Hawaii Five-O Premier

The initial episode of the new “Hawaii Five-O” is in the books. There are familiar things like the names and McGarrett standing on the same porch during the introduction. One of the characters is now a girl and we get to see her in various stages of undress, at least as much as network TV allows. In one scene the bad guy tells her to take off her dress so that he may check for a wire. She stands in her underwear while he inspects her. This is not even hot! We do get some more of the back story of McGarrett and Danno and some of the others. I did like this, because in the old series they just show up for work and we do not know much about their real life. The traditional, “Book 'em, Danno,” scene is weak and just lacks the intensity we expect. Finally, the best part of the show is the theme music. This is cut to a few seconds, presumably to fit in more commercials, so they even deprive me of my cool tunes. Other than the opening sequence showing McGarrett as a Navy SEAL capturing a terrorist, this show is kind of uninteresting and does not take some of the best parts of the original series. I am not certain I will watch it again.