And there it was. Don had written a terrific movie, and it truly was a movie. No happy scene at the end where the main characters prove how much they like each other and why you should tune in next week. It was a story about a career Naval Academy graduate who served as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam and decided to hit the pause button. No, not because of disillusionment or delayed stress, but because, as he put it, “One day I woke up at thirty-three and realized I’d never been twenty-three.” His name was Thomas Magnum.
