I just want the Ethan story line to end
This is going to be all over the place, just a warning.
There are two more episodes in this season of Magnum, P.I. I know the Ethan story line is there for various reasons, but the longer it drags on, the more annoying it becomes. We haven’t seen Jay Ali (Dr. Ethan Shah) in several episodes, even though he’s talked about I think every episode since we last saw him, and he’s still casting a long, annoying dark shadow over most of this season now. I just want the blasted story line done.
The show hadn’t been renewed for Season 4 when filming on Season 3 wrapped, so there has to be some resolution. Any times I’ve watched the previous episodes of season 3 again, I’ve just fast forwarded through the parts with Ethan because for me, it’s actually hurting the show. I didn’t need Ethan’s season-long story line, I didn’t want it. Get it out of here.
I’m not against Higgy having a relationship at all. The way Magnum’s relationship was done with Abby? Well done. If they’d done something even remotely like that, I would have been thrilled: have Higgy realize she could open up emotionally, have Magnum get jealous and have to emotionally mature as well, have them grow closer together, etc., etc., etc. But now it just seems like we’re drawing this out so we can make it to the end of the season and there apparently will be heartbreak (I’m treating the psychic’s line from Whispers of Death: Juliet being ‘on a path to great heartbreak’ as not just a throwaway line).
When they killed the ‘white SUV’ and Ivan stories (I’m assuming the story arcs are done), the writers made the second half of Season 3 about the Magnum-Higgins relationship, not just the partnership. If they wanted Higgy to have a great relationship, I didn’t need Magnum pining over her every episode. But now that’s the focus.
Don’t get me wrong here, either, I completely want Magnum and Higgy together at this point. We just know someone’s going to get hurt. From what the actors have alluded to, if Higgins leaves with Ethan for whatever reason (vacation, backpacking for a year, relocating to the mainland, whatever) then Magnum will be hurt. If Higgins breaks up with Ethan because she wants to stay, Ethan will have forced her to choose between him and her Hawaii family (including Magnum but not only him) and I hate it when a choice like that is forced on someone, even a TV show character. Although thinking about it now, she might have turned down returning to MI-6 to stay in Hawaii with the HI family, but she might turn down Ethan to stay with Magnum…I don’t know.
I just want Ethan gone and Higgy here. She doesn’t have to jump into a relationship with Magnum. I want her character here because she is a key part of why I watch the show. Miggy relationship would be a bonus.