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[theclassymike]

Lucas Till in Season 2 Episode 3 of MacGyver.

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MacGyver

[dreambelievetravel]

The issue with Lenkov shows (I've got many) and the relationships is that they took place off screen and we were expected to feel connections?

In Hawaii Five-0 Steve and Cath - when we first meet her, she's doing a favour for Steve and the idea is that they're kind of together but not. All the while, there is already a female lead in the show, a series regular in this case Kono, who you could see breadcrumbs to a relationship with Steve, kick ass, strong character, strong female who wouldn't have been diminished in this relationship. Instead, Kono ends up in a relationship with Adam, who duct tapes her to a chair which she immediately forgives, an action that goes against everything we knew about her.

Or in MacGyver when Mac and Desi have a whole ass relationship off screen between seasons, during a time jump and again, we're expected to be invested? You don't show us the awkward get together, the relationship building and ultmiate falling apart to give us the level of discomfort between them when we see them at the start of a new season. Similarly, we already have a regular female character in the show who would be a good match for Mac who throughout the many (although not enough) seasons we can see a connection build, Riley Davis, super smart, quick on her feet, genius in ways that Mac isn't. A brilliant balance already in the show. And turns Desi into something she isn't and shouldn't have ever been.

Lenkov wasted the natural chemistry of his cast and characters and frankly, I'll never forgive him for that (and some other things.)

At least Higgins and Magnum are getting a shot.

[munnisa]

This would have been the original season 5 Macgyver season finale (under the previous showrunner)

[fangirlfreak08]

Not it being over a year since macgyver got cancelled. I remember watching 5x10 for the first time like it was yesterday and that wasn’t even the last episode. The hell?

[anguishmacgyver]

[pizzaqueen]

Eddie, who brings Steve random stuff (pebbles, bits of string, a weird looking stick), and Steve who is the kind of guy who can MacGyver shit, are a perfect match

[sleepyfangirl18]

Getting closer to the end of Macgyver. Five seasons of collecting MacRiley crumbs...

[dinosaurswant2rule]

This story was written for @lailuhhh originally

But I nabbed the April 8 prompts for @macgyvercairo

Collapse/Eclipse for it

Happy whumping!

[lailuhhh]

Prompt: "I'm out of options" please?

Also: been reading your prompt one after the other now. Love them! Thanks for writing and sharing!!!

Aaaa that’s so nice thank you 💗💗

“Ya can’t be serious right now.”

“I’m always serious.”

“No, Mac, yer not. ‘Specially when it’s somethin like this, because I know I didn’t just hear ya say you need to manually set the bomb off, aka get yerself blown up.”

Mac laughed humorlessly. If there was any other way of disabling the machine, he would do it. He wasn’t even completely sure what its full capacity was or how it actually worked. They were just told they needed to get rid of it one way or another because all in all, it was bad.

“And I know yer not ignorin me right now. So ya better give me an answer or else—”

“I’m out of options, Jack. This thing is emitting radio waves like crazy. It’s a miracle our comms even still work. The EMP didn’t even work to shut it down.”

“Yer outta options.” Jack scoffed. “Maybe that things scramblin yer brain instead of the comms. We ain’t outta options. Don’t be so quick to sacrifice yerself when we have time to think of a better way to deal with it.”

“Jack—”

“Nope. The only thing I wanna hear you say is Okay Jack, yer right. I won’t be an idiot and manually ignite an explosion where I’ll most certainly get caught in the crossfire.”

A small smile crossed Mac’s face as he shook his head. “Are you sure we have time?”

“If ya need it, I’ll give ya all the time in the world. Now get those head gears crankin. I’ll be there in two minutes.”

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[theclassymike]

Lucas Till in Season 5 Episode 14 of MacGyver

[scifi-and-swordfights]

i hate it when there's been a remake of a movie or tv show and I'm trying to look up content for the og and it keeps bringing up content for the new one. also, bonus points if i really hate the new one like goddam it gimme a break. what has happened to my old classic favorites. please stop

[appalachianapologies]

Paper Flowers

I got recommended a cool youtube video and somehow this was born- i hope you enjoy <3

With an exacto knife in one hand and the other holding a piece of cardstock down on the table like the A/C is somehow going to manage to blow it away, Bozer groans.

This was a mistake. This was, absolutely, no doubt about it, one giant freaking mistake. He should’ve gone back to bed and just waited out the night, pretending to sleep. And when Riley swung by the house in the morning, he’d hop in the car and lie and say that he got a nice eight hours in. Or at least six—eight might not be believable.

But now that plan has gone out of the window and for some reason Bozer’s now holding a knife at 2 AM and seriously regretting every decision that led him here. Usually, Mac would be the one in this situation, and no, the irony isn’t lost on Bozer.

The problem is that Mac is currently in the hospital, fresh out of surgery and hopefully sleeping the night away with Jack by his side. Which leaves Bozer to be the weird, manic guy in the household who plays with blades in the middle of the night.

Mutely, Bozer wonders if Mac ever regrets his crazy midnight ideas.

The plan was simple, really.

Flowers aren’t allowed in hospital rooms because they’re a hazard to the patient and probably six other reasons that Bozer’s community college film degree can’t tell him about, but as long as the flowers aren’t real, they’re just fine. This leaves visitors with a few options, most of them being cards, plastic flowers, or just not bringing anything.

The latter is the choice that Bozer knows Mac wants him to make. The kid’s been through surgery, landed himself in the hospital, so many times. Mac’s going to blush and tuck his head away when he sees that people are still worried about him and making a fuss and bringing him presents, but that’s a risk that Bozer is willing to take.

It’s also not a risk at all. Not compared to everything else that they do in their crazy lives.

The point is that Bozer wants to bring Mac a gift and flowers seem like a great idea until it turns out flowers aren’t allowed, but he still really wants to bring flowers. Which not only kept Bozer awake, but is also the reason why he’s up at two with a knife in hand and a YouTube video paused on his phone.

Paper flowers.

They sound so easy. Sounded easy when he typed it in the search bar, too. Just cut up some paper, maybe color it, and then glue the paper back together in a different formation and then bam! Nice pollen and contamination free flowers for a brother that just got an internal organ stitched up.

Only as it turns out, all of the videos on how to make paper flowers are for kindergartners and look like crap. Not that Bozer would say any of that out loud- he’s sure that they look like masterpieces when they come from five year olds. It’s just not really what he’s looking for.

So he scrolled down and made his search a little more specific and finally found a nice video about how to make good, adult-looking paper flowers.

Only as it turns out, it was less of a “how to make paper flowers” video and more like a “watch an extremely talented woman make a literal work of art with nothing but a few pieces of paper and some glue and an exacto knife and maybe some watercolors in twenty condensed minutes with lofi music in the background.” It’s kind of a wordy title- Boze gets why she stuck with a simpler one.

Doesn’t change the fact that Bozer absolutely does not have the skill to make paper flowers that look like hers.

But he already gathered all of the materials, even braved the garage to find a board to cut paper on, so Bozer’s not ready to give up quite yet. Even if he is slightly mesmerized by the skill this woman seems to possess.

By the time visitor hours open up at the hospital, Bozer has to have at least something to show for his insomnia. So, restarting the video over again, Bozer puts the exacto knife in a better grip in his hands and takes a deep breath.

He’s got this.

[authorangelita]

How about: "Come on, breathe, breathe, don't you dare--"

Thank you for the ask!

The ocean was cold as Jack dove in, reminding him of the last time he'd jumped into water to save his best friend.  Circumstances were different – Mac wasn't shot, as far as Jack knew – but that didn't matter to Jack's sense memory. 

This time, Mac had been pushed or thrown off a cliff high above the water.  He'd hit hard and at a bad angle.  Jack, who'd been searching the shore for him, hadn't hesitated to plunge into the waves. 

He dragged Mac to shore and was dismayed to find that he wasn't breathing.  Jack's training took over, and he gave Mac a couple of rescue breaths.

"Come on, breathe, breathe," Jack anxiously watched Mac's chest, waiting for his partner to take a breath.  "Don't you dare--"

A choked gurgle interrupted Jack's pleading. 

"Yes!  Yes, that's it."  Jack rolled Mac onto his side and rubbed his back.  "Let it all out, bud."

Mac coughed and spit out the water he'd inhaled.  He was shivering; they both were.  Damn that freezing Pacific ocean. 

Jack had never been happier that Mac hadn't used his cell phone for some thingamabob on this mission.  He pulled it out and made the call to Matty, asking for a medevac and Tac team to their location.

[firebirdsdaughter]

Episode idea…

… Someone kidnaps Mac and uses him as leverage to force Jack to hunt down and assassinate someone, w/ Riley and Bozer getting the insanely difficult task of trying to do a complicated dance of protecting the target from Jack while he tries to give them as much leeway as possible without being obvious, while they also try to figure out who has Mac and rescue him.

Naturally the resolution would involve Mac partially breaking out himself, Jack getting to beat the hell out the people behind it.

[blackcatanna]

Ikea-Components-That-Are-Designed-To-Be-Impossible-To-Remove, my beloathed...