I finally got to watch the premier episode of Hawaii 5-0 and was thoroughly unimpressed. I counted no less than 10 situations taken from the "100 most over used cop show clichés" book of screen writing. The person I was watching this with was about to shoot me as I would recite lines from the show or mention how a situation would play out seconds before they would happen on the show.
The show started with the absolute most used and most disturbing and my personal least favorite motivator for the main character. The character McGarrett was brooding and angry and two dimensional. He was in the original series as well so I kind of accepted that. And then you have the obligatory divorced dad with the small child who in an upcoming episode will be put in harms way. I haven't seen any episode spoilers, I just know. It's #11 in the "100 most over used cop show clichés".
Then there was the ending where the bad guy gets his due... or does he? Tan-tan-tum!!!
We never saw the body resurface or recovered, so I predict that #34 in the "100 most over used cop show clichés" will be used sometime later and this ubber-evil baddie comes back from the dead.
Overall This show was innocuous. I tried to keep in mind that the original series had every cliché in the book as well. The original series along with such "classics" as Cannon, Barnaby (Geritol) Jones, Streets of San Francisco and Baretta were responsible for me being completely turned off the police drama until CSI hit the air. Holding this series to the reality, not the memory, of the old series is the only fair comparison. And IMHO it deserves another viewing or two.
