House of the rising Moonglum

Hey all, been a while since I posted, but between work and getting the Simian Hemorrhagic Fever I haven’t really had the ability. Also between those two items, I have a bunch of posts that I want to make, but they will have to wait. Something more important has come up. You see, being sick has given me the time to watch some DVDs. These happen to include a number of episodes of the 80s show “MacGyver”.

Oh yeah. I used to love this show with a passion beyond reason. I was really scared that it just wouldn’t hold up to age, but I have to admit, I still love it. It could be for the nostalgia value of the opening theme, or the fact that he’s always doing it “for the kids” (my quote not his) but man do I love this camp. The only real question is how did all of us boys who watched Richard Dean Anderson week after glorious flowing lock week not turn out gay?

But even these questions are not the point of this post. The point of this post is that Angela Landsbury (aka Jessica Fletcher) was an amateur. So everybody knows that the writer was the one who was really committing all of these murders. Any sleepy town that she showed up in, all of a sudden some bizarre murder happens. And then she “helps” the cops pin it on someone else. It was so her.

But she has nothing on MacGyver. Man. Seriously, if he offers to help you out, turn him back at the border. Especially if you have some cheery punk kid wearing much too nice clothes to be a burmese villager, or a hungarian roma who has clothes that break all the iron curtain era sumptuary laws, just send him away. He will help you solve your current problem much like the a-team, but unlike the a-team he seems to do it in places that he is going to leave immediately and that the local national politics will involve killing everyone in the village that he just “saved”. I mean it man, just don’t take his help.

Some things I’ve learned:
It takes two weeks to train a soldier to shoot.
You can always have blow dried hair. I mean even if the torturers have left you in the burmese sun for a week.
Planes always crash on the top of inaccessible mesas.
Central Asia, Southeast Asia, The Middleeast, Eastern Europe, they are all within driving distance from LA. (The problem with growing up in CA is that you recognize it when you see it.)
MacGyver is always a hit with the ladies.
Thus far he speaks: Burmese, Pashtu, Arabic, and Hungarian. At least that is what I am going to pretend, because everyone speaking english is just a little too eeh for me.
The killing always happens after the episode. And there is always killing.

The thing I find most interesting is that his stoic look means more now. I think that he is really upset that he just gave these people false hope. They are all happy and cheering their victory, and he is staring off into the distance (thinking, man are these guys screwed when the rest of the regiment shows up or what?).

Or maybe I just watched “Thin Red Line” too recently. (There are no stoic looks, just lines that aren’t spoken. What you can’t hear them?)