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Boy, they sure started this out on the WRONG foot!

posted 10 years ago by ExplorerDS6789
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From Wiki: In an attempt to contrast this series with the original, the new Mr. Roarke usually wore black. In the first episode, he picked the single black suit out of a closet of white ones and ordered that the rest be burned. Also during the first episode, an assistant came into Mr. Roarke's office, shouting "The planes! The planes!" Mr. Roarke ordered the assistant to never do that again.

I guess they thought this was a "clever" nod to the original series? Nope. Try insult. Something you NEVER want to do when doing a reboot of something is insult the original.

What they SHOULD have done is: have Roarke browse through his closet full of white suits, then he comes across one and says, "I think I will wear...this one." To us, it looks like he's picking one white out of a bunch, when in fact he has produced a black one.

THEN, when his assistant shouts "The planes, the planes!", have Roarke look visibly annoyed and ask him, "MUST you do that EVERY time?!"

That way, these would be nice little nods, not insults.

[–] THX1701 8 years ago

I have to agree with you. This show was crap. I remember seeing the pilot in the late 90's and nothing worked. Malcolm McDowell looks angry the whole time. And then there was his assistant singing in heavy makeup looking very homo. Poor McDowell looks like he did not want to be there. This remake lacked all the charm that the original had. It could only work with Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize. What were they thinking when they created this farce?

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