#2x12 mac + jack

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 2, Episode 12: Mac + Jack

When Mac's nemesis rigs Mac's house with explosives and traps him and Jack inside, Mac uses a karaoke mic and an audio transformer to let the team know that the bomb is a distraction for a bigger one.

Season 2, Episode 21: Wind + Water

While MacGyver is in Puerto Rico helping his friend rebuild his hurricane-damaged home, he is taken hostage in the bank his friend manages when robbers attempt to steal $2 million.

[rosieblogstuff]

For the June 8 MacGyver Flashfic Writealong prompt: Playing Possum

A few weeks after Jack is assigned to overwatch Mac, his bomb nerd comes under fire.

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"Time" (or "times") turned up 17 times in Lost Causes, my Army Days 2x12 Mac + Jack missing scene story. Here's the most "time"-heavy section:

By the time they reach their barrack, everyone else is heading for the mess hall. Mac hightails it to the showers as soon as he can gather up spare clothing, while Jack sits heavily on his bunk, staring at his boots instead of removing them. 

He knows what’s going on. It’s the nasty aftereffect of adrenaline and a too-close call mixing themselves up in the back of his head, where he stuffs away all the other things he doesn’t like to think much about. The other close calls that, for whatever reason, turned out very differently than this afternoon. The times he hadn’t been in position to see what was coming before it came. The times he had missed something. The times he wasn’t fast enough. Or when he made a judgment call, like Mac did this afternoon, and it turned out to be the wrong one. Like that last op in the CIA, the one that almost broke him.

He’s still sitting there when Mac gets back from the showers, freshly re-dressed, his hair disheveled and dripping, stuck together into a thousand little blond spikes.

This week’s word/theme is TIME. Variations include out of time, turn back time, in the nick of time, timer counting down, clock numbers, etc.

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[ariminiria]

I really do love 2x11 Bullet + Pen

[strange-relics]

What’s your favorite cold open?

Which episode to you go back to the most?

Are there any songs that make you think of the show?

My favorite cold open isn't really a true cold open, as it transitions into the full episode after the theme song/intro plays, but it's the first few minutes of 1x13, Large Blade. The whole team badgering Jack about only bringing one zip-tie is funny enough, but then he does the high-pitched "I'm not the bad guy!" bit and it lives rent-free in my brain! (Runner-up goes to 1x7's "and a 100-meter daaaash.)

I go back to 2x12, Mac + Jack, the most, probably. There's just so much to love about that one and I love to rewatch it. If we're talking from a writing perspective, though, it's the infamous 5x5. My brain has just dissected that one and the little clues it leaves behind to the point I have a 4-part fic series I'm working on based on Jack not being dead. (Mine kinda bypasses seasons 4-5, though.)

As for songs, Live and Learn by Joe Public. It was in one of the episodes (can't remember which) and ever since, whenever I hear it, my mind automatically equates it with MacGyver.

Also, thank you for the ask! It's my first ever, so I hope I did it correctly!!

[rosieblogstuff]

I love these thoughts. Jack not wanting to fight hard enough to get in real trouble. Mac being filled with so very much emotion he's fighting like a demon.

But I give you this thought: what if Jack was injured?

Jack is acting high-strung, impatient, and angry. We don't know why exactly but we know that Jack is in a dark bad place and Mac says he's heard no one wants to work with him.

We don't know why. But what if Jack had it out with someone else before Mac showed up? What if he's available for assignment because he bruised a rib in a fight 2 days ago (which he would prefer to avoid mentioning, because he knows it was stupid and he should't have done it, but he's just So Done With Everything Right Now and hates everything about being back in army and just wants to go home)?

A mentally-healthy Jack has self-control and patience. But unhappy, depressed Jack who's counting down the moments until he can get the heck out of Afghanistan? He's on a hair trigger. Maybe he's out of shape, even, because he hasn't been eating and sleeping right. He's off his game for sure. Mac probably isn't the only one who's set him off.

I also had conflicted feelings about Jack and Mac duking it out when they first met but a large part of that for me was my own confusion about how Jack couldn’t just kick Mac’s ass (not that I’d want him to) or restrain him. You could argue that Jack was holding back and of course Mac is skilled in his own way but I was like…why is Jack struggling with this lol. Sorry Mac but Jack is the physical guy with an incredible amount of experience. The rest of it was that i didn’t like them hitting each other but I guess that’s obvious

Jack must have been holding back. That's the only reason Mac didn't end up with a broken jaw. (that and plot armor). Look, Mac is skilled and could probably hold is own against the average GI Joe, but Jack is Delta Force. He could have incapacitated Mac if he had wanted to.

I think Jack saw some punk kid touching his weapon and wanted to teach him a lesson. That rifle is Jack's life. It's the lives of the people under his protection. He does not take that lightly. He was going to make sure he never even thought about touching someone else's weapon but he didn't want to put him out of commission.

And Jack wasn't looking to spend his last 64 days in the stockade or get court-martialed. Plus, when he got a look at the child touching his weapon, he really couldn't just beat the kid into a pulp. (Mac looks young but have you seen a photo of 19 year old lucas?)

I'm so used to their first meeting now that I don't even know what i would have been hoping for but I do remember feeling a twinge of disappointment when I first saw the episode. And I guess this is an example of a good conflict with a good resolution. Plus the fanfic has made it infinitely better

[anguishmacgyver]

hello. i am thinking thoughts about mac cheekily saluting jack on their flashback first mission in 3x11 and jack somberly saluting the team as he walks out the door in 3x14. Also the handshake in 3x14 vs. the first handshake we see in the pilot or their first fistbump in 2x12. Just wanted to share my pain with you and everyone

[nade2308]

GIFS AND EDITS MASTERLIST POST 4

(Recently I went back to the MacGyver 2016 tag on my tumblr and found some edits and gifs I made from the show, the edits for fica not included because those were scattered around, maybe I will locate them at some point. I am making a separate masterlist post for them because they take a whole list plus the links from previous masterlists. Going back to something that made me happy is always a good thing.)

Previous masterlists: one || two || three

MacGyver 2016

Mac and Jack edit (1x03)

Another Mac and Jack edit (1x03)

Mac and Jack edit (1x04)

Mac and Jack edit (1x05)

Mac and Jack edit 1x08

Mac and Jack edit 1 (2x07)

Mac and Jack edit 2 (2x07)

Mac and Jack edit 3 (2x07)

WK edit

Mac wolf edit

Find your voice edit

Mac and Jack with colored hair

Broken things edit

Meme

Team Phoenix moodboards/colors: Mac || Jack || Riley || Bozer || Sam || Russ || Desi || Matty

Team Phoenix moodboards: Mac || Jack || Bozer || Riley

Mac phoenix edit

Mac edit

Jack and Riley edit

Jack and Thomas AU edit

Jack and Bozer on the side of the road (2x21)

Mac talking about Jack + references from episodes

Mac and woods edit

Mac and Jack edit 1x19

Variation on theme edits

Black and white Mac and Jack edit

Photographer Jack edit

Boys (1x12)

Black and white Mac edit

Father's day edits: Riley || Mac

The Phoenix Firestone Club edits

WK Mac edit

Mac and Jack soft edit

Mac and freckles

Focused imps

1x07 edits

Mac edit 1x07

Mac, Jack and Riley edit

Mac reading in prison

Jack to the rescue

Disoriented Mac

Scared Mac

Mac doing his things

Tense Mac

Mac being "searched" edit

First Mac gif

Mac gif

A scene from 3x05

Mac coming out of the fire like the phoenix

Mac and Jack gifset ("Same blood" by Aloe Blacc)

Sad Mac gifset (1x19)

Mac and Jack gifset

Not so subtle Mac in 3x02: part 1 |{ part 2

Mac and Jack gifset (Riding the lightning)

Lucas and George gifs

Mac + flinching

Video from 1x19

The team in 2x03

Hurt Mac gifset

Mac and Jack gifset - trust (2x12)

Mac and Jack gifs (1x02)

Improvise gif

Goofy Jack gif

Bundled Mac in 3x05

Boys in sync (1x09)

Jack winking

Whumped Mac (1x07)

Mac gifs (1x07)

Sad Mac in 5x05

Mac and Jack on the plane gifs (3x10)

Mac stabbing his thigh with the scissors (2x09)

Wunderkind gifset

Parallels

MacGyver 2016 2x23 and 3x14 parallels

MacGyver 2016 and Son of the South parallel

Jack and Nick parallel

Nick and Mac outfit parallel

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 1, Episode 7: Can Opener

MacGyver is tasked to go undercover as an inmate in a maximum security prison to break out El Noche, a notorious drug kingpin, using only batteries and salt, and track him to his cartel's secret location and dismantle it.

Season 2, Episode 12: Mac + Jack

When Mac's nemesis rigs Mac's house with explosives and traps him and Jack inside, Mac uses a karaoke mic and an audio transformer to let the team know that the bomb is a distraction for a bigger one.

[rosieblogstuff]

Hi!! For the Cairo Community Ask Game:

What’s your favorite episode?

What’s your favorite cold open?

What’s your favorite episode?

2x12 no question. I love the unlikely and wacky setup (Mac's house is now a gigantic bomb? WHAT COULD BE MORE FITTING). I love Mac's inventions, that they have to call in Charlie, all the little moments like Bozer just shrugging and going it when Mac tells him to steal the neighbor's DVD player, Matty apparently being In Charge of everything in the whole city, the way Riley takes it in stride when she has to build a thing for Mac based on a single word. But of course the very best part is the excellent way the two storylines contrast Mac and Jack's first meeting and early friendship with their reliance on each other in the "now". There can't be more than 7 or 8 minutes total of flashbacks, but every second of every one is so perfectly arranged to tell the precise story of their evolution from angry brawling to besties. Which is so obvious in the present. I could probably write an essay here but I feel like this is NOT an unusual choice of favorite so I'm probably in good company!

What’s your favorite cold open?

I answered this in the first ask I got around to answering so I'm going to go with my second favorite: 2x02, the North Korea car chase+badly timed heart-to-heart. Jack muting the line on Patti & Riley while fleeing the North Korean military so he can chastise Mac for not having his head in the game while Mac is building a fertilizer bomb in the front seat is just peak show.

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I’d take it all with a grain of salt because the show contradicts itself all over the place, but it makes more sense if you don’t really use the actor’s ages where the show gives us other hints or dates.

In 2x11 (when Mac is arrested) they read his file and say he enlisted in 2009 and was honorably discharged in 2012. We know from 2x12 he met Jack in Afghanistan in 2011. 

We also know from 2x13 (the class reunion) that Jack definitely graduated high school in 1993. That makes his canonical age about 36 in 2011. (Maybe that driver’s license in 1x3 was just a fake for cover ID purposes!)

They never really give us an age for Bozer but if he enlisted in 2009, Mac would have been 18 (birthday in 1991) or 19 (if born in 1990) and I personally like to headcanon he went and impulsively enlisted as soon as he was 18 because that seems like a Mac thing to do. 😂 Anway, working backward from there, he was 16 or 17 when he graduated high school. So Bozer wouldn’t really be more than 2 years older. 

(Personally I like the idea that he skipped 1 grade before meeting Bozer, so he was only a year young; and then took high school courses early so he cut another year off after that and graduated at 16. This would have been pretty easy to do.)

No okay I’ve just been thinking about this, canon wise

Mac was born March 23 1990

In 2011 when he met Jack, he was 21

Specific EOD training lasts roughly 6months, and then a full year for actually applying it on the field, so let’s say just about 2years in total

When signing up to serve, you do it in year contracts, and we know that meeting Jack was Mac’s third tour

Adding both the training and field years gives us 5, and subtracting that from Mac’s age makes him roughly 16 when he first signed up

And then remembering that he spent 2years at MIT before that, so 14 when he enrolled

We know that Mac and Bozer met in 5th grade, and the average 5th grader age is 10-11

Given that we were never actually given any date for Bozer’s birthday, but character wikis give actors and characters generally the same year, it’s safe to say Bozer was born in 1985, making him 5 years older than Mac

It’s probably safe to assume that Mac skipped grades as per his father(derogatory) request, because it’s impossible for them to have met while they were both in 5th grade

BUT it’s perfectly logical to assume Mac was probably 6 in the fifth grade and why he was bullied so much for his small stature and why Bozer felt the need to protect him from Donnie because he was an older brother and knew when someone needed help

[ariminiria]

What was the first MacGyver (2016) episode you ever watched?

7. How did you discover the show?

18. If you could wish an episode tag/missing scene fic into existence, which episode would you choose?

Answers 1 and 7 kind of go hand in hand!

I remember seeing 2x12 Mac + Jack on a rerun station at like 3am one night, and part of why I remember it so distinctly is because it started with the recap of Sam getting shot, followed by the opener in the hospital waiting room. After that I was like 👀 "oh?"

I did catch a few episodes like that for a while, but it was only on one night a week at that late night/early morning hour, so I looked for somewhere to watch it on my own time (and in order), and well. Here I am lol.

18. Ooh that's a hard one. There's so many good options! But I'd have to say, we deserve a scene from 3x13 where Jack learns what happened and then later gives Mac a hard time about "This is why you ain't allowed to go anywhere without me." Or, a tag for 2x11 Bullet + Pen where Mac gets to talk to someone about that whole experience! Cause the poor kid was clearly Not Okay for so much of that episode, then he almost got taken out by the cartel on top of that.

[macgyverrewatch2020]

2x12 Mac + Jack

This week’s episode is 2x12 Mac + Jack

When Mac’s nemesis rigs Mac’s house with explosives and traps him and Jack inside, Mac uses a karaoke mic and an audio transformer to let the team know that the bomb is a distraction for a bigger one.    

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[ariminiria]

Funnily enough, a lot of the episodes that are "hits" for me come from season 2, maybe it has something to do with the hair 😂

My "favorite episodes list" is so long, I won't subject everyone to that right now lmao, but I can say I will fight the hardest for the following episodes in the bracket:

1x07 - Mac really gets to show off here. Like he loses backup in every single way and my man still escapes from prison.

1x08 - He also gets to show off here, in several ways, my favorite being where he escapes from a completely empty room. But also the dynamic of Mac being in danger yet being self-sacrificing!

1x18 - Mac's hands are very distracting in this episode, that's it. That's the reason.

2x11 - I did a propaganda post on its bracket earlier but we get Broody Mac, Mac being underestimated by the cops, then a fantastic moment when he gets to take the mask off and show off a little. Mostly Lucas Till's acting here.

2x12 - Honestly it was so rude of them to smash out these bangers back-to-back. Mac and Jack origins, need I say more?

2x20 - I adore this episode mainly for the Sassy Lost Child and specifically Mac and Jack's interactions with said kid.

3x13 - Mac as the damsel is very fun, and the brief little wilderness training we got to see was nice, with him being teacher for Riley and Bozer.

Let’s admit that the MacGyver bracket is gonna be an insane battle between our fav episodes of season 1 and 2 and a couple eps from S3. If S4 or S5 makes it in, I will lmao 🤣

This has been so much fun today! It feels like the most active the fandom has been in a while. I'm really hoping that more folks start engaging in some friendly debate and playful propaganda. I want to see episode analyses, photos, gifs, favorite quotes, reasons favorite episodes are favorites! It'll help ease the sting from watching favorite episodes go head to head, knowing only one can come out victorious. Some of the match ups have already been brutal!

(If S4-5 make it past the first few rounds then the polls got leaked to twitter or there's a poll bot or something, right? But it is really going to come down to seeding. We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that seasons 1-2 don't take each other out too soon)

Just for fun, and just for myself, I've got few predictions of what episodes I think are probably going to come out on top. There are a few fandom favorites and I'm pretty sure we know what they are. Like it's practically a rite of passage to write a 2x04 missing scene or epilogue and I live for those. But that said, a few months back, I had a poll on Favorite Mac Hair and was surprised by the results. I thought everyone loved the longer, fluffier hair of seasons 1 or 3 but season 2 was the clear winner so maybe I just know what I like.

What is your favorite episode? I love learning these things. And what's your favorite not-famous episode? (how is not-famous defined? I don't know. However you choose!) And what makes it stand out as a favorite?

Honestly, I kind of want to turn your ask into an ask for anyone who wants to chime in. Favorite episodes and why, go!

[anguishmacgyver]