AOLR Weekly Wrap-up #117

Hawaii Five-0 Updates

• Who doesn’t love the adorable mutt that managed to downgrade McGarrett to the back seat of Danny’s Camaro? Officer 808 (or Bob as some of us call him) at Five-0 Undercover is giving away two Five-0 crew T-shirts as prizes in his Name Danny’s New Best Friend contest. And the fun thing is that the contest is not restricted to US residents only. Check out Five-0 Undercover for details!
• Five-0 EPs Bob Orci and Peter Lenkov, and cast members Daniel Dae Kim, Mark Dacascos and Brian Yang were all present at CAPE’s 20th anniversary gala in LA on Saturday night. Photos of their arrival at the event have been posted here and on Facebook. (George Takei was there too – hopefully there was an opportunity to connect about a possible guest appearance…  )
• Episode 2.10 is going to be an intense one – Peter teases us with a pic of McGarrett in Wo Fat’s nasty clutches and calls the scenes between the two “insane.”  
• For those of you wondering what paperback novel is lying next to Danny’s TV while he’s watching Enemy Mine and Steve fails epically to impress him with his ninja skills when sneaking into his apartment in 2.08, it’s “Up Country” by Nelson DeMille.
• On November 28, a repeat of 1.16 “Powa Maka Moana” is currently scheduled to air instead of a new episode.
• The title of episode 2.13 appears to be “Ka H’oponopono”.
• Season 2 will have at least 23 episodes (if not the possible 24 mentioned by Peter earlier); here’s a tweet from episode 2.03 director Jeffrey Hunt:

  Huntvision Jeffrey Hunt  “@lelegirl00: @Huntvision yes, please do! Hehe! when r u going back to Hawaii?”. End of the season ep 23 9 Nov Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

• Scans & pics added to the gallery:
  • Philippine Daily Inquirer interview with Masi Oka
  • The Star interview with Masi Oka
  • “The Art of the Reboot” article from TV Guide – with thanks to Pinkiepie for the scans!
  • Photo posted by Kala Alexander (Kawika in 1.05 and 1.21) of himself with Alex on the set
• Videos you may have missed:
  • Daniel Dae Kim talks about Terry O’Quinn joining the show in Season 2
  • Daniel Dae Kim at last year’s LA Screenings
  • Peter Lenkov’s Season 1 wrap-up interview
  • Watch Magazine photoshoot promo in HD
• It won’t have escaped your notice that we did not make it through to the PCA finals. There’s not much to say about that except

Hawaii Five-0 Articles

• The multi-talented Masi Oka gave a phone interview to journalists in Asia recently, where Season 2 of Five-0 premiered this weekend. Here’s an excerpt from the Philippine Daily Inquirer (scans of the article are also in the gallery):
  

  The first season of “Hawaii Five-0” was very good. But what about the second season? Will things get even more exciting?

  Yeah, totally. I think the opener is actually great, because it answers a lot of questions very quickly and of course, raises new ones. What’s great about the show is that in the middle of the season, people can just hop right in and catch it immediately in one episode. But there’s always this one unsolved mystery, and there’s always going to be a new mystery coming up. Even in the first episode, there’s a twist that makes everyone go, “Oh my God!” at the end of the episode.

  How was it like working with Alex (O’Loughlin), Grace (Park), and the rest?

  I think every actor brings different dynamics. Alex is great; he knows his lines really well. I haven’t really gotten a chance to work too much with Grace… But I’ve actually gotten to work with Daniel (Dae Kim) a lot. So, it’s been good, you know. That’s what’s kind of fun—working with these actors, having different interactions. It’s the same thing with “Heroes.” I miss my old cast mates, but I love my new ones, as well.

  See also: The Sun Daily

• Hellcats‘  Gail O’Grady is heading her way to Five-0 for a guest appearance. According to EW.com, she is
  

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  playing a woman whose husband is in a coma who discovers his supposedly dead son may be alive after all.

Other Alex Updates

• Do you want to wish Alex O”Loughlin a Merry Christmas and support organ donation awareness? Find out how you can easily do both at the Donate Life Organ and Tissue Donation Blog!

There should be some great coverage from the Teaching Garden event at Hickam and of course we have another awesome episode of Hawaii Five-0 to look forward to. Have a wonderful week!