tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post4289915328474044889..comments2024-03-27T00:26:22.316-05:00Comments on The MacGyver Project: MacGyver Reboot -- Episode 6: WrenchNicholas Sweedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-89840017413944601832023-02-27T23:08:05.001-06:002023-02-27T23:08:05.001-06:00Does anyone know what knife he is using in the sce...Does anyone know what knife he is using in the scene where they are in the contamination suites?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-43701465133704165972017-04-08T02:45:40.692-05:002017-04-08T02:45:40.692-05:00If you liked West Wing, House of Cards is a pretty...If you liked West Wing, House of Cards is a pretty smart show. Most of the smarter shows these days are probably on HBO/Showtime/Netflix, not on the big networks.Desslarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-14396236045977145762016-10-30T10:19:33.757-05:002016-10-30T10:19:33.757-05:00I don't think Henry Winkler or Lee David Zloto...I don't think Henry Winkler or Lee David Zlotoff are doing much of anything with the new show -- I imagine LDZ gets a credit as the rights holder and Henry Winkler gets one out of respect and due to his name recognition.<br /><br />As for the episode titles, they're just picking random names of tools or parts of a Swiss Army Knife which don't have anything to do with the episode -- I don't know why they did that.<br /><br />I agree about TV in general now mostly pandering to the lowest common denominator. Take a show like West Wing which was incredibly smart and yet it did well because there's smart people out there and a market for smart shows -- would be nice to see more of that in the tv and movies today.Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-57821693474714130972016-10-30T10:00:32.123-05:002016-10-30T10:00:32.123-05:00Learned Something New:
I obviously wasn’t paying a...Learned Something New:<br />I obviously wasn’t paying attention to the credits and too busy running to through the commercials. But this week, while in a hotel room, I was forced to watch it in real time. I did not know that Henry Winkler was an executive producer of the show. So, he IS remaining connected to the show.<br />Low Points:<br />• Riley tracing the SIM card with just three numbers. Really? I don’t know if I’m ignorant of current technology or the show really stretches the truth.<br />• I am not getting the titles for the episodes. Why the “Wrench?” Anyone care to expound?<br />Favorite Line: [paraphrasing]<br />• “As long as I don’t have to be Nixon.” I, along with the State of Massachusetts, voted for McGovern. I lived through the Watergate scandal and the resignation of Nixon. My favorite bumper sticker of the day was “Don’t blame me, I’m from Massachusetts.”<br />• Jack’s “Jimmy Hoffa” and Riley’s “Who?”<br />Recognizable Actors: None that I saw.<br />Highlights:<br />• The Halloween pumpkins were very creative.<br />• Paper Clip shaped palm tree. I am beginning to like the paper clip theme.<br />• Getting Jack to talk about his Fantasy Football team while he was standing on a detonator.<br />• Meeting Annabelle and having a tea party and fixing her doll. Now that is a true MacGyverism!<br />Science:<br />• PETN is Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, which is structural very similar to nitroglycerin. This is a highly explosive compound. And just like Nitroglycerin, it can be used as a vasodilator.<br />• TATP is Triacetone Triperoxide, which is a very unstable compound. It smells like bleach. It was used in the Paris and Belgium attacks. <br />• Dissolving the explosive with diesel fuel from the garbage truck. I am assuming it is diesel and not gasoline. It follows the basic solvent rule that “like dissolves like.” Nonpolar substances are dissolved by nonpolar solvents, i.e. organic liquids like diesel fuel. Polar substances are dissolved by polar solvents, i.e. water.<br />Final Comment:<br />This was my favorite episode thus far. But the show has got to improve. Dad has decided to stop watching the show. I recently read that MacGyver is the top 5 of the best new dramas of the season. Am I missing something? One of the others was Bull. While traveling this week and stuck in a hotel room, I watched Bull for the first and last time. TV needs better writers and has to stop pandering to the lowest common denominator of TV viewers. It’s time to be a smart show and raise people up!<br />Project MacGyver MomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02342174424018623586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-30885582809920337332016-10-29T22:56:19.722-05:002016-10-29T22:56:19.722-05:00"Hawaii Five-O" has its moments of crumm..."Hawaii Five-O" has its moments of crummy CGI too but none as terrible as the two explosion scenes were saw last night on "MacGyver". As for "Scorpion", there are lighthearted aspects of it I could do without and you likely could as well, but the stories and brain-power solutions certainly come through for some entertaining hours of television.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-8220936558339265552016-10-29T19:07:30.000-05:002016-10-29T19:07:30.000-05:00Good point about the scene with the CO dying and M...Good point about the scene with the CO dying and MacGyver's emotional response -- I agree and as you said it was the first time the series has had some real emotional resonance. I haven't seen Scorpion -- would you say it's a good show?<br /><br />Also agree on the bad CGI. With some exceptions I generally don't find Five-0 to be overly reliant on bad CGI -- maybe the rushed schedule on MacGyver has contributed to that and also to the overall level of quality.Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-73772285385132975472016-10-29T18:14:36.596-05:002016-10-29T18:14:36.596-05:00I'm afraid I thought this one was a mess too. ...I'm afraid I thought this one was a mess too. The beginning could have been cool when they were getting buried under the dirt and he used the airbag to blow an opening, but they didn't make it clear what he hooked it up to that produced such a blast....so it just seemed ridiculous that an airbag was capable of that kind of an explosion. I also expected more from the Charlie Robinson introduction. It seemed like he was gonna be a major character in the episode but after his introduction scene he had about two minutes of screen time in the warehouse for the rest of the episode...and the real partner/inspiration of MacGyver's ended up being the drill sergeant guy whose name escapes me. As you said, everything to do with the scene in the Ghost's apartment was pretty bad, from the trigger tracker thing he did with gum and his cell phone to pouring the gas all over it which somehow defused it. <br /><br />The high point for me was MacGyver's emotional response to the final words of (the guy whose name I can't recall)....words that MacGyver had never heard before since his audio hadn't been working at the time. It was the first scene this series has had with some genuine emotional resonance. Unfortunately after that things got pretty paint-by-numbers again, with extremely terrible CGI explosions and the complete gullibility of MacGyver's colleagues regarding the Ghost's faked death. The final scene with the truck was okay I guess, but we were led to believe the Ghost didn't anticipate them coming so it didn't really make sense that he had this elaborate bomb set up in there, complete with an easy escape despite the tidal wave of authorities bearing down on him. While I really liked the pulley bit MacGyver used to detach the secondary detonator, it didn't make sense logistically either. He didn't trust Jack's "unsteady hand" to simply pull the thing out of its socket....but he did trust Jack's unsteady hand to somehow rig together this pulley operation and hook it up to the end of the detonator pin which would have taken about five times as long?<br /><br />It was another shrug for me by the end of the hour. I didn't hate it, but as I said last week it isn't even as good as the "MacGyver" ripoff "Scorpion" on the same network. Six episodes in, I'm losing hope fast that this show finds its sea legs.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-79347323070173646642016-10-29T16:04:11.962-05:002016-10-29T16:04:11.962-05:00So far, I liked this episode the best (followed by...So far, I liked this episode the best (followed by episodes 4 and 5). The acting has really improved since the beginning, and I really liked that we get a better look at MacGyver's backstory. <br /><br />I feel like because this is a reboot, they all thought we knew MacGyver already and the writers focused too much on the "new" team. But since this is a complete reboot, not a remake and therefore New MacGyver is so different from the old one, it was important to introduce us to this character a bit more. I still think they should have made the pilot episode a two parter - not necessarily with part 1 ending in a cliffhanger, but so they had enough time to grant everyone on the new team enough screen time. I sure would have cared more about the Nikki storyline if we actually got to know her... <br /><br />And there were almost no guns, yay!DashboardOnFirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415585943437200452noreply@blogger.com