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Season: season 2
Episode:Humanity
Vehicle: Jeep
Jacket: Brown bomber
House: House boat
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| QUOTE | Posted by: rossfrye Apr 10 2006, 03:36 PM
i have only seen some of season 2 all of 3, 4, and most of 5
i turned on the tv to watch mac on tv land and he was living in a new place, Prometheus, obsesses and one other episode he is living in a building, why is he living there? what did i miss?
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Posted by: MacGyver Apr 10 2006, 04:38 PM
In the 7th. Season, MacGyver has to move out of his houseboat because it burned down in a fire. He moves into his new apartment complex in the episode "The 'Hood" in which you can hear him explaining about why he had to move.
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Posted by: rockatteer Apr 10 2006, 04:49 PM
did anyone else find that explanation hard to swollow?
He got damn near everything out of the housebaot before it burnt down... if he had THAT much time it must have been a small fire to start with and probably containable.
I still can't understand why they didnt' transport the houseboat set down to the LA studios and continue to use that as his house. Surely they had enough stock outside shoots to continue for one last season. seems like a lot of work to build a whole new set knowing that they where in their last season.
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Posted by: MacGyver Apr 11 2006, 05:24 AM
Did they know they were in their last season when shooting for Season 7 started? I know MacGyver is one case where the producers of the show decided to end the show rather than being cancelled (as has happened with too many other good shows), but I didn't think everyone involved on the show had already decided Season 7 would be their last from the start of the season.
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Posted by: Old Fan Apr 11 2006, 07:16 AM
I've been trying to track down the whereabouts of the houseboat for the last few months, and evidently the entire marina area at Coal Harbour was demolished and rebuild when they build the Westin Bayshore. It was a city re-development project and it looks like all the houseboats (floathomes) were removed from that area. I cannot find any info about the floathome itself - whether the real owner moved it to a different marina or it was destroyed.
I'd appreciate any information that can be found - and I guess you guys would like to know also!!
Thanks!!
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Posted by: rossfrye Apr 11 2006, 10:28 AM
how did it burn down, and was the episode the hood the one where mac fought a redneck hit man
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Posted by: rockatteer Apr 11 2006, 11:51 AM
the details of the fire where never explained, or shown.
A redneck hitman? you may be refering to "the Widowmaker" where Murdoc burns down Petes logcabin.
The episode "the hood" is in season 7 and is about Mac sorting out some hitmen.
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Posted by: MacGyver Apr 11 2006, 02:14 PM
MacGyver fought rednecks in general in "Jack in the Box"
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Posted by: Tomms247 Apr 11 2006, 02:19 PM
i didnt even know it burnt down i have not seen season 7 for at least a year.
i agree, they could have just longed out season 7 with the house boat. although that new LA apartment did rock.
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Posted by: MacGyverGod Apr 17 2006, 01:34 AM
The Houseboat is Mac's only true home, since he stayed there for four seasons. The last thing I know about the real houseboat in life is that it was moved and painted over white.
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did anyone else find that explanation hard to swollow?
He got damn near everything out of the housebaot before it burnt down... if he had THAT much time it must have been a small fire to start with and probably containable.
Somewhat yes. He got everything, clothes, pictures, books, movies. Either it was a small fire or MacGyver is extremely quick in his actions.
How it burned down is never shown. Guess it's up to the fans to try and find out how it happened, but then again there hundreds of millions of ways.
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Posted by: MEP Apr 17 2006, 04:26 PM
QUOTE (MacGyverGod @ Apr 16 2006, 10:34 AM)
Somewhat yes. He got everything, clothes, pictures, books, movies. Either it was a small fire or MacGyver is extremely quick in his actions.
How it burned down is never shown. Guess it's up to the fans to try and find out how it happened, but then again there hundreds of millions of ways.
Hey MG I fuiger out how Mac was able to ave all of his stuff if his house boat burnt down. Jack Dalton wad playing a prak that litterly blew up on him, and poor Mac too.
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Posted by: Sjaop Apr 17 2006, 08:59 PM
I think the houseboat was the best accommodation Mac had.
I didn't really like his Venice Beach condo and nether his other apartment (don't remember where it was, Murdoc found him though)
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Posted by: MacGyverGod Apr 18 2006, 01:26 AM
So did I. The houseboat is Mac's true home as I said before. Then it again it could've been an accident at the Marina. An uncontrolable fire that went over to the houseboats. So MacGyver figured it was best to evacuate his things before it reached his houseboat.
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Posted by: rockatteer Apr 18 2006, 11:32 AM
yeah except when his new land-lord asked how he got so much stuff out, he said he had good smoke alarms.
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Posted by: rossfrye Apr 18 2006, 12:54 PM
the episode where he said he had good smoke alarms....what was the name of that epi, doesent that one have a redneck cowboy hat wearing hitman?
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Posted by: rockatteer Apr 18 2006, 01:46 PM
The episode is called "The Hood" in season 7.
And yes the hitmen where rednecks.
I don't understand why Mac went back to renting... He could have brought a new place with the insurance from the houseboat.
But then, I don't understand why they needed to move him out of the houseboat anyway... unless they wanted a fresh look with new charecters and adventures?
But that doesn't make sense either cos they knew the show was in its final season.
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Posted by: MacsChick Apr 18 2006, 01:59 PM
I loved the houseboat. It's a shame they stopped using it. I thought it was the best place MacGyver lived. In my fanfic and in my imagination, he'll always live in that houseboat...
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Posted by: MACGYVERISMYDAD Apr 19 2006, 01:38 AM
yup the house boat is macgyvers true home. i think it would have been cool though for season seven to see mac move into a cabin in the middle of no where or even into petes cabin. thats would have been a perfect place for mac to stay for season 7. leaving the viewers with the impression macs where he wants to be in the wilderness living with sam. that would be a good ending. the bug that deborah was what burned down the house boat. or maybe when zoe unhooked his electric to set him adrift she hooked it back up wrong
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Posted by: MacGyverGod Apr 19 2006, 04:48 AM
I liked those rednecks. Rob Youngblood was that Bobby Lee dude. Acting tough and cool chewing and sucking on that toothpick.
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But then, I don't understand why they needed to move him out of the houseboat anyway... unless they wanted a fresh look with new charecters and adventures?
A last try to give the series a new look. To make it end in beauty.
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I loved the houseboat. It's a shame they stopped using it. I thought it was the best place MacGyver lived. In my fanfic and in my imagination, he'll always live in that houseboat...
I share that thought with ya.
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yup the house boat is macgyvers true home. i think it would have been cool though for season seven to see mac move into a cabin in the middle of no where or even into petes cabin. thats would have been a perfect place for mac to stay for season 7. leaving the viewers with the impression macs where he wants to be in the wilderness living with sam. that would be a good ending.
Yep. But Pete's cabin got burned down by Murdoc in the third season. I can live with the fact that Mac would live in the wilderness, just like his grandfather Harry Jackson. Usually that's how it goes with all the heroes, also in Westerns. Once the so called best shooter of the West had his time they go and live on a deserted ranch far away from the inhabited world.
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the bug that deborah was what burned down the house boat. or maybe when zoe unhooked his electric to set him adrift she hooked it back up wrong
Two good reasons but they sure took a long time to cause the fire.
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Posted by: MACGYVERISMYDAD Apr 19 2006, 04:55 AM
well mac could rebuild petes cabin or build a new one. i personally dont understand why mac goes from the houseboat to a bad neighborhood with a crappy apartment (compared to the house boat). you think he atleast would have moved to a nicer spot
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Posted by: MacGyverGod Apr 19 2006, 05:48 AM
Seemed like a decent neighbourhood to me, in beach range. On the other hand the way Obsessed opened, doesn't look like a neighbourhood I want to walk around at night. Maybe to give it a more darker look. But then they should've stayed in British Columbia Vancouver Canada. More variation in the weather, but I like the L.A. weather better. Hey that rimes! Weather better, get it?
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Posted by: Old Fan Apr 19 2006, 06:51 AM
Even if the production had stayed in Vancouver, they would have needed to get Mac a new home.
I've done some research and found that the entire Marina (Bute Marina) at Coal Harbour - home of the real houseboat was torn down in a massive city re-development project where the harbor was dredged and rebuilt and they built a new resort hotel - the Westin Bayshore and a brand new marina and seawalk for several miles around the area. It is still under construction today. As far as the houseboat (float-home) is concerned, I can't find who the real owners are and I can't seem to find out exactly what became of it.
Anyone with any information about the houseboat would be appreciated.
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Posted by: MacGyverGod Apr 19 2006, 09:42 AM
Wow, still under construction after 15 years???
What further information is concerned... the last thing I know as said before is that houseboat was moved to somewhere else and painted over in white. But then again how old could that information be?
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Posted by: rockatteer Apr 19 2006, 09:51 AM
QUOTE (Old Fan @ Apr 19 2006, 06:51 AM)
Even if the production had stayed in Vancouver, they would have needed to get Mac a new home.
I've done some research and found that the entire Marina (Bute Marina) at Coal Harbour - home of the real houseboat was torn down in a massive city re-development project where the harbor was dredged and rebuilt and they built a new resort hotel - the Westin Bayshore and a brand new marina and seawalk for several miles around the area.
They could have continued using the stock footage for the outside of the houseboat, and the enterier stuff was just a set in the studios.. so it really wouldn't have made any difference if it where there or not.
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Posted by: MacsChick Apr 19 2006, 03:34 PM
I like the cabin in the woods idea, too. In one of my fanfics (Suicide), Pete's cabin was rebuilt. I just thought it was too cute and nice of a place to be destroyed forever by that nasty Murdoc!
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