[SGVHAK] Off-Topic: The New MacGyver

[Claude Felizardo]

To watch any kind of show, you have to allow for a reasonable amount of "suspension of disbelief".  It's fairly high for a fantasy film like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter where you just have to accept magic.  For science fiction it has be to plausible though I do make some exceptions for things I grew up with such as Star Trek (transporters and warp speed) and Star Wars (light speed and light sabers) but I can't watch Transformers because I don't believe in infinite ammo or Twilight because the shapeshifting was changing mass.  However when it comes to dramas about computers, I have a very low tolerance.  I drive my family crazy because I will pause to look at screen shots.  Have you noticed how IP numbers have octets that are larger than 256?  Bugs the heck out of me.  I couldn't get past the first episode of Scorpion, gave up on CSI: Cyber, etc.  

As for the new MacGyver, we gave it a try.  My wife doesn't think it captures the original, the stories are too predicable.  My son likes it but I told him to delete each episode as soon as he watches it to make space on TiVo which is full of episodes of Mr Robot and others that I have not found time to watch.

Claude



> On Nov 9, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Mic Chow <zen at netten.net> wrote:
> 
> I know that many of us got our inspiration for problem solving,
> tinkering, and learning about engineering from the old 80s series
> MacGyver.  What does the crowd think about the new version?  I was in
> high-school when the original series ran and it was great seeing a
> character using their brains and the things around them to improvise and
> solve the problem at hand.  Watching the new stuff I see so many errors,
> that it makes it hard for me to watch without screaming "NO that is not
> correct"  I understand that writers and producers do need to take
> creative licences to make sure that if people try and emulate their
> characters on television that they do not hurt themselves or worst hurt
> others.  However, it seems that the original at least tried to be
> somewhat close while this new one is all about the "bang."  Hackaday had
> an article recently about spy shows and their creative problem solving
> skills.  They use Burn Notice as an example on the good side, and NCIS
> on the example of the absurd.
> 
> http://hackaday.com/2016/11/07/fictional-hacking-michael-westen/
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> 
> -Mic
> Now in Plano, TX
> 
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