Did anyone see the first episode of the rebooted Magnum P.I.? And how did you feel about it?
I enjoyed the old Magnum, this one, not so much. The basic set up is the same, but I don't like the new Thomas Magnum. Tom Selleck played the guy as a big, amiable guy, willing to take things easy unless force was needed. Even his conflict with Higgins was ongoing but not intense.
The new guy is evidently going for 'edgy bad-boy', which I suspect will get really tiresome very soon. To my mind, he's already skating close to the edge of 'jerk'.
And all his 'new' buddies are 'special'. The new Higgins isn't just ex-Army, no, she's ex MI-6. The guy who runs the food stand doesn't just 'know people', he used to be a cryptographer. Etc. And it's only the first episode. These are things that could be gradually introduced, not just dumped on us all at once.
I am willing to give the military thing a bye, as the old Magnum was in the Navy, too, but for a first episode, there was, to my mind a huge overplaying of the 'group rings', 'once a Navy buddy, always a Navy buddy' thing. It's like they're trying out for 'NCIS Hawaii'.
Which wouldn't be a bad show, really.
I enjoyed the old Magnum, this one, not so much. The basic set up is the same, but I don't like the new Thomas Magnum. Tom Selleck played the guy as a big, amiable guy, willing to take things easy unless force was needed. Even his conflict with Higgins was ongoing but not intense.
The new guy is evidently going for 'edgy bad-boy', which I suspect will get really tiresome very soon. To my mind, he's already skating close to the edge of 'jerk'.
And all his 'new' buddies are 'special'. The new Higgins isn't just ex-Army, no, she's ex MI-6. The guy who runs the food stand doesn't just 'know people', he used to be a cryptographer. Etc. And it's only the first episode. These are things that could be gradually introduced, not just dumped on us all at once.
I am willing to give the military thing a bye, as the old Magnum was in the Navy, too, but for a first episode, there was, to my mind a huge overplaying of the 'group rings', 'once a Navy buddy, always a Navy buddy' thing. It's like they're trying out for 'NCIS Hawaii'.
Which wouldn't be a bad show, really.