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Posted on 4 August 2014 - 02:27 PM                                    
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Excellent episode and one of the best from season 1. I love the bomb disarming suspense and the Macgyverism in this one. Steven Williams is a nice add to the cast and I remember him from the X-Files as Mr.X.



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Posted on 14 October 2015 - 01:36 PM                                    
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A solid episode from season 1, with a cool plot and good supporting characters. Such a shame that "Charlie Robinson" had to die, he was an interesting character.



"Ok hotshot, so you got yourself a golden brown palomino between your legs, and NO reins. Now what?"

 
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Posted on 15 November 2016 - 01:18 PM                                    
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QUOTE (MacNymph @ 7 October 2007 - 07:59 PM)
One thing I think that bothers me is that there aren't that many women in number one or two power possitions, that's a more recent development. It certainly was less common twenty years ago. But MacGyver seems to run into every single one of them. huh.gif


You're right. They're probably secretly manufacturing their own crises, like the Lady General who was kidnapped a few episodes ago and held in a beach house. They know that MacG.gif is literally the only person on Earth who can rescue them and so they subconsciously try to get kidnapped or to end up on a ship with 3 bombs.



"They have no idea how well they cast this."

 
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Posted on 15 November 2016 - 03:06 PM                                    
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By the way, is anyone else wondering about MacG.gif 's interesting evening in the French Quarter? I'm assuming he wasn't there to hone his language skills ... ohmy.gif

Or maybe he was, and the fact things took a different turn is what made it more interesting!

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"They have no idea how well they cast this."

 
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Posted on 26 November 2018 - 04:25 AM                                    
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This looks like the real plans of the ship they filmed on.



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Something interesting I saw in this episode. Mac is wearing a Casio DW1000 watch, and when in the helicopter, he checks his watch for the countdown timer, and the time is 2:28 (assuming pm) with 3 hours and 19 minutes remaining. Also, the alarm and half hour chime is activated on the watch.

Later in the episode, we see that Charlie is also wearing a Casio DW1000 and now we see that there is a little under 3 hours and 7 minutes remaining, yet the time now shows 15:44, and the half hourly chime has been turned off.

Later Charlie checks his watch again, and it shows 7:04 with just under 3 hours remaining and the half hourly chime is back on again.

Finally we see Mac’s watch again with 19 minutes remaining, it’s two minutes past midnight.

The thing about all of this though, based on close up photos of each watch shows us that only one DW1000 was used during filming. I first thought someone was toggling between standard and military time during shots, but I had just assumed that the watch was set to the correct time. It was always set to military time, but nowhere near the correct time (based on outside observations), and at some point during filming, the annoying half hour chime was disabled. I don’t mean to nit pick, just some observations from a fan of vintage wrist watches.



 
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Posted on 7 September 2022 - 04:37 AM                                    
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Nice catch.

I always take notice of the time on any watch with a clear view in the show. I often wonder if they are showing real time (i.e. the time of filming) or if they've been set by the props people for the scene.

I've noticed MacGyver's "normal" watch often seems to be set to real time of day.



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