#S03E21 - Treason + Heartbreak + Gum

[takaraphoenix]

You know. If the showrunners of MacGyver had balls, Desi would be a lesbian.

Instead of yet another case of “A Girl and A Boy are working together and immediately develop a crush because that’s just how heterosexuals are! :D”.

Which, honestly, is even worse to the fact how she fills the role of Jack.

Look, I’m not the kind of person who needs her gay ships to be canon. I’m realistic enough to know Jack and Mac would never end up together in a straight show like that. I get that. I don’t expect it.

But to remove Jack and replace him with who, so far, has been nothing but the average Strong Female Character stereotype, and pretend that you gotta build some straight nonsense outta that with Mac...? Seriously...?

I loved that they never went Riley/Mac, I love that they got the Riley/Bozer outta their system pretty quickly. Just because there’s a new girl on the team now, you don’t need to activate your compulsatory heterosexuality, guys...

How about instead of forcing another romance to make sure everyone is Really Very Straight, we go and actually develop the romances you already have going on?

Leanna and Bozer are now living together, but uh I’d have liked to see more of their development as a couple first to, you know, actually have an opinion on that.

And up until episode 21, I actually forgot that oh yeah right Riley got a relationship too.

If you need to involve ships in your show, and I get that you do, how about you then develop them properly instead of just forcing more and more ships...?

Not to mention, I’d... I’d really like a better treatment of the female characters.

Because really, so far Desi has done and shown absolutely nothing that made her... special, her own character. She just functions as Jack’s replacement and has all the makings of Strong Female Character. Give her more?

And yeah, that’s a fair thing to demand considering the past.

Patricia Thornton was honestly such a good character and their “surprise twist” felt less like an actual twist and more completely outta nowhere...

I really loved Jill and was happy how they were bringing her in more and more and how she got dynamics with the team... and then she just got fridged.

Samantha Cage... uh... went back to Australia “for medical reasons” but like... no one really cares to even bring her up anymore or how she’s doing?? Even though she had become a part of the team and the team cared about her.

Leanna started out strong and has slowly been reduced to Bozer’s Girlfriend. She’s barely even in episodes, she doesn’t really get to do much and most of the times, she really just serves as The Girlfriend Character.

And Matty, honestly, I have mixed feelings on her. She’s the Tough Boss character most of the time, but this recent “Strong Female Character’s one weakness that makes her soft is Love” is... making me wince a lot.

Aside from Riley, they got a real bad track-record with their female characters. So if they’re just gonna make Desi “female!Jack but with feelings for Mac!” it’s going to be... incredibly bland and boring and Desi really deserves better. Yes, Jack’s shoes are big ones to fill, but the solution to filling them really can’t be “uh let’s add a romance with Mac??”...

And yes, I very specifically opened this post up with “make her a lesbian”. Because I really do feel like that’d fit her. It would remove that dumbass forced romance they are building up there. And, an added bonus, it’d give this show some much-needed diversity.

Seriously, a show that started airing in 2016 and is now, in the year 2019 in its third season without a single LGBT+ character... is really very pathetic, to be quite frank.

[ao3feed-macgyver2016]

by Littleviolentone

He knew better than anyone else how off kilter she’d felt recently. Bozer tried to help, he did everything he could, but he just couldn’t understand the two of them the way they could understand each other. Even if that wasn’t the case the fact remained; she was happily dating someone else. For that reason alone he should shut down these feelings and just be grateful she considered him a friend.

He was grateful, everyday.

Mac also wasn’t naive or selfish enough to think that he was the only one feeling lost right now. So, fuck his feelings and his angst, he had to at least pretend to pull it together for the rest of the team.

He could be Riley’s friend, and let her be his. He would learn not to want her so badly. He could do this. He had to.

Words: 2505, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Anger of a Gentle Man

Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016), Riley Davis, Desiree "Desi" Nguyen, Wilt Bozer (MacGyver TV 2016), Matilda "Matty" Webber, Billy Colton (MacGyver TV 2016)

Relationships: Riley Davis/Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016)

Additional Tags: Episode: s03e21 Treason + Heartbreak + Gum, Episode Related, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Hurt/Comfort, Angry Mac, Soft Mac

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MacGyver (S03E21) “Treason + Heartbreak + Gum”

MacGyver (S03E21) “Treason + Heartbreak + Gum”

MacGyver (Lucas Till) and the team have been through so much this season, so why should this episode pause on the chaos? The writers certainly know how to create tension, and keep viewers on the edge of their seats. When morals are challenged, can a risk outweigh the inevitable catastrophe?

All good things must come to an end?

Mama Colton ( Sheryl Lee Ralph) makes an appearance, asking Matty…

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"MacGyver" zapowiedź odcinka S03E21: Treason + Heartbreak + Gum

“MacGyver” zapowiedź odcinka S03E21: Treason + Heartbreak + Gum

W następnym odcinku “MacGyver”…

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[purplecolouredglasses]

This is pretty much everything I've been thinking and THANK YOU for mentioning Matty because I couldn't have been the only one who has a bone to pick with the writers over the whole Ethan storyline...several actually.

You know. If the showrunners of MacGyver had balls, Desi would be a lesbian.

Instead of yet another case of “A Girl and A Boy are working together and immediately develop a crush because that’s just how heterosexuals are! :D”.

Which, honestly, is even worse to the fact how she fills the role of Jack.

Look, I’m not the kind of person who needs her gay ships to be canon. I’m realistic enough to know Jack and Mac would never end up together in a straight show like that. I get that. I don’t expect it.

But to remove Jack and replace him with who, so far, has been nothing but the average Strong Female Character stereotype, and pretend that you gotta build some straight nonsense outta that with Mac…? Seriously…?

I loved that they never went Riley/Mac, I love that they got the Riley/Bozer outta their system pretty quickly. Just because there’s a new girl on the team now, you don’t need to activate your compulsatory heterosexuality, guys…

How about instead of forcing another romance to make sure everyone is Really Very Straight, we go and actually develop the romances you already have going on?

Leanna and Bozer are now living together, but uh I’d have liked to see more of their development as a couple first to, you know, actually have an opinion on that.

And up until episode 21, I actually forgot that oh yeah right Riley got a relationship too.

If you need to involve ships in your show, and I get that you do, how about you then develop them properly instead of just forcing more and more ships…?

Not to mention, I’d… I’d really like a better treatment of the female characters.

Because really, so far Desi has done and shown absolutely nothing that made her… special, her own character. She just functions as Jack’s replacement and has all the makings of Strong Female Character. Give her more?

And yeah, that’s a fair thing to demand considering the past.

Patricia Thornton was honestly such a good character and their “surprise twist” felt less like an actual twist and more completely outta nowhere…

I really loved Jill and was happy how they were bringing her in more and more and how she got dynamics with the team… and then she just got fridged.

Samantha Cage… uh… went back to Australia “for medical reasons” but like… no one really cares to even bring her up anymore or how she’s doing?? Even though she had become a part of the team and the team cared about her.

Leanna started out strong and has slowly been reduced to Bozer’s Girlfriend. She’s barely even in episodes, she doesn’t really get to do much and most of the times, she really just serves as The Girlfriend Character.

And Matty, honestly, I have mixed feelings on her. She’s the Tough Boss character most of the time, but this recent “Strong Female Character’s one weakness that makes her soft is Love” is… making me wince a lot.

Aside from Riley, they got a real bad track-record with their female characters. So if they’re just gonna make Desi “female!Jack but with feelings for Mac!” it’s going to be… incredibly bland and boring and Desi really deserves better. Yes, Jack’s shoes are big ones to fill, but the solution to filling them really can’t be “uh let’s add a romance with Mac??”…

And yes, I very specifically opened this post up with “make her a lesbian”. Because I really do feel like that’d fit her. It would remove that dumbass forced romance they are building up there. And, an added bonus, it’d give this show some much-needed diversity.

Seriously, a show that started airing in 2016 and is now, in the year 2019 in its third season without a single LGBT+ character… is really very pathetic, to be quite frank.