tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post6449140156705471094..comments2024-03-27T00:26:22.316-05:00Comments on The MacGyver Project: #129: Final ApproachNicholas Sweedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-39110980840902257072019-03-13T02:48:14.592-05:002019-03-13T02:48:14.592-05:00I didn't hate this episode, but I generally do...I didn't hate this episode, but I generally don't enjoy the 'social worker MacGyver' ones. I also wondered if kids ever actually talked like that, but maybe they did in America in the 80s - I'm not from that part of the world. There were one or two good MacGyverisms, but as for the one that scared the lion away, I don't really understand why it didn't immediately return to its meal.Svenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623528205533251641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-3308445862420518832017-01-05T16:00:26.159-06:002017-01-05T16:00:26.159-06:00I didn’t remember this opening scene but I love th...I didn’t remember this opening scene but I love the part of MacGyver getting even with with Pete. “I remember things like this, Thornton!”, then he thinks up the payback quicker than he would even have needed his memory and Pete’s face when he hears the bonus... priceless.<br />What I liked even more was MacGyver’s fantastic job of turning the youngsters around by being a true leader: someone followed because he knows what he’s doing, not because of an “or else”, and indeed, even these control freak kids start to listen to him instead of feeling like they’re just being bossed around, start to reciprocate his compassion instead of seeing it as a weakness, and eventually they are able to work together as a team. MacGyver doesn’t harass Luther for refusing to help: he understands that the inner transformation cannot be forced or rushed. The lost knife is a great story. I remembered it almost word by word and MacGyver made his general disapproval of honour killing clear enough by then that it doesn’t look like he was suggesting that killing Ramón would only be immoral if Luther was wrong about him.<br />Another interesting example is the long second he spends quietly looming over Tommy when he gets to him just after the puma leaves, then proving him totally wrong if he expected a confrontation.<br />It was nice to hear Pete’s unyielding confidence in MacGyver. I liked the music at the runway ingredients collection and on top of all, RDA does some cool stuff such as handling a rattlesnake and rappelling down a rock!Ritanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-22028364787746047462016-10-31T22:35:15.661-05:002016-10-31T22:35:15.661-05:00"As the gang members snip at each other, MacG..."As the gang members snip at each other, MacGyver yells probably his loudest scream in the history of the show. "All right! Can it! You two wanna fight you put on gloves, but it doesn’t happen here! Time out!" Chill out, MacGyver!" <br /><br />Hahahahaha! I think the teenagers need to chill out! :) How old are they 16? That girl was hitting on Mac! Oh sorry I mean Macgyver. :)(I know how you hate people calling him Mac) and then Macgyver stops it right away! :) It's that damn charm! Teenage girls are not immune by his charm! Although she was just trying to get her boyfriend jealous, but still! sonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13188318119543067012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-9066330925263373212016-06-27T20:58:52.929-05:002016-06-27T20:58:52.929-05:00Outstanding observation. Pretty sure it's a c...Outstanding observation. Pretty sure it's a coincidence because this episode would have been written two or three months before the episode actually aired, so I doubt MacGyver's Tommy and Gina were connected in any way to Bon Jovi's version.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-40295366320421950052015-11-30T11:08:16.884-06:002015-11-30T11:08:16.884-06:00I'm not a big Bon Jovi fan but am certainly aw...I'm not a big Bon Jovi fan but am certainly aware of the song, yet somehow never thought of it before when watching the episode. Given that the episode and the song were released at right around the same time, probably it's just a coincidence but you never know! Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-11976081032323041942015-11-30T10:53:03.876-06:002015-11-30T10:53:03.876-06:00No problem! When I looked at your blog write-up fo...No problem! When I looked at your blog write-up for this episode I was expecting your good self, or one of the other regular commenters, to have made the same observation already, having likely watched it many times over the years. Not that I was necessarily expecting any Bon Jovi fans to have commented! <br /><br />My sister thought that the same names and similar story seemed like too much of a coincidence when I told her, until we put the dates together and realised that the writers would had to have heard a very early airing of the song live, if that even happened, or heard the album and written the episode and got it to air in a month and a half!Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-92143216906600340372015-11-30T06:59:17.139-06:002015-11-30T06:59:17.139-06:00Very interesting, I had never thought of Livin'...Very interesting, I had never thought of Livin' On a Prayer before - thanks Ed! Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-50303262142285541212015-11-28T14:29:47.088-06:002015-11-28T14:29:47.088-06:00I agree with Mark, I liked this episode and the yo...I agree with Mark, I liked this episode and the younger actors who gave convincing angst-ridden performances. At one point MacGyver did get a bit shouty and angry himself, it was a tense situation after all. One thing that I did notice was the names of two of the youngsters - Tommy and Gina. My sister is a big Bon Jovi fan and I have enjoyed seeing them live with her several times so I instantly thought of Livin' On A Prayer! The lyrics are based on the tough lives of a fictional couple called Tommy and Gina! When I looked up the date when this episode originally aired it turns out that it was just four days before Livin' On A Prayer was released as a single on the 31st October 1986! The album containing that song was released in the September of that year so, unless the MacGyver episode was filmed after then and rushed through production, the names are just a coincidence rather than a reference as I initially thought it could be. Still, it is a nice coincidence, especially as this Tommy and Gina have a bit of a tough past but find they can 'hold on to what they've got' and have still 'got each other and that's a lot'!Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-26188262665653155212014-09-15T01:13:38.969-05:002014-09-15T01:13:38.969-05:00Not much fun to be had??!??! This episode was a h...Not much fun to be had??!??! This episode was a hoot! Glad you at least liked it better after your most recent viewing as I found the entire hour to be nicely done even if the 80s gangbanger shtick seems dated 28 years later. Also love that you caught that President Logan from 24 was a guest star here, something I confess I never would have picked up on if not for recognizing the name Gregory Itzin in the guest cast a few years back. Anyway, the young actors were all good, especially the ones playing Ramon and Luther and the revival of the plane, complete with its own mud runway was vintage MacGyver. I'll concede there was some cheesiness with the stock footage of the mountain lion and the less believable footage during the plane crash, but this is an episode I like more upon further viewings. It's ranked #63 for me.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-56146018783298506182013-11-06T22:49:44.909-06:002013-11-06T22:49:44.909-06:00Yeah maybe sometime I'll do a whole post on th...Yeah maybe sometime I'll do a whole post on the differences, though it's hard for me to describe them. I definitely like season 2's the best though. Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-14992304443148326652013-11-06T22:48:51.449-06:002013-11-06T22:48:51.449-06:00They are very different but it's possible to l...They are very different but it's possible to love them both! Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-59680609839777041022013-10-23T12:15:10.029-05:002013-10-23T12:15:10.029-05:00Thanks for pointing out the differences in the the...Thanks for pointing out the differences in the theme song from season to season. I didn't catch them. I think it takes a musical ear!Lara Dolphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11170393484710951517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-54317658710475549642013-10-22T20:42:26.140-05:002013-10-22T20:42:26.140-05:00So you're a 24 fan as well as a MacGyver fan (...So you're a 24 fan as well as a MacGyver fan (re. reference to President Logan)? Aren't Bower and MacGyver polar opposites in a way?! ;)lineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824333080147910176noreply@blogger.com