You must have a lot of free time on your hands, watching bad shows hoping that they will get better. Bad TV writers pray
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HellboundHero — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 10:04 PM)
He actually fired a machine gun in the pilot. But after that, he'd either take the gun apart and use it in some unconventional manner(like as wrench or as a way to blow the lock off a door), or rig a gun up with strings so that it goes off as a distraction. As for hitting them with a gun, I'm not sure about that, but MacGyver did get equivalently violent a few times. In the opening gambit "The Map" he hid a metal rod in the rolled up map and beat up a soldier with it. That's not a far cry from pistol whipping someone.
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rammur65 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 12:57 PM)
well its not the damn 80s anymore better get use to it i for one will always enjoy the original more but this one not too horrible i enjoyed it for now its pretty good for the intended audiences.and macguyver used his fist plenty back in the original as well quiet a few times actually but it bein the 80s they didnt have it all choreographed as they do nowdays.
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Rics-EQ2 — 9 years ago(September 30, 2016 09:07 PM)
Am I the only one who doesn't want reboots to be exactly like the originals? There would be no point in doing a reboot if you were going to make a carbon copy of the original. In fact, as a fan of the original I'd be more ticked off if they did try to copy it.
And do people forget that this is 30 years later? The 80's MacGyver wouldn't work at all in 2016 where pretty much everything is ran by a computer. Surveillance is everywhere, tech is everywhere. You'd never get the same MacGyver where everything mechanical-based.
Now I'm not saying whether or not the show is good or bad (impossible to tell after just 2 episode). I just don't get the whole "we want it to be the original" mindset. Wouldn't that cheapen the original more than anything else? At least when it's "loosely based on" it's really easy to shrug off or look at it as a different show if it sucks.
Nah, give me something different, new, yet familiar enough where I can relate a bit.
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Belnick — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 12:21 PM)
it is not
this is just the NAME
they take the name and then they do what the #"%"# they want with it
such crap, cant believe it got almost 5 on imdb, should be around avg of 2
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Qwertzful — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 11:54 AM)
Sure I have a lot to "complain" about but in the end I do enjoy this show. Not as the highlight of the week, not even close to that but more like a filler. Like when you watch CSI or Law and Order (I mean, nothing against those shows but probably almost nobody watches those as they watch other shows they really can't wait to see the next episode.
then again, I'm someone who can enjoy pretty much everything. All I need in a show or movie to be enjoyable for me is entertainment, even if it's bad, as long as I'm entertained I'm cool and to me, MacGyver is entertaining so I do watch it. But unlike some other show it's not like I'm waiting to finally be thursday again or something like that. -
tusher151-282-93356 — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 10:24 AM)
correct . someone in a team of spys do some science stuff and the whole team looks and acts like jokers and villains become so childish by act but legend by profile can never be a MAcGYVER . I want to see this season go away ASAP . team knight riders , macgyver reboot must be done with passionate people , not just by some business guys .
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OnlyAFan — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 10:16 AM)
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?
Henry Winkler, who is a producer and director for this series was also a producer and durector for the original series.
Lee David Zlotoff was the Creator of both the original and this series, and he has writing credits for both series as well.
Especially with those credentials, I expected way much more that this. As has been said, there is nothing more than the name here. -
livvy7 — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 03:04 PM)
It's possible their names are on it, which gives them a cut of the money, but they have no actual input into it. Although Henry Winkler was a producer for the original series, for example, I don't think he had much creative input into it. I doubt if he has much on this either. Zlotoff, who knows. I just don't think those original people are the driving force behind this reboot at all.
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mjd_subs2 — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 01:25 AM)
I have no opinion on this show because I haven't seen it. I didn't even know it existed until I started Netflix binging AGAIN and came to look up a character in one of the episodes. Loved, loved, loved the original show so I appreciate you laying it all out there so I know to avoid this.
I cannot recall ANY remake, reboot or reincarnation that was BETTER than its original. Too bad nobody in Hollywood seems to learn from these awful cookie-cutter-nowhere-near-the-original-story-line-monstrosities.
Further, the only book adaptations that have been relatively well-done were the ones based on Agatha Christie's books. I'm still shaking my head over what they did with "Flowers in the Attic". Just wrong.
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