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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: MacGyver
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 15:18:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 15:18:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Nov 12 14:18:00 1985


>Why don't you all stop complaining and watch MacGyver instead?
>It's a little bit comic bookish, with dubious scientific "tricks",
>but the dialogue is solidly written, and it's CONSISTENT.

Maybe I'll give it another try. I thought the first episode was entertaining
enough, but I gave up after the second one. I thought it was really clever of
him to rip the back seat out of a car, get into the trunk, jimmy the trunk
lock, and jump out just half a second before the car is crushed, rather
than opening the door and getting out with a minute to spare the way a less
clever person would have done. Maybe the idea was to so amaze the bad guys
that they don't shoot him like they should have in the first place.

Ok, so deathtraps are a tradition for this kind of fiction, but this was
just silly. The rest of the plot was moronic, with an A-team ending. I'll
give it another shot, but it better be a lot better than this.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

"A flash in front of my eyes ... I blink ... open my eyes to ... discover I am
 a dog in a pickup truck full of garbage ... no one but me sees the lid blow
 off the can ... it's 14 miles to the dump ... this is ... at last ... heaven."