Okay, so– Hulu has eps 4, 12, and 13 of Hawaii 5-0, so I guess those are the ones I'm going to watch.
Just watched ep 4. I'm pleased with the authenticity in general... they do a good job about not fucking around with the locations, and they serve up some local color in small bites, digestible by a mainland/international audience. The extras and small parts are all obviously local actors... which makes sense for cheaper casting, but. It's nice to see.
I had trouble buying Steve's supposed localness. I mean, okay, not every kama'aina haole has a pidgin accent (my family generally doesn't), but he had a faint extra accent that didn't belong. I looked up the actor and he's Australian. So I guess he's got one "American" accent in his repertoire, and that's the one he's doing, nevermind that it's out of place in the islands. XD;
I lol'd when they supposedly went to Moloka'i (it was still very obviously O'ahu, including one very obvious landmark and one less-obvious but recognizable one). I was pleased when Detective Kelly said it was a bad idea to drink the stream water, but they definitely dramatized the heck out of that– leptospirosis is a problem statewide, not just on Moloka'i, and symptoms would take days or weeks to appear, if at all, not guaranteed kicking in in an hour.
Overall... yeah, Steve and Danny (lol, I love that he doesn't want to be called Danno... "Book 'em, Danno" is a classic line) have some pretty good banter, but it doesn't really grab me the way, for instance, Peter and Neal did. The writing in the show doesn't grab me either... it's rather thoroughly mediocre, in my opinion. But they haven't done anything bad, and in fact they're being very careful with authenticity, so I don't have to march over to the set and start punching people. ;) And it's highly enjoyable for the "locate that Hawaiian landmark!" game, which I (and everyone in Hawaii) love to play whenever something's filmed here.
I'll watch those other two episodes and see what I think. I doubt I'll be going out of my way to watch it, but I don't hate it, and on the whole I'm fairly pleased, so.
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Date: 2011-01-05 12:50 am (UTC)Just watched ep 4. I'm pleased with the authenticity in general... they do a good job about not fucking around with the locations, and they serve up some local color in small bites, digestible by a mainland/international audience. The extras and small parts are all obviously local actors... which makes sense for cheaper casting, but. It's nice to see.
I had trouble buying Steve's supposed localness. I mean, okay, not every kama'aina haole has a pidgin accent (my family generally doesn't), but he had a faint extra accent that didn't belong. I looked up the actor and he's Australian. So I guess he's got one "American" accent in his repertoire, and that's the one he's doing, nevermind that it's out of place in the islands. XD;
I lol'd when they supposedly went to Moloka'i (it was still very obviously O'ahu, including one very obvious landmark and one less-obvious but recognizable one). I was pleased when Detective Kelly said it was a bad idea to drink the stream water, but they definitely dramatized the heck out of that– leptospirosis is a problem statewide, not just on Moloka'i, and symptoms would take days or weeks to appear, if at all, not guaranteed kicking in in an hour.
Overall... yeah, Steve and Danny (lol, I love that he doesn't want to be called Danno... "Book 'em, Danno" is a classic line) have some pretty good banter, but it doesn't really grab me the way, for instance, Peter and Neal did. The writing in the show doesn't grab me either... it's rather thoroughly mediocre, in my opinion. But they haven't done anything bad, and in fact they're being very careful with authenticity, so I don't have to march over to the set and start punching people. ;) And it's highly enjoyable for the "locate that Hawaiian landmark!" game, which I (and everyone in Hawaii) love to play whenever something's filmed here.
I'll watch those other two episodes and see what I think. I doubt I'll be going out of my way to watch it, but I don't hate it, and on the whole I'm fairly pleased, so.
AND THAT'S MY KAMA'AINA OPINION.