Has Anyone Watched MacGyver Since 1988?

I did last night.  I have Netflix (BALLER!) so when there isn't much going on I'll throw on something random and let me tell you, investing 40 minutes in an episode of MacGyver is well worth it.  The clip I'm throwing on here is long, but the open and into to the show are just awesome (1st 8:42).



If you want to skip it, I'll trow out a few highlights:

-Right from the start we know that they have dropped him in some crappy Middle Eastern/Eurasian country that must have ties to communism and terrorism.  How do we know this?  Clearly by the camels and the overacting.

-We learn that MacGyver was a Boy Scout.  I mean, come on.  Of course he was.

-His job is to steal a map with clearly marked spots of terrorist attacks in the US.  Did the Bush administration or the current Obama administration thought about this?  Just send in one dude to steal a map and we're set.  Mac could probably find Bin Laden while he's at it.

-He was able to fool that woman because of her gender.  Stupid woman.  She's only good for cooking and cleaning.

-If you do nothing else, go to the 5 minute mark for the desert chase scene where Mac runs across the desert, slides down the sand on the map, then hops in a hot air balloon that he had ready to go.

-Could he use the duct tape to fix the bullet hole?  Sure and it would have worked better, but then he couldn't have stuck it to the guys that were chasing him like he did by using the map.

Overall, A+ material and delivery for Richard Dean Anderson.  Apparently, there is a live action, feature length MacGyver movie in the works for 2013.  I hope they release it on VHS just for old times sake.

WWMD?

-Big Ran