Macgyver = retarded?

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Kids are safer knowing how to use guns from a young age IMO.. I grew up moving between the city, and extremely rural country where everybody carried a rifle incase of moose/bear incidents.. City kids are scary when they get their hands on a gun..

Agree, though I think some modern shows like Burn Notice are in the same vein (more outwitting than outgunning your enemy). Never as good, though.

The other thing I loved about MacGyver was the diversity of the episodes. Other shows from that era found a niche and stuck to it (A-Team = action, Airwolf = espionage, Magnum = detective, etc). Whereas MacGyver kind of covered all of that. You'd see him breaking a political prisoner out of a Soviet prison, then the next episode he'd be solving an LA street crime, then the next episode he'd be stumbling across and helping some "if you're in trouble, if no one else can help you" people. The fact that he was all over the place made for a variety of plotlines that was really fun to watch.


That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.

He actually DID use a gun in one of the opening gambits, too. Not only in the pilot.

The opening gambit had a military woman tied into a chair, and MacGyver saving her from a beach house. Then he takes a gun and points it at the bad guys, obviously ready to shoot them if they make a wrong move. I think he then explains the turn of the events to someone on the phone, and that's about it.

Can't remember which episode it is, but I'd say it's an episode from seasons 01-03.

But the show did get pretty ridiculous many times - sometimes I had to shake my head and say aloud: "That is so stupid!". I mean, the lowest common denominator has to be able to feel that they are smarter than TV, so MacGyver had to be dumbed down. It wouldn't take many seconds for a regular individual to read "Murdoc" from the 'poem' that Penny gets in the awful 'theater' episode. But it takes MacGyver a really long time and he has to even mark it blue before he can read it! All just so that the audience would be served. Kind of sickening.

Many things are done in the show like that, for 'cinematic' reasons or 'for audience's benefit', which means that realism and intelligence flies straight into the garbage dump. And the political correctness always worsens the plots, and creates a lot of implausibility. Especially the fema-fascist stuff and the misandry. There's always "strong women" in the show, the kind that do not actually exist in real life, but we are supposed to accept it. When was the last time you knew of two feminine sisters who do a lot of rock climbing? When was the last time you saw a woman plan and lead a terrorist attack? When was the last time you saw a relatively attractive, young, slim woman, who is actually a hitman who 'negotiates' the best deal for herself, instead of taking the easy route of using her sexual power for money and resources, like women usually do?

Also, some of the 'escapes' are just so stupidly, predictably 'cinematic', so movielike, implausible in all possible levels, and the villains ALWAYS leave them alone and give them plenty of time so they can escape, and then assume they are dead, and then are surprised to see them alive, and so on..

And then there are the sappy 'romantic' "let's shed tears now to violin music for 15 minutes before we show anything intelligent"-moments and even whole episodes that really did not offer much to the viewer. But that's pretty much true for every show like this. There doesn't seem to be a show (or a movie) aimed at MEN ONLY, it's always fabricated so that "women will enjoy it too", basically catering mostly to women, and giving men just enough so that they will keep watching despite all the fema-fascist stuff and misandry, 'romance' crap and 'I am a woman, hear me roar'-bullshít.

I guess it's not really MacGyver's fault, but these are some of the points I think need to be mentioned whenever someone starts analysing the show or praising it in some way.

It's a RELATIVELY good show, if you take all this into account, but it surely had a _LOT_ of unbelievable (in all senses of the word) STUPIDITY and political correctness all over the place.

I just wish there could be a TV show about MacGyverisms that would really be about MacGyverisms - no romance, not necessarily even women actors WHATSOEVER - just good stories and plots, lots of 'MacGyverisms' and that'd be enough. It would be great!

But then, I wish there could be a movie that is space-themed, time travel-themed, Sci-Fi-themed, computer-themed, car-themed, technology-themed, future-themed, "different reality"-themed, et cetera, without it EVER having to have any kind of romance or even women in it, other than the way women existed in the early James Bond movies, perhaps (Goldfinger excluded, of course).

I mean, women HAVE all their "100% romance"-movies, why can't men have "100% intelligent, interesting plot"-movies?

WHY, MATRIARCHY?

Oh, yeah. Forgot. Men have no rights, men are just animals and work machines, free bodyguards for women, and meal/resource tickets for women, right?

Like they say in a poster: "Stop violence against women. But not against men." Hypocrisy at it's best. All violence should be stopped, not just against 50% of humanity based on their physical bodies! That's discrimination, but people don't seem to notice it much, the brainwashed sheeple that they are.

Anyway, yeah.. MacGyver is a relatively good show, if all this is taken into account and realized it's not all the show's own fault (if they hadn't incorporated all this stupidity into the show, the show would've been cancelled).

But it definitely has it's awfully stupid moments that even the biggest fans of the show must feel ashamed of.

Btw, MacGyver's values are really out of whack .. but of course, from the establishment-controlled boob tube, what else could be expected? He has no qualms about working for a group of organized murderers, he thinks a piece of this planet is somehow more valuable than others, he doesn't think pride is a sin, just to mention a few - it goes on.