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It's MacGyver with a SAK!!
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Nice! I was never much into the original series back when it came out and don't watch a lot of regular TV these days. But it will be nice if there is any media portrayal of knives and pocket tools in a positive manner to help de-weaponize simple folding knives in people's minds. Perhaps a small step, but anything helps.
Screen shot of the logo:
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In the trailer, they also show some kind of dagger being used:
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Unfortunately, it looks like they selected the actor to play MacGuyver in order to appeal to teenage girls. He looks like he's about 13 years old -- no evidence he's even started shaving yet.
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In the trailer, they also show some kind of dagger being used:
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Unfortunately, it looks like they selected the actor to play MacGuyver in order to appeal to teenage girls. He looks like he's about 13 years old -- no evidence he's even started shaving yet.
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Besides the logo the trailer didn't show a single sak, just what appeared to be a new model mircotech ultratech. Hopefully they can pair it with a whatever model sak seems episode appropriate and maybe win over people with both the utility of knives like sak's and de-demonize automatic and otf knives in the process.
arizonaranchman
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Interested to see the show when it starts this fall.
Hickory n steel
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It's cool that they went with a sak seeing how easily they could've used a leatherman for the v.
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Dont like the actor, and I don't like the logo.
And usually I'm not that critical either.
And usually I'm not that critical either.
The Zieg
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Yah, Lucas Till is a very young looking 26. By contrast, Anderson was 35 when his show started. Anderson's MacGuyver was believable as a man with lots of life experience giving him the skills he had. Till will be believable as a wunderkind along the lines of Doogie Howser. Different approach.
Of course, at 26, a man can have been in combat off and on for eight years, hacking and programming in Silicon Valley with a CS degree for five years, tracking and hunting for fourteen years. So who knows how old this MacGyver is supposed to be in the show, but it's possible.
Zieg
Yeah they have picked the kinda of kid who looks like he could be smashed to a pulp with a single blow from a weed pipe.
But to be absolutely fair to the lad, I would like to see an actual episode first before requesting the casting director/s to air a live seppuku episode with the dullest sak-like clone.
Which bring up the matter of the use of the sak-like graphic on the logo.
There can be no doubt that it's there to represent the Swiss Army knife used by the main character.
But in doing so, I hope cbs would have had the decency to seek prior permission from victorinox,
Least the show fails to meet credible expectation from die hard fans of both mac and the sak.
The free world can't afford to see or have any form of misrepresentation for the iconic sak.
But to be absolutely fair to the lad, I would like to see an actual episode first before requesting the casting director/s to air a live seppuku episode with the dullest sak-like clone.
Which bring up the matter of the use of the sak-like graphic on the logo.
There can be no doubt that it's there to represent the Swiss Army knife used by the main character.
But in doing so, I hope cbs would have had the decency to seek prior permission from victorinox,
Least the show fails to meet credible expectation from die hard fans of both mac and the sak.
The free world can't afford to see or have any form of misrepresentation for the iconic sak.
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Good looking young man. Always liked the McGyver series and as Zieg says, the Anderson Mac was pretty believable because the viewer may link more life experience to the character. Let's just watch the show and judge.