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"James Bond himself, he was sent to Cote d'Azur. Where he always manages to fall on the beautiful babes." MacGyver, in a fit of lucidity.

DTT may be the cause of absurd situations, like ending up in front of a television program broadcasted multiple, we watched quietly after school before parents come home, feet on the couch and bread- chocolate in a towel to avoid leaving traces of the package. During the 40 minutes that lasted the series, had violated three family rules, in short we had reached the pinnacle of teenage rebellion silent.

Years later, one falls by chance therefore that we loved about this series, we waited anxiously every day, even then we gnawing addiction stomach we cursed the days when parents were finishing work too soon, weeks at Roland Garros or OJ who came to monopolize the screen, the days where we practiced our extra-curricular activities meant open our minds and make us learn useless stuff, whereas open mind and learn something useless, he was there, he, the solitary hero, asexual but yet full of humor, who needs neither food nor drink, the one and only, you guessed it, or if it is not the case, here the index will reveal the ultimate, Swiss Army knife, yes, well, you're at it that's Mac. Not the computer at the time they said Macintosch, not the fast food chain, McDonald's has always said, or the museum of contemporary art at the time we went to see modern art. MacGyver. Or Dick. Yes Richard Dean Anderson, who has thrilled generations of young girls and made jealous squads of men, fathers, brothers, uncles, boyfriends, which did not say a day, while generic resounded in the room "I'll do the same thing, and no Swiss army knife"?

Speaking generically, and because he will come and support our argument later:

Ah! what memories ... And as we love these final plans mounted more quickly, while music transcribed in this wonderful little flippant and comical side of the main character who always comes out on the razor's edge. You mentioned razor? Exactly.

This series, which had left so many good memories, generated so much expectation languid daily, is probably the most razor series that television has ever produced. The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Dallas, Who's the Boss, My beloved witch, bowler hat and leather boots, The Young and the Restless, The A-risk Columbo, etc., and even overdose Little House on the Prairie look like thrillers and suspense unbearable near the interstellar space of an episode of MacGyver. To be sure, I watched several episodes, once I made a bad pick. An aberration. Even Helen and the boys did better in that one episode lasted only 20 minutes.

But what differentiates MacGyver as the rest of the series of the past? Why, when it was touched by hearing the turning of a zapping "it's my wife you know" a Columbo run its course, the sole interest of MacGyver is its generic, that is to say the first minute of the episode? Everything else is mortal boredom, due to the convergence of several elements, which here is a partial list:

Topics: MacGyver surfs on imbroglii pseudo-political-nucléro sicentifico-cans (d gasoline, one of his favorite tools unexpected), or stories of abused women in distress which it never fails, but we will. The villains are all from behind the Iron Curtain or Mexico and wears a mustache, even women are all victims of treacherous power hungry and money and blow dry bulk (except Women of which is still very poor thing), scientists are troublemakers naive and helpless type Tryphon Tournesol, in short the only one who managed the feat of being both a gentle man, a perfect woman and human being endowed with intelligence and resourcefulness, not forgetting his good looks, it's Mac. So many stereotypes now unlikely to seriously undermine popular support.

action: it is based on a gimmick whose schema is as follows. One assignment for MacGyver, who is usually a glue / a partner who will act as a barrier and shot (a clumsy, two-sided, etc.) and will spring more or less comic, either alone with his gaffes, either to take the valves of Sieur Gyver. Mac shows up on the place of business, assess the problem and available resources (famous pieces of string + gum = H-bomb) in his immediate environment, yes Mac without moving equipment other than his Swiss knife and without preconceived ideas about what may well be on site

- a pack of dogs? It produces a poison-who-does-not-kill-but-deeply-lulls-the-dog-who-are-there-for-nothing-if-the-humans-are-evil with the surrounding flora rich a pharmacopoeia which is perfect;

- Marines ripoux overtrained? He waits until the wind turns, it got dark and the soldiers are surrounded by drunk whores for the shoe giant back into his net on the port with a bearded Captain Igloo and authentic

- Hispanic mercenaries? With his perfect English but in English it still creates a network in 5 minutes with all the inhabitants of the village reduced the fear that offer him the cover, the straw in the stable and unwavering support in order to create a diversion with their chickens skinny and allow him to lead his attack and stroke Tequila explosive;

- Russian spies? With its pirate radio he has made himself with his belt buckle, his shoelace and a box of matches, it picks up coded messages destined for the Kremlin better than if he picked up the red phone, it decrypts the code using its partial knowledge of the Mongolian language, and it arrives in time to stop the information and send wrong information always lead Mongolian fortunately for the liquidation of Russian spies considered by the KGB mole, and while bad guys kill each other it keeps your hands clean because it is against violence;

- a Czech psychiatrist and crazy? It saves the great scholar interned with the woman was threatened and who does not want to leave and he then passed to a doctor, and nobody notices that it does not work here, and it happens at once to blow up the hospital with nitroglycerin he has to make in the lab where it was introduced without problems, but fortunately the explosion was not dead because it has determined the explosive, and he joined the border 2CV. Yes because the 2CV is the European car par excellence. Europe, while it is underway it if there was no 2CV behind the wall;

Often, after having completed his first mission, MacGyver faces a rebound, where the person he has just saved / relatives of this person / sponsor of his mission is revealed as a traitor. The true motivations are emerging choice once, alternating: money or revenge. Both in the best episodes, with the most successful scenarios and searched. MacGyver has this although he is never surprised, he is under no illusion that the coup, he is always ready for action. Which brings us to the third and final theme.

MacGyver: what is shitting MacGyver is MacGyver. He does not drink, smoke, do not fuck, is not funny, not think of nothing, feels nothing. It is a fictional desert. A hologram. A robot. The expression of nothingness while housed superhero dowdy. To believe that MacGyver has an inner life, but also and above all, because the producers have probably put all the money in the explosions, helicopters and the pay of Anderson, half the length of a episode consists of a voiceover, that of MacGyver, who describes what he is doing as a teacher would teach us the sublimation of carbon dioxide. Remember how we did shit in physics class, that little nuance with at least the physics teacher told us stuff verifiable, then that the production by the menu of nitroglycerin by MacGyver, I have doubts. So basically for 20 minutes, there was a guy at close range, American plan, in medium shot, close-hop re, which takes a sample and butter (of water and a shoelace, yes him again, a knife neutral and a clod of earth) and which makes its kitchen and told us he does his little kitchen. The Special Forces Joel Robuchon, the Bernard Loiseau of the CIA, Cyril Lignac General Information. Fortunately he shares with us his humorous remarks to be pulmonary edema, such as this, about the nitro he just make "Just a sneeze for all go up in smoke ".

can recognize MacGyver one thing: he lived in a world without phones, without GPS in any redneck car * without camera, no Internet, no biometrics. Well, almost. I 'm sure the great nations that fought in lengths of episodes would have other things that a DS and a Kalashnikov. The strength and weakness of MacGyver's okay to be alone, because a force No one expected the KGB probably not be defeated by a non-isolated agent, nice surprise, a weakness because the intimate life of MacGyver at the four corners of the United States and the world is the thing more vain ever been in image after the encephalogram of an oyster. Imagine Mick Landon, aka Charles Ingalls we describe in detail how each episode he gets the wood cutting and plowing his field, we already gorged with his farming, there was still too much snow, too hurricane, it was too hard up but it does not matter because love each other (yes they at least had "feelings"), but if the plot had involved a course of agronomy in the Middle -West ... I hope that the M6 would have gone to the door faster.

At that moment he must re-look at the credits: Each plan contains an episode all by himself, Richard Dean Anderson is an explosion, Richard Dean Anderson and a tube, Richard Dean Anderson boat, Richard Dean Anderson ... What is unclear but it must be used for something important, Richard Dean Anderson in free fall, Richard Dean Anderson in space. Same facial expression, the same solitude, even disinterest that we take and that is confirmed. This is the only series where only the generic looking and its 49 planes, you can see in 1 minute all 139 episodes.

Conclusion: reruns, it sucks.

* We note here an aversion unfeigned for the GPS instrument contemporary (not modern, but what is modern? is a word that is no longer anything, and soon written or spoken, the anachronism seems to have invaded the space. Oddity of language, suffice it to say that something is modern precisely that it is not) and if it is useful. But the old sexton of IGN so that animated conversations in the car "but since I tell you where it goes is right on the bend! I missed the exit, I missed the exit, we will not hold forth ", or alternatively to unite the group on a hike," but why did you not take the 2737? "There is no longer the GR4, he stops at the edge of the map! 2737 is the right thing! But I do not care that you did not want you lugging the entire library of France in your bag! They have not painted! How we do now? We plant the tent here? Because did you want to do to the economy, you're going to identify, as soon as you find brands you come back to pick us up, and good luck because it rises "(sic almost). Yes, the IGN deserves a monument. It's beautiful, colorful, is the promise of endless journey is imagination shaped contours. It is the certainty that we never good and that we will get one new. Oh joy! My dream is to leave the entire collections to my children.