I usually love this show. Sure, it's not brilliant, but it's fun. The plots are usually well thought out, and the dialogue duels between Scott Cann and Alex O'Loughlin are almost always entertaining.
So what on Earth was the production company thinking when they scripted this Schlock? Are they looking to be cancelled? Personally I think they should be. Why?
Well, for one, I thought the entire Rambo-esque/ala-Chuck Norris scenes were ludicrous at best. Let's forget the fact that the production company could not take the time to properly research North Korean topography, but to show their military as a rag-tag band of ill-trained, ill-equipped thugs was a laugh. Let's be honest here: despite the fact that North Korea is (and has been) run by a lunatic - and is a repressive totalitarian regime, hell bent on the destruction of anything resembling democracy - their soldiers are anything but poorly trained and lacking in basic military discipline. More to the point, whether the NK military could stand up to a full scale onslaught by a better equipped army like the United States or The ROK is not the point here, their soldiers would never be taken lightly by any invader. Why? because they're dangerous. And taking any armed opponent lightly in a theater of military operations would be insane.
Nevertheless, this is exactly what the writers, producers, et al of Hawaii 5 O did with this episode. They sent in Steve 'Rambo' McGarrett' and his hot little Rambina girlfriend to open the proverbial can of Whoop Ass on the dumbbell North Koreans. And whoop ass they did too. Wow! what a body count they racked up. Two mighty American warriors against twenty (or was it two hundred?) stupid , cowardly - and all too willing to run directly into the path of speeding bullets - North Korean irregulars. These were not North Korean regulars. That's for sure.
Last but not least, I realize that some of the cast members are of Korean descent. And maybe they considered that this episode was just a way of poking fun at fat little Kim Jong-un, super brat. Yet regardless of the reasons given, however, I found the entire episode to be insulting to Koreans, Asians, Americans, and all of humanity as well.
Sure, I'll probably watch the show again because it's filmed on the islands and has some great looking women on it now and then. But from this day forward I will always remember this episode as the turning point in both the direction of this show and my opinion of it.
Boos, jeers, and tons of rotten tomatoes! And shame on all those associated with its production. You should all be sentenced to spend the next year doing community service at a local VA hospital for having the audacity to make fun of war and its atrocities.
So what on Earth was the production company thinking when they scripted this Schlock? Are they looking to be cancelled? Personally I think they should be. Why?
Well, for one, I thought the entire Rambo-esque/ala-Chuck Norris scenes were ludicrous at best. Let's forget the fact that the production company could not take the time to properly research North Korean topography, but to show their military as a rag-tag band of ill-trained, ill-equipped thugs was a laugh. Let's be honest here: despite the fact that North Korea is (and has been) run by a lunatic - and is a repressive totalitarian regime, hell bent on the destruction of anything resembling democracy - their soldiers are anything but poorly trained and lacking in basic military discipline. More to the point, whether the NK military could stand up to a full scale onslaught by a better equipped army like the United States or The ROK is not the point here, their soldiers would never be taken lightly by any invader. Why? because they're dangerous. And taking any armed opponent lightly in a theater of military operations would be insane.
Nevertheless, this is exactly what the writers, producers, et al of Hawaii 5 O did with this episode. They sent in Steve 'Rambo' McGarrett' and his hot little Rambina girlfriend to open the proverbial can of Whoop Ass on the dumbbell North Koreans. And whoop ass they did too. Wow! what a body count they racked up. Two mighty American warriors against twenty (or was it two hundred?) stupid , cowardly - and all too willing to run directly into the path of speeding bullets - North Korean irregulars. These were not North Korean regulars. That's for sure.
Last but not least, I realize that some of the cast members are of Korean descent. And maybe they considered that this episode was just a way of poking fun at fat little Kim Jong-un, super brat. Yet regardless of the reasons given, however, I found the entire episode to be insulting to Koreans, Asians, Americans, and all of humanity as well.
Sure, I'll probably watch the show again because it's filmed on the islands and has some great looking women on it now and then. But from this day forward I will always remember this episode as the turning point in both the direction of this show and my opinion of it.
Boos, jeers, and tons of rotten tomatoes! And shame on all those associated with its production. You should all be sentenced to spend the next year doing community service at a local VA hospital for having the audacity to make fun of war and its atrocities.