Kind of like Stargate SG-1 where they keep killing off the bad guys and making jokes about them never dying.
I really wished this show was a continuation about being the son.
MacGyver remake comes to CBS (Lucas Till, George Eads)
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Kind of like Stargate SG-1 where they keep killing off the bad guys and making jokes about them never dying.
I really wished this show was a continuation about being the son.
No mention of duct tape...
A long time back, a friend and I were traveling from Calgary to Red Deer, returning from a science fiction convention. Someone had pulled over on the highway because of some sort of car trouble.
My friend, being a helpful person, went to see what the problem was. She came back, rummaged around in the trunk, and took out a roll of duct tape. She want back to the other car, did something with the duct tape (I didn't go over there, so I didn't actually see what the problem was), and the other driver was able to get on his way.
My friend got back in the car, and was quite pleased. "I MacGyvered it!" she announced proudly.
A long time back, a friend and I were traveling from Calgary to Red Deer, returning from a science fiction convention. Someone had pulled over on the highway because of some sort of car trouble.
My friend, being a helpful person, went to see what the problem was. She came back, rummaged around in the trunk, and took out a roll of duct tape. She want back to the other car, did something with the duct tape (I didn't go over there, so I didn't actually see what the problem was), and the other driver was able to get on his way.
My friend got back in the car, and was quite pleased. "I MacGyvered it!" she announced proudly.
Red Green would be proud! 
Someone remade the new trailer with the classic theme. Just had to share. The classic theme definitely makes the new trailer better. 
Wow... it really, truly does.... it almost looks like it was synched up on purpose and these are all clips from various episodes. That really did make the show seem 20x better. This should have just been his son, allowing the original actor to guest star (he even mentions his father in the trailer) - not pissing off the original fans while giving a nod to the original should be common sense in these reboots by this point..... the Knight Rider pilot movie knew this, but the subseuent show did not.
I'm kind of wondering if or when they'll try to bring RDA in. They going to wait until the show gets ratings trouble and try this as a ratings-grabbing stunt? Or are they going to plan an episode for him anyway?
Is RDA even still acting? IMDB's last credit for him was three years ago.
And yes, the mash-up of new footage with the original theme is all kinds of awesome and does a better job getting me interested in the show than the actual trailer did.
Which makes me wonder if the original intention was to use the original theme, but they for whatever reason couldn't and had to use a placeholder.
James Wan will shoot a new pilot with a new concept, only Till and Eads remain in the otherwise new cast. There's apparently a new character, MacGyver's roommate.
CBR| 'MacGyver's' Shooting a New Pilot with James Wan Back Directing
CBR| 'MacGyver's' Shooting a New Pilot with James Wan Back Directing
I admit, I'm not clear on how this new premise is different, aside from renaming Eads's character after Bruce McGill's Jack Dalton from the original show, and renaming the spy agency from the Phoenix Foundation (which was never a spy agency) to the DXS (which was). I don't like the "clandestine" focus or the government-team focus, both of which feel like just some generic CBS action-intrigue show. The original series ditched its spy focus after just one season, so why do the remakers think it's a good idea to revert to that failed premise? (And "it's a prequel" doesn't explain it. It's a reinvention, so they don't have to follow a parallel path.)
I just recently rewatched Season 1 of MacG and loved it; I don't remember very much from its original run, so the world hopping spy exploits are honestly what is most recent in my mind. This sounds a bit improved to me. I'm hoping they take to heart just how much people prefer sequels over reboots.... I am hoping that the main point of this retool is to make him a Jr. rather then a Prequel.
The first season was okay, but I don't consider it a high point of the series. What was cool about the later Phoenix Foundation years was that they could be about anything. Phoenix had its fingers in many different pies, from government contracts (so they could still do spy stuff) to scientific and environmental research to forensic assistance to the police to charitable and social programs. It made for a very versatile show. MacGyver could go on an Indiana Jones treasure hunt one week and match wits with a Hannibal Lecter-style serial killer another week and try to help an inner-city kid avoid joining a gang another week. Not to mention all the times he got dragged into trouble by his wacky friends like Jack Dalton and Penny Parker. Limiting it just to the spy stuff seems pretty narrow in comparison.
The fact that Eads is now playing a reinterpreted Jack Dalton makes it pretty clear that it's a reboot, not a sequel. Besides, we already met MacGyver's son "Sam" (Sean Angus Malloy, played by Dalton James) in the second-last episode of the show. He'd be in his early to mid-40s by now. Although I suppose MacGyver could've had another son later on...
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I might have watched the original version of this when Addison Timlin was in the cast but I guess the new version doesn't have her in it.
I would have had the new MacGyver be his grandson who really took to him and went on some trips where the grandson picked up the tinkerer/fixer style.
Then had RDA in some flashbacks, but no longer around with the grandson eventually rescuing him from being held because of secrets he learned like Sean Connery's character in the Rock.
I could get behind that. It'd be nice symmetry to have RDA show up playing the same cranky-grandfather role that John Anderson (no relation) played for him in the original show. Plus there'd be room to bring back other characters from the original.
Here's a minute-long behind-the-scenes video about the new pilot shoot:
It looks like they've given Lucas Till a more authentic MacGyver haircut and wardrobe this time. He looks more like his predecessor than he did in the first pilot. And they're doing a scene with Mac dangling from a plane that seems like an homage to a scene used in the show's opening titles. So it does feel a bit more like the original -- for what that's worth.
It looks like they've given Lucas Till a more authentic MacGyver haircut and wardrobe this time. He looks more like his predecessor than he did in the first pilot. And they're doing a scene with Mac dangling from a plane that seems like an homage to a scene used in the show's opening titles. So it does feel a bit more like the original -- for what that's worth.
