it happen over the year at least a few time . something become so popular that i decide it just can not be anything worthwhile and and then i find myself do a complete 180. this guy selleck be too good look in an old hollywood way ( clark gable ) and his voice seem an octave too high for a man of his size and look and so damn many woman be positively orgasmic when they talk about him and woman be notorious for go after some really shallow male and and the few time i catch a scene or two flip through channel and he seem smug and or at least that how i perceive him . and then one thursday even there be nothing on the network channel and nothing on any cable channel and i flip on cbs just a magnum p. i. start . it be the first two hour episode that introduce michelle and have a spectacular gunfight at the end on the street of little saigon . my two favorite movie have always be rio bravo and casablanca and and this episode seem to be an updated melding of the two . like duke in rio bravo and magnum have loyal friend to back his play a he try to set thing right when no one else will help him and and like bogie in casablanca and magnum have an ill fat love affair he be go to have to give up to a high duty . and then there be the gunfight at the end . after year and year of so call do gooders try to get violence off the tv and and somewhat succeeding and there be a real hero like duke or bogie and who wasn not go to apologize for put a few well deserve . 45 slug into a few bad guy . woman like magnum because he be so charming and good look and mischievous like a little boy . i like him because and like duke and bogie and gable and for all of his fault and he be a man . the show seem too good to be true and a good look old hollywood sort of guy who carry my favorite pistol and wasn not adverse to use it and a show at time fill with humor and sometimes fill with drama and and magnum and like selleck and be just the sort of guy you always want for a friend in good time and bad . and then the next season or so there be the two hour episode that introduce magnum and t. c. old soviet torturer and nemesis from vietnam and ivan and who just happen to be on the island for a long weekend to look up some old friend and assassinate a world leader . magnum and friend have to relive their haunt unresolved past in vietnam and prevent an assassination and not only in hawaii but also in other area of the world and and seek justice and retribution when the power that be can not put ivan in jail . in the final 30 second of the show and magnum with his . 45 become a powerful an image on screen a clint and his big . 44 and even it be only a curved 23 tv set . i remember read an article that discuss the type of tv show popular during certain presidential administration . there be the straight forward and safe and family value sort of program that reflect eisenhower quiet dignity in the 50 . in the early 60 during the kennedy administration and jack and bobby determination to right wrong over missile in cuba or in mob control union give u the f. b. i. and robert stack a eliot ness in the untouchable . later and have shamefully abandon vietnam for purely political reason and our president like nixon and ford and carter seem rather impotent and like the always wimpy alan alda ( hawkeye ) in m. a. s. h. and and the always intimidate and beat up james garner in the rockford file . reagan get into the white house and suddenly his no nonsense and straight shoot philosophy and his search for right and wrong and black and white and and his jovial sense of humor be reflect in thomas sullivan magnum or magnum p. i. and just a suddenly tv have and in selleck and magnum and as good a character and if not good and a anything hollywood have come up with for the large screen in the previous 20 year . today i have four season of magnum p. i. on dvd and and whenever i want something to watch and can not decide on something from my library and i pull out the private investigator in hawaii and go back to a time not all that long ago and when life seem somewhat more clear and safe and and certainly young and and a tall man in a tiger baseball hat and hawaiian shirt and with a red ferrari and a colt . 45 auto and go out to do the decent thing and right the wrong of the day . george clooney or vince vaughn a magnum p. i. you have get to be kid .