Hawaii Five-Abs - It Wasn't Me, It Was The Chairman From Iron Chef America!

So yeah, I finished watching Hawaii Five-Abs, and I just dropped in for a second before bed to say that it was all that I though it would be, which is to say, so much less than it could have been.

Things that are awesome:

1.  Larisa Oleynik is a nice addition, although her expertise is a little murky.  She's an analyst, but she's got an uncanny familiarity with the makings of car bombs.  Yeah, I get that it's the same type of bomb that Wo Fat used previously, but she didn't know that until she started looking, and the fact that she started, well, is she a bomb expert?

2.  The Chairman is the big bad guy.  That's right.  The guy that introduces the secret ingredient on Iron Chef America is planning to take over Hawaii.  And then probably the world!!!!

Things I don't buy:

1.  The governor keeping her enemies close.  I just don't think that she would give McGarrett his own unit and complete freedom to operate, particularly when the only reason he's accepting the job is because it gives him the opportunity to find his father's killer.  Seriously, send him as far away as you can.  She must have had some military strings that she could have pulled - didn't she have to pull them to keep him there?  It's like the writers decided suddenly that they weren't doing enough with Jean Smart, so they did their best to figure out how to make her evil in a hurry.

2.  How scummy was Danny - sleeping with his ex-wife and getting her pregnant while she's still married to (and living with) hubby number two?  Not a very good good-guy...

3.  Sure, your ex-husband slept with you and put a bun in your oven, and now you have to tell your current spouse that you're leaving him.  Is it really necessary to tell him about the baby?  That just seems hurtful and unnecessary to me...

4.  After the big deal in the pilot about McGarrett's dad trusting Chin, I think he's got to be working the inside.  Loyalty is a huge thing for him, so I expect he's going to be pivotal in getting the team back together.

5.  Should there, realistically, be a 'back together' for the team?  Two of them are in prison, one is going back to Jersey, and the fourth has his PD career back.  Plus, their supporter, the governor, is gone.  Who's going to grant that immunity now?  Where's their funding going to come from?  How easy can it be to find a new boss when, rumor has it, you killed your old one?