But it wasn’t a 24-ish type show. You need more than explosions and junk to keep something interesting. At least to keep me interested beyond a few episodes. Of course, Grace Park could help to maintain my interest.
Yes, but he was appointed to head the state police, which meant they handled police work which went beyond the jurisdiction of the local police, but didn’t necessarily rise to the level of terrorism or human trafficking.
And, of course, muy macho. He’s right up there with Lloyd Bridges and David Janssen, and could pose a real challenge to Ricardo Montalban or Fernando Lamas.
In regard to the terrorism complaints: I assume hte show is set in the present, and terrorism is a current, ever-present problem.
Well, it is in fiction.
And in many countries in fact.
Including, as I type this, France.
Finally watched the pilot. I thought it was very mediocre. Too many cliches.
Was it my imagination, or did they always pick camera angles so as not to show how short Scott Caan is compared to the other cast members.
Oh, and did anyone pick up on the Sawyer-esque “son of a bitch”? I can’t believe that was an accident.
I don’t know that it matters – I’m a hetero male too, but I definitely have my views on male beauty. Mostly whether I would be happy trading my looks for the person in question. Jack Lord, with his forehead the size of a football field, his Neanderthal brow ridge, and his dark sunken eyes – hideous. It doesn’t matter what shape he was in, the man was a beast, even in his youth. Check out Man of the West (1958).
And his haircut in Hawaii Five-O is ridiculous. Looks like he’s trying to look like someone in the cast of Grease without the Brylcreem.
You have to allow for the differences in hairstyle between the seventies and now. Beyond that, I’m not going to engage in an argument about whether or not some 70s male actor was cute or not. 
I just watched the pilot, pretty much just to see Grace Park. I thought NBC’s 10:00p offering, Chase, was better. They’re fine for streaming on my second monitor, but neither deserves any memory space on my DVR. Just wish CBS would offer a pop-out like Hulu, so I can watch full screen while doing other stuff.
Which isn’t the point. The point was that it’s a departure from the original that, in some people’s opinions, may limit the story possibilities of the show.
Heck, the original show was in the midst of the cold war. There were a few espionage stories, but if every episode had been McGarrett versus Wo Fat it would have gotten old pretty fast.
Well, we haven’t seen every episode of the new series, so we don’t really know how many will deal with terrorism.
Very true, but my point was that it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for this “elite team” to pursue a lot of the kinds of crimes that the old 5-0 pursued. Maybe they’ll have them pursue things that don’t make sense, or maybe they’ll find other ways to make it interesting.
I just think that the writers are making it tougher on themselves this way. Sticking with the original idea of them being the Hawaii state police would have made it easier to pursue a wider range of story ideas while also being able to chase terrorists occasionally.
But heck, the old show didn’t really make a lot of sense at times either. For one thing Hawaii does not in reality have state police.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense; it just means it’s fictional.
True.
I’ve been confused about something: I learned back during the original run that the 5-0 was to signify the Hawaii is the fiftieth state. But they always spoke it aloud as Hawaii Five-Oh. Shouldn’t it be Hawaii Five-Zero?
“O” is a letter, not a numeral.
You haven’t noticed that “oh” is a common colloquial pronunciation of the figure “0”?
“Double Zero Seven - License To Kill” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
He’s English, so it would be “double naught seven”.