Maybe they’re trying to be Texas Rangers in Hawaii. They’ve already Rule 63’ed Walker.
Nor does singing “Eight-Six-Seven Five-Three-Zero-Nine”
Jack Lord Trivia
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Traci Lords derived her stage name from the last name of her favorite actor.
* Jack Lord as Felix Leiter in the 1st James Bond film, Dr. NoAmong his many films, Jack Lord's film credits also include "Dr. No" (1962), the first James Bond movie, in which he played CIA agent Felix Leiter.
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Jack Lord was considered for the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek; the role ultimately went to William Shatner. Because Lord wanted to co-produce and have a percentage in ownership of the series, he was ultimately rejected by both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios.
* During his time in Hawaii, Jack had established himself not only as the star of a successful series, but a "Supersalesman of the Islands!" If you ask the Hawaii Visitors Bureau to name Hawaii’s prime asset and tourist attraction, they will cry out in union – "Jack Lord!"One little thing that was nice was good gun discipline. Both times a shootout was near, instead of pointless working the slide on his pistol, the main character would slide it back just enough to verify that he already had a round chambered. I also saw him reload a lot more than I usually see on TV.
Or “Nine-Zero-Two-One-Zero”
Of course I’ve noticed it. Then, in 1980, I joined the Navy, volunteered for submarine service, and leaned how to talk on sound-powered phones while wearing an EAB. That tends to train colloquial pronunciations out of a fella’s vocabulary.
So now, thirty years later, I’m too good for “oh” as a valid way to communicate the concept of the numeric figure for “zero.”
Well she previously played an alternate gender & race to the original in a remake, so this is apparently her repertoire…
Meh… If I have 5 houses, and somebody breaks into one of my houses, it’s not odd that I refer to the one house that got violated in the singular, even though I happen to own plural houses that could potentially be violated at any time.
OTOH I’m curious…large land masses have more or less either population based or arbitrary political boundaries. But an island chain can’t help but have obvious natural boundaries. In between mayor (for towns/cities) and governor (the whole state), is there any kind of political office that specifically oversees a single entire island?
According to the Wikipedia entry on the counties of Hawaii, the state of Hawaii has no municipalities, only counties. The island of Hawaii is a county unto itself, as is Oahu (although called the City and County of Honolulu). The other counties are groups of islands.
As we mentioned, Hawaii does not have a big population. And it’s heavily concentrated.
The entire state has 1,288,198 people. Of these, 905,034 live on Oahu (with 377,357 living in Honolulu). Another 148,677 live on the island of Hawaii. Both of these islands are run as counties.
The island of Maui has 117,644 people. It’s part of Maui County, along with the islands of Molokai (pop 7404), Lanai (pop 3193), and Kahoolawe (which is uninhabited). (Molokai also contains the anomolous Kalawao County, which is basically Kalaupapa National Historical Park and has a seperate government for historical reasons. Kalawao County has only 147 people.)
And then there’s Kauai County, which consists of the islands of Kauai (pop 65,689), Niihau (pop 130), Lehua (uninhabited), and Kaʻula (uninhabited).
So you can see the four main islands - Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai - all have their own county government. The remaining islands all have very small populations and don’t really need their own island governments.
Anyone catch the second episode? I thought it was pretty fun. I wonder if they are setting up the stoner guy as a new team member. I was however extremely distracted by the lack of basic vehicular safety measures. No body bothers to wear a seatbelt, and Jin refused to wear a helmet on his motorbike. I foresee the entire team encountering massive brain trauma long before they are killed by criminals.
Good to see i am not alone. After reading this the first half of this thread i was convinced i had missed something major.
Really quite poor.
I saw the second episode but not the first. Too violent for my taste.
That said, I was watching with my parents, who watched the original, which I am too young to remember. I recognize the theme music when it plays, but that’s it.
Dad assumed that “Toast” aka the stoner guy would be the fifth team member. For reasons unclear to me, he seems to assume that the “five” part of Hawaii 5-0 stands for five team members.
I won’t make watching it a priority, but if I’m around when the recording gets shown, I might watch it again.
I’m surprised it’s not been cancelled. Boring, bad writing,cliche etc…
I watched the second (and the first) and am still liking it. I especially like the sarcastic relationship between Danno and McGarret. “Book 'em, Danno.” … “What, is that like a thing now?”
That must have looked horrific in the script, but somehow the actors made it really work. At least for me.
I watched this show last night for the first time since the pilot because I did not feel like changing channels (I was working on something). The scenery is fantastic, but when I was in Hawaii I do not remember it as being that violent with dead bodies being strewn all over the place.
The team was bringing in a protected and hunted witness, so they asked for a full security lockdown at the court. They walk into the court through an open hallway and they are all alone, not checked or searched by anyone. Then they are approached by the counsel for the defense who turns out to be an armed assassin. Nobody seems to be the least bit surprised that there was a bit of a breakdown in security.
Next time I am going to change the channel.
You could say that about almost any show about detectives or cops outside of those set in a handful of cities with high murder rates – Inspector Morse, Murder, She Wrote, etc.
We thought it would be fantastic advertising for Hawaii Tourism… except for all the murder and kidnapping of Tourists!
This show has some stuff, while minor, still annoys me to no end. Garret and his team just waltz around Hawaii declaring that they’re 5-0 and everybody just knows what the hell they’re talking about. “5-0 eh? Sure I’ve heard of the governor’s four man special task force, who hasn’t?” 5-0 consists of only four guys yet their HQ is a massive building with probably hundreds of rooms. The weird table with the screen built in it that can scan anything you put on it.
The latest episode with the woman in witness protection had a weird scene where the lawyer of the accused comes to the DA with a deal to testify against other bad guys for a more lenient sentence, and the DA asks the witness for permission to go ahead with it. Why would a DA ever ask permission from a witness? That would never ever happen in the real world.
That actually exists:
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/whatissurface.aspx
As is, it’s designed to pull data off of cell phones. 5-0 evidently has a customized police model.