally, Sam can come home, settle down with Donna, and get to know Sammie Jo. Al can go home every night to Beth, and all an live happily ever after.
Looks pretty good, tbh.
Although, there’s no way we avoid the will they/won’t they nonsense.
No, it does not look good.
Has a show ever jumped the shark starting with the trailer?
I agree with both GuanoLad, and Running Coach. I believe Planetcory is two-thirds correct; looks pretty – does not look good. Now the original had a flashy opening with stirring music and helicopter stunts and sports cars, but in their effort to ‘out do’ the original the new show has become something of a very pretty live action cartoon. This show make the original A-Team look like a war documentary as far as realism is concerned.
By my count, they destroyed two (2) Ferraris, or at a minimum the same one twice (and the repair cost of the first wreck would exceed the value of the vehicle). Mac dies in the pilot episode, giving the hero carte blanch to be as cold blooded as any of the bad guys in the run of the series before his goofy, amused by rubber chicken, lovable self is established. He claims to be a “good” private investigator, but there is no evidence he can solve those simple, two paragraph closed door mysteries they gave you in Jr. High let alone take on a cartel of ex-military masterminds. His head isn’t even any good as a hat rack as I saw no Detroit Tigers cap (or cap of any kind) in evidence.
He WOULD make a great stuntman. He has mastered the flipping the car into a skid to shoot out passenger side window maneuver, but that seems to be the one trick for this pony. He is even luckier than Lance White; driving a 1970’s four cylinder Toyota, he manages to get it sideways on a narrow jungle trail and with a few shots from a 1911 .45caliber handgun take out a two ton military vehicle. I mean Take. It. Out! It turns over and bursts into flame! He has that move down so well he duplicates it with the second Ferrari, but then adds the super human feat of jumping from the smashed car onto the hood of the ramming vehicle with such little damage he is able to jump from already falling vehicles about fifty feet to the landing skids of his chariot in the sky helicopter. For a bright guy whom is supposed to be such a great investigator—he sure gets chased a lot. He can’t even outsmart the dogs as far as that goes. He must be pretty fast though, the long shot shows him at least fifty yards from shelter on an open lawn with the dogs less than ten yards back—yet he stays ahead of them the whole way and manages to slam the door into their faces.
Higgins seems to be the brains of the operation, and since they are of the same generation they have lost the “breadth of knowledge gained by experience the other could not possibly have experienced” aspect of their friendship/rivalry. The only difference between them is gender and it is sexist to presume she cannot solve anything he could. The new Rick reminds me so much of Bill Engvall I expect him to say: “Here’s your sign” every time he is on screen. I like the new TC, and the deceased new Mac (whose actual character name I don’t recall). Oh, and the lads—wait, are they still lads, or have they like Higgins, become a pair of lasses? Either way, they can act as well as most of the human cast. Higgins did grow on me over the course of the clip, and she is pretty easy to look at—you know for a thin blonde woman with a pretty face.
I had really hoped Robin Masters would have been upgraded to an occasionally onscreen character in the reboot, but that does not seem to be the case. From the opening moments I thought they were going to add delusions of grandeur to Magnum’s shortcomings, but it turns out he is (or at least could be) inspirational. Running down his skill sets on a scale of ten I score him thusly:
Stunt driver 10 (+)
Marksman 10 (+)
Gymnastics 10 (+)
Sprinter 10 (+)
Scuba Diver 10 (most likely, he does it and it is a physical skill, so…)
Investigator 4
Loyalty 11 (+)
This show is entirely about the show runners’ ability to make an Action/Adventure sequence. If at all, it is only minorly about a retired Navy Officer and his occasionally interesting life in Hawaii hanging out with his buddies and subverting the peace and calm of his fastidious de facto landlord. What used to be the essence of the show is now just the setting. If this was a Western Novel, it would certainly be of the: quickest gun, fastest horse, prettiest girl, hardest punch, strongest back, etc., etc. This is how little kids see people, and I thought the beauty of the original was that Magnum and company were nicely flawed and human.
I thought this thread was about a new mash-up TV show, Magnum P I Robot. Because I’m old with failing eyesight.
I would watch Magnum P, I Robot. But this new monstrosity? Like Lolcat: Do not want!
The trailer starts out OK, managing to look not as stupid as Hawaii 5-0 reboot, but it falls apart into comic book shenanigans well before the end and looks to exceed H50 in stupidity.
Maybe Mags and McG can get together and trade SEAL stories? Might be the only bit worth watching.
Magnum was not a cocky ass, unlike this guy. I guess I am no longer the target audience. I can always watch my DVDs at least.
To give one potential positive out to this…whatever it is, the pilot for the original Magnum was actually one of the worst episodes. It was the only episode where Rick thought he was Bogart and owned his own club, named of course Rick’s Cafe Americana, TC the non-drinker drank beer, and Magnum threw away the sunroof of the Ferrari (shots of which appeared in the credits for years).
The plot made no sense, and the plot driver, that Magnum’s buddy died supposedly smuggling heroin but Mags knew that wasn’t true, appeared to actually have been true. At least, the episode never clarified it. They just forgot, I guess.
At least most of the rest of the episodes were great. At least until they decided that Higgy was Robin, and wasn’t actually ex-MI-6 and was actually incompetent and a liar.
Looks like brain dead garbage.
Should last about 10 seasons.
Magnum, P.I. reboot, did you see the sunrise this morning?
<muzzle flash>
You guys just don’t know how to enjoy a reboot. It looks awesome to me.
I saw the Detroit hat, the Cross of Lorraine Ring, the Ferrari, the lads. And when they started playing the theme song, I was hooked! (I still have that song as the ring tone on my phone). The only trademark I didn’t see was the Aloha shirt. I’m hoping they’re saving that for Trailer #2.
…bah.
A couple of years ago Leverage creator John Rogers shopped around a Magnum reboot, and I was fully onboard with what he and Longoria were trying to do:
I would have loved to have seen that.
But this? A load of tosh. I’ll admit: it does look marginally better than the MacGyver reboot. But considering I turned MacGyver off half-way through the pilot episode I very much doubt I could sit through this. I barely made it through the trailer. Its just lazy writing, lazy uninspired world-building.
I also wanted the MacGyver reboot to be his daughter, played by Katee Sackhoff. Would’ve been great.
That trailer is so over the top bad, I expect them to go back and re edit it to show Magnum in the Ferrari jumping over an erupting Kilauea.
A tight-assed, straight-laced woman paired with an eccentric would-be ne’er-do-well? Such an original concept – NOT!
ETA: I’ll probably still give it a go.
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That reminds me–maybe it is time for a reboot of Remington Steel. Remington will be played by one of the guys from Twilight. It can run back to back with Magnum Dude Bro.
Gah. Magnum was in Navy Intelligence. That fits to become a P.I. He was generally soft spoken and caring.
Predict lots of 'splosions and general mayhem in re-boot with a Navy SEAL as Magnum (not disparaging SEALS, that’s their job). Won’t work for me.
What they could do is have the SEAL be basically a new Magiver. That might work.
Is Magnum going top be honest-to-god psychic in this series? Because it was established his “little voice” was actually psychic intuition, not just normal intuition. Plus he can communicate with at least Rick over great distances with the power of his mind. And he can solve 70 year old crimes by dreaming the solution, using clues from a house he had never been to.
In certain ways, that is actually worse than blowing up an armored truck with a handgun. Or parachuting from 100K feet. But the original show made it work.