Hawaii Five-0 – The calm before the storm

By nature, I’m not a particularly patient person. I never see the point of sitting around twiddling one’s thumbs when you could be doing something instead. Which, I guess, is why I’ve always had a particular problem with this time of year. Episodes leading up to massive season finale blowouts are generally calm before the storm sorts of episodes, the sort you forget until you get the DVD set and go, “Oh, right, that happened.” Which is sort of what this week’s episode of Hawaii Five-0 was.

This is not to say it was bad (and certainly nowhere near as cringe-worthy as the unrelenting pain that was the P. Diddy episode).  Kono’s side-story with a possible love interest (played Brian Yang) was so cute it was ridiculous. (For the record, if a guy remembers your favorite Boyz II Men song from when you’re 10 years old, Kono, you should tap that. That’s freaking adorable.) Daniel Dae Kim really got to shine this week as we delved deeper into Chin’s backstory and the complicated reasoning behind why he’s consented to live a lie and sully his own name for so many years. And — and I think An will kill me if I don’t at least mention this, judging by the number of excited exclamation points in the e-mails I got from her — Rick Springfield was one of the better random musical guest stars. Though, as I pointed out to An, he didn’t even live to the credits, so it’s a lot harder to judge him against the others, but that may have been a blessing in disguise.

It wasn’t that the component parts of this episode weren’t solid so much as it was almost lackadaisical. The team felt lazily disjointed and casual rather than like their normal tight-knit crime fighting family of kickassery. Which, I suppose, is nice and appropriate. It wouldn’t be terribly realistic for them all to be in mortal danger every week and would probably get equally as boring.

But like I said, I’m impatient. And when you show me the promo for next week’s beginning of the two-part finale, and when I’ve been reading rumors and whispers from all corners of the internet about what those two episodes may have in store, I can’t help but wonder why I can’t have that high-adrenaline rush when I want it — which is to say, right now.

Clacked by Julia Hass
on May 04, 2011 @ 12:51 EST5EDT