LOLCoffee II

[lolmac]

Still waiting fer da oatmeal.

Episode: Window of Opportunity, Season 3        Screen Capture from: sg_one_a_days

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[lothithil.livejournal.com]

You can has tea, milk, and me, too! :-D

[onducttape.livejournal.com]

I think I've figured out the mystery of RDA's eyebrow..in the first season, and towards the end of MacGyver...and Legend I guess...he has a mole or two up there just over his eyebrow. Early into Stargate the mole is gone and the gap in the eyebrow is there....kinda ruins things but...

[lolmac]

Best as I can tell, RDA actually did get smacked in the face (or maybe he had a mole removed surgically?). It seems to have left a genuine scar on his eyebrow that lingered for some time and was a lot more visible with the eyebrows going grey, once the business of trying to dye his hair Young ended. So they wrote it into the script (Demons, IIRC) and stopped covering it with make-up. By the time they were doing Wormhole X-Treme, they were sending it up -- the guy in that had multiple scars through his eyebrow.

Reminiscent of when he broke his hand during the first season of MacGyver: they shot around the cast for The Enemy Within, then wrote the damage in as two separate whumpages for To Be a Man and Every Time She Smiles. And tried to make him agree in writing not to do hazardous things any more . . . which Did Not Work.

[onducttape.livejournal.com]

Yah sure. "Hey Rick, you can break your hand while shooting but NO MORE HOCKEY! Shame, shame!"

[lolmac]

LOL! He didn't break the hand during filming (although he did get a serious back injury on location, a few years later). I've never found out how he broke his hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was either hockey or skiing.

The kind of activity they were trying to limt was skydiving, auto racing . . . things like that.

He was doing all his own stunts on MacGyver, too, with as few exceptions as he could manage. (In the opening gambit 'Pegasus' -- the one with the horse and rider airlifted away by helicopter -- he did the whole thing up to the point where the horse was just off the ground. Then they made him stop and let the nice professional stuntman finish the shot. He was disappointed.)

And after all that, the injury I mentioned above didn't happen during a stunt. It was a standard run-across-a-field shot. He made a misstep and fell, and eventually ended up in surgery for it.