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Hawaii Five-O: 1x03 "Malama Ka Anna" - Discussion and Spoilers
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We have Samoan gangs here on the mainland too. They're vicious, scouting outside stores waiting for an easy mark so the bastards can take your money; their almost paramilitary green gang colors, symbols showing their proficiency with knives and ropes, and ponytails intimidating you into doing whatever they want. You try to get away clean, but they make you carry some of their addictive "merchandise" every time.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the episode. The second episode wasn't quite up to the level of the excellent pilot, but it was still pretty good.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the episode. The second episode wasn't quite up to the level of the excellent pilot, but it was still pretty good.
Good episode, I think the series is really holdings its own. The team takes on their moniker with some context on why they took the name "Five-oh."
I'm liking this show, so far. It's not a deep at all, but it's a good amount of fun. Also, they keep finding excuses to get Grace Park in a bikini, so I can't complain there.
I saw a "60 minutes" segment about Samoan football players and this episode reminded me of that.
Good episode. I didn't spot the Chevy Cruze this week.
Nice interrogation tactic with the pizza owner.
Good episode. I didn't spot the Chevy Cruze this week.
Nice interrogation tactic with the pizza owner.
Damn Locutus, you got me hook, line and sinker with that one. 
I'm thinking the old guard would have rather had this guy for their "Kono". The scenes with Danno's kid were a bit treacly and the angsty Chin Ho subplot was a bit heavy-handed but otherwise a decent ep, though my least favorite so far.
I'm thinking the old guard would have rather had this guy for their "Kono". The scenes with Danno's kid were a bit treacly and the angsty Chin Ho subplot was a bit heavy-handed but otherwise a decent ep, though my least favorite so far.
When I was working in Compton I always wondered which side they would fall on if the Black and Latino gangs went off on each other. I was out before that started happening.
So this week's Jack Bauer moment was putting the Jersey boy in the shark cage
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Steve's father used to call the family "five ohs" because they were outsiders joining the 50th state. As a high school quarterback instead of a back's number (1-19) Steve wore a lineman's fifty pronounced five oh. And Kono thought to adopt it as the task force name.
Which should actually be "Malama Ka Aina" or "Malama Ka'aina." According to a quick Google, it means "Respect the Land."
Don't they have rules for police searches in Hawaii? Searching that player's backpack without his permission might barely qualify as a legal search since he hadn't zipped it up yet, but it's borderline. And then they break into the chop shop with no indication that they have a warrant, tamper with and remove the pizza-box evidence without documenting or processing it, handing it to a suspect and thereby contaminating any fingerprint or trace evidence... how do they hope to get any of this to stand up in court?
And that's three for three in getting Grace Park into a skimpy outfit at least once per episode. And the camera was blatantly ogling her and the other women throughout. Honestly, the way this show treats its female lead reminds me of something from the '70s, although more along the lines of Charlie's Angels than the original Five-O.
Don't they have rules for police searches in Hawaii? Searching that player's backpack without his permission might barely qualify as a legal search since he hadn't zipped it up yet, but it's borderline. And then they break into the chop shop with no indication that they have a warrant, tamper with and remove the pizza-box evidence without documenting or processing it, handing it to a suspect and thereby contaminating any fingerprint or trace evidence... how do they hope to get any of this to stand up in court?
And that's three for three in getting Grace Park into a skimpy outfit at least once per episode. And the camera was blatantly ogling her and the other women throughout. Honestly, the way this show treats its female lead reminds me of something from the '70s, although more along the lines of Charlie's Angels than the original Five-O.
Yep, I agree. I hope this tells the networks that a little variety in their crime dramas won't hurt. I liked what they did to the pizza boxes to find out what was carried in them.
I liked this episode as well. If there was a poll, it'd get a Good from me.
As someone above said, this show is not deep at all. But it's fun, and sometimes that's all you need.
As someone above said, this show is not deep at all. But it's fun, and sometimes that's all you need.
Yes, for pity's sake.
^Well, it's a variation of what it meant in the original... they were called that because Hawaii was the 50th state, simple as that.
It was explained in the pilot that they're not "police" but a special unit doing its own thing with immunity under direct order of the Hawaiian governor. So the Five-0 team can do pretty much what they want, rights be dammed, so long as they get the job done. It's a squad of Jack Bauers.