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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've seen this done both ways in the database, so is it an "O" (as in Olive) or a "0" (numerical)? I'm leaning towards the latter based on the cover for the new series but wanted others opinions. | | | | Last edited: by The Movieman |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have always seen it as the number myself. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thing is, the older series (in the search I did) has it with the letter, which is why I asked. Right now I'll go with the number but if others majorly disagree, I can resubmit later. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just did a search on Google... it shows the official website (CBS.com) uses the number 0 where not stylized. http://www.cbs.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/Granted it is not a source allowed for the title field... but it does give you more of an idea what you are looking at. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: September 29, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | I always thought it was a police code or police jargon, 5-0 (zero). | | | My one wish for the DVD Profiler online database: Ban or remove the disc-level profiles of TV season sets. It completely screws up/inflates the CLT.
FACT: Imdb is WRONG 70% of the time! Misspelled cast, incomplete cast, wrong cast/crew roles. So for those who want DVD Profiler to be "as perfect as Imdb", good luck with that.
Stop adding UNIT crew! They're invalid credits. Stop it! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | I always thought that the Five-0 stood for the fiftieth state. |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I just did a search on Google... it shows the official website (CBS.com) uses the number 0 where not stylized.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/
Granted it is not a source allowed for the title field... but it does give you more of an idea what you are looking at. Good find. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CubbyUps: Quote:
I always thought that the Five-0 stood for the fiftieth state. It does. I believe they explain this in the first episode of the new series. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,678 |
| | Posted: | | | | On the cover of both the old and the new series DVDs it sure looks like a letter to me.
And given that "Five" is in letters it would make sense that the "O" is too.
So I would say Five-O. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GSyren: Quote:
On the cover of both the old and the new series DVDs it sure looks like a letter to me. Really? I just had a look at the US Blu-ray release. Looking at the front cover, if you compare the '0' from FIVE-0, to the 'O' in SEASON, they don't look the same. Looking at the back cover, if you compare the '0' from FIVE-0, to the 'O' in HOTTER, they don't look the same. That tells me that one is a zero and the other is the letter 'O'. Since I know the one in HOTTER is a letter, the other has to be a zero. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | The current series from the online db is an zero.
I have all 84 profiles of the original series from my db and the on-line db have it as letter O.
I did not originate these profiles.
It is always spoken as Hawaii Five-O not Hawaii Five-Zero.
Let all hold hands and hands and ask Jack Lord for guidance. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln | | | | Last edited: by Srehtims |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't know about in your area... but around here at least... it is a completely natural every day occurrence to just say "O" instead of saying "Zero" when mentioning the number. So that is definitely not something you can go by. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I don't know about in your area... but around here at least... it is a completely natural every day occurrence to just say "O" instead of saying "Zero" when mentioning the number. So that is definitely not something you can go by. Same here and this is one of my pet peeves - a number is not a letter. The title? I always thought that it meant the 50th state...but then that means they are saying it wrong!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | You probably wouldn't like hanging around me then Kathy.... I do it all the time! | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | But there is no adjacent digit ? F i v e (It sounds like a digit, but it's all letters.)  | | | | Last edited: by No-way |
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