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Macgyver as PYSOP

By FbL on August 3, 2008 | | Comments (6)
I was hooked on Macgyver [relax, HFS] from the very first episode I discovered as a teenager.  But count on a military mind to see the deeper truth:
You know what I think won the Cold War? It wasn't SDI or perestroika or the MX missile, but MacGuyver. You know, before Richard Dean Anderson shaved his mullet, put on dress blues, and went off fighting aliens. Yeah Reagan could field a new bomber, or sub, or ICBM.... but it's not like the Sovs hadn't been countering our kit for the past few decades. [more]
CBS is now offering all seven seasons of Macgyver online.

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By BillT on August 3, 2008 9:49 AM
I've only used my SAK three times since I've been here. But duct tape is indispensible...


 
By Alan Briley, RN on August 3, 2008 4:31 PM
 SAK, dive watch, 100 MPH tape, 550 cord, MRE's, camelbak, det cord,... that's my go-bag kit list.

I'm already carrying my Glock!
 
By Eric Wilner on August 3, 2008 5:14 PM

I watched about three episodes at one time or another... and got thoroughly turned off by the atrocious science & engineering.

I heard, somewhere, that everything was intentionally wrong, to keep kids from trying it at home... but some of it was wrong in such a way that it looked safe on the show, but would get you killed in real life (as opposed to failing harmlessly, which would be a more reasonable objective for intentional wrongness).

That and the huge leaps of illogic and plot elements that just didn't make any sense at all... well, that just gave me a headache. Kinda like trying to understand Congress.

 
By fdcol63 on August 4, 2008 7:14 AM
In the good ole days of the '50's and '60's, I could probably believe the premise that Macgyver was an anti-Communist propaganda plot.

But not during the '80's when, as today, pro-Communist Leftists make the decisions in Hollyweird.
 
By FbL on August 4, 2008 8:16 AM
It was just a light-hearted joke, Fdolc.  ;)
 
By BillT on August 4, 2008 9:05 AM
No, the shows are too internally consistent, FuzzBee. My take is that the show was intended to be used as a series of professionally-produced training films for Spetznaz, but the writers were infiltrated by G. Gordon Liddy's minions disguised as technical consultants. They were the ones who introduced all the bogus science, knowing that any Soviet scientist previewing the show would take it as a new, hithertofore unknown Western technique, and validate the series for use in training.

Any Spetz attempting to emulate MacG would obviously be disasterously unsuccessful.

As proof, note that there were *no* successful Spetznaz attacks on Fort Dix during the program's heyday...