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[zolac_no_miko]

Wow, Hawaii Five-0, wow. HISTORY FAIL. 1682? Really? A Spanish galleon diverted here for repairs in 1682?

Hawai‘i was not discovered by Europeans until 1778. THERE WOULD BE NO DIVERTING.

Nice job with the Hawai‘i overprint note, but... really? Really?...Also I'm starting to see everyone's point about Kono. My prediction is undercover op

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[sirona_gs]

Basically, THIS. JESUS, SHOW. :/

...This is why I am writing a fake husbands AU. BECAUSE I NEEDS IT, PRECIOUS. Where everyone is awesome, and everything is ohana, and everyone kicks arse like whoa, and Steve and Danny have ~FEEEEELINGS for each other, and there is adorable, twitterpatted Danny confessing his feelings of twu wuv for his (fake) husband. ...Eventually. :D?

[ymfaery]

...I didn't hear the "diverted here for repairs in 1682" part. Maybe I was too busy going WTF over the "English pirates".

[zolac_no_miko]

Actually, I've got no historical beef with English pirates... during that time period England and Spain were rivals, and there were actually many pirates and pirate ships under the employ of the English government for the express purpose of attacking and stealing from Spanish ships... they were known by the more legitimate-sounding moniker "privateers".

My gut is a bit doubtful about how common English privateers and Spanish galleons full of gold would have been in the Pacific in 1682... that was more an Atlantic thing, I think, but we've reached the end of my historical knowledge as far as that's concerned, so I would have to do actual research to confirm.

I do know that any European ship stumbling across Hawaii in the 1600's, much less diverting here on purpose, is utter shite.

[ymfaery]

Well, that was the thing--since I didn't hear them say the ship was diverted to Hawaii for repairs, what I got was that a Spanish ship filled with gold was sunk in Hawaii waters by English pirates. And I was like, dudes, I'm not sure the Spanish had left *any* gold un-mined in South America or Mexico by the 1700s, if not before, and in any case, why the hell would they be on the Pacific side of the continent to begin with? And Cook didn't come to Hawaii until what, the late 1700s? There was a serious amount of historical fail with the Spanish treasure ship story. I suspect the writers put that in to tweak Caan a little because of "Into the Blue", but that doesn't excuse the poor execution.

[zolac_no_miko]

Yeah, any way you look at it the entire situation was pretty much, um... wow. Fail. ...Not really any more fail than I've come to expect from this show, but that doesn't mean I can't bitch about it every single time.