[jackwabbit]

So, I watched 'Ascension', a season five episode of SG-1 today. (Stargate in the morning, Mac in the afternoon, you know.) Had already been thinking about Orlin a bit for a story I'm working on and had already noticed this similarity, but this quote just confirms that Orlin and Mac have more than a few things in common.

"You wouldn't believe the things you could make from the common simple items lying around your planet. Which reminds me ... you're going to need a new microwave."

GO ORLIN!

[Lothithil]

When I see that episode, I think the same thing.

But to be honest, I've always given Sam Carter the distinction of having the intellegence and improvisational skills that identify her with the character of MacGyver.

She doesn't quite have Mac's humanity -- her love for raw science is greater than his-- and she doesn't have as much of Mac's love for humanity and nature.

Her focus is on the minute and the invisible, atoms and energy, where MacGyver's curiousity was triggered by observation of reactions and knowledge of the potential of things.

Just my opinions and musings. Orlin is a lovely character, and I LOL when he MacGyvered that "object" in Sam's basement!



*key word removed to avoid possible spoilers*

[jackwabbit]

Yeah, I agree with you on Sam. Especially her 'pure science' nature, etc.

I just couldn't resist when I saw Orlin today...I had to share that line.

It is just too classic.