Bout to go all MacGyver in here

There are so many little actions, like Jack grabbing Mac’s belt so he doesn’t fall out of car windows, a protective hand or arm or like in the last gif from Cigar Cutter, Mac’s hand on Jack back as they change places.

I wonder often if they were scripted, or if Lucas or George added them or they just came naturally as they got to know their characters and bond.

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Jack Dalton to everyone in MacGyver, episode 121

I love it when Jack goes all badass! ♥♥♥ And he didn’t even have to give his people a code or something. He only had to say his name and they rushed to carry out his orders!

Jack Dalton (getting his Tommy Lee Jones on)

Did I start watching that MacGyver remake just so I could read fic (*cough* @altschmerzes *cough*) about it? Sure did and I AM HAVING SOME SORT OF THOUGHTS-

It’s giving me Burn Notice it’s giving me CSI Miami it’s giving me 1960s The Man from UNCLE. It’s giving me mid-aughts ‘let’s preemptively shoehorn in how Straight these guys are because they are going to be caring about each other A LOT and we need the audience to buy into the big explosions without wondering if we’re implying anything’.

Should any of these things be given to anyone? I frankly don’t care. There is a level of sincerity here that I miss from a lot of shows these days, which can sometimes be so depressingly meta that watching it turns into an uninspired intellectual exercise meant to suck all the fun out of the world in favor of being right. Meanwhile George Eads is saying something lovingly kind in a southern drawl wearing the worst shirt with the sleeves ripped off look that I’ve seen this side of Sunny, and there’s a little dude that looks like Jared Padalecki and Timothée Chalamet had a blond love child and he has childhood neglect and overachiever written all over him I can already tell he is going to be whump-tastic to me.

Sometimes I do just want to watch a physics-breaking scene of a guy hanging out of an air plane. I will complain about it, but it will be done with an air of grandiose enjoyment. To me, over-the-top procedurals are the new pulp media.

Is it a good show? Irrelevant at this juncture. They just shoehorned in some Tragic Backstory and I am eating it up like a trail of breadcrumbs made out of Hot Pockets.

Now I just need to find out if I’m going to be regular annoying about it or special filing cabinet (sideblog) annoying about. But I am already thinking of naming my special filing cabinet so it may already be decided

For added context, I’m on episode two.

Mac looks like 10 years older.

New/Old photos of George Eads

Jack's desperate prayer: "Don't be dead. Don't be dead. Don't you dare be dead."