Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) Ka Laina Ma Ke One (2017) User Reviews

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[edwagreen · 8/10 · 21 January 2017]

An alleged killer seeks refuge in The Nation of Hawaii and the people there are refusing to give him up to the authorities. McGarrett and Chin are making progress until the Feds intervene. They are faced with an extremely hard-nosed leader who is ready to go in and shoot up the place, no matter who is there.

It first appears that this is a killing since one part of a robbery team got away with it, but the partner went to jail.

McGarrett and Chin have their hands full. It is as if they're fighting a two-front war.

Of course, what occurs is that our accused killer didn't do the killing, but he had gone back to thievery after being released. Watch out for his parole officer who gives him an A-1 rating. There is more to that rating than meets the eye.

Based On a Real Life Story

[ShelbyTMItchell · 8/10 · 30 May 2017]

The show sometimes goes back into time like the 2013 Pearl Harbor episode and this episode is about the Nation of Hawaii.

That is not part of the USA. And how that the Five 0 team with Chin leading this time tries to reason with the leader Bumpy, a real life character and not an actor.

The Nation is harboring a fugitive and all goes well until that of US Marshals headed by Lou Diamond Phillips. Goes in but rather than enter a turf war with the Five 0, he helps them. Nice to see him and Chin go at it. Despite the fact again, he worked with them rather than against them and gave the team until sundown over getting the fugitive.

Sure he came off hard nose and wanting the people to pay the consequences for harboring a fugitive if you stop and look at it, they were but still it was no excuse to make innocent people like the children suffer over cutting off power and food.

Hope he does come back and that the producers and writers can make him more than just a two dimensional as his character had really nothing to do.

But can the team keep their promise to avoid a possible showdown and violence?

On a lighter note, Steve has to take his driver license test and he does not have a license. Nobody would had a job as leader of a task force. If they did not have a license.

At least despite his reckless driving, he has not killed anybody. Loved it when Danny was giving him such a rough time.

It could have been MUCH better written, and had too much happen in too short a time, as usual

[jgm7683 · 6/10 · 29 January 2017]

Note: This may contain spoilers if you haven't seen the episode yet... you have been warned...

The episode rated about 6 out of 10... The stint about the license was cute, but didn't add to the story at all. It's almost like the writers needed to fill in 3-4 minutes.

Lou Diamond Phillips' character was poor, in my view. (They COULD have brought him back in as FBI Agent Ian Edgerton, from "Numb3rs", and had a backstory to his character already built!)

The episode also ended quickly - far too quick for having found new evidence, and suddenly needing to go change the way you're viewing it... an hour from sundown, suddenly you have footage, a fingerprint that you run against the entire database to come up with the guy's boss... It's all too quick. I know it's a 40-minute show and you need to fit it all in, but...

Fact is, I feel they (show writers) play far too loose with the "rules" today. It takes weeks to run DNA... not a few minutes in a lab. (NCIS) It takes hours, if not days, to run through the fingerprint database... Sure, if you have a short-list, run it against that - but the entire database? Hours to days. And the magical computer guys who can get into a corrupt hard drive or SIM card and recover the data in an hour... I bet you anything these data recovery places that charge a small fortune would LOVE to have these guys on the payroll. As it is, it can sometimes take WEEKS to recover the data.

And word to the wise - - I don't care how much they try to tell you this, there is no way to copy a terabyte of data in under two minutes on home computers. 6 G/s = 360G in 1 minute, which is 360 Gigabits - or 45 gigabytes, so 1TB would take around 22 minutes... a far cry from copying that in under two minutes... and even that's if you have a smooth 6G/s data stream, which would be extremely hard to "make happen" if you're breaking into a computer on the fly and hooking up a USB drive (which CANNOT receive 6G/s - USB3 can only do 5G/s, or 1TB in 28 minutes.... if you're lucky.)

I know they can't have someone sit there for a half hour copying one TB of data... but please, writers, make it more believable!

{There was no data copying in this episode... but that's always been a pet peeve of mine.}

The episode was enjoyable... but from a realistic stance, it was ridiculous.

"And that's all I have to say about that."