Fact He Hated Using Guns
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paulbeardsley — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 02:39 AM)
Fact He Hated Using Guns
So did Quiller. So did Danger Man.
Fact He Never Settled For Just One Woman
True for a lot of action-adventure heroes.
Not
really true for the Doctor - his female companions tended to be long term.
Fact He Had Companions that Participated In His Adventures
You mean he didn't work alone at all times?
Fact His Main Villain Kept Returning From The Dead
A trope that can be found in many comic books, kids' cartoons, and the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes.
Fact His Living Quarters Changed Multiple Times Over The Course Of The Series
Oh dear, that's a real stretch.
Fact We The Viewers Never Learned His Real Name Till The Final Episode
A very popular trope. See Clint Eastwood in the Dollar films. Number Six in The Prisoner.
Fact His Catch All Device That Got Him Out Of Anything Was A Swiss Army Knife With A Screwdriver
Now that's
really
a stretch.
Meanwhile, how many Macgyver episodes feature time travel? Going to other planets? Aliens on Earth? The Earth threatened with invasion or destruction? Regeneration? Travel to parallel Earths?
It is almost always possible to say X is like Y if you play up the similarities (no matter how trivial) and ignore the differences (no matter how important). Arguably fun to do, but arguably fun to demolish too.
So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
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pkcommando — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 04:58 AM)
Well, Doctor Who is actually the British MacGyver. Then Moff got his hands on a time machine and went back to the 60s to give it to Sydney Newman, who then added all the space & time bits.
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paulbeardsley — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 06:26 AM)
Just remembered
Fact Terry Nation Wrote For Both Series
But the similarities are way too generic to support the premise.
So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side. -
Dalek_Fred — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 06:52 AM)
Fact He Hated Using Guns
Batman
Fact He Never Settled For Just One Woman
Batman
Fact He Had Companions that Participated In His Adventures
Batman
Fact His Main Villain Kept Returning From The Dead
Batman
Fact His Living Quarters Changed Multiple Times Over The Course Of The Series
errr . Batman
Fact We The Viewers Never Learned His Real Name Till The Final Episode
ok, not Batman
Fact His Catch All Device That Got Him Out Of Anything Was A Swiss Army Knife With A Screwdriver
Batman