Last night on Hawaii Five-0

Last night we learned that Steve McGarrett, played by Jack Lord in the original, was the father of the current Steve McGarrett. In the pilot, we were told that McGarrett's father was John McGarrett. We learned that both McGarrett and Chin Ho were quarterbacks in high school. Do all action heroes have to be quarterbacks? The father-son connection was revealed in a scene of the team watching a tape of McGarrett quarterbacking and his number is 50. McGarrett explains that as coming from his father who was the head of 50. He also states that the number came from Hawaii's status as the 50th state. That was the source of the original title of the series, but I don't know if that was ever explained in the show.

This show gave us some of Chin Ho's backstory with HPD. For such a small island and the way extended families work, the revelation that the cousin Chin Ho thought was a gang banger turned out to be an undercover cop seemed unrealistic.

McGarrett and Williams try to infiltrate an upscale gambling parlor by pretending to be whales. They're no good at it and they get made quickly by the bad guy who looks them up on his iPad. Gotta find that app in the app store.

We get to see Kono in a bikini and a flimsy neglige-like cocktail dress, but not much ass-kicking from her.

Danno's back-story about his daughter and visitation rights gets some play. We're likely to see more of that. In this one, the ex-wife wants to curtail all visitation rights, but McGarrett steps in and gets the governor to apply some pressure. Danno gets put out about McGarrett's intervention. More friction between the top guys.

Last night's Hawaii Five 0

Last night was a big improvement over the pilot, which was loaded with cliches. This one, not so many. The highlight was a fight between Kono and a blonde member of some Eastern European gang. It ended up in swimming pool with Kono taking quite a licking but holding her own. At one point, after having been captured and bound with duct tape, she taunts the blonde into backhanding her to the floor so that she can pick up a nail with which to cut the tape. Guts!

The goofs: McGarrett is giving Danno grief for wearing a tie. Okay, not many people wear ties in Hawaii. You can tell when lawyers are heading to court because they're the ones wearing suits and ties. I recall only once wearing a tie. Kamehameha Schools had founders day, which was a big, formal event at the school, and a notice was sent to all staff saying men should wear jackets and ties. Everybody knew what was meant by a tie, but nobody was sure what was meant by a jacket, because the only jacket anybody ever had was a windbreaker. Anyway, McGarrett says a tie is stupid when the temperature is 110. What? It has never been 110 in Hawaii unless you record the inside of a volcano. The average temperature is 73, the highest ever recorded was 93 in 2003.

In both episodes, there has been a scene with Danno and McGarrett in a car with the windows up. This isn't Texas where you need air conditioning when you drive. This is Hawaii where the average temperature  in 73. People drive with their windows open. In fact, a lot of people leave their windows open all the time, which causes a different problem--cockroaches getting into the car. It's not unusual to find somebody with a roach trap under their car seats.