God bless you, Macgyver.
Just saw a new addition to the "Best TV Show Ever:"
MacGyver.
This dude...this dude made a frickin' telescope out of the sports pages (With the witty line: "Calgary loses again?!"), a magnifying glass serendipitously attached to a MagLite, and the clear cover of his watch. ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
Some people have Miami Vice, others A-Team or Airwolf. Me, I now have MacGyver as the best 80's TV show starring a lead character, impossibly young looking despite his age and burned by the bad memory of Vietnam. Ah...what was it about the 80's that made it so great? The economy was tanking. The cold war was escalating (and then deflating), Asian people were becoming the new black people (only to be usurped by the Latino invasion of the 90's.) And Eddie Murphy was king, and edgy.
Back to MacGyver. The dude had to outwit the first Artificial Intelligence computer in a friendly bet to see who was better, man or machine? Of course the machine begins to mistake the exercise for reality and turns on her masters, leaving only MacGyver and some leggy blonde British (and very prudish) scientist to save the day. Forgetting for a moment that my user-friendly XBOX (or DeadBox if you're my girlfriend) could run circles around this A.I., this episode was fantastic.
There were many scenes when cool MacGyver would disprove the prudish scientist, by trusting his "instincts" over her science. It just so happens that he has the mind of a nuclear physicist, but still it's nice to see him so smooth. They would be running around, and they would do the riposte "falling onto each other" or, he'll pull himself up by her can (and NO ONE COMMENTS ON THIS!)...He even takes off his pants to form a make shift-rope ladder for them to climb to safety out of an acid bath! Is this a cool show or what. And, as the oxygen runs out, she's a sweaty, crying mess, and he still has one final plan in place...You have to see this episode.
If I can ever recreate a heaven on earth, I'd make sure that at least one of the channels played MacGyver.
MacGyver.
This dude...this dude made a frickin' telescope out of the sports pages (With the witty line: "Calgary loses again?!"), a magnifying glass serendipitously attached to a MagLite, and the clear cover of his watch. ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
Some people have Miami Vice, others A-Team or Airwolf. Me, I now have MacGyver as the best 80's TV show starring a lead character, impossibly young looking despite his age and burned by the bad memory of Vietnam. Ah...what was it about the 80's that made it so great? The economy was tanking. The cold war was escalating (and then deflating), Asian people were becoming the new black people (only to be usurped by the Latino invasion of the 90's.) And Eddie Murphy was king, and edgy.
Back to MacGyver. The dude had to outwit the first Artificial Intelligence computer in a friendly bet to see who was better, man or machine? Of course the machine begins to mistake the exercise for reality and turns on her masters, leaving only MacGyver and some leggy blonde British (and very prudish) scientist to save the day. Forgetting for a moment that my user-friendly XBOX (or DeadBox if you're my girlfriend) could run circles around this A.I., this episode was fantastic.
There were many scenes when cool MacGyver would disprove the prudish scientist, by trusting his "instincts" over her science. It just so happens that he has the mind of a nuclear physicist, but still it's nice to see him so smooth. They would be running around, and they would do the riposte "falling onto each other" or, he'll pull himself up by her can (and NO ONE COMMENTS ON THIS!)...He even takes off his pants to form a make shift-rope ladder for them to climb to safety out of an acid bath! Is this a cool show or what. And, as the oxygen runs out, she's a sweaty, crying mess, and he still has one final plan in place...You have to see this episode.
If I can ever recreate a heaven on earth, I'd make sure that at least one of the channels played MacGyver.
posted by Coolhand at 3:48 PM
2 Comments:
It's so sad that you blogged about MacGyver because now I am going to call you Selma after Marge's sisters.
i was always a pretty big fan of the mac-man. awesome concept, awesomely executed.
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