tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post8431617988522843917..comments2024-03-27T00:26:22.316-05:00Comments on The MacGyver Project: Mission: Impossible -- Episode 21: The PrincessNicholas Sweedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-21863730058158613122017-06-17T22:53:38.380-05:002017-06-17T22:53:38.380-05:00"48 Hours" premiered in January 1988. I..."48 Hours" premiered in January 1988. It used to profile a given news item with reporters on the scene for....48 consecutive hours. They had some excellent journalistic work. Over the years, the quality deteriorated and now it's just a clunky "real life crime mystery" shlock that co-opted the "48 Hours" name from when there was actual context for the title.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-34507637395294334762017-06-15T13:26:57.329-05:002017-06-15T13:26:57.329-05:00Thanks for the ratings info. I couldn't tell ...Thanks for the ratings info. I couldn't tell you a thing about 48 Hours -- weird that it's been on for so long. And who would have thought that Victoria James would have spawned a legacy of villains jumping to their death. Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-6655588006016559792017-06-15T08:47:25.695-05:002017-06-15T08:47:25.695-05:00This episode was certainly above-average, but I ag...This episode was certainly above-average, but I agree with you that the first half was confusing as Caron was definitely being set up to look like the hit man. I was confused when "Coyote" was doing her yoga routine and it wasn't until she took her gun out of the case that I made the connection that she was the real heavy. As a side note, I've never understood the Hollywood meme of women burglars/killers slinking around in the dark dressed from head to toe in black leather. It's certainly a cool image, but wouldn't the lack of flexibility in the leather hinder your mobility far more than it camouflages your appearance. Obviously it's a mindless gimmick entirely for visual appeal, but Hollywood tropes need to be called out for their foolishness sometimes!<br /><br />By now none of us should be shocked by the comprehensiveness of Grant's tech devices so his ability to match the perfume scent of Coyote with some sort of "stock odor" was right in his wheelhouse. They really did do a good job of making Coyote look like a young boy rather than a woman in the end before she went all Victoria James. Agreed that Shannon "taking a bullet for Phelps" was eye-rollingly melodramatic. Overall a good hour though. I'll rate it between "The Fortune" and "The Golden Serpent".<br /><br />I forgot to mention in the "Golden Serpent" review that the series moved to Thursday nights at the beginning of season 2. The series was getting passable ratings for the network on Saturday nights for the first time in years in 1989 so naturally they decided to move it to another suicide slot! Seriously though, the show had an opening on Thursday night as a counterprogramming alternative to "The Cosby Show", which was starting season 6 in September 1989 and losing some steam. It dropped from the #1 show to the #2 show that season, which doesn't sound like a lot but the 55+ audience share that "Cosby" was pulling in its 1985-1987 heyday was long gone by 1989 when it was getting more like a 35 audience share. Nonetheless, "Mission: Impossible" did not do well on Thursday nights and was moved back to Saturdays before Christmas. It was finishing a distant third place even losing to "48 Hours" on CBS (yes, the same "48 Hours" that's still on 27 years later....although back then it was a respectable newsmagazine rather than the tabloid BS it is now). Just some historical perspective. Curiously, "Mission: Impossible" was replaced on Thursday nights in January 1990 but Tom Bosley's "Father Dowling Mysteries", which got considerably better ratings than "M:I". Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.com