Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) Aloha. Malama Pono (2013) User Reviews

Season finale

[LoveIsAStateOfMind · 8/10 · 30 December 2015]

Okay so the writers' attitude when sitting down to write this episode: let's throw everything at it.

We had:

• Car chase - Wrong accused / framed (Kono) - CIA - Bloody plane - Family loyalty - Random person from Catherine's past - Child kidnapping - Wo Fat - Car chase 2.0 - Wrongly accused / framed (boy's father) - Steve's mother lying to him AGAIN - Brother killing brother (Adam/Michael – possibly mirroring Steve/Wo Fat ????) - Adam having to go on the run although he didn't do anything wrong - Kono's return to the team up in the air (seriously right, every finale?!?!?!) - Tearful team goodbye - Catherine/Kono hug - Cho Chin getting a 'new' love interest - Returning love for Danny - CLIFFHANGER!

Ever since Doris let Wo Fat go after their fight, I was sure that he was her son. AND THIS EPISODE just reinforces this? I mean it would be typical TV – two enemies that are actually brothers …..

I love Adam and Kono. Ian Anthony Dale is so ridiculously hot. I love that after everything, their love is still in tact but why does 'happily ever after' remove them both from my screen (at least for the time being)?!?! Not fair.

I am all for more Catherine screen time but I don't understand why they felt the need to insert that scene with her ex-boyfriend in the middle of an already packed finale. Couldn't whatever storyline they are setting up wait until next season?

I just can't buy Gabby/Danny. I just don't think there were enough episodes with her in it and us seeing their relationship to buy their relationship has lasted this long offscreen.

And yet again another season ends with Kono's place on the 5-0 team up in the air. Why is it always her?

Okay, so technically the season ended with Steve's fate on this earth up in the air ……the cliffhanger ….. there's always cliffhanger.

Overall, I've really liked this season and the finally just about did it justice. It didn't blow my mind and I think they tried to do too much.

Season 3 Cliffhanger

[shelbythuylinh · 8/10 · 26 March 2022]

Danny and Steve try to find a kidnapped boy that who's mother was married to a mob kingpin from Latin America but the kingpin may not be the real bad guy.

Kono is a person of interest as her gun found on a suspect that she may had killed. And may had done so to get close to Adam as well as knowing his younger brother is driving a wedge between the blossoming couple.

Adam wants to get out of the mob. But it is easier said than done there.

Doris again comes back to try to get Steve to help her as despite getting sick and tired of helping his estranged mother, he reluctantly agrees.

Meanwhile Steve has bigger problems with Wo-Fat there. It ends in a cliffhanger as prison can't keep the villain from doing on his evil plan unleashed.

Is Christine Lahti Doing Another Swing Shift? Aloha for the Summer ***1/2

[edwagreen · 21 May 2013]

What exactly is going on with Doris, Steve's mother. Is she trying to make herself another Mata Hari? Only another season can tell in her continually evolving story.

Kono's lover-boy's brother finally takes a bullet. Imagine, he was actually trying to frame her for a rival's murder. Now, we finally know that lover-boy's intentions are real, as he was the one who put the bullet in his own brother. Now, the two lovers flee to Shanghai along with Doris, so as to escape the wrath of Wo Fat and other characters. Is this Kono's swan song to the show, or will summer's end bring her back from a self-imposed exile. We'll have to wait.

What's going on with Fat in that jail? Have a nice summer everyone.

To many unanswered Questions.

[webruce · 10/10 · 22 May 2013]

I liked it mostly. Did the cutting torch gang take out all the soldiers in the hall outside WoFats pen? Or was it tear gas? Steve will help WoFat escape. But I wonder if they are his men? Doris I bet is his mother. her going over seas will prolong Steve's anguish over what WoFat has on her. Doris like Kono may stay away for several episodes. Doris could easily be captured. Wo Fat being on her boat is intriguing. In the Michael/Adam/Kono story line they should have worked it more between seeing Michael putting back Kono's gun and last weeks finding it was used to kill that guy. That way if he was to die in a struggle with Adam it would be more dramatic. This time he should have wounded Adam maybe and fled. Or vice versa.

The story with the 5 dead agents and Rafael Salgado(liked him on The Unit) and his son was good. He plays that "wronged" bad guy good. Catherine and her ex could cause some waves. But it will probably turn out he is bad and 5-0 will have to bring him down. So over all it was good, to me.

If our comments and tweets influence the writers which is cool. Then maybe this Summer the writers will be watching and wondering what we think on the Kono/Adam, Catherine/Steve/Billy, Chin/Leilani, Danny/Gabby, Steve/Doris/WoFat/mystery bad guys story lines.

Maybe the reason they brought in ex bf, Billy Harrington. Maybe they will watch our feedback this summer and decide, if he does more then sees Catherine. He could become a nuisance, or they could go out a few times and make Steve jealous and he "fights" for her. Or she could go date him and it takes Steve a while to see what he lost. Or and I hope not, Billy could be the start of a ark where he turns out to be bad.

Now the WoFat/Doris story seems it will be stretched out more with her over seas and WoFat escaped with Steve's help. This could give them time as you say to fabricate the next step. But if she was gone 20 years, she would have had to have been WoFat Sr.'s lover at least 12 years before that to have her be WoFats mommy. Also she said she killed WoFat Sr. Did she literally pull the trigger, or did she do something that set him up either to have the under world or Police take him out by her error. Maybe not killing WoFat at the house was her way of paying him back, but he didn't kill her either, so there is something there. Going to visit him at the Prison is interesting. And unless the CIA got her special visitor rights, I don't believe realistically she could get in. Did all the information get found out from the Champ box? And why hasn't Steve questioned Joe White more about his Mom's missing years?

The team breaking in to the prison to get WoFat could be his own, but could be the NLM Terrorists? We got a lot of information on them to not just let them disappear. Like on NCIS and LA, these enemies come back. Not sure the Yakuza has that power to get in. But they were after WoFat in the past when Steve helped him fight them. But WoFat being dropped off at Doris's slow boat to Shanghai by Kamekona's helicopter could happen.

The previews said that the 4 would become 3. I bet like me you thought, "No they can't kill one off!" But if Kono is pregnant, they probably will keep her "Over Seas" for a few months. We will probably hear that Micheal's men will be after them. Maybe have the crime rate by the Yakaza go up with the unrest in leadership. Kono's pregnancy could be written into the story as her and Adam are close. But as "Numb3rs" and "The Mentalist" to name 2 tried to hide the fact of pregnancy with them always working behind a desk or wall, or computer, eventually you can tell. Another I bet not popular idea as her "temp replacement" is to bring back Lori Weston. But with her on "Chicago Fire" It won't happen. Maybe Duke can move up like he did on the original series.

They should have shown more concern for Fong. But as someone stated, maybe because of the case they will feel it later. If Kono and Adam have a strong bond, then Fong will have to watch from afar.

Nice to see Danny with Gabby. Hope it doesn't move to fast. Danny's ex should also be back in it and Gracie should have some problems. Chin and Leiani was a good thing him calling her. That also should move slow, but more then it has. He should think back still to Malia.

Danny kicking Rafael Salgado against the car was good. But Danny should be the more by the book guy that he was in S01, and S02. But like Horatio Caine on "CSI:MIAMI", he does have a child soft spot. Steve can be the normal hot head.

Hopefully the Friday move won't kill it.

End of Five-0?

[ShelbyTMItchell · 21 May 2013]

Is this the end of Five 0? As we see that Kono is once again on the run. As it is for the murder that she did not commit as Five 0 is forced to go rogue with her.

In order to protect her innocence as we see a car chase with the Camaro and HPD. As Steve has to get Kono from being captured as it is a manhunt for her.

While the rest of the team, doing so with her, have to bring in a terrorist alive by the CIA. In order to bring down a terrorist group. Not just in Hawaii but in San Francisco.

As Steve feels that his not so truthful mom Doris, is not coming clean as she also visited Wo-Fat the main antagonist of the series, before Steve did in prison.

Will not give you the ending for those of you that have not seen it. But it is a saddened one. And the team of four could become a team of three? Either for good which I hope not as well as you do or hopefully just temporary.

Also Wo-Fat and Steve in the ending, leave with a cliffhanger as well. Can't wait for season 4!