Tonight's the night



banlu

Yes it is.

Those of you who are able to watch it, can discuss, post about it here.

Tell us what you thought, what worked, what didn't etc.

As I said before, there is possibility to get the whole episode tomorrow

Just got this nifty article in my Yahoo alerts.

http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/story/280641.html

It says they want to do more eps!

Rocky, maybe you should offer them your expertise on all things MacGyver!

banlu

I'm sorry I'm late in posting this, but you can watch a preview clip of tonight's episode on Zap2it.com.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/shows/video/zap-d...7931327.wmvfile

Wheeeee!!!!

Watching now (first commercial) and they're showing clips from the show

banlu

It's on NOW!

*just had to say that...*

Did the sodium metal explosion work?

Hot diggety, there are some shots in that clip that are not in the episode as televised!

Here's my overview (spoilers)!!!!

1. Sodium metal explosion (like in the Pilot)--it causes a reaction, but not large enough to blow a hole through a wall (Busted)

2. Mac's bamboo ultralight--it flew for a second, but then it crashed to the ground (Busted)

The MacGyver Challenge:

1. Picking the lock with a lightbulb filament (it works, but it takes longer than it did on the show)

2. Developing film using orange juice and ammonia (it would work, but the guys didn't get it right in the time given to them)

3. Making your own compass (it worked)

4. Making a signal that can be seen at 100 feet (they stumbled with this, but eventually had success)!

Do any of the "busted" Mac myths diminish my enjoyment of the show? Nah, of course not. Adam said that all his ideas work in principle, but executing them on the scale they had in the show is a challenge.

They used actual clips of the show! Yipee!

They teased Mac's hair a little bit, but most of the show was positive about our hero. Well done!

For me the surprise would be the ones that do work.

Those involved in the show have already admitted that the MacGyverisms are only based on science, and would require very exact conditions if they where to actually work as shown in the episodes.

But it's still fun to find out which ones do work.

Anyway, what did the rest of you think of it?

Awesome, the Macgyver mini myths on discovery.com are great too!

I do find myself wondering if the specific circumstances in "Holy Rose" -- namely, takeoff from a high plateau in a jungle climate, with the accompanying updrafts -- would make any difference!

And hey, at least it flew for a moment!
LOLAcrophobia

Allright
I didn't see it yesterday because I don't live in the USA.
But I will get it today and watch it on my PC.

If you missed the MacGyver event of the year, don't despair, the re-run schedule is here.

Re-run schedule

Feb 21 @ 1am
Feb 23 @ 9pm
Feb 24 @ 1am & 11am

I thought it was interesting that practically every MacGyver Myth they did on the show they "busted", but online the "Mini-Myths" they performed but only showed online all worked.

I went to the MythBusters Wiki Forum, and stated the same thing stated previously, that all the things Mac did were possible, they made sure before putting on the show. So, why did they fail when the Myth was put to the test? My guess, they were taken too literally, especially when it came to the sodium (also stated before they left key ingredients out when it came to something dangerous like explosives).

It was a great show, but I think they should revisit the ultra light plane myth. The cliff that they flew it off of in myth busters was not a straight drop and I think the plane may have flew a little more if it didn't hit the slope of the side of the mountain. I think they should find a higher steep cliff side mountain and revisit the myth. Otherwise I was very impressed with the special and they both seemed to like macgyver very much. When did mac pick a lock with a lightbulb filament?

Oh yea I watched the show. I thought it was cool. I remember all of the things they tried to duplicate. was a big fan of Macgyver. would be again if they would ever bring it back. I miss watching it.

I wish I had cable, I would have loved to see that!

Prisoner of Conscience.

He smashed the light bulb against the edge of the table then used the filament to unlock the door to get out of the room they where locked in.

And I've just realized that our list of MacGyverisms isn't as complete as it should be

In the mean time we have the original show on DVD now

I think this statement from our MacGyverisms page pretty well explains it.

And the Sodium metal was a perfect example of that exaggeration. Yes it does explode just as we saw in the show, but the size of the explosion from the quantity used was pretty exaggerated.

Still... It's interesting to see which MacGyverisms where exaggerated beyond their scope of reality and which ones work "as is".

I loved it. Although I agree that the glider segment should be done again, using similar conditions as the show.

VERY cool that they used clips from the show.

I missed many of the mini-clips. Did anyone save them?

It looks like you can watch the mini myths plus the whole episode on youtube now.

I thought the special was really good. I really liked that the myths all except one, in theory worked. And I realllllllly happy it was on.

Heres the links to the mini myths.

Stop acid with chocolate

Fix a fuse with gum wrapper

Blow a light bulb with spray

It sounds really cool! I haven't been able to see it yet, but it is super cool that they used clips from MacGyver on the Mythbusters show. I was wondering if they would be able to get the rights to do that. That's one of the things I had hoped they would be able to do. Awesome!
Now, what would be super awesome is if they can actually get Richard Dean Anderson to guest star on a future episode when they tackle more MacGyverisms!
The article posted earlier stated that they were thinking of doing maybe 4 or 5 more episodes!!! Wow!
I was also thinking that this will be a great boost for MacGyver popularity. I think most of the folks on this site are pretty passionate fans of the show who grew up watching it in the '80s. And I'm sure there's some that are a bit more zealous than others.
And even some that didn't grow up watching the show but are just now discovering it.
And RDA is pretty well known by younger kids as the star of StarGate SG-1. I think that, coupled with MacGyver being released on DVD (and the various promotional ads aired on TV for the DVDs), and definitely RDA reprising his role as MacGyver in the SuperBowl commercial two years ago- not to mention the "Young MacGyver" pilot and talk of a possible MacGyver theatrical movie that was ultimately scrapped- and now this MacGyver special episode of Mythbusters-

all of these are adding up to give MacGyver a lot more exposure today. (And of course, there's all the various Youtube clips- homages or parodies and sites like "You the Man Now Dog" that help a lot. Even if some of the younger kids mainly remember MacGyver because he's the guy with the mullet and find that hysterically funny (because mullets are like, so uncool today ) - the point is, they still have some exposure to MacGyver.
(And for the record, I think mullets are pretty cool at any time- but then, I really don't care too much about hair.)

Anyway, I guess what all this was leading up to say was that given the recent success of other '80s action heroes being revived (Slyvester Stallone giving awesome performances in both the 6th. Rocky movie- "Rocky Balboa" and the 4th. Rambo movie- simply known as "Rambo"- Bruce Willis back as John McClane in the 4th. Die Hard movie- "Live Free or Die Hard"- and the sure to be a success movie coming May 22nd!!! (I can't wait!)- Harrison Ford coming back for the 4th. Indiana Jones movie!!! - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (see the trailer on IndianaJones.com - it ROCKS! AWESOME!)
And even MacGyver-esque movies like "Sahara" (somewhat) and "National Treasure" 1 and 2 (Definitely!) are coming out lately.
And of course, other '80s classics getting revived, like the new "Knight Rider" series and "The A-Team" movie that is supposed to be on the way soon (I've also heard of a movie version of another '80s classic- "The Equalizer"- and don't forget that there's supposedly a "Magnum, P.I." movie in the works- and "Miami Vice" got its own movie pretty recently)

It seems to me that it would be a great time to see Richard Dean Anderson revive his MacGyver character for one last theatrical movie! Of course, it would still be a matter of if it could be done in a serious vein and if RDA would agree to it. And if it picked up from where the original series left off.
I would really love to see it happen. It may someday. I've kinda learned that with Hollywood, you just really can "Never Say Never Again" (as Sean Connery showed us in 1983! )

Anyway- I'm excited for some more MacGyver exposure and something new to enjoy. Hopefully at the very least this will get Paramount to realize the popularity of the show and finally get those TV-movies out in a separate DVD set, hopefully with all the extras they left off from the individual season and complete series DVD sets.
Keep on MacGyvering!

Wouldn't it be kewl if Mythbusters where allowed to use clips of MacGyver, on the understanding that Paramount are allowed to use their clips for MacGyver extras on an up-coming project.

That would be nice.

I also would like to see the ultra light revisited as well, and not only because it's one of my favorite MacGyverisms on the show. Tonight on a repeat Mythbusters episode, they had some guests from MIT try to recreate a myth they had done earlier that they had busted. The MIT team didn't feel they gave it enough of a chance, so they replicated it to re-test it. It would be cool to bring in some sharp engineering students and see if they could do any better constructing the MacGyver plane.

I thought it was awesome

Thanks!

Yeah it seems liek a natural combination really.. Mythbusters and MacGyver


I wonder why they choose to test the Ultra-light MacGyverism? considering the list they had to choose from.