"Hawaii" on NBC: The Early Returns

[EastCoastTropics]

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Here's an interesting question: What categories of crimes would be a good idea for future plots, and what categories of crimes would not?

The aversion to a home invasion storyline is reasonable (as is, probably, a photocopier technician going bezerk), but keep in mind what we've already seen portrayed in our fair state so far. Two serial killers (the pilot's beheader, and the "Maunakea Killer), hostage taking bank robbers, tourist carjackers, prison escapees... we've seen organized crime, prostitution, cockfights and dogfights, kids in peril, crooked cops...

With all that already out there, what's left?

How about stranding the main characters out in the boonies somewhere (Moloka'i maybe?) and doing a survival story?

This brings to mind an episode of ER with a couple of the lead docs stranded out in the boonies/desert with a donated organ that they have to get back to the hospital asap!




how about........

Drug trafficing between the orient and the west coast....a former Hawaii resident running drugs between the west coast/orient and Hawaii...all to look like business trips of course!

[kimo55]

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how about........

Drug trafficing between the orient and the west coast....a former Hawaii resident running drugs between the west coast/orient and Hawaii...all to look like business trips of course!

about 2 or three hawaii 5-0 eps with this basic storyline. methinks it would be easy for the writers to mine basic formats and storylines from all the eps of Hawaii 5-0. In fact, last ep of Hawaii exhibited shades of an old ep on h50. ditto with magnum PI.
they could get some fodder from Thomas magnum's show.

[EastCoastTropics]

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methinks it would be easy for the writers to mine basic formats and storylines from all the eps of Hawaii 5-0. ditto with magnum PI.
they could get some fodder from Thomas magnum's show.

I agree!

Would be nice if they could stretch a story out to 2-3 eps instead of shoving it all in one ep. Maybe one pair of detectives working on a case that stretches 2-3 eps while second pair of detectives solve their case in one ep....or so we think. In the end, both cases are tied in with one another at both are finally solved at the end of the 3rd ep......*sigh*

[helen]

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Trouble is if the multi-episode case is handled by Gaines and Edwards, the Captain is not going to be too happy about it. Of course it will be more screen time for time for him just to vent out on those two.

[EastCoastTropics]

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Trouble is if the multi-episode case is handled by Gaines and Edwards, the Captain is not going to be too happy about it. Of course it will be more screen time for time for him just to vent out on those two.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that! He's not gonna have much time for that baby and wife of his!

[pzarquon]

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There's a story in today's Honolulu Advertiser directly tackling the "localness" and stereotype tightwalking in NBC's "Hawaii." As we did here, it singles out Aya Sumika's nude scene and Tuiasosopo's early lines as "the fat cop." Tuiasosopo's character, at least, has gotten considerably more depth since then.

While Tagawa, Sumika and Tuiasosopo were all born and raised primarily on the Mainland, their Asian and Pacific-islander backgrounds mark them as the most identifiably "local" characters. That makes them focal points for viewers sensitive to how race and culture are portrayed. Viewers are weighing in on Web forums and message boards.

We are indeed!

[Lolo Paka]

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well, with that said.. i hope the creators/writers of the show pop by here

[kimo55]

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well, with that said.. i hope the creators/writers of the show pop by here

even without that not said, I hope they come by anyway!
(or couldn't they come by until that was said?)

[kimo55]

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Viewers are weighing in on Web forums and message boards.


****
We are indeed!

yea. That's what they say: web forums and message boards. Sounds like a lotta research. But they scan this one board and then write that.


a while ago after 50 first dates came out,
I spoke up on, I think soc.culture.hawaii and stated basically what I said here re; the flik;
Bitching about Rob Schneider's mexican accent as a standin for pidgin.

then two days later, in the star-advertisetin. the columnist reviewing the brouhaha the movie was generating re; the local depiction, he said; "more than one viewer said Rob's accent sounded Spanish in origin.
how bout that.

More than one?!
'da hell does THAT mean!?
can't count past one, or wot!?
how many!

...and Spanish!?!?



eyedunnthingsew,cholly!

[Peshkwe]

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A 'Lost in the woods' story line maybe could be a good way to introduce some more permanent secondary local type characters to the show. Have it be a little longer running story line secondary to the main one or two that normally complete during an episode so the personalities of the new folks can be explored a bit, maybe the 2-3 episode run. Have 'em out hunting a pot farm or something like that and getting all turned around by stray wild pot stands.

They could maybe play with a country vs town personality conflict with the teasing and busting each other's chops as well. Tho with the woods deal the country boy might have to be transfered in from another Island so he'd not be familiar with any areas.

That type of thing can go either way, it could go into something that could work as an ongoing source of office internal conflicts or as a source of ongoing gag lines...and it's pretty much a universal concept.

[Lolo Paka]

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eh, howzit Peshy! talk to the P-man lately?

..as for stories, not being racial here or anything... anyone think they need to start using some haoles & papolos as the bad guys-most of um have been local/asian! lol!

oh, on 50 First Dates...

Yeah, Schnieder's accent was pretty bad alright... I did like the movie though (kinda a sweet story behind it). Did they even have a local-consultant on there? Then again, James Grant Benton was the one on "Birds of Paradise" and that sucked... and as for Kekaula.. bleh.

[Linkmeister]

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I'd also like to see rushhour on H-1 (seven lanes, gridlocked, westbound prior to the Pearl City offramp) on network TV, at least once!

It's supposed to be escapist!

[Linkmeister]

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I haven't watched it, so I'm curious. Have they done any plot lines about white-collar crime? Like, say, City Council members enriching themselves illegally and being collared and sent to jail?

[Lolo Paka]

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..heh heh.. gee.. I think I have the plot synopsis for a few "council member" stories....

while they're at it:

1. Council Member that holds private marriages at his house for Japanese Tourist.. yet refuse to pay tax on it!!! then the team can assault his house and bring his a$$ to jail for tax evasion

2. Then, the next episode would deal with another Councilman-who decided to take a stand against porn and all adult related businesses... he even holds a pizza drive at the parking lot of a recently shut down adult establishment to show his triumph over the evils of the adult industry. All the while, the team discovers he only does this to draw attention away from all of this illegal/shady dealings like paying/employing his girl friend's son $30-40K a year even tho the dude doesn't do ANYTHING... as well as setting up an intricate kickback system for giving raises to those under him! hmmmmmmm...

..gee... another ones we can think of, "ripped from today's headlines?"

[pzarquon]

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Considering that some of us enjoy "the other side of paradise" strategy of this show, which shows a grittier, more urban Honolulu than most presentations of Hawaii, this article in yesterday's Honolulu Star-Bulletin had some lines that jumped out at me:

"It alarmed me that some people didn't see Hawaii as unspoiled," said John Kitchen, who works for Hawaii Forest & Trial, a nature adventure company on the Big Island. It's important that all travelers see Hawaii as unspoiled, Kitchen said. "We need to educate people about Hawaii and show them a Hawaii that's pristine."

Once again, the conflicting ideals of "Hawaii as actual modern state" and "Hawaii as a postcard perfect paradise" collide...