According to what viewers tweeted about it, reboot!McGuyver:
- copies a Mission Impossible heist in the intro - uses gimmicky split screens, annoying mansplainy voiceovers, & freeform captions for the DIY scenes - quotes the 1st few bars of the original music theme, then substitutes a new brass orchestral theme - relies on the Women in Refrigerators trope 11 minutes in - hired American Sniper as Mac's bodyguard - pats itself on the back for including one Black woman as the stereotypical l337 h4x0r - doesn't have RDA (I wonder what part they offered him that was so insulting that he refused unequivocally?)
I don't think they offered RDA a specific part -- hell, they probably said "Just come do a cameo and everyone will know we're just great!" But he's become a regular on the con scene, and I would guess that he knew damned well that the reboot was nothing about the existing fans, except for the small vocal minority of 20 and 30something entitled white fanboys. They aren't the ones who've been putting their money where their hearts are for years, but just try getting Hollywood dudebros to realize that.
I actually give them positive points for the bit of the original theme music they did use -- it was one of the few really good nods to the original. I gather that the Hot New Thing right now is not to have any theme music or credits at all?
The split screens weren't too bad, and the captioned overlays could have been a brilliant technique for making the MacGyverisms work -- I can tell you from deep experience that it is an unholy bitch of a challenge to write strong, well-paced action sequences that use MacGyverisms. They're a pace killer. The voice-overs are also really tricky: unless done carefully, in support of the story, they're distracting and annoying. Guess what they were this time?
The two biggest issues I have, at this point in moderate retrospect, are that the storytelling was just plain lame -- all Moments!! and no actual plotline, basically. Even worse is the staggering ethical void. This title character has no problem with body count -- he's cool with blowing up the bad guys. Worse, he's fine with his dudebro buddy shooting and torturing, as long as Mac himself isn't actually doing the dirty work. WHUT?!?
Oh, blimey. I was just coming in to ask lolmac where it went wrong, and... that's quite a list. (Although I wouldn't object to Bradley Cooper as the bodyguard! ;) ) I fully appreciate that the original series was neither perfect nor high art, but they got a lot more right than they did wrong.
I hear it got good ratings, but then a lot of people must have tuned in to episode one just to see what it's like.
*sigh* I don't actually want it to fail. Remakes don't have to be bad, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be like a good cover of a classic song: updated for a new audience. But this just sounds lame. :( Mac deserves better.
I think everyone involved has watched MacGyver -- hell, they all think they're big-time fans! And they are. But they don't understand why the show worked. Remember the loud fanboys on MOL who all thought they were MacGyver? Just picture them as the showrunners.
I give them a solid point for the jacket; it's definitely Mac's. The haircut is okay also. Give the kid 10 years and he might be ready for the role . . .
Although I was never a big MacGyver watcher, even I remember that he didn't kill people, and he frequently kept even the other good guys from killing people. What I'm reading here doesn't sound right, not at all. That's a shame.
Mac was absolutely anti-gun, and RDA willingly took heavy flack from the NRA about it. They did two or three episodes that were anti-gun PSA eps. This kid -- maybe the producers are afraid of the NRA? The #1 Buddy has the specific job of shooting (or torturing) people on Mac's behalf. The only concession the show made was that, at one point when Mac is handed a gun, he hits someone with it instead of shooting the guy.
Then he rigs a lethal explosion that kills that guy and at least one other . . . but hey, they're bad guys and therefore had it coming.
You know, here's the thing. As much as I was unhappy about this project, it looked terrible, etc... I was willing to hear that I was wrong and somehow they managed to capture and update the spirit of the original. All the reviews make it sound even WORSE than I expected it to be. That... takes some serious talent!
I've been following it closely, and there were plenty of moments when I thought "Hey, that looks good -- maybe this will be ok." I tuned in with the best balance of hope and caution I could; but the ugly tropes and the body count soured it early, and kept going down.
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- copies a Mission Impossible heist in the intro
- uses gimmicky split screens, annoying mansplainy voiceovers, & freeform captions for the DIY scenes
- quotes the 1st few bars of the original music theme, then substitutes a new brass orchestral theme
- relies on the Women in Refrigerators trope 11 minutes in
- hired American Sniper as Mac's bodyguard
- pats itself on the back for including one Black woman as the stereotypical l337 h4x0r
- doesn't have RDA (I wonder what part they offered him that was so insulting that he refused unequivocally?)
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I actually give them positive points for the bit of the original theme music they did use -- it was one of the few really good nods to the original. I gather that the Hot New Thing right now is not to have any theme music or credits at all?
The split screens weren't too bad, and the captioned overlays could have been a brilliant technique for making the MacGyverisms work -- I can tell you from deep experience that it is an unholy bitch of a challenge to write strong, well-paced action sequences that use MacGyverisms. They're a pace killer. The voice-overs are also really tricky: unless done carefully, in support of the story, they're distracting and annoying. Guess what they were this time?
The two biggest issues I have, at this point in moderate retrospect, are that the storytelling was just plain lame -- all Moments!! and no actual plotline, basically. Even worse is the staggering ethical void. This title character has no problem with body count -- he's cool with blowing up the bad guys. Worse, he's fine with his dudebro buddy shooting and torturing, as long as Mac himself isn't actually doing the dirty work. WHUT?!?
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From what I gather, he just read the first part of the script!
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I hear it got good ratings, but then a lot of people must have tuned in to episode one just to see what it's like.
*sigh* I don't actually want it to fail. Remakes don't have to be bad, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be like a good cover of a classic song: updated for a new audience. But this just sounds lame. :( Mac deserves better.
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I still like Eads. I think there's a chance he might have watched at least one epiosde of TRT (the real thing)
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this.
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Where did he steal that jacket from?? Dean Winchester??
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Then he rigs a lethal explosion that kills that guy and at least one other . . . but hey, they're bad guys and therefore had it coming.
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It looked like he DECAPITATED someone!!! (Offscreen.)
WTF?! It was a bad remake of Burn Notice, NOT Macgyver.
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You have my commiserations!
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