I'm another who has "checked out" of the new version. It's strictly by the numbers television, where the original had its own identifiable style from the get-go. Part of it was the set-up it got from the opening, which the new version doesn't get because (a) openings don't get the time they used to and (b) the new one isn't as good even allowing for the shortened time. The original also had an identifiable cinematic style, which the new one doesn't.
As for the two McGarretts, Jack Lord was a presence who anchored the original, allowing everyone else to play off him (which is why we could get a comedy episode such as David Wayne as a cat burglar who befuddles Five-O, or Helen Hayes doing a Miss Marple riff); Alex O'Loughlin doesn't anchor anything -- no gravitas.
As for the two McGarretts, Jack Lord was a presence who anchored the original, allowing everyone else to play off him (which is why we could get a comedy episode such as David Wayne as a cat burglar who befuddles Five-O, or Helen Hayes doing a Miss Marple riff); Alex O'Loughlin doesn't anchor anything -- no gravitas.
