I am catching up on my reviews…bare with me.

This review is for La O Na Makuahine, the first episode of season three. Just like the season two finale, it was action packed and so far I personally find season three very intriguing.

It begins with McGarrett being reunited with mom (aka Shelburne). Chin Ho finds that his choice to save either his wife or his cousin was really no choice at all. Kono was dumped in the ocean to drown and his wife was so badly wounded that she dies of her injuries. Luckily Kono survives thanks to her gangster boyfriend (after a call from Chin Ho).

Steve and Mom (Doris) have a long heart to heart about how she came to be Shelburne and why she left her family all those years ago. She was a spy and Shelburne was her cover before she started a family. Wo Fat’s father (whom she she killed) was a an assignment. Later she gave up her spy lifestyle and started a family but had to abandon her family by faking her own death when her past put them all in danger. Steve has a very hard time trusting her or letting her in so he instead focuses on protecting her from the threat of Wo Fat, who escapes police custody thanks to ex-cop Frank Delano. He has big plans to steal confiscated drugs from police lockup and the explosion earlier was a diversion that will allow them to sneak inside the station as cleanup crew.  They need Wo Fat to help them get the drugs out of Hawaii and he agrees to help when Delano dangles the location of Shelburne in trade.

Steve decides to hide his mom and put Catherine in charge of babysitting her. He and Catherine seem much cozier and flirtier (is that a word??). There was some real relationship innuendo going on.

After getting that settled he tries to locate Wo Fat. The team finds the place where they initially hid and regrouped after the prison break and they find several bodies belonging to construction workers. From there they uncover the plot to get inside the police station and steal drugs but unfortunately they are too late by the time they get there. Some quick police work though enables them to find the van moving the drugs and Delano and his men. Chin Ho gets revenge for his wife when he gets to shoot Delano in a shootout. One of Delano’s men manages to tell Steve that Wo Fat has gone after Shelburne, before he too dies.

Steve calls Catherine to give her the heads up and she sends Doris upstairs while she takes a look around the property. She finds a downed cop outside and an intruder whom she fights. Wo Fat manages to get upstairs and into the room where Doris is, both are armed. Gun shots are heard but when Catherine gets upstairs Doris says that Wo Fat got away through a window.

The next day Steve says goodbye to his mom. She gets on a plane and he insists that she not tell anyone, including himself, where she is going. After she is gone Danno arrives to tell him that there is something suspicious about Doris’ story about what happened with Wo Fat earlier. It appears that they did not in fact exchange gun fire. He never fired a shot and she put three shots in the floor. Steve is left wondering why his mother let Wo Fat get away deliberately.

My best guess? I think that her assignment back in her Shelburne days meant posing as the elder Fat’s girlfriend or even wife in order to get intel. Later on she killed him. I think Wo Fat is her son and Steve’s brother and he did not know until he saw her that his own mother killed his father. It would make for good TV at least.

What do you think?

Many congrats to Alex and Malia!!!

Tanya Joaquin from HawaiiNewsNow interviewed Alex on set recently. It’s 16 minutes of Alex goodies and he discusses his new baby boy  that he is expecting soon. Enjoy!

Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL

A trailer for the new season. It’s gonna be action packed!

Looks like congrats is in order. Alex and his girlfriend Malia are expecting according to E Online. They both have children from previous relationships so baby makes it complete I guess. Alex said previously he was planning on setting down roots in Hawaii, no matter what happened with Hawaii Five-O, guess he meant it!

I do a lot of my own stunts and I have done so from the beginning. I am not 20-something anymore as you can see from the dusting of grey on the sides of my head.

He is feeling MUCH better now and appears to have recommitted to his health:

Personally, I’m fantastic. It’s like nothing happened. I am still doing physical therapy three times a week. I’m back and doing lots of jiu jitsu. I’m surfing, running, doing all that stuff. I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff but I’ve learned to let the stuntmen do those.

He also talks about his taste in women and what he wants and values in a woman. AND he talks about his son Saxon living with him and the time they spend together including a trip to France to take him snowboarding.

I’ve been promising to take him snowboarding his whole life which essentially makes me a neglectful parent, doesn’t it? Because it took me 15 years to do it. I’ve taken him to do virtually everything else. He surfs every day. He does a lot of stuff but he’s like, ‘We got to go snowboarding.’ I thought, OK, since it has taken me so long, I’m going to take him somewhere really special, where the snow is really good. I took him to Charmonix (France). He did great. He snowboarded for four days. I snowboarded for about a day and a half and then spent the next two days with ice packs on my hips. I had a great time. I love Europe. I don’t speak a lick of French but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

Though the bit that stuck out the most to me was his mention of Moonlight and eluded to it being a career error because some fans can’t seem to let it go and let him be anything other than Mick St. John.

One of the errors of my career was doing a vampire show (‘Moonlight’). The fans that I got from that show are very committed. They will never ever see me as anything other than Mick St. John.

Sadly, I can see his point. Had Moonlight never been cancelled, and it shouldn’t have been, I think Alex would be an even bigger star than he currently is. That role suited him better than any other he has been cast in IMO. When something that special gets tossed aside some can’t over the heartbreak. It created a big rift in the fandom when it was cancelled. I remember fights breaking out on this site every week between fans who wanted to forget about Moonlight and support whatever new project Alex had and those fans who were opposed to supporting anything but a return of Moonlight to TV. Apparently that whole sad business still follows him around.

** Wanted to add a note that if any readers/fans want to be able to post to this site and help update just email me and let me know. I know some of you are keeping better tabs on Alex than I am of late and if you feel you could keep the site updated I would love to chat with you.

Steve & Danno – Fitted Ladies Shirt

Photos thanks to Hawaii Five-0 Fans

Woot! Looks action packed and awesome. Steve finally gets his man, Wo Fat, but it comes a bit too easy and that spells big trouble for everyone. The final 2 episodes of the season are here. Tune in on Monday, May 7th at 10/9c on CBS!