#savemac

This one is full of SPOILERS, so if you haven’t seen the 2016 MacGyver remake yet, go watch the show first and then come back.  Have fun! ^_^

 Okay, my fellow MacGyver fans (and those of you who apparently don’t care about spoilers), here’s why I’d love for someone to pick up this show for at least two more seasons:

 Obviously we require some Mac/Desi/Riley resolution.  Desi and Mac’s breakup can happen early in the sixth season, even like episode two, given the reasons for the breakup, but Mac is going to need time to recover (he had multiple seasons to recover from Nikki; he should get at least one season to recover from Desi or Mac+Riley will feel forced).  He’s got a lot to recover from that he’s been putting off feeling (as Mr. Bozer pointed out recently), so this would be a great opportunity for this to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and lets everything flood in. Mac can take some time throughout the season doing some real healing work (including therapy), and he and Riley becoming a thing can be weaved in gradually until they become an official thing, which can be used as a triumphant note in the season finale.

 But OF COURSE we can’t have Mac and Riley get together in the last episode and then not get to enjoy it, so we’d obviously need a seventh season.  Fortunately, there are plenty of moments and resolutions that need to happen (and the writers are clearly up to the task of creating engaging plotlines to weave around them):  

 Mac meets Riley’s parents as her boyfriend:

-          Elwood and Mac have weird, awkward bonding and/or conflict (Mac has to be thinking about the similarities and differences between his and Riley’s dad issues)

-          Mac and Riley visit Diane, who tells Mac that nothing would have made Jack happier than seeing Mac and Riley happy together (and that if he hurts her girl she’ll end him) (and oh my GOSH I just realized that they’re Jack and Diane, oh for heaven’s SAKE)

 Mac attends a Dalton’s Heroes reunion without Jack :’(

 Can we please run into Nikki again?  It’d be fun to see Mac and Nikki reunite while Mac is with Desi, but it’d also be interesting to see that while Mac is with Riley—Mac can have an internal crisis about the fact that he went from dating the team field analyst to dating the team field analyst and wonder whether he’s doing to Riley what Desi did to him: reaching through them to get to their ex.  By the end of the episode, Mac will have worked through the question enough to realize how very many things he loves about Riley Davis, and hearing him say them with happy, peaceful confidence will be awesome.  

 Some unresolved plotlines:

-          Jonah Walsh and his super soldier serum

-          Samantha Cage’s real identity (and why Murdoc knows that she’s going by a false name)

-          MURDOC

-          The one last bomb that The Ghost left for Mac somewhere out in the world

-          Desi’s KIA ex-fiancé who is definitely not dead (and how Desi and Mac get along after the breakup.  How does Mac handle receiving an invitation to their wedding??)  (Or, alternatively, who takes Desi’s place on the team after she leaves, but I do very much like her and would love to keep her.)

-          You made me watch Matty get her heart broken and then never let me see her fall happily in love??

-          Hey, it’d be fun watching Russ go after treasure; let’s do that

 And by the way, remember that moment when Desi knelt in a destroyed building in Germany and handed Hellen a radio so she could tell her family she was okay, and there were no subtitles provided because the context and tone and rhythm were all that was needed to convey that Hellen was saying something along the lines of “I love you so much.  So much”? Like dang.  

 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT TIME THAT BOZER ASKED JACK HOW TO GET OUT OF THE FRIENDZONE WITH RILEY AND JACK TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS LUCKY TO BE FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE AS AMAZING AS RILEY AND TO START TAKING NO FOR AN ANSWER??  JACK IS MY HERO <3 <3 <3  I fell madly in love with the entire show in that moment.

 Hey, remember when Russ asked Mac how he can always manage to find a coil of rope and Mac replied, “Same reason I look better than you in a tux—the universe wants it that way”? I freaking died.