I liked it. (Only watched a couple eps of the new one, it didn't do anything for me.)

I love MacGyver. I have the whole series plus the movies on DVD, and have started watching it again with my daughter recently. She's 4, but will remember episodes she likes. I want the one with the eagles. I want the one with the store (Blow Out, from season 3. That was a tough one to figure out). She likes that he helps people and always wins. Sounds like a good role model to me.

MacGuyver is a fantastic hero and role model.

There probably are some problematic 80s norms that might not fly today, but at it's core, he puts himself in danger and improvises solutions from what he has available, and some duct tape, to help people in trouble. He refuses to use a gun and avoids violence when possible.

We could use some more MacGuyvers nowadays.

i agree with everyone calling him a role model. it always struck me as incredible that such a aggressively non-toxic masculine hero managed to be popular in the 80s the world would be a much better place if there were more macguyver-styled heroes on our screens

​I watched the original RDA version as a kid. It probably had a bigger impact on my morals than my mother did (which a lot of people should be thankful for).

​Later in life, I realized some of his improvised tricks were complete TV logic or exaggerated for safety reasons, but a surprising number of those basic principles actually hold up in a pinch. I’ve noticed a few things where my own politics diverge from the show’s commentary over the years, but overall, it was a great series. A huge reason I got into Stargate SG-1 later on was simply because I loved RDA in MacGyver.

​As for the reboot, I made it about three minutes in before shutting it off. They had a scene with people blathering on about tech, and literally nothing they said made a lick of sense. It felt like watching 90s "Hackers" tropes forced into a modern setting. The writers clearly had zero clue how actual technology works - which you could get away with in in the 80's and 90's, but comes across as lazy and cringe-inducing today.

MacGyver is a great role model. I'm always looking for a way to build instead of buy.

A built this phone stand years ago out of an old box, a pencil, gafers tape, 2 springs clips from a bathroom ceiling fan cover, bits of foam, and hot glue.

Wasn't the latter half basically just him fighting communists for an hour every week? Thats my recollection from trying to watch the series a few years ago. I think k I got up to season 5 or so.

I enjoy the show, it's a good comfort-watch. Being an avid Mythbusters fan too, though, sometimes it's hard for me to look past all the stuff that they've proven to not be possible. But I chalk it up to artistic license and have a good time anyway.

I loved him in the Stargate franchise.

I mostly know him as an interest of Patty & Selma Bouvier, but have extremely vague memories of watching the show.

How would the similarly tech-positioned A-Team fare in your analysis?

I enjoyed it as a kid till I didn't. I grew up in Vancouver and Richard Dean Anderson was kind of a dick, he made a scene at a bowling alley when one of my friends asked him for an autograph. I mean, if you're staring in a show that's popular with kids, don't get pissed off when a bunch of 10 year olds are super excited to see you in person. He had quite a reputation for being pretty full of himself. I guess some time as a D lister helped him and he chilled out by the time Stargate took off.

Some people's ability to politicize just about everything is astounding.

I posted this in the other lemmy, but just to demonstrate:

It's annoying when you post the same topic across multiple lemmys, especially when they're ideentical in function.