Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nLately, I\u2019ve been watching the reboot of \u201cHawaii 5-0\u201d on Netflix.\u00a0 Started out as a typical cop show with the usual shoot-outs and chase scenes, but the real value of the show was the scenery.\u00a0 No, not island volcanoes and surfboards; every dialogue scene featured the main characters standing on the beach talking in the foreground while bikini-clad hotties paraded behind them. \u00a0After a while, it became amusing \u2013 apparently the beaches in Hawaii have nothing but hotties.\u00a0 Where are the pasty beach whales from Minnesota, desperate to get their 5-day tan before the vacation ends?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Now that I\u2019m into Season 3, the scenery has changed.\u00a0 Lots of flying over rain forests and aerial views of high-rise hotels, nowhere near as much background beach action.\u00a0 And the storyline has changed, too, not as many chase-them-until-you-shoot-them action scenes, more trouble-with-her-boyfriend and who-will-get-custody drama.\u00a0 I started out watching Starsky and Hutch but now I\u2019m watching General Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>I suspect it\u2019s a deliberate shift away from Guy Show over to Chick Flick.\u00a0 They\u2019ve ruined it.\u00a0 I\u2019m done watching before they go full Law and Order, preaching the blessings of gun control, the evil of Christianity and the absolute necessity of whatever \u2018right\u2019 is the fad today.<\/span><\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I suspect a writers room full of people who want to write Something Meaningful. \u00a0With predictable results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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