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the_other_sandy) wrote2013-02-04 10:37 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2013-02-04 10:37 pm
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H50 Ep: Hookman
What do you know? An episode I might actually have a shot at remembering the name of.
Unfortunately, the gimmick of it being a remake of an original Hawaii Five-O episode might be the most memorable thing about it.
I had a feeling Peter Weller was going to be the director tonight. Lately, every time I've seen him act in an episode of something, he was also that episode's director. He did a good job of recreating the feel of a 1970s television episode, but that was also kind of the problem. Television shows were shot very differently back then, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that performances were much more stagey and mannered back then. You really felt like you were watching actors perform roles, which is what I felt tonight instead of feeling like I was watching my favorite characters do stuff that mattered to them. I would really have preferred it if Weller had taken the original episode as a jumping off point and put a modern stamp on it, like TPTB did with the theme song. On the other hand, you never would have seen a policewoman save the original Steve McGarrett from a criminal who had a personal vendetta against him, so go, Kono. And also Peter Weller is a badass and I adore him, so it was nice to see him again.
I liked the scenes between Steve and Danny. For all that Danny is generally Ranty McRantypants, he knows how to tone it down when Steve needs him to be calm. His worry did make a couple of rants leak out, but he was even ranting calmly for the most part.
Other scenes didn't transition as well to the 2010s. Curt Stoner didn't leave fingerprints because of his prosthetic hands? Of course! That makes so much sense! Because real criminals in this day and age never wear gloves, so the no fingerprint thing was baffling up until that point. Also? The ghost thing at the end was hokey.
And Steve had better be happy that I'm not Curt Stoner. Stoner lost his hands to a blasting cap. Which means he knows how to use blasting caps. When Stoner told Steve to open the drawer under the phone to see who the next victim would be, I fully expected the drawer to explode in Steve's hands, which would rather clearly convey who the next victim was going to be, and which is exactly what I would have done if I were a revenge-driven homicidal maniac.
All in all, the episode was a cool idea unmemorably executed.I'm deeply disappointed that LJ won't let me use 'meh' as a mood anymore, because I totally would have used it tonight. [Sorted, thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shanachie_quill.]
Unfortunately, the gimmick of it being a remake of an original Hawaii Five-O episode might be the most memorable thing about it.
I had a feeling Peter Weller was going to be the director tonight. Lately, every time I've seen him act in an episode of something, he was also that episode's director. He did a good job of recreating the feel of a 1970s television episode, but that was also kind of the problem. Television shows were shot very differently back then, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that performances were much more stagey and mannered back then. You really felt like you were watching actors perform roles, which is what I felt tonight instead of feeling like I was watching my favorite characters do stuff that mattered to them. I would really have preferred it if Weller had taken the original episode as a jumping off point and put a modern stamp on it, like TPTB did with the theme song. On the other hand, you never would have seen a policewoman save the original Steve McGarrett from a criminal who had a personal vendetta against him, so go, Kono. And also Peter Weller is a badass and I adore him, so it was nice to see him again.
I liked the scenes between Steve and Danny. For all that Danny is generally Ranty McRantypants, he knows how to tone it down when Steve needs him to be calm. His worry did make a couple of rants leak out, but he was even ranting calmly for the most part.
Other scenes didn't transition as well to the 2010s. Curt Stoner didn't leave fingerprints because of his prosthetic hands? Of course! That makes so much sense! Because real criminals in this day and age never wear gloves, so the no fingerprint thing was baffling up until that point. Also? The ghost thing at the end was hokey.
And Steve had better be happy that I'm not Curt Stoner. Stoner lost his hands to a blasting cap. Which means he knows how to use blasting caps. When Stoner told Steve to open the drawer under the phone to see who the next victim would be, I fully expected the drawer to explode in Steve's hands, which would rather clearly convey who the next victim was going to be, and which is exactly what I would have done if I were a revenge-driven homicidal maniac.
All in all, the episode was a cool idea unmemorably executed.
shanachie_quill.]