#h50 asks

[tardiscrown]

h50 asks 6, 16 and 20 - thanks.

So, I forgot to answer the questions. I'm very sorry! Anyway, let's get to it.

I'm a huge McDanno shipper so all the answers would end up in something McDanno related thing. I'm trying to answer in non McDanno. And I haven't seen s10 yet.

6. A character you could do without on the show completely

I've been thinking a long time about this question. I think it's Lori. She was there for like what ? 15 episodes ? They tried to make her a love interest for Steve, but there never really was a connection. She didn't really bring anything new to the team. But I can't really remember, I've watched s2 once and that was half a year ago,... she hasn't really sticked to my mind, so how interesting can her story line be ?

16. One thing you never understood about h50

I know, the Government gave them immunity and means, many free passes. But seriously, hanging a guy of the roof ? Tying a bloke to the hood of your car ? If they treated me like that, even if I was guilty, I'd still fill in a complaint. I mean making someone a bit afraid, okay. But nearly killing them ? It's too much. I mean they are still some kinda police force.

20. Something you choose to ignore because it ruins your personal headcanon

Okay. I tried to make all the answers not McDanno. But there is literally nothing else. Basically all of Steve and Danny's girlfriends. In my headcanon Danny and Steve started dating in s1. So yeah.

The answers are a bit short, but I suck at writing lol. I'm sorry for the delay. Thanks for asking ! :D

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H50 asks

50. That One Case you still remember vividly because it was brilliant. 

I’m not sure it was the most brilliant of cases but 5.12 (Poina 'ole) stayed with me...

because I can’t handle Islander boys locked up in hot cells and dying because of cruelty...

and it’s the first time we see Nahele...

 and it’s the ‘half baked cookie/and that’s why I love you, babe’ episode.

[mcdannoangelwolf]

Hey, obscureh50posts here! How about 13, 31, 33 and 50 for the asks? I hope I’m not repeating what you’ve already answered I’m real bad at r e a d i n g

CarHEY! No worries. You’ve only repeated one, 13, but I don’t mind answering them again if you had lol. 

13: favorite Camaro

Probably the second on, the Camaro SS. I liked the darker color and it had a more robust body.

31: if you could save one character who’s died, who would you save and why?

OMG this is such a hard one. 2 characters immediately come to mind. Joe White and Matty Williams. Gun to my head it would probably be Joe. Joe because, in my opinion. He was the best “parent” Steve had. I mean i get why John sent the kids away. I understand even why he kept his suspicions about Doris to himself all those years. But why keep his distance for all that time? I mean we’re given to understand that he didn’t try to keep much contact with Mary or Steve. Maybe I’m projecting due my own history with my dad but I can’t help but feel it was kinda cruel to keep the distance. Maybe the guilt was too much. And Doris...well that doesn’t need explanation.

Anyway Joe was there for Steve for years, decades really. He gave literally everything for and to Steve. I felt it was an unnecessary punch in the face to have him die in such a way.

33: favorite guest star

That is a 50/50 split between Clara Williams/Melanie Griffith and Deb McGarret/Carol Burnett. Both actresses are phenomenal and I loved both characters. Clara and Danny/Melanie and Scott had such an amazing mother son vibe that you could totally believe it. Deb played the slightly eccentric Aunt to a T.

50: That One Case you still remember vividly because it was brilliant.

This is another hard one for me. I would have to say it’s split between the Dr. Madison Gray arc/cases and the episode 5x19. The first because I loved Alicia and I found the character of Madison Gray extremely compelling in a morbid kind of way. She fascinated me, the way she was able to push other into committing murder/crime.

The Second, The one with the child murderer. That case/episode really hit me hard as I love kids. I have my entire adolescent/adult Life. Hell I helped raised 3 of my cousins and have babysat/cared for dozens. I briefly considered pediatric nursing before realizing how toxic the nursing field can be toward men. But that’s irrelevant.

Thank you SO much for the ask. I really love getting asks!

Doing this thing.

[cowandcalf]

Hey! Can you do 8, 11, 29, 36, 46 and 55 for asks? 🌸

Ahhh! Uhhh! Yeah, sure I remember you’re also obscureh50posts :-)There you are sending me the questions! I don’t even try to pretend I can answer them as cool and funny as you do. I’ll answer them as the nerd I am. Very serious and sticking to the rules *cracks knuckles* let’s bring it home.

8. Your notp

Jerry Ortega/Steve McGarrett - oh, wow, nope, nah, sorry. I respect the shippers who ship them and write stories for them. But I can’t feel the fire and the affection, like holy fucking shit no!

11. The episode you always skip

Ah, shoot a question at me and I draw a blank...I can’t think of a specific episode because at one point there’s Steve or Steve related material I need to see. BUT there are long moments with Lou Grover, especially non H50 stuff. All episodes which revolve around him and his time in Chicago, his former days as a cop. The way he needs to make things right, dealing with his family, his brother...it would be good material to create a storyline but Grover just bores my pants off when he does his “the world’s bad and I need to fix it and on top of that I need to talk to Will about it. Teach him a lesson.” I can’t watch it. I always skip these parts.

29. The core four or the seasons 8-10 ohana?

There’s no chance to take sides. The core four is like the glue and the baseline, the ground H50 has grown strong and famous from. I’ll always love Kono and Chin and everything they stand for. Steve and Danny have a long history with these guys and that makes it all the more special. They marched through hell and back together. They evolved as persons and they choose to go separate ways. It still hurts to have lost them but the memories float around like bubbles. I love Tani and Junior, especially Junior because he’s a SEAL and Steve needs one by his side. They rock my world too, just at a different pace. Can’t decide, love them both.

36. How many times have you rewatched the show?

I don’t rewatch the entire show. I always stop around season 5 or 6 and I start all over from the beginning. The pilot I’ve seen 10 times, 15 times I think. And the rest around 4 times? And sometimes, I just pick a single episode I love so much and watch it. My favorite seasons are season 1 to 5.

46. Max or Noelani

No one can replace Max. Noelani is great though but Max was exceptional.

55. Choose a character we don’t know dob of, and speculate on their star sign

Gah! Uhm, let’s take the shop owner from the gun shop, the one with the funny, thick glasses. From the episode where Steve wears his famous white pants and Danny rants about Steve’s obsession with guns and ammo and the one where the shop owner always asks if he might assist with the sniper on the roof across the street. Okay, he’s Virgo and he hates it. He would love the be Leo but again he’s a gun geek with a funny streak to keep all neat and tidy in his shop. He’s actually jealous of this tall guy with the dark hair and the ridiculous white pants. Virgos might wear white pants. So this buff guy must be Virgo or the unicorn-style of Cancer. The short one with the sharp tone must be Taurus. And maybe he asks again if he might be of any help. He might teach this white pants wearing guy a thing or two. *giggles*

Thank so much for the big amount of questions! It was fun to answer them for you!

[nobigsecrets]

Hello, 12 and 25 please :)

Thanks so much for your questions! :)

12. insight on h50 that you always wanted to share but were shy or unsure 

I was asked this question in another ask and I can’t think of anything tbh. While I don’t always voice my opinions loudly, I don’t hold them back either.

25. one thing you’d like to change about the whole show

The ending. I think the show should have ended with Steve and Danny together---romantically, and also phyiscally in one spot. So if I could I would change the ending and either have Steve not leave at all and stay at the beach with Danny, or I’d show Steve returning from his trip, coming back home and back to Danny.

Ask me h50 asks!

[indehed]

(15) opinion on Grace Williams

Tough one, in that I’m not entirely sure how to approach talking about a child character. I do love Grace though. In a weird way, I think she really is a product of her ‘two dads’. Hell, she and Steve really have a bond there that seems to eclipse other adult figures in her life outside of her parents.  Danny said similar in 9.12 about the influence of Steve in her life.

(Side note, Steve leaving at the end of season 10 made me so sorry for Charlie and Grace. Another disfunction in their lives with their Uncle who means so much to them and vice versa, up and leaving and we never got a goodbye for them. If Steve is gone longer than a few months then it makes me angry at him for abandoning children he purports to love so much.  I don’t care that he’s not a blood relative and is ‘just the best friend of dad’… he put himself squarely in their lives and to disappear on them is Not Cool, especially if he’s running away and not coming back. I know there are Steve fans out there who will take issue with this, but it’s how it sticks in my head. I will always be deeply unhappy about those last ten minutes for SO MANY reasons and this is one of them. It feels like he’s abandoning so many people he loves no matter the reason. Because to me, that ending was a forever leaving ending, not a back in a few months. If it was, then why the hell would the team gather and have a weepy goodbye scene?? Genuinely, I have moments since then where I actually hate Steve… but that’s all by the by).

I think Grace was woefully underused in the final 2-3 seasons. Of course, a lot of that may come down to Teilor’s relocation to Los Angeles and as she got older she was probably more expensive to use and so the show did it’s usual and backed off from characters and she pretty much disappeared without a trace in season 10. Which is ridiculous. She’s Danny’s child. You can’t disappear a character so connected to the main characters, but they did that anyway. Another casually of Lenkov’s ‘management style’… that’s a tricky well to fall down so let’s just leave it at that.

There’s so much more I wish we’d got to explore with her, not least what the hell she’s studying at university now or hell, where she is.  How on Earth that couldn’t come up in conversation in 22 episodes is beyond me. It’s also a disservice o Danny’s character, which I think stems the most of the problems. As Danny was relegated more and more, so were the Williams’ family. Who are the family I care about most on the show so not having much going on there is part of why I barely watched the show since season 5.

Also, I still wonder if in the show canon she was switched at birth considering how she looks nothing like Danny or Rachel. Not even a little bit. Casting did a stellar job there, A+ work. I don’t hold any of that against Teilor though! And she was always super cute with Scott and Alex. I’ll never understand the casting decisions made there, but at least they did a better job with casting Charlie.

[rex-o0]

Hi, 6 and 30 for the h50 ask please :3

6 - A character you could do with out on the show completely

I want to say Doris as she is a hateful person whose presence only ever causes Steve pain - but story wise I guess she needs to be there.

So who would I lose? This is actually pretty hard! Even someone as horribly irredeemable as Doris had a place - so who do I think was surplus?

(I kinda also want to say Catherine - but I feel I should really be better than that! Lol)

So I’m really not sure - of course there are tons of minor characters around for just an episode I wouldn’t miss but in terms of more prevalent characters I think I can justify the presence of all of them. But I really hate Doris. So much.

30 - If you could say one thing to one of the character, what would you say and to whom?

I would tell Steve that he is good enough just as he is. That he doesn’t need to constantly be trying to impress people who don’t care enough to see him for the fantastic human that he is.

Thank you @tardiscrown - that first one especially really made me think!

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H50 asks

28. Chin with his shotgun, Kono with her power kick, Danny with his handgun, or Steve in SEAL mode?  

Are you crazy?  Steve in full SEAL mode E V E R Y T I M E .  

I’ve grown up with hardcore military role models and smart, decisive leadership competency, deadly hand-to-hand combat skills, and knowing your way around a variety of weapons is where it’s at.  

Which is why I also love Kono so much – she’s as deadly as McGarrett at a 1/5 of his body bulk.

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H50 asks

48. Baby Steve or grandpa Steve?  

Baby Steve all the way – it’s hard to not want to wrap that vulnerable, fragile little killing machine up in your arms and shield him from the harm and hurt coming his way.  

He’s physically smaller than Grandpa Steve and I guess it’s the insane workout regime Alex was on to get into shape for the role to begin with – there’s a massive difference between pre-medical leave and post medical leave Alex in terms of his body and the smallness, especially his face, really pulls at my heartstrings.  

I feel that Grandpa Steve – despite all the trauma he goes through – has reserves that Baby Steve doesn’t have yet. Plus I like the pretty and Baby Steve is nothing if not pretty where as Grandpa Steve is moving into statesman like handsome territory.  

[mcdannoangelwolf]

For the Hawaii Five-0 ask: 3, 5, 12, 13, 29, 45 and 54!!! Sorry for so many asks, but I thought I would get them all into one ask, and the seven I chose were narrowed down from an even bigger list!!!

3: the character that makes your blood boil.

Doris. No Contest. The initial death faking I can forgive. To a point. But everything after that I can’t. She brought secrets and misery every time she came around. Her last episode, going on and on about what the job had cost her. Yet she made the choice to keep going back. She had lived off the grid once. Completely vanished save for Joe White.

5: favorite underrated character that you miss dearly.

Eric Russo. I loved him from his first introduction. I always wanted more screen time for him. More family time with him, Grace, and Danny. He could have given us so much insight into Danny’s past.

12: insight on h50 that you always wanted to share but were shy or unsure.

Honestly I can’t think of anything. I’ve always been pretty vocal about my few opinions. Even my “controversial” ones.

13: favorite Camaro.

Probably the second on, the Camaro SS. I liked the darker color and it had a more robust body.

29: the core four or the seasons 8-10 ohana?

Core!Four. I mean I love Tani and Junior. Lou is great. Adam was great. But not an episode went by that I didn’t dearly miss Chin and Kono.

45: opinion on Harry Langford .

I ADORE Harry Langford. He’s smart and funny. A refined but total bamf. Absolutely and playfully smitten with Danny, mostly just to annoy Steve. I could watch a whole series with Harry and love it just a much as I do H50.

54: one hawaiian word you like very much

It’s actually a word I never heard in the show. But i LOVE the word “Aikane” the meaning is as follows, (taken from my explanation in my Fic Nā Lāne o Pele)

Meanings of this vary. Pre-Colonial Aikane, according to my research, could mean either a Same-Sex relationship, (most between men I think), OR be used to denote individuals IN a Same-Sex relationship. Post-Colonial it was sanitized to mean Friend/Best Friend/Life friend etc.

I feel like either way you use it this word is perfect for Danny and Steve and I just love the fact that it exists to define either of these relationships.

Thank you SO much for the ask! Don’t worry about the length/number. I love getting asks. it might take me a few days but I always try to get to them.

Doing this Thing.

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H50 asks

30. If you could say one thing to one of the characters, what would you say and to whom?  

I’d ask Kono if she’d show me the best surf spot on the island and we’d spend the day just rollin in the ocean and then we’d go for beers and burgers and I’d tell/beg her not to leave – don’t go!  O’ahu will not be the same without you and the Tol & Smol really need their ohana around them at all times.

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H50 asks

52. A character you’d take with you pub crawling.  

Steve McGarrett because after 3 he’d be hilarious, of course, after 7 you’d have to call Danny to come and pick his drunk ass up – and you’d be stuck with the bill but I’m relying on the fact that EVERY bar owner knows Five-0 and I’d just put it on their tab.

53. A character you’d like to stumble upon in your kitchen, eating everything in your fridge, at 4 am.  

7 drinks in Steve McGarrett – who, when drunk, likes chocolate cookies and chocolate milk and chocolate cake and just plain chocolate; the giant goof.

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H50 asks

18. Do you remember your first impression about the show?  

Blue – which is a bit weird – but there’s a lot of blue, sunny scenery and that was my first impression.  It had that sun drenched, big blue sky feel to it.  The look was very glossy and bright and it reminded me of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts in Queensland.  I love all the ocean and surf shots – made me very homesick when I started to really watch it again this year.  

I guess when I watched it for the first time I was only half paying attention because my mother was watching it – and we’d discussed the fact that an Australian actor was starring – and I remember thinking that I couldn’t pick up on that nasal Australian accent/twangy up tick at the end of sentences when McGarrett spoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjH_IQd6cfY  - the Aussie accent is out in force here.

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H50 asks

29. The core four or the seasons 8-10 Ohana?  

The core four are the only Ohana – although, I’m pushing for the head cannon of EVERYONE being Ohana.  

BTW - Where did this look go?  Danny’s SMOKIN with this blazer look and how different is Chin in a suit rather than his brightly colored Hawaiian shirt?

Head cannon: Why can’t Steve have all of his strays and waifs around him at one time?  He and Danny, the cousins, Lori and Catherine, Lou and Jerry, Adam and Quinn, Tani and Junior – who says that H50 can’t be a 12 person team??  

I’m sure there’s enough crime in Hawaii to keep them all busy – and when Steve and Danny need to take time off - because Danny’s got Grace for 2 weeks and Steve wants to take Nahele to NASA summer camp and the four of them head off to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for a week - they leave Chin and Kono in charge while Tani and Junior look after Eddie and the house.

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H50 asks

21. Something practical you learned from the show?  

It’s not really practical - like how to make a bear trap out of tin foil and a shoe lace -  but the Kobold Phantom Black Ops watch that Steve McGarrett sometimes wears cost $4,950 – fuck me, I hope they let Alex keep it.   

And the IWC Aquatimer Chronograph IW3767-02 watch is rare - $3500 to $4000.  

https://koboldwatch.com/products/phantom-black-ops - I particularly like the blurb about the connection between Navy SEALs and the Kobold watch.

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H50 asks

12. Insight on h50 that you always wanted to share but were shy or unsure?  

I’m not sure if it’s insight – but Steve’s trigger discipline is always ON POINT. 

I’ve yet to see evidence that Alex wasn’t fully aware of the gravity of playing a Navy SEAL and because I’m wired the way I am it’s important that such details are adhered to.  

Also – can I mention something else that’s often on point – the fitted shirts – McGarrett loves his slim fit shirt; which I also appreciate.