#macgyver season 5 episode 5

[5-minutes-2-midnight]

Of course there's a hard way. There's always a hard way. And the hard way always sucks... but sometimes it's your only option.

[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.

[impossiblepluto]

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!

[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!!

[theclassymike]

Lucas TIll in Season 5 Episode 6 of MacGyver.

[ariminiria]

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[macgyvermedical]

It's been a while since I watched any, so which episodes would you recommend to introduce a friend who's never seen it before to RDA's MacGyver- episodes that really typify the show's ingenuity and earnestness and faith in humanity and also the wonderful '80s-ness of it all.

Any of the following (these are in date order):

Season 1:

Last Stand Target MacGyver Countdown Jack of Lies

Season 2:

Phoenix Under Siege Family Matter DOA MacGyver

Season 3:

Ghost Ship Hell Week The Spoilers Rock the Cradle

Season 4:

Blood Brothers The Survivors The Challenge Runners The Invisible Killer Easy Target Renegade

Season 5:

Cease Fire Halloween Knights Hearts of Steel Rush to Judgement

Season 6:

Humanity 20 Questions Bitter Harvest Strictly Business

Season 7:

Obsessed The Stringer Enjoy!

[paperclips37]

Again on the MacGyver train:

Season 5 had some really compelling episodes but completely derailed them for the disastership.

Needless disastership might I add.

The storylines were perfect for really exploring Mac's ethical viewpoint when it comes to science and his work as a government agent. And it just got fucked off.

Oh yes move in with a person who actively chooses to not tell you about her "dead" fiancé.

Then randomly drop your quandries with the government at the very end. This should have been a discussed issue repeatedly from codex at the very least.

(No we got desi and russ being needless pricks. So unfair to their characters)

[starfinss]

actually wait that works out honestly and NO FEEL FREE TO DO LITERALLY WHATEVER YOU ARE LITERALLY WRITING IT SO IM GOOD WITH WHATEVER IM JUST HERE TO THROW IDEAS AROUND AND HOPEFULLY ADD MORE SEASONING TO THE STORY

THANKS FOR TAKING WHAT IM THINKING INTO CONSIDERATION

i will send more ideas soon when i think of them, im currently rewatching season 3 to hopefully get so inspo hehe il keep you posted

i like the whole feels very weak in terms of bending better than the nonbender part. i’m thinking, depends when canonically this is taking place, the reader was part of the black sun group for the invasion (where Sokka’s dad is) and is friends with Katara and Sokka. They invited her for the invasion for extra medic/waterbending assist and she escape with them on appa when they failed the invasion then thats how she meets Zuko for the first time?

does this make sense? im just now watching the black sun episode so

Oooh good idea. I’m also rewatching season 3 right now, haha, I’m on episode 5.

So, she joined the Gaang roughly the same time as Zuko did.

What I MacGyvered together in my head was actually rather similar to your idea. However, that raised the question of what reader would be doing with Hakoda’s fleet. A medic, maybe? I want her to be able to use waterbending offensively as well, but not as well as Katara, and I can only really justify that as saying she came in from the northern water tribe to help, and became friends with Sokka and Katara during that. She’s not really weak, per se, she’s just surrounded by bending prodigies, and that’s not really something that builds the confidence in one’s own abilities. So, she kind of looks weaker by comparison.

That also adds the depth to the fact that, until recently, the Northern Water Tribe had (probably still has, though Katara took a hammer to the patriarchy and probably inspired a lot of women) some sexist views on women and water bending, so reader feels compelled to prove that she’s good enough. Or something like that.

Oh yes, I can work with this. You have been indescribably helpful, anon, please keep it coming.

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 1, Episode 8: Corkscrew

MacGyver comes face to face with Murdoc, an international assassin hired to kill him, he must defend both himself and Bozer, armed with only a corkscrew and paper towel rolls.

Season 3, Episode 11: Mac + Fallout + Jack

Mac and Jack head for Vegas fun but are knocked out and put in a cell like "Saw." The rest of the team fly to Milan and try to "borrow" a diamond, hanging around a princess's neck, to get the terrorism data in it.

[impossiblepluto]

inspired by the recent addition on that one ask

Hahaha!

And it's sad because it's true.

MacGyver Writers: how about an episode where Mac has a seizure and flatlines

Me *eyes dilating like a cat*: what's the catch?

MacGyver: you'll have to deal with season 4 and 5 to get to it

😑

[tolum]

I just watched MacGyver 1x05 "The Heist"

[theclassymike]

Lucas Till in Season 2 Episode 5 of MacGyver.

[ariminiria]

forcing the discord fam who knows nothing about macgyver to participate in a shotgun poll over those two season 5 episodes that almost tied twice in the bracket is going great so far

[bookwyrm07]

High five to MacGyver writers for subtle shade. For those of you who don't know 5x5 is is military code for everything is good.