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kapuahiSo, I'm convinced I'm either in an alternate reality or I honestly have a different feed to half the viewing world because seriously, what the everloving fuck, dude!
More Fodder for the Alex O’Loughlin Fan Club Department: Some of the actor’s fans gave me crap for celebrating his absence from “Hawaii Five-0” (I rejoiced because 1. He’s a wooden actor who starred in two previous flops and should never have been given the role of Steve McGarrett and 2. Without him in a few episodes, more Asian Americans — you know, the majority of the 50th state who “somehow” get overlooked even on this show — got more air time).
When the “Hawaii Five-0”/“NCIS-LA” crossover was announced a few months ago, only two of the former’s cast were going to fly to L.A.: O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. Because, after all, what screams “Hawaii” more than two haoles who never lived there before, right? (For those of you paying attention, yes, I’m being extremely sarcastic.) With O’Loughlin taking a leave of absence to deal with some murkily described prescription medication problem, Caan and Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly) made the trip. As a result, it looked and felt like a much more authentic crossover.
Unfortunately, O’Loughlin was back last week. We were “treated” to a lot of Asian characters in the form of arch nemesis Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) and the yakuza (yay?). At least the producers gave Kono (Grace Park) an Asian love interest in Adam Noshimuri (the fantastic Ian Anthony Dale). Still, that made no sense because she knows he’s the son of a yakuza member (Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Adam had pulled a gun on McGarrett trying to seek revenge on a man he believed killed his father (he wasn’t dead, his death was faked, but now, it turns out, he really is dead; oh, never mind!).
Previews for this week’s season finale claimed that a member of the team was going to die. We saw Masi Oka get shot, but I figured if they showed that in the clip, it was probably a red herring. Sure enough, he survived. And although a bound Kono got thrown overboard into the ocean, I’m sure she’ll survive (we’ll have to wait until September to find out). Nah, the one who “bought it” wasn’t even a member of the team but a tough cop played by Tom Sizemore. Fine with me. Bye bye.
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More Fodder for the Alex O’Loughlin Fan Club Department: Some of the actor’s fans gave me crap for celebrating his absence from “Hawaii Five-0” (I rejoiced because 1. He’s a wooden actor who starred in two previous flops and should never have been given the role of Steve McGarrett and 2. Without him in a few episodes, more Asian Americans — you know, the majority of the 50th state who “somehow” get overlooked even on this show — got more air time).
When the “Hawaii Five-0”/“NCIS-LA” crossover was announced a few months ago, only two of the former’s cast were going to fly to L.A.: O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. Because, after all, what screams “Hawaii” more than two haoles who never lived there before, right? (For those of you paying attention, yes, I’m being extremely sarcastic.) With O’Loughlin taking a leave of absence to deal with some murkily described prescription medication problem, Caan and Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly) made the trip. As a result, it looked and felt like a much more authentic crossover.
Unfortunately, O’Loughlin was back last week. We were “treated” to a lot of Asian characters in the form of arch nemesis Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) and the yakuza (yay?). At least the producers gave Kono (Grace Park) an Asian love interest in Adam Noshimuri (the fantastic Ian Anthony Dale). Still, that made no sense because she knows he’s the son of a yakuza member (Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Adam had pulled a gun on McGarrett trying to seek revenge on a man he believed killed his father (he wasn’t dead, his death was faked, but now, it turns out, he really is dead; oh, never mind!).
Previews for this week’s season finale claimed that a member of the team was going to die. We saw Masi Oka get shot, but I figured if they showed that in the clip, it was probably a red herring. Sure enough, he survived. And although a bound Kono got thrown overboard into the ocean, I’m sure she’ll survive (we’ll have to wait until September to find out). Nah, the one who “bought it” wasn’t even a member of the team but a tough cop played by Tom Sizemore. Fine with me. Bye bye.
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