Remake 'Em Danno

Hawaii-5-0.
Great show from the 70s. Cool as you can get. Cops in Hawaiian shirts, pissa theme song and lots of great scenery and chicks in bikinis. I’m glad they waited for a generation to pass who had never seen the original.
The chance you take on rebooting a show is that it ultimately pales in comparison to the original.
Jean Smart appears as the Hawaiian Governor and Minister of Exposition who explains that Steve McGarrett is her first choice to lead an elite, Untouchables-like team that is above reproach.
She explains she’s read his file and was impressed with his six years with the Navy SEALS, five years in Naval Intelligence, a tour of duty in Vietnam while still in the womb, and his record of once bludgeoning a man to death using only his engorged penis.
Instead of showing respect to the governor, he blows her off and says she’s out of her league, until he finds out that taking the job is the only way he’ll get to avenge his father’s death.
Naturally, instead of reviewing files, past records and conducting interviews, the best way to put together an elite team is to just walk around and recruit whoever you tend to run into.
“Hey, guy from LOST!” McGarrett seems to say. “You seem generically Asian, come join our merry band/task force.
“You wouldn’t happen to have a hot chick relative who wears bikinis a lot do you? Actually, lets hold off on that until after the third commercial break when people start to lose interest because they have to work the next day.”
Scott “Yep, James Caan is my dad.” Caan steps into the role of Danno,a natural partner for Steve McGarrett since they have that great alpha-dog-mine-is-bigger-than-yours competitive thing that passes for macho camaraderie on TV.
The show might turn out to be one of my favorites.
It’s got all the great stuff the original show had, they’re just going through the complicated setup. Every show does it the first time out of the shoot.
Time will tell.
Oh yeah. One other thing, Jack Lord had better hair than Alex O'Loughlin.