How exactly is this MacGyver?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — MacGyver
Progeekzy — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 04:23 AM)
First we didint learn his first name till the last episode, 7 years. You want to lay that down in the first 5 minutes? No, stop it.
Mac worked alone. Hes a lone wolf and thats how mac liked things.
Jack Dalton and mac were not partnersnot like this. And if they were partners Jack should be well aware that mac hates guns.why would he toss him down one?
Thornton was 2 things. A father figure to mac and the giver of tasks. OK you changed the role to female.how you gonna work in that father figure?
Where the heck was the duct tape? Did mac do a single mission without at least a few feet of duct tape? That made mac.mac.
Action/fighting. MacGyver fought with his mind, using the environment and what he found around him. He hardly ever used his fists and he would never agree with someone being shot. Yet in the new show hes hitting someone in almost every scene.
Did the producers even watch the original show? Or did they get something sorta kinda close but still miles away and slap the MacGyver name on it?
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dlbach1 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 05:12 AM)
Just a minor correction for the last line of your post. This was not a spin-off. A spin off series will take one character (or a couple) from a show and develop an entirely different show around them. This they are calling a reboot. I have dubbed it a reincarnation. Had they done a regurgitation of the original, it would have been much better. MacGyver used his wit to get out of sticky situations, NOT his grit.
This was too predictable as with other shows doing the same thing, blow 'em up, shoot 'em up, beat 'em up. There was no real MacGyvering being done at all.
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rammur65 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 01:00 PM)
Blown quiet a few trucks and vehicles up in the original with bad guys in them he isnt superman or batman only thing he never liked in the original was using a gun because of the childhood inncident.Otherthan that he does whatever he can to get the job done.
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ninthcentury — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 03:17 PM)
I started watching MacGyver TOS because it was recommended to me as "Oh, it's so wonderful, he doesn't use guns!!!" But I eventually realised that while he doesn't use guns, he used a lot of other things that endangered lives, and to hell with the bad guys who might or might not die thanks to his actions.
I was left utterly unimpressed that Mac "refuses to use guns" when rockets, homemade IEDs, poison gas, and anything else he chooses will do the trick for him. I'm sorry, but it just made me really sad that people should have fallen for that line that the show was "good" because he didn't use guns. Killing is killing, and if you do it with a knitting needle instead of a bullet, you still just killed them.Because supporting your thesis is tough, but throwing adjectives is easy. -
MovieKnut — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 03:32 PM)
Relax dude. It's not like Mac flipped out on random killing sprees. Those
bad guys who might or might not die thanks to his actions
, they were trying to kill Mac and/or people he was trying to help.
One other thing, it's a fictional tv show,
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink! -
moonnight072 — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 09:09 AM)
well at least they should have kept the core of what macgyver is wich is a lone wolf who dont like violence or guns and gets out of trouble with his pocket knife,duck tape and chewing gum. all they had right was the pocket knife the rest does not represent what macgyver is at the core and for growing up and watching the show ,this is nbo way a representation of what it should be
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boxerrebellion — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 06:07 PM)
No, just a white Mama to children of colour who sees through their eyes. How would you like to go to a school where 80% of the students look 'alike', but not like you? How would you like to live in a community where no one else looks like you, but all sure as heck look like each other? The idea of the all female Ghost Busters was stupid as all get out. The reason they were all male in the original is because it was sort of a 'buddy movie', and the idea of a group of comedians who often worked together who happened to be male. Had the new one been the children of the originals, at least one of whom happened to be female, it would have made a lot more sense.
The phrase 'diversity level' may just be a side effect of being interested in America as a whole, not just a bunch of old white men. or it may be indicative of being in grad school and needing to communicate (speak & write) like a frickin' thesaurus. I'm also a retired Sailor and sometimes speak like one, much to my Mother's lament. -
nullcreations — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 06:53 PM)
You type a lot but all it means is "we need more diversity because diversity"
Quotas aren't good for anyone. All they do is force a racial mix even if it means producing a horrible picture. Nobody cares what color your babies are. It's not some special badge of honor that allows you to speak authoritatively on such subjects. It's like being the person who says "I have a friend who is black" to prop themselves up as an authority on race. Guess what, I know someone at NASA. That doesn't make me an astrophysicist.
As for ghostbusters, the movie probably would have gone over fine if they had made a better trailer, and Paul Feig could take criticism. Overall the movie wasn't bad and it probably could have made money.
Instead he tried to pull the race/gender/equality card and that tanked his movie hard. This is what happens when you social justice tards try too hard to push an agenda that clearly doesn't make any sense.
"Diversity levels" is a red flag statement. It tells me that you're more interested in diversity than you are in competence, effort, or achievement. A useless person.