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I’m So Excited...

So it’s just over a week left until new episodes, we got a summary and some fun ep. stills  a few days ago and I’m SOO ready for 2x15! Especially in these dark corona days, I’m just happy to be happy about something! I can’t wait for the promo which should drop any day now and then some actual Magnum PI! It’s been so long I almost forgot what watching a new episodes is like!

Now I just hope we get some more of these looks

and these 

maybe some of this

Anyways, I just felt excited for the week and wanted to share! Hope you’re all well and hanging in there! 

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it’s all in the 👀

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Season 3, Episode 22: “The Big Blow”

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Review of X-Over Event - Hawaii Five-0 & Magnum PI

OMG I loved it so much.

That’s it. That’s the whole review!

No, but seriously, both of these were super enjoyable to watch. I haven’t watched Hawaii Five-0 since like season 1 but this kinda made me want to (which is the point of crossovers I know, so success!) and the Magnum episode!!!

Can we just, like, appreciate the Miggy in this one? Like if I didn’t ship it so hard, I’d probably be (very annoyedly) throwing up rainbows from how many Magnum/Higgins moments there are and how freaking sweet and amazing they were! 

First, we get the opening scene which is just adorable!

And then the end? 

For a second I was all “oh no way, they’re gonna dance too?” but then TC is all “Wanna dance Higgy baby?” and it’s just even better than if she’d danced with Magnum because of the looks and the smiling. 

And this! the way he looks at her and...I’m just gonna re-watch that scene like 100 times.

I loved (in no particular order)

The phone call.

Magnum being all proud “she’s a ex-spy”.

All the Miggy arguments.

All the Miggy looks.

Rick asking Nyssa al Ghul out...I mean Quinn Liu (also, how is Katrina Law so freaking stunning, it’s not fair to the rest of the world). 

As illustrated above - the blanket opening scene, golden, and the end scene at La Mariana. Especially Higgins being all “I think you’re even more awesome than McGarrett“ and the looks there. They were amazing.

Higgins not being able to hack into something for once. Because she might be awesome but she’s not all-powerful (and she shouldn’t have to be.)

Gordon actually getting to be in the know! Yes with the trust!

Higgy being all shary and encouraging with the whole “I’d still would have done it all over with Richard” despite him dying, which I think shows she’s realizing even with the hurt there is a lot of good stuff and is moving on.

Miggy office romance talk at the end, also amazing.

The Ferrari’s tires being shot out!

McGarrett + Magnum team-up!

Spill the tea! (Higgins not knowing what this meant felt kind of silly but it was so adorable “because I’m British?” that I just have to put it on the good-list.)

Didn’t love

How Higgins and Quinn just stood around when they realized they were about to be shot when the SD-card was opened without doing anything. I feel Higgins with her spy training should have gone “our backup just checked the van he’s not there. give us the card back” for a distraction and Magnum could have done his kick-ass stuff. IDK, all of them should have done something more than just stand around and wait to be shot.

The Adam Noshimuri character being thrown in there. I get it made sense for Hawaii Five-o viewers but that kind of threw me a little, even with the intro in the beginning.

Felt like I missed something with the girls not actually getting McGarrett text that the CIA were coming at the start of the Magnum episode.

How they just got rid off the whole Five-o gang. Couldn’t they have done one or two scenes? I get that the mains there have fancy contracts and stuff but come on, but seriously? I’m feeling a little salty about it.

Overall I just enjoyed the heck out of both of these and I can’t wait to re-watch them! 

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This scene...

Magnum: Do you really hate losing that much?

Juliet: It's not that I mind losing. It's just for some reason, I do mind losing - to you. I'm not sure why.

(Me: I have some ideas!!!!)

Magnum: Well, if you want a re-match. It's your house, your estate, your alarm system. You can test it out whenever you want.

(Me: Also Magnum. He's also yours. You may also test him out any time you want.)

Juliet: I might take you up on that.

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Higgy Suddenly Marrying TC Makes Zero % Sense - Rant

So this was going to be part of my weekly review. But I decided to just make this little rant post to get it out of my system...

Basically, as the title says: 

Juliet switching to marrying TC is totally senseless (and makes it more likely that they’d get caught) and here are the reasons why...

A) they’ve been telling people she and Magnum are getting married and started planning their wedding!!! You can’t just switch it around like that! I mean if anything is going to raise red flags, switching grooms 5 days before the wedding is! 

Cake topper! Too good! 

B) as business partners they have spent time together and have a legit reason to have fallen in love and lots of things such as phone calls and being undercover (for “dates” and going on love tours) to make it believable. 

(Fun fact: Almost 40% of people have dated a co-worker and 14 %of marriages are between co-workers.) 

So while Juliet and TC are friends, anyone looking into the amount of contact they’ve had compared to her and Magnum would realize something was fishy.

C) Gordon’s point that ‘they’ll talk to your clients, you’ll have to keep it up all the time‘ is stupid. 

First of all, two people about the same age who can show they know each other and have a relationship - where the “spouse” is coming from the UK...my first thought is - no one is going to investigate too much. 

Maybe marrying someone you’ve never met from Russia is going to make the government pull out the big guns and go round asking questions. But someone who has been in the US, lived at the same address as their new spouse, is educated, has a job… I don’t think the government will spend too much of their time trying to prove it ‘fake’. As much as I love “The Proposal” the US government isn’t sending agents (or kittens) out to stalk you halfway across the country to prove your relationship isn’t real.

Second if they were going to investigate, why would they interview their clients? Friends and family for sure, but just like Magnum points out when the girl is all “you don’t seem like your getting married” “we like to stay professional”. 

Which makes sense and is a legit explanation! If you date someone at the office, your not going to pull them in for a kiss at the end of the Monday meeting, are you? Geesh! Same would go if you run your own small PI business.

D) What was the thing with “I asked another friend” bit Juliet pulled there at the end? She should have just gone, “I asked TC and he said he’d do it”. 

I mean I guess they were going to have a bit of a fun “Reveal” with the banner being re-done (like in the set photos), but either I missed it or the cut that scene.

She should also have talked to him about her concerns. I mean she tried, so I’ll give her that, but this made me annoyed. I know they’re doing it for DRAMA but Jay is just too good at making sad puppy dog face whenever Higgy does something to make Magnum sad. 

So I just felt sad for Magnum and like Higgy was kind of the bad guy even though it was clearly a tough choice for her and she was doing it to protect him and keep their partnership intact. Still not really fully motivated for me and I don’t like because I want to understand the motivation of both my babies even when I only agree with one of them…

Now, I’ll forgive them for this stupid plot-line if something good (like lots of Miggy feels) comes from it, which I think it might (why else do it?). I also don’t think Higgy and TC will actually get married as that would make things waaay to complicated when Miggy does happen (and love it or hate it, you gotta agree that that is kind of where things are going.) 

But then there is this, so I just don’t know!  

In the end I think either Robin saves the day or Magnum (we do have this from the 2x20′s summary: ....Magnum makes one last bold move to help Higgins stay in the country) which will be interesting for sure! 

So that was my rant! What are your thoughts?

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Magnum PI - 2x15 -  Say Hello to Your Past review

MAGNUM IS BACK!

(Literally my expression when watching the episode!)

Oh Magnum PI, I have missed you. And this episode gave me everything I love most about this show; Miggy banter and working together, a case that made sense (if you like always, decided to ignore how improbable it was), a little tie in with a personal issue with a character and some solid feels at the end. A little less time spent in cars (which is like 90% of this episode) would have made it complete perfection!

I loved Higgins on a horse and her picking Magnum up on it was hilarious. (Ride together, die together - that should have been the name of the episode).

I feel like their banter was so on point this week (did you just say the O-word? I’ll tell Milo to steal a more unique car next time shall I? play times over) and I just all around love when they’re working as partners and they’re listing and compromising with each other. Sometimes I honestly love that more than the episodes we’re they have a little bit of conflict and then resolve it with a cute moment at the end...I do love that a lot though. I guess I just enjoy them whatever they’re doing. 

Also, random side note: hot damn, Perdita Weeks in riding pants. Also damn, I need to go on a diet and learn to do squats so I can look half as good.

The case this week is pretty much a random and improbable as most of Magnum PI’s cases. I did kind of find it a bit predictable, like is everyone ever accused of killing someone innocent? Maybe on Hawaii, but, like, is there that many murders in Hawaii that the police don't even look around a little when a guy says he’s innocent? How did he end up on Robin’s estate just when Kumu was out walking? Where were the lads? Why would he kidnap her if he was a good guy? Just to have someone drive him, that’s not very nice and also just why do women keep getting murdered (fun fact: almost 80% of murder victims are male). 

It’d would have been interesting if the guy actually wasn’t innocent and Gordon was right he was just trying to get some reasonable doubt / buy time. Or if it had been a lady kidnapper? Like IDK, just change it up a little? 

At the same time they did subvert the normal happy ending by having Milo die which I actually thought was really well done. I’m also happy my precious baby Juliet got to hug someone even if it wasn’t Magnum!

Yeah... this episode went by so fast but in a good way and I just feel like it hit all it’s beats just right! And the end - both with Kumu and her not-daugther and the bit after (where Magnum have apparently added six miles to the car’s mileage thingie(?) by driving around backwards in a circle) - left me feeling happy and carefree (which is really nice in these dark days).

My favorite scene (other than the end and Magnum and Higgy on a horse) was Gordon laying into Magnum telling him how he thought he’d learned his lesson and stuff. And how out of the two of them maybe Higgins has earned his trust a little but not Magnum...

and we got this face 

But then Higgy is all “actually Magnum wanted to call you” because she know that his friendship with Gordon is a big deal and she can’t stand Magnum having sad puppy dog face...

Gordon is like... alright, since Magnum was going to call me I guess I’ll help and Magnum perks right up. Sometimes, honestly, I’m not sure who Magnum wants to date the most out of these two 🤣.

Anways, getting some of Kumu’s past was interesting too and I hope that maybe we’ll get to see more of her husband’s daughter. First I thought it was Melissa O'Neil from this Syfy show Dark Matter (and now the Rookie?) because she looked so familiar. Then I realized it’s MONA from Pretty Little Liars! 

Small world!

But they should do something more with this story line. Maybe one of the women from the family center needing a PI to help with something? Or someone steals the fund raising money or something? That’s be interesting and maybe a bit different! If that doesn't happen I’m writing a fan fic about it!

Overall I just over all enjoyed the heck out of this episode and can’t wait for the undercover episode next week!

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My Favorite to Least Favorite Episodes of Magnum PI Season 2 So Far

I know no one asked for this but I was rating the episodes in my head for a post-Christmas re-watch and I thought I might as well write it out and share... 

(I also just wanted a reason to look at some of all the amazing Miggy gifts from this season!)

Nr. 1

2x01 - Payback for Beginners

I loved the premier. It had all my favorite things. Fun case with a bit of a twist, Magnum & Higgings banter, some fun snark from Rick and TC and just an all-around good and fun feeling. Possibly because it’s the first episode of the season (I always get flashbacks to how excited I was for season 2 when watching it!) or just because it was awesome. Both are equally possible. Also, the Miggy was strong with this one, always a bonus! 

Nr. 2

2x09 - A Bullet Named Fate

This episode, where Harry gets shot, we got Magnum and Higgy following his tracks and then finding out about the kidnapped girl. I just enjoy the shit out of it. I’m not sure exactly why because I didn’t love it as much the first time around but on the re-watches, it has really grown on me and is now one of my faves.

Nr. 3

2x08 - He Came by Night

This is the episode where Magnum takes the case without asking Higgy first and is possibly the most shippy episode of the season (other than maybe the Secret Room) in my opinion. But I don’t just love it for the Miggy but this has one of the subplots I rather enjoyed most this season, the one with the veteran lying about his identity.

Nr. 4

2x02 - Honor Among Thieves

Jin is fun on the first watch. On the second and third, not as enjoyable. I did like a lot of the banter in this episode and Magnum trying to talk Higgy into becoming his partner. Also TC + Rick’s trying to get a loan and then partner up is really amazing and feels relevant to what is going on with Magnum, which the subplots don’t always do.

Nr. 5

2x07 - The Man in the Secret Room

So in this one the case itself isn’t super in focus, but I don’t mind one bit. I love mopey Magnum and everyone trying to be supportive in their own ways, the guys with funny dog vidoes, Higgins with tough love and just being there and Gordon by just actually saying he’s sorry.

Nr. 6

2x06 - Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kill

Magnum is just so happy at the start and then his poor little heart gets crushed by the end. This one just like the episode after (2x07) isn’t as cased focus but more character-focused which I like a lot. It was a little over the top on the Miggy (which I should have liked but annoyed me on the re-watches for some reason.)

Nr. 7

2x03 - Knight Lasts Forever

I really liked a few bits of this (I think you can guess which bits...the miggy ones of course) but after the midseason finale, I feel like the Ivan storyline is just ‘mewwe’, so this ep. lost some of its enjoyability.

Nr. 8

2x10 - Blood Brothers

This one had a lot of really amazing moments and even though I have some issues with flashbacks I actually enjoyed this one more on the re-watch for some reason. 

Nr.  9

2x04 - Dead Inside

There was nothing wrong with this episode, but there was just a few too many things going on somehow for them to all have enough to fully develop. Gordon and his feels about drugs, the different suspects, Magnum / Higgins just having teamed up and still ironing things out, then the subplot of looking for the missing football player’s stolen Ipad. Confused Higgy and Magnum and Gordon having some little moments at the football game was a great ending though...

Nr. 10 

2x05 - Make It 'Til Dawn

Suffering a little from the same thing as the one above. There are four separate stories; Higgy and Rick at the haunted house, Magnum and Jin on the hunt for the bail jumper, Gordon and his partner after the serial killer and TC and Kumu at the sacred site. Even though Magnum+Higgins+Gordon+Jin plots sort of merge together it still feels both too coincidental and too random for me to truly love it.

Nr. 11

2x11 - Day I Met the Devil

Yeah, so the midseason finale was the episode I liked the least. Ivan was a huge disappointment, the whole Magnum on random team planing on kidnapping the weapons dealer thing didn’t draw me in and while the team coming to get Magnum was nice I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d hoped. Maybe I just had too high expectations. 

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That’s my list in order of how much I like the episodes of the first half of the second season, just in time for the crossover episode later today!

I’d love to hear how you’d rate the season 2 episodes we have had so far!

Also, happy new year! Can you believe it’s 2020 already? 

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“Are you saying I complete you?”

“Professionally, yes.“

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“Two things,. First, you don’t even like scotch and secondly... if your heart was actually broken, you’d be dead.“

-Juliet Higgins (2x07)

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Magnum PI 2x09 - A Bullet Named Fate

Starting off with the title, which I, unlike last week, LOVE to DEATH. This is a proper good Magnum PI title. Only alternative title I’d be willing to accept is “I’m A Bad Influence”

Only that wouldn’t be quite right, because as of late, I feel like Magnum is actually the most mature of them all. We got Gordon punching people, we got Rick randomly quitting his job and buying a bar, Higgins throwing caution (and Britishness) to the wind to partner up with Magnum (for Higgins, that is full-on crazy), her being all passive-aggressively salty about Magnum taking a case against her wishes and now randomly opening a bottle of Robin’s wine. Also, TJ and Kumu getting arrested (for standing up for what they believe in, so I guess that’s good but still.) 

Meanwhile, we got Magnum asking Higgins to become his partner because she makes him a better detective, telling Abby they can make a long-distance relationship work (which she shut down in a second but you know, points for trying), him telling Higgins that they have to be honest with each other and talk about their problems and feelings, him trying to wine (and dine) a fancy client and then replacing a really expensive bottle of wine he broke.

Is Magnum winning at maturity this season?

I think he might be.

And I don’t mind. It’s just funny when you think about it, because Magnum keeps getting crap about how immature he is and stuff.

Anyway, on to the actual review. This week we start off with Old Guy Private Detective Harry stumbling around, bleeding, trying to reach out to Magnum. 

Serious start for an overall serious episode. 

Part of me I really loved the case this week. It was more clever and interesting than a lot of the cases have been lately. It hit all the right spots, we got poor Harry kicking things off, pulling Magnum into the case, then it twists around 100% when they find the super creepy kidnap room with the drawings and then again when we realize it’s another girl and not the daughter who is the kidnap victim. A sweet kiddy hug with Higgins and then little girl reunited with family cuteness. It ticks all the boxes for me. 

Except for the “internal conflict” (other than Magnum blaming himself we get very little of this) or emotional conflict between characters. There was no Miggy fight/ banter/disagreement. No TJ and Rick trying to get a loan/ lying vet/ moral dilemma. No worrying father figure might have cancer. So while I loved the case/plot, the emotional impact of this episode wasn’t as big for me. 

I feel like if they’d thrown in more of moment where Higgins was all “who would do this” and Magnum added “IDK, I was in isolation when I was at the POW camp, and can’t believe someone would do it to a kid” or Higgins revealing some situation where she had been in trouble as an MI6 agent and thought she’d go to jail, it would have resonated super well and added so much to the episode.

We do get some adorable Miggy moments in the basement, both at the start and at the end of the episode (I feel like this is a new standard, all episodes must now start with Magnum / Higgins and also end with them! It’s the law!)

But with all the amazing Miggy content, we’ve been getting in season 2 I think I’m getting spoiled. This was no nearly enough. If it had been any other show and my faves were all sweet and supportive (I mean this is basically Higgins give Magnum 20 hugs and telling him everything is going to be alright, in Higgins speak) after he lost a big client, I’d been ecstatic. But because I now feel entitled to at least 10 seconds of fond gazing and mixed with flirty banter every two minutes, this episode isn’t doing it for me (in the Miggy department). 

I can’t believe he actually replaced the bottle though...I mean, Higgy was maybe more shocked than I, but not by much. I feel like someone needs to write a meta (or whatever) on what the wine bottles + cellar throughout the series symbolize. Or maybe I’m overthinking it, but I feel like it’s something! I mean wine does mean happiness, friendship, and transformation (according to my two-second google search) which so totally connects with Miggy’s storyline.

As for the side-plot with Kumu, TC and Molly, I liked it, but it, as I said before, felt like it was lacking conflict between the characters. Sure, we had Molly’s mom being upset but who wouldn’t be, having to pick their 16-year-old up from the police station! but she was just som rando we don’t know (or do we?).

Who is this lady who plays Molly’s mother? Where do I recognize her from? Who does she look like? Please send help!

So while the side plot was cute and I kind of liked it, just like a lot of the side plots, it doesn't tie in with either theme or the case of the episode. I really would like to know if there is a plan for them or is it just fillers? I really don’t know what they want to do with them. 

If the focus had been all on the gang and their personal problems (like the bar getting on its feet, someone at the Cultural Center being killed and they investigate it a little each episode, Higgins making a friend at yoga or Robin master’s house having mold and now Higgins has to move in with Magnum...ooops, fan fic idea not likely show plot.) that’s been more interesting. 

The protest was a bit of follow up but I thought the construction guy was all fine and cool about the sacred site at Halloween? Now suddenly it’s being torn down/ built over? I guess people can change their minds, and also drama. This isn’t quite the connected plotline I was hoping for but at least it’s a little bit of one.

But what’s the point of side plots right now?! I know not everything has to have a meaning or come back but a little more would be fun. I mean even just something small like they’re adding a pool to Robin’s Nest, could be a fun side plot (the construction project where everything goes wrong! Also a fun FF idea).

That’s pretty much it for today! It sucks that we have to wait 2 weeks but I guess you all in America are going to be in food comas from Thanksgiving / out shopping next Friday so it makes sense we have to wait for a little! And once that one is done it’s over for this year (this decade really. Can you believe it’s 2020 in like a month and some change??)

Now for something else. Each week I tend to have a moment or two where I go um what? If it’s me being clueless, not being American or actual strange things, I don’t know. But if you know what’s going on/ have an answer, please write me a line!

Um what?

What sixteen year old is applying to college? Is this a normal thing? 

Can you arrest people for peacefully protesting? Is this a thing? What about Freedom of Speach and all that you’re semi-famous for America?

Where was the heir? The guy whose house Harry found? Magnum said at the end that they closed two cases but did they ever figure out where this guy was and why all that mail was piled up outside his house? I want to know! 

Why did you not start by checking empty listings/ properties? I mean seriously? Have you never seen an episode of anything where the bad guy is a realtor? They always hide out in empty properties! Geesh, Magnum, is it your first day on the job?

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I did a thing...

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New chapter! It's been a while but with 2x03 my ship-y vibes are just too strong to suppress!

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Wrote a Magnum / Higgins fic if anyone is in the mood, kind of angsty though!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Magnum P.I. (TV 2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Thomas Magnum / Juliet Higgins Additional Tags: Angst Summary:

Juliet Higgins likes to think up cover stories, other lives she might have lived. It’s been a habit for many years. This time she’s a average woman on holiday in Hawaii with a problem. Might if she’d met Magnum that way, things would have been different.

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“You mind if I just join you for a little bit?”

“Absolutely not!“

“I’ll be gone before you two are done with the appetizers!“

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This is just priceless!

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The Episode of Lost Opportunities AKA 2x16

SO I wrote this before watching the promo, then I did and now I know most of us are just FREAKING out about next week (and I’m freaking out the most because ummm they’remakingmyfanficintoanactual EPISODE!!! How does one deal with this????)  but if you want a break from freaking out, here are some thoughts on last night’s episode!

So even though 2x16 was perfectly enjoyable, I’m going to have to officially re-name it “The Episode of Lost Opportunities” because there were so many plots and just tid-bits they could have done great things with.

So yeah not really a review today, instead I’m going to (in true Jenny Nicholson fashion) make a numbered list of things I think they should have added /done something with, in no particular order.

Miss nr. 1. Not having Higgy tease Magnum back with British pet names. I’m honestly devastated by this. Like what would a little sarcastic “come on luv” or a “Dearie, come here” from Juliet have cost them? The closest we got was Babe take our selfie.

Nr. 2. Not having Mr. Dorky Helpful But Cute guy ask Higgy out. I really thought this was where it was going with him being all “it’s just our second date, we met online” and yeah even though he looked about 12, it would have fit the episode. 

Plus they could have had Magnum standing to the side gesturing like “go for it” and her either saying yes or no and later her and Magnum having a little chat about it. The Yes with him being all “I convinced you to do it” proud and also mildly jealous. The No, with her being all “he’s a suspect” or “he went on a love bus tour!” or “I’m not ready, bc of the dead fiance, remember him?”

Nr. 3. Which takes us neatly to - drowned guy should be bringing up some feelings for Juliet as I’m fairly certain back in Day of The Viper they mention something about how Richard washed up on the shores of something-something (I mean obvs he was shot before but I’d still imagine some associations there).

Also her own almost drowning in 1x19 (even if this episode’s dude wasn’t drowned, it did seem so at first and he was still in the water). I just feel maybe there could have been some feelings here that our favorite duo actually talked about. Just a nice little call back to either one of those would have been great. One line! Is that too much to ask for?

Nr. 4 on the list of missed opportunities is for me going to be Theresa (Teresa?). TC’s old flame. And this is a big one! 

I honestly would have loved it if they went with this - as in have him not be so damned noble and let the childhood sweetheart go. Like, why not have them actually try to make a go at it?

Maybe she could have been there with just her boyfriend rather than husband to make it less of a thing and then maybe give it an episode or two and have them talk over the internet before she comes back and they get back together! Because why can’t anyone have a girlfriend? Like why do all of the guys need to be such lone wolves? 

I mean, I get it, because they are a family/brothers, but having even just one more minor female recurring would be interesting and would add dimension to the gang and characters!

Now this is like one of those random side plots that don’t really do much because in the end nothing has changed. Other than us learning a little more about TC, which is nice, but it doesn't seem like it will actually impact future episodes and didn’t really connect a whole lot with the episode. TC is just off getting closure to a relationship we never knew he needed closure for. Which means we’re not super invested.

I feel like this is a bit of a problem with the show in general. We get really nice and moving and character developing stuff for characters we haven’t been shown to need, as with Kumu last week and now TC. Rick and his dying “dad” Ice-Pick and even Shammie with his lying army buddy. Even Gordon and his son. Jin and his sisters and that’s why he steals.

These things could all have had 100 times more impact if they’d established these problems/ relationships earlier. Like if we had learned Kumu's husband had cheated on her and had a child with another woman (or maybe that Kumu is a bit sad she never had kids on her own) sometime before - over the past 30 episodes, wouldn’t last week’s episode, where she finally reaches out to the husband’s kid, would have been so much more emotionally satisfying? 

Same if Theresa had been mentioned as TC’s great love and maybe him being sad some episodes ago (or even back in 1x19 when his dad doesn't come to visit - that could have been about him seeing a post about her getting married and him being upset about it and connecting with Rick about that.) 

Like I get that maybe sometimes they just throw random things in there but at the same time why do they need to do that? Want to do that? Isn’t there someone keeping track of the big picture? Giving characters long running story arcs over a season or even multiple ones should be someone’s job. 

If it’s not, I volunteer! 

Seriously Lenkov I’m currently unemployed and totally up for it, just give me a call! I already know we think the same... (Marriage of Inconvenience). 

Nr. 5 Not having Gordon comment something on the fact that he’s been called to a murder scene on a Island Love tour bus site by his favorite PI duo. Like yeah they’d have told him why they were there but he still should have teased them about it! Like “What were you two doing here anyways? Something going on?” and both of them giving a horrified “NO!”.

Nr. 6 when the guy says “is he crazy?” after Magnum jumped into the waterfall pool thing, not having Higgy be all “Yes, he is”, then jumping in after him, was a huge miss. That would have been so funny and shown how much alike they are (even if Higgy will always be the sane one...)

Nr. 7. Not having Magnum and Higgins try to pretend to be together when the bus driver catches them. I mean come on! At least some more hand holding! Snuggling? I’m not saying to just kiss already okay maybe I am saying that.

Nr. 8. Not one real Miggy moment in this episode? I mean lots of bickering and maybe for a moment with her being all “well done” when he tells the cheating a-hole he’s an idiot for having an affair. And if the camera had stayed on him for a few seconds more when they’re toasting at the end we know we’d have gotten a Mangum looks had Higgy soft heart eyes moment. But we didn’t. But other than that, not really much feel-y moments even if we got plenty of cute stuff.

Nr. 9.  Sandy and how they find out Sandy is the killer! Like what? She cut the bus’s fuel line  which makes no sense, she’d wouldn’t want to trap herself right?  Sandy if you’d just not cut the fuel line and stayed with the group, you’d have been taken back to civilization and no one would have figured you out! Or you should have left right away on car/4-wheeler you must have prepared for escape, not stayed around! You could have left down long before the cops got there or the autopsy revealed anything. Same for why does she give her knife to her date? Why not just throw the knife away? She’s in the jungle, big chance it will be found. Not.

And why kill someone in the middle of nowhere, making yourself one of the, like, 8 suspects? Like come on girl, for a hit woman you’re not that clever. Also if you had a gun, why strangle a guy 2x your size? That’s not a smart plan either. Just get a silencer and shoot the guy when he’s on his morning jog back in the city or something! I feel like the only reason they had her be the baddie was so Magnum/ Higgins could say “Shot through the heart” // “How is that for poetic” all dramatically after Gordon took her down.

Problem nr. 10. Tied in with this I just think Sandy as the killer should have not happened. 

In fact, I think having the sweet loving wife as the killer would have been wonderful. 

It would have been a much better twist! Dead guy could have been poisoned (traditional how wive’s kill their husbands… just saying) and then he fell off the cliff. They could surely have found some weird clue to that, like maybe his throat is all swollen and stuff to make them think foul play and then when they’re moving the body towards the end, Magnum realizes it’s poison.

But Higgy stayed back with the ‘grieving’ asthmatic widow and oh no! Must rush back to save my one true love platonic partner. 

We could have had some sort emotional moment where the Wife got Higgy with a knife at her throat and is all “He was supposed to be my best friend, my partner, my everything and he did X” and Magnum being all “Well that woman you’re holding a knife to is my (best) friend, my partner and she didn’t do anything so please put the knife down!” Or something. 

I mean I know that sounds like I’m off in Miggy fanfiction land but honestly I think they could have made it work (this is hilarious when re-reading after watching next weeks trailer). She could have teased him about the best friend bit but then she could have been all soft, “Thomas. Thank you. I���m glad you're my friend.” And the episode could have ended with how love just never seems to end well for anyone which would have been way more on theme for the vibes in this episode (and frankly whole show because no one gets to have a romantic relationship for more than, like, 3 episodes).

Nr. 11. Higgins hair. Not putting it in the fluffy “Blood In the Water” style was a big miss because that hair made her look so freaking adorable. Just saying. I mean both my babies are always adorable I just love the poofy fluff hair from that ep!

Anyways, those were my 11 missed opportunities for episode sixteen!

My fave bits were Magnum and Higgins fake couple thing at the start. Magnum being all like “While we’re up here we might as well take a selfie!” and then when talking to the old couple his, *I’m just gonna keep my hand here, on your waist! I’m real smooth* move. 

I enjoyed the fast action pack-ed-ness of the whole ep and the pretty Hawaii scenery we got. The more I watch Magnum PI the more I want to visit Hawaii (one day when there is no Corona, I’m much richer and 20h airplane rides are suddenly comfortable, I will!) and just enjoying all the amazing natural beauty and stuff.

The Rick and TC’s interactions were also highlights, I loved the whole “just pretend to walk by”. Like so middle-school yet so relatable because who hasn’t done that when we’re like, is that Lisa from second grade? And just we walked down the cat food aisle perusing cat food (when we most def. don’t have a cat), just to check if it is indeed Lisa.

Also this made me crack up so hard.

Magnum: Muffin? 

Higgy: Could you please not refer to me as a breakfast pastry.

That’s just so on point for Higgy I can’t even!

You guys agree with my missed opportunities? Or have any of your own for this or any other episodes?

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(And who is desperately searching for a time machine to steal so it can be next week - right this minute!! LIKE!!! I’m still freaking out from the trailer.)