I’ve read all the posts on this thread, and I agree with a lot of what’s been said. Any way you look at it, TPTB aren’t ‘honoring’ the original by inviting RDA to participate. They’re hoping to use his name and face as bait to attract viewers. My own opinion is that they’re coming at it from the wrong direction.
I think they lost me with this: “MacGyver now creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives.”
Oh, please. I can’t see the US Government listening to ANY 20-something person, can you? “I’m gonna need a 6.5 billion dollar supply budget for bubblegum and popsicle sticks, because y’know, guns are bad.” There’s not enough handwaving ON THE PLANET to make this concept work.
I think they’d’ve been better off getting the actor who played Mac’s son in the last ep of the series, and going from there, IN REAL TIME. I would TOTALLY watch that show. Not to mention the occasional guest-star pop-ins from Angus himself, much like Mac’s Granddad did over the original series run. I think Henry Winkler missed a bet there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sBiCLaAhBQ
So the backstory would go like this-
After their cross-country bonding experience, Pete was able to talk Mac and Sam into helping out around the Phoenix Foundation, because Sam apparently has a way with tech that Mac never had, and doesn’t currently have any plans. He fit right in developing better and more complicated spy thingies, which, of course, had to be field tested, providing opportunities for Mac to drop in occasionally.
Fast forward to current time.
Mac has a little sloop, and he tools around the waterways of North America, occasionally coming back to Phoenix to teach a class of rookies what to do when the Tech fails. Sam is in Pete’s position and complains about budget meetings and Homeland Security’s interference in Phoenix’s day-to-day operations. He is shocked to find out that his daughter has, unbeknownst to him, been enrolled in the spy school Phoenix runs for 8 months, and is the Salutatorian of this year’s graduating class, much to her annoyance. And she totally DOES NOT have a crush on the guy who beat her by 1.5 points. Her name is Cynthia, but she goes by Mac.
Sam: “You are NOT going on this mission, young lady, and that’s final.”
MacGyver: “There’s a mission?”
Mac: “But Dad- they’re counting on me!”
MacGyver: “What’s the mission?”
Sam: “And just for the record, I’m NOT going to be the one to explain to YOUR MOTHER—”
MacGyver: “IS ANYBODY GOING TO TELL ME WHAT. MISSION. Or am I going to hafta pull rank here?”
I foresee a lot of, “Y’know, back in *my* day ...” And of course, Mac’s granddaughter will cling to his old-fashioned ways of doing things, and not her father’s precious tech, which she will happily disassemble in order to put the components to better use in the gadget she makes along the way.
Whatcha think?
Bill
Amen to that!
). Considering how many changes they've made, it's so vastly different and diverges so radically from the original that I cannot understand how they can still conceivably call it "MacGyver." It's fine if they make it an entirely different show, but MacGyver? It isn't.
