DiamondGirl427

When the Suite Life used a hotel as a background for the show...it was funny. You could see such random things happening to two kids who lived there and basically had the run of the place. What a paradise for two rowdy mischivious boys. But..time moves on..and suddenly, they are being sent to a "Sea School"...on board a cruise ship of all places. And...wow...not only are they going...so is the stressed out manager, Mr. Mosby..who always seems to the one who suffers the most when things go crazy. The spoiled rich London Tipton is still there. You would think with all of Daddys' Money..she would have been whisked off to an exclusive resort/private school somewhere. She was slightly cute and funny before...but is still the same brain-less diva she was as a younger girl...didn't she learn anything over the years besides shopping 101? They replaced the smart girl with a slightly less intelligent one...a farm girl..who somehow got a scholarship on this floating school...but constantly talks about her little home town..."Kettlecorn". Bailey is suppose to replace Ashley Tinsdale...who must have gotten tired of being a Disney Kid or something. Bailey is OK...nothing special either. She is the exact opposite of London. Yes..we get that part. They added an actual teacher...who seems to teach everything....but the teens are rarely in the classroom. When they are....they are all in the same class...learning the same stuff. Are they all the same age? I thought London was older than the twins..? It is hard to tell how old anyone is really though. The magic of Disney and all. You could be 25 and still be playing a teenager. A couple of new faces are on board too. Woody...who is a big lug who isn't very smart...the fall guy for a lot of stuff too...and the token black kid...Doc...the credits say. I nickname I am hoping. He is suppose to be a performer, entertainer...or something...I am not sure why he is there really. Gone is the singer/mother of the twins. Carey Martin has gotten a big break...and got to dump her kids on this ship to follow her dreams I guess. Once in a while she shows up...just to remind us that the boys do still have a Mom. Wow..great parenting. Arwin...the wacky maintenance man is gone too....we assume he is still attempting to fix and improve things at the Tipton...while he secretly lusts after Carey. He never gets a clue it ain't gonna happen...ever. He makes an appearance on the ship...just briefly...and that was fun. He helped make the hotel show a good one to watch. I do wonder how the writers can continue to come up with interesting adventures for Zake and Cody. How much silliness can you manage on a cruise ship? Why don't they show the boys exploring some port of call somewhere..? If they are suppose to be seeing the world...where is it? It is like a lost cruise...no one gets on...no one gets off. Not very believable. Little kids are bound to ask their parents why this is so. Honestly...the show is one of the better ones on Disney...compared to junk like "Sonny With A Chance" and "Wizards Of Waverly Place". Both of those shows can give you a headache very quickly. What is missing from most of Disney programing is the Disney touch. Where is the magic and family entertainment factor? It is slim to none now for the most part. Disney writers are cranking out carbon copies with every show and television movie they are producing. Not every Disney kid will turn out to be a Miley Cyrus...who can sing and perform without the Mouse being behind her. Force feeding the network with these kids is like trying to over-dose the world with smiling constantly cheerful perfect kids. How phony is that? No thanks.

Wow. That is the first word I can think of to quickly describe this series so far. When I first saw it advertised...I was thinking it was just going to be another badly written/overly advertised mess. But..I was so wrong. The storyline is awesome...the characters compelling...you want to know who they are, where they come from, and how they came to be where they are now...in what appears to be a world over-run with the walking dead. It seems realistic...not sci-fi and unbelievable like so many zombie flicks are. The disaster could have been anything and these people would still be worth paying attention to. Why did the survivors manage not to be turned into zombies as the others did? Are they smarter or just lucky? Or...are they doomed to a fate worse than death itself? The part where the redneck was going on and on...offending everyone with his small minded white trash attitude was brilliant. We will see more of this bozo...I am sure...somehow he will get out of those cuffs and cause more chaos...or meet a very gross ending..which is what I am voting for...the zombies can have him. I am guessing that the cops' wife was already fooling around before this all happened...and how lucky for her...now she can play the grieving widow and have fun at the same time...or so she thinks. Will the good people survive or will those with little or no morals prevail? This reminds me of a Stephen King mini series....The Stand...where various individuals somehow survived a deadly virus. They begin to rebuild their lives...in a changed and cruel world. Everything us humans took for granted is gone...as in this storyline. Survival of the fittest or smartest? Who knows. I look forward to the next episode. If it is as good as the last two...it will be awesome. The other networks need to take clear notice of this show....it is creative beyond belief...and anything BUT mainstream television....THANK GOODNESS.

This has the makings of a great show...but they need better story lines to boost it along. I wasn't sure that I would be interested in a re-made version of a great show I recall from childhood...but I like the actor who is playing McGarrett from other things I have saw him in..and when I saw he was going to be cast in this I thought I would watch. Like so many other remakes...I thought it would truly be a piece of junk..which it wasn't at all. I remember looking forward to seeing the undated version of "Miami Vice"...and was sorry I ever bothered when I did...it just did not have the same flair and style of the original. But...I can say this new show has promise. Scott Cahn is a decent actor..he seems to work well in this case too....as the cop who doesn't quite fit in..but seems to be trying anyway. Changing up a character from male to female seems to work too...but after all...the original did not have any female cops in it at all...being a police detective, etc. was a male oriented thing back then. Times have changed. While it is doubtful that a police chief would have full rein to do as he pleased while wearing a badge is doubtful...it kind of makes sense here...and after all...it is just a script not reality. The last episode had McGarrett in bed with a sexy woman....obviously this is a modern version of more or less the same guy? In older times...sex may have been implied but NEVER really dwelled upon....the censors said NO-NO...not allowed. It was a mainly cop show...from beginning to end. It is still the same show...with modern things added. Maybe the tag-line "Book-em Danno" is going to be used a little too much...it seems like it is...but over all...it is a good show and worth watching.