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[beccaelizabeth]

CBS Action is a really frustrating channel.
It has (remastered Original and Next Gen) Star Trek and MacGyver and a complete lack of subtitles.
Which, given the average age of the shows, seems like even more of an oversight than usual.

The Star Trek doesn't look right, they made it different shapes I think, maybe colours, it looks weird.

MacGyver I haven't watched since it was on the TV so it's effectively new to me.

I set it to record MacGyver on LP because there's episodes every day and now the quality is so fuzzy I keep checking my glasses sort of on reflex.

... what is the word for when science doesn't exactly work like that but they're at least trying to solve problems with Science! so it's like science fiction?

Or for that spy show science where maybe gadgets and doomsday weapons don't actually do that thing yet but it's not science fiction in the strictest sense?

Is fun, anyway.

Also the lack of understanding half they're saying isn't proving much of a problem thus far. I mean I can understand Richard Dean Anderson due to long practice, and mostly they do things slow and show you the labels and stuff.

"gosh darn it" *giggles uncontrollably* MacGyver swears are funny.

They put the countdown clock in the corner so you can see how close to the last second it is, and probably also so they can make it as slow as they want, seeing as the clock earlier in the episode only ticked when we were actually looking at it.

So far there's only one speaking female character. She's brave and actually helpful? And then there was kissing... oh, and the end seems to be a kiss but the recording cut off before kissing, which is good because I was making a face like blergh. I mean goodness knows I can understand wanting to kiss him, but I think my inner 8 year old is watching this, and this should not be a kissing show. Figuring things out with gadgets and saving the world with melted chocolate bars is far more fun.

There was a character called Coulson in charge of the security systems in a secret lab. Large bald bloke, smokes. Smoking on TV feels so weird now, I'd hardly noticed the change but then it was all blink making.

I googled and the internet spells the character Colson but then the actor comes back in like 11 episodes to be someone much more important? Working for a secret government thing and then being MacGyver's boss. And then later when the actor lost his sight the character developed the same disability. That's the good way to handle it.

Of course now I'm getting xover plot bunnies.



It's kind of hilarious also because the episode starts by saying 'Present Day' and it is sooooooo not the present day any more. I mean, 1985 to here is the same distance as the flashbacks in Back to the Future, which seemed like aaaaages ago when it was new. Time is weird. ... also I'm getting really vivid memories of toy cars being raced off the top of the stairs in our old house. That was the A Team and Dukes of Hazard cars though. Well, they were at the top of the stairs, I can't swear they were cars by the end.

I'll probably watch the next episode later or tomorrow. I changed the recording settings so it'll be marginally less fuzzy in future. But I can't have it recording 139 episodes at the usual quality, no room.

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

The pilot episode of MacGuyver was far different from the way the series eventually settled into things. For starters Mac used a gun in the opening teaser, Dana Eclar (the bald guy) eventually played the character who was Mac's boss, and after the first season they dropped the Opening That Has Nothing to Do With the Rest of the Plot and the silly idea of him living in the Griffith Observatory.