Some more MacGyver season 6 episode reactions. Spoilers galore.

Squeeze Play

Blah blah blah baseball blah blah blah oh dear lord. Do they make scoreboards out of explosive material? Because it seems like, every time I seen one in a movie, a ball hits it, and it EXPLODES, rain of sparks, fireworks shooting everywhere, the works.

I liked Mama Colton, though – and Mac's sigh of "Yes, ma'am," every time she tells him to do something. He's such a good boy. :)

Blah blah blah baseball blah blah blah blah blah make it stooooooooooooop.

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Jerico Games – a little bit of liveblogging.

Mac, Mac, Mac. What do you do to the women you've dated? I'm starting to think it's some kind of cultish brainwashing thing, probably involving electrodes or something you cooked up in chemistry lab when you were 16. Every single one of them gets this look in her eye when you reappear into their life. I don't blame them, I guess, but the sheer number of pining women from your past is starting to get a little suspect. No wonder their husbands look a little jealous; it's certainly not your snappy dressing (please lose the satin-look black bomber jacket. Please. It sets my teeth on edge).

I wonder if Mac has a contract with Phoenix, and if so, what it says? Because he seems to find it very hard to explain what he does. Surely some kind of job title...?

Oh, okay – not so much 'pining' as 'psychopathic'. Fair enough. This will, of course, only add to Mac's fear of commitment.

Assassins: do not remove your disguise until you've completely LEFT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. Duh. And I'm not even going to talk about the ridiculousness of the Mac-mask.

*pauses*

Okay, I lied. Disguises on TV shows. What's up with them? Either they're horribly obvious and over the top, despite everyone's protestations of "Oh my god it's YOU!!!" (cf. Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, which at least looked believable for the period, and Robin of Sherwood, which was awful, but hey, less sophisticated times), or they're unbelievably good because, instead of actually bothering with a makeup job, they just get a different actor to play the masked scenes. Film dudes: if your makeup department can't create a realistic mask, given all the resources at their disposal, including clever camera angles, the probability is it can't be done. So just... quit it. It's very distracting.

I'm sure I have occasionally seen makeup jobs that are a) appropriate for the character's resources and abilities, and b) a surprise when the actor pulls the rubber nose off, but honestly, none spring to mind.

Anyway, back to the show. Mac's little yelp when being tackled and cuffed is very adorable, and reminded me of Broca Divide. He's got this oddly high-pitched growl/yelp thing. I did a small double-take when he asked to speak to Captain [what sounded like Carter but actually turned out to be Kylie].

Speaking of stupid: Mac, getting your fingerprints all over the evidence that someone else is guilty of the crime for which you were arrested... isn't very smart, now is it? I don't fancy your chances when this goes to court.

Another note for assassins: don't just stick people in an incinerator and leave, dude. Have you learnt nothing from the fact that Mac escaped from handcuffs and a locked police car? You deserve all you get. Also, wow, maybe you should get your incinerator build of sturdier material.

No, okay, I go back to my original hypothesis: Mac is doing something untoward to those women. They just go to pieces in different ways when he leaves. Some turn into wet handkerchiefs, some go all "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE because he never loooooooooved meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Oh, oh, oh, show us high school pictures of Mac! Please! ...Damn. No fair. He dated the head cheerleader, though? Heh.

Okay. A bit stupid, both of them, but I've seen worse. Onwards, ever onwards.

ION, and speaking of Sherlock Holmes: Did they make the new Sherlock Holmes* with an eye to the slash side of fandom or what? Wow. Anyhow, brainlessly enjoyable, sadly lacking in decent female roles thus far (they missed a great opportunity to make Lestrade a woman, I'm just sayin'), I love Mark Gatiss but he's in the wrong show, and it was nice to see the real 221B Baker Street, which I used to walk past fairly regularly. And the website content is cute but I can't believe Holmes in any incarnation would ever use a design like that.

It's depressing that they can have Watson "invalided home from Afghanistan" in both the original and the modern version.


* The BBC series, that is, and not the RDJ film, which I've not watched.