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发帖数: 29846 | 1 'Hawaii Five-0' Targets North Korea, Leaves Out Storytelling Logic
This week's episode of Hawaii Five-O correctly portrayed North Korea as a
brutal, isolated nation that harbors terrorists.
But the CBS show's latest installment, which aired on the 101st birthday of
North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, jumped the shark all the way over the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and into fantasyland.
(Episode Spoilers Ahead)
The episode, dubbed Olelo Pa’a, opens with McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and
his Naval Intelligence officer girlfriend Catherine (Michelle Borth)
waiting on the South Korean side of the DMZ for an exchange to take place.
The U.S, State Department has spent the past three years negotiating to
retrieve the remains of a Navy SEAL who was lost on a clandestine mission
several years ago. Naturally, the missing SEAL was a friend of McGarrett’s,
who was on that mission with him.
After receiving what he thinks are his friend’s remains back to a South
Korean airbase, McGarrett opens the casket and immediately realizes the
remains aren't his old friend (the body doesn’t have a tattoo on its
forearm). He tells Catherine he’s going into North Korea to retrieve his
friend, and instead of talking him out of it, she insists on joining him.
The usual calling in of favors ensues, and they acquire weapons and easily
sneak into the North with the help of Jimmy Buffett playing pilot Frank Bama
. Then they just happen to encounter a North Korean that McGarrett and his
buddy exchanged fire with on his previous mission, and they eventually find
the remains in question.
This is where a sane person would grab the body and head for home before
they’re discovered in an isolated nation where everyone hates Americans.
But upon digging up his friend’s remains McGarrett sees that they’ve been
desecrated (his knees and elbows are shattered and he’s been shot in the
head), and he decides he’s got to get revenge.
Once again, instead of telling him that they should take the body and go,
Catherine simply follows McGarrett as he switches from recovery to vendetta
mode.
A predictable, yet unbelievable, firefight against 10 guys with AK-47s
results, where no one gets hit, the two of them are captured and taken to
the terrorist camp where, of course, the guy McGarrett wants to kill
presents himself. Our heroes get free, seize some weapons and McGarrett
kills the guy that desecrated his friend’s body. Just like it would happen
in real life.
A good action show gives you great exploits, exciting fight scenes and tests
the bounds of reality. But once it takes you to a place where the viewer
can’t suspend their disbelief it becomes difficult, even tedious, to watch.
Hawaii Five-O went far, far past that point in this episode.
It’s always refreshing when a network show shoves political correctness
aside and calls out the bad guys for who they are. But making it seem as
though two Americans with AK-47s could infiltrate North Korea and take on a
small army by themselves then escape back over the border undetected belies
the paranoid, police state that North Korea actually is and makes them seem
incompetent and almost cartoonish. | b*s
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: 'Hawaii Five-0' Targets North Korea, Leaves Out Storytelling Logic
: This week's episode of Hawaii Five-O correctly portrayed North Korea as a
: brutal, isolated nation that harbors terrorists.
: But the CBS show's latest installment, which aired on the 101st birthday of
: North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, jumped the shark all the way over the
: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and into fantasyland.
: (Episode Spoilers Ahead)
: The episode, dubbed Olelo Pa’a, opens with McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and
: his Naval Intelligence officer girlfriend Catherine (Michelle Borth)
: waiting on the South Korean side of the DMZ for an exchange to take place.
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