Now that RL is easing up just a bit, I can finally find time to share a few things from the Q&A sesssions at MTM. Not surprisingly, I was taking special note of anything he said about his time on MacGyver!

The glasses that Rick wore as Dexter were his own glasses. He no longer wears glasses for ordinary vision; he had laser surgery for myopia, and it was successful. However, he now wears reading glasses.

RL?

So for as far I know RDA did laser surgery for myopia with succes? The fact that he wears reading glasses is very normal. I also gained in information on laser surgery because I want that too some day. First thing is, I have to get another contacts that let through more oxygen so the little damages on my left eye can heal and than we can see further the eye doctor said. Now in those pamphlets I read that reading glasses on older age: halfway forties early fifties is very common for people than. So I'm not surprised.

This is great! Share away Beth. I love hearing the stories from the conventions with RDA.

Those were his glasses?! No wonder Dexter was such a convincing character *giggle*

"RL" = Real Life. My apologies; I forget to avoid 'netspeak and opaque acronyms.

I'll do more posting from the con as time permits.

Yes, they were his own glasses. He also acknowledged having used more than one of his own leather jackets, and said that he had worn some other 'articles' of his own, but didn't specify. Based on his clothes choices at the con, though, I'm sure the flowered shirts were not his.

Maybe next chance I have, I'll ask about those!

That's kewl Beth. I know I (and some others in here) have speculated about this for quite some while now and this confirms it.

Very interesting. I look forward to your other posts.

The big question I have about Dexter is why RDA was channeling the Dexter character at the beginning of Mountain Of Youth. Watch his interaction with Jack-- it's not MacGyver at all, it's Dexter. The only thing missing is the glasses (listen when he says, "Argh! No! No, no, no!" Totally out of character for Mac, but perfect for Dexter.)

'What I don't understand is how you got Pete and the Phoenix board going in this scheme of yours.'

That really sounded like Dexter.

Exactly! And when he kicks the plane after Jack walks away-- the way he does it is so much more like Dexter than MacGyver. He even pulls the nerdy faces throughout his conversation with Jack.

That was just for checking if Jack was lying or not.

His current reading glasses are adorable -- even when he is playing geeky with them...

Once we're all his age we'll have reading glasses.

Good for him for braving laser surgery. I could have it (my eye doctor says I'm a good candidate) but I won't. When I think of someone messing with a laser in/near my eyes... uh uh!! Not going there! I'll stick with my glasses and contacts.

Not me! My eye doctor says that I'm not a good candidate for laser eye surgery despite being mildly myopic because my vision should self correct as I age, in spite of the lens growing less flexible and thus unable to accommodate close up vision. (That is a normal age change and has nothing to do with vision, but simply muscular flexibility in the tiny muscles that adjust your lens shape to focus up close or far away.) How fun is that?

Eventually, though, that will get me, too. It gets everyone. It will just take me longer, they say. And since my vision is actually stable/correcting, well...okay. No laser for me!

You're weird

Sorry, no, you're not (or maybe you are...) I'm just jealous. My eyes are so bad now, I have to watch out for retinal separation.

I hate genetics. My grandfather could have passed down good looks or superior intelligence, but no -- I got his terrible eyes.

I know what you mean. My dad has nearly perfect vision, and my mom has bad vision. I got his eye color, and her vision.