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Originally Posted by ResAlien
I’m waiting on a Simon & Simon reboot. I honestly don’t remember anything about the original show outside of Hawaiian shirts and Ferraris. I can’t imagine tapping into the rich mythology of the Magnum universe should be too diffficult.
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The original was a great show.
The cast had great camaraderie. Magnum was flawed and relatable, there were the ongoing bits where TC was always grudgingly tallying up the cost of gas for the chopper, and bullet holes. Magnum and Higgins had a great dynamic, Higgins typically not admitting to having any respect for Magnum, referring to his tawdry / sordid profession, like it was primarily photographing people having affairs, Magnum always having to negotiate privileges on the estate, Higgins telling those long stories, not noticing that Magnum left.
Magnum’s overdubs were as much about confiding with the viewer as about advancing the plot, and he often broke the 4th wall. The book he kept mentioning he intended to write worked for plot but also as his unfulfilled ambition.
There were some longer term dramatic arcs - for example the ongoing question whether Higgins was Robin Masters, the ongoing story of Magnum’s family - his wife that he couldn’t be with due to political reasons, his daughter who was in a car that exploded.
I can’t think of a show of that era that I liked better. It had a lot of character and was unique, I thought.
Beyond the Ferrari and shirts, there was a world class moustache
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