Not very exciting ,is it ? We need to remember them (and I'm sure they want to be remembered ) as they were in MacGyver but not as grumpy old men...I think. You'll see when you are 60 something DXS... | Printable Version of Topic
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| Posted by: DXS 15 October 2016 - 10:17 AM |
| Ok, RDA refused to make an appearance on the reboot. Ok, why not have Bruce McGill and RDA make an appearance together as BAD GUYS? No reference to their previous MacGyver characters. Just have them play completely different characters. BAD GUYS! On the SEASON FINALE or the one before it. Just ONE appearance. |
| Posted by: MacGyverGod 15 October 2016 - 10:44 AM |
| RDA refused once already and he's not going to change his mind even with Bruce around. You'd probably hope Bruce might be able to talk Rick over but that is not going to happen. Let alone they would be interested in appearing as bad guys in a show they originally starred in as good guys. Contrast seems interesting but if I wanna see RDA and Bruce together, I'd watch a Jack Dalton episode. |
| Posted by: DXS 15 October 2016 - 11:33 AM |
| Ok, maybe not bad guys..... maybe they could make a peripheral appearance as two grumpy old men........ |
| Posted by: tvero 15 October 2016 - 11:46 AM |
| Grumpy old men ? Not very exciting ,is it ? We need to remember them (and I'm sure they want to be remembered ) as they were in MacGyver but not as grumpy old men...I think. You'll see when you are 60 something DXS... |
| Posted by: shadowrider 15 October 2016 - 03:19 PM |
| Anderson said no not to appearing as the aged Angus MacGuyver, which was never intended, but to appearing in the show at all. |
| Posted by: KiwiTek 15 October 2016 - 06:53 PM |
| They could actually have some fun with RDA being something like a wise old retired agent who gives (new) MacGyver some special advise. It would be like an in-joke - we'd all know it was a passing of the baton. But as already mentioned, I don't actually think RDA want's anything to do with this show. Of coarse he could always change his mind. |
| Posted by: Miasma 15 October 2016 - 06:59 PM |
| Bruce has quite a prolific film career, so I can't really see him being that interested in devoting time to this show. As for RDA, he seems a bit bitter about the whole thing. I really think Lenkov had intended to bring him in as MacGyver's father, but that won't happen now, so I do wonder who they'll cast for that role (or will they just abandon that side plot now?) |
| Posted by: DXS 16 October 2016 - 12:11 AM | ||
Remember, I'm from the original MacGyver group from the former PRODIGY service. Thusly, I have already reached 60. But I'm a "young" 60. Or so I am told..... Some history: We all started out on the former PRODIGY online service. Then, when PRODIGY went POOF, an EMAIL discussion group got started. That was back in the MAJORDOMO days. Then the person hosting it couldn't host it any more, so we looked for another way. Then Shari Feldman (my best friend) got it moved to Georgia Tech's server. After a few years, I THINK..... someone who was on the email discussion list when it was hosted at Georgia Tech started the MacGyver Online web site. Can't remember the exact year, sometime in the low 2000's........ And now KiwiTech has kept it alive. |
| Posted by: tvero 16 October 2016 - 03:40 AM | ||||
I'm very sorry . I didn't know DXS . I do apologize. |
| Posted by: DXS 16 October 2016 - 04:07 AM | ||
Oh man!!!!!  No need to apologize! I'm sorry you felt the need to apologize. I was just "informing" that I was kind of..... "older" than rest of this group...... |
| Posted by: MacsJeep 16 October 2016 - 04:55 AM |
| I really don't want to see RDA in this now, or MDB or Bruce, if I'm honest. I don't like the reboot, and I kinda agree with Rick for not getting involved. He liked the old Mac's aversion to guns, believed in it, and this new Mac might not use them himself, but I personally think the show still seems to try and thrive on violence and weapons. And new Mac doesn't seem to care. The new Jack Dalton thinks he's Rambo, for heavens sake! |
| Posted by: MacGyverGod 17 October 2016 - 10:50 AM |
| Remember, DXS, Mac said once: Age is only in the mind. |
| Posted by: Jediferret 17 October 2016 - 02:21 PM | ||
I feel ya MacsJeep... The original MacGyver held life in high regard, even the lives of bad guys. And that's why I love the character... he's like the average person's hero. I don't see that with the reboot... and maybe they had to get rid of that mindset for the reboot to do well. There just aren't enough heros like the original MacGyver anymore... I'll probably watch the reboot just because, but I wouldn't buy it on DVD or anything. |
| Posted by: Walter 18 October 2016 - 12:10 AM | ||
Except that was one of the qualities Lenkov was crowing about in interviews leading up to the pilot. I distinctly remember in one interview he responded to criticism of "Hollywood hasn't got any fresh ideas" by saying they were remaking the show because they believed we needed this character back on TV, not because they'd run out of ideas. Only problem is, that character isn't back on TV it's some completely different guy with the same name. No similarities at all. |
| Posted by: Mr Duct Tape 18 October 2016 - 03:33 AM |
| This thing surely is not MacGyver. It's a bad mission impossible copy. |
| Posted by: RadiantRose 27 October 2016 - 01:05 AM |
| If we're making plans for RDA and Bruce, we need to make plans for Michael Des Barres also. Can't leave out Murdoc. |
| Posted by: Macgyver12186 27 October 2016 - 07:22 AM | ||
I disagree |
| Posted by: MacGyverGod 27 October 2016 - 08:14 AM |
| Why not just make season 8 and do it right? |
| Posted by: tvero 27 October 2016 - 08:50 AM | ||||
What do you disagree with ?The fact that it isn't MacGyver or that it's a bad mission impossible copy ? Or maybe both ? |
| Posted by: Macgyver1985 27 October 2016 - 09:42 AM | ||
I share the same sentiments regarding this reboot. |
| Posted by: angus20 28 October 2016 - 10:41 AM |
| Bruce and RDA isn't a bad idea and I'm sure the producers tried hard to get them, to encourage the new show but probably won't happen, especially with all the bad critics around. Leave it alone, this alternative version of Mac is just a small machine to generate profit, in my case I lost interest after episode 4 but I try to read the comments oftenly, I don't wanna miss such an important guess star if that would ever happen. |