kitmerlot_1213 | H50 Episode 3.7 (Reply)

There were some awesome moments in this episode:

I always love good action sequences and this episode had some awesome ones. I loved Steve and Danny punching out the goons at the hacker’s warehouse and Kono was on fire with all of her badassness. How much did I love the final fight scene with the bad guy? And I didn’t expect her to show actual signs of being injured when she got back to Five-0. Nicely done, show.

But now she has to get a new shiny badge :)

Chin was just as fabulously badass and I loved seeing his pain at Kono’s being in danger. You could just see he was thinking that he couldn’t lose another loved one.

The return of Toast was rather cool but I don’t quite remember him being so tall. I did like that he got in on the McDanno banter—that’s always a plus.

Things I wasn’t so crazy about:

Doris’ crying hysterically over Mary and Steve’s reaction to Mary’s refusal to see Doris. Seriously, were we supposed to get all teary eyed at Doris’ upsetment over the child she’d abandoned not wanting to see her? If this was so important to her why didn’t Doris go to LA herself and talk to Mary? She was in Hawaii the entire time, you’re telling me that super-spy McG couldn’t find a way to contact her daughter? And I noticed that Doris immediately falls back into talking about her own awesomeness whenever she’s confronted with the truth that shows she’s anything but—an interesting defense mechanism.

I think it was damn time for Doris to actually see the emotional damage she’s responsible for—I’m sure it’s easy for her to look at Steve and to think she did the right thing because on the surface, Steve’s had a successful life. But now she’s forced to look at how screwed up Mary is and Doris knows it’s her actions that caused all of this pain and I think she hates being confronted this way.

It’s about time someone mentioned how badly John McGarrett was hurt by his “loving” wife and then he in turn hurt his children. And I’m shocked that there is supposed to be a five year age difference between Steve and Mary because Taryn Manning looks like she’s ten years older then Alex—I could buy two to three year age difference, but five just seems so vast. But I think the show made Mary so young to really drive it home how her parents’ abandonment just destroyed her life.