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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?)
- 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?)
A new LOLMac!At least something great has come out of this.
I still like Eads. I think there's a chance he might have watched at least one epiosde of TRT (the real thing)
I still like Eads. I think there's a chance he might have watched at least one epiosde of TRT (the real thing)
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?!?
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?!?
Edited 2016-09-24 17:34 (UTC)
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.
Edited 2016-09-24 17:27 (UTC)
doesn't have RDA (I wonder what part they offered him that was so insulting that he refused unequivocally?)
From what I gather, he just read the first part of the script!
From what I gather, he just read the first part of the script!
Only Epic!Thing to come out of this whole reboot mess. This. Right. Here.
Where did he steal that jacket from?? Dean Winchester??
Where did he steal that jacket from?? Dean Winchester??
Truer works you hath never spake. My gods. The WORST fanboys took over from what I'm hearing.
I'm sorry...I still think THAT jacket belongs to THIS guy:
(He looks less like a kid playing dress up with it...)
But I will grudgingly give him points. Though from everything I gather (yes, I will watch, but I will be sure to be braced for it), he OPERATES like a lukewarm Dean Winchester, so color me less than impressed.
It's like he couldn't make up his mind and just let it grow...a decade sounds about right, lol!!
The biggest smile I got was when a commenter asked if anyone else thought 'Matt Smith' when they looked at him. Though I'm not sure yet if Matt (who is a talented individual!) should be insulted by the comparison!
(He looks less like a kid playing dress up with it...)
But I will grudgingly give him points. Though from everything I gather (yes, I will watch, but I will be sure to be braced for it), he OPERATES like a lukewarm Dean Winchester, so color me less than impressed.
It's like he couldn't make up his mind and just let it grow...a decade sounds about right, lol!!
The biggest smile I got was when a commenter asked if anyone else thought 'Matt Smith' when they looked at him. Though I'm not sure yet if Matt (who is a talented individual!) should be insulted by the comparison!
Sounds like he would've rather had Mac hand off his legacy to a Daughter MacGyver :O
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.
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.
There's talk of a girl Magnum making the way around the networks.......
Hell, I would have rather've had Daughter!MacGyver!
*Nods*
*Nods*
I'm convinced that old Hollwood dudebros wanna believe they're still "as hip as 20 something dudebros", so they Gary Stu themselves into a lot of the series they produce to impress women. "Hey babe, I don't wanna brag, but that character's love of aviation is actually based on me."
The original MacGyver theme is cheesy discoballs, but AMAZINGLY catchy. I can see why opting to not have theme music gives more time for storytelling, but it also gives up that all-important mimetic BRANDING.
I've seen split screens work, but the few minutes I watched of "McGuyver" looked more like screen fillers, as though it had been shot with a cell phone held portrait, not landscape, and they had to fill in the blank space.
> he's fine with his dudebro buddy shooting and torturing,
> as long as Mac himself isn't actually doing the dirty work
This is the definition of a supervillian + hired thugs! No wonder RDA washed his hands of the reboot.
The original MacGyver theme is cheesy discoballs, but AMAZINGLY catchy. I can see why opting to not have theme music gives more time for storytelling, but it also gives up that all-important mimetic BRANDING.
I've seen split screens work, but the few minutes I watched of "McGuyver" looked more like screen fillers, as though it had been shot with a cell phone held portrait, not landscape, and they had to fill in the blank space.
> he's fine with his dudebro buddy shooting and torturing,
> as long as Mac himself isn't actually doing the dirty work
This is the definition of a supervillian + hired thugs! No wonder RDA washed his hands of the reboot.
And he and Jack blew up the boat with four bad guys in it. If that had been truly MacGyver, he'd have disabled the boat so it died and left them to swim back to shore.
my brother watched for 5 minutes "just to see if they had narration" & said it was horrible.
A new LOLMac!At least something great has come out of this.
this.
this.
I heart you for this.
It looked like he DECAPITATED someone!!! (Offscreen.)
WTF?! It was a bad remake of Burn Notice, NOT Macgyver.
It looked like he DECAPITATED someone!!! (Offscreen.)
WTF?! It was a bad remake of Burn Notice, NOT Macgyver.
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