Yes but when he has picked the tastiest looking carrot and places it on the table his watch looks like it shows 2:45 to me (or maybe 9:10). Then when he is back in the freezer for ice its 12.30ish.
This gambit definitely has a first season MacGyver feel to it. He comes across relaxed and cocky with the way he stops his plotting for a little snack. And the use of the gun to keep the bad guys down…this is something the later season MacGyver doesn’t even consider doing. Even in situations where, in my opinion, it would be less risky an option to all concerned than his MacGyverism.
On to the main event and the starting sequence with the nuclear refinery. Was it RDA doing all the climbing of fences and planting of bombs?
I’m not so sure, the person didn’t seem to move like him.
I think we could have benefited from a little background about what was going on here. It does seem a bit odd but with a bit of explanation it could have been more credible. MacGyver does get called in for all sorts of things, maybe it followed on from a more “usual” type mission? Maybe if they got rid of a couple of the pointless scenes they would have managed to give us a little more information. One of the scenes that I thought was pointless and odd was the nonsense on the bus. What was that supposed to achieve
? And, before that, when MacGyver came back from blowing up the refinery, he passes a couple of girls in bikinis…
while MacGyver is wearing his jacket zipped right up and all other people around were wearing jumpers or jackets…brrrrrr they must have been chilly!
As for Axminster, when he was a hulking silent bad guy at the start he was intimidating but as soon as he had dialogue and was with those guys in the jeep it all was a bit off. From their initial meeting at the jeeps it went a bit weird. The driver of Axminsters jeep seems to push Axminster to one side so he can drive. And then when they all climb in the jeeps, there is a cut to people standing cocking guns (not looking like they are in a jeep at all) then we cut back to the jeeps all moving off with the guys all in them. Later on when MacGyver is hacking at the branch of the tree the bad guys have split up but make radio contact. Axminster halts them and says something about having to figure out MacGyver before their next move...but then they continue on. It seems like there is a lot of cut or messed up scenes with the bad guys in them.
Oh and talking of missing scenes, where did the rucksack come from? The one they use to carry pine cones? At first I thought maybe they nicked it from the jeep they forced in to the ditch but there is a scene after that where Harry and MacGyver and running and there is no backpack.
Did I miss something?
I like Harry in this. He starts off being prickly and cantankerous with MacGyver. But he never tells him to leave. He half wants MacGyver to leave and is trying to drive him away because some of the memories that are getting stirred up are difficult. But then there are moments happier memories come through and it was like he wanted MacGyver around. He is conflicted and tries to make MacGyver make the decision about whether he should face the past or not. MacGyvers constant reminders of happy times and when Harry taught him things seemed to thaw through the sadness. By the end of the episode Harry can see through his sad memories and this opens the door to allow them to get closer.
I know I have waffled on and not said what I vote yet. I am struggling with that. There are parts I liked and parts that seemed badly thrown together.
I will vote ok...but that’s today, what I think probably depends on what kind of mood I am in as to how much the shortcomings annoy me the next time I see it.
moment: When MacGyver drops the limb on the jeep (which oddly enough makes them jump out of the Jeep 
) if you watch the stuntman on the left side, he comes about two inches from getting his leg rolled over and it looks like the Jeep might have hit him anyway after that. 
That crap bugs me. It's like they're trying to ram the relationship down your throat. 
Darn, I'm spoiling the episode! I'll stop thinking now. 
