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How exactly is this MacGyver?

posted 8 years ago by Progeekzy
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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 partners...not 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?

If your going to make a reboot at least make it feel in some way closely related to the original.

[–] OnlyAFan 8 years ago

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.

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[–] livvy7 8 years ago

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.

[–] mjd_subs2 8 years ago

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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[–] tlm557 8 years ago

Actually, Mac had help a lot of times.

But this new series really sucks. There have been a few good moments, but I only tolerate it because it is on right before Hawaii Five 0.

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

MacGyver was a one man The A Team.

Here he has a team.

It's that man again!!