It's MacGyver with a SAK!!

[bt93]

The intro trailer for the new MacGyver is out! Notice the logo uses a SAK for the 'v' in MacGyver. If this show hits I've a hunch Vic sales will go through the roof, not like they aren't already. Anyway, as a new action show it might be good.

 

[jc57]

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.

 

[Roamad]

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.

 

[Toddwalla]

I'm ok with the casting choice, but they better not mess with the SAK! That certainly looks like some kind of OTF auto in the promo.

 

[Roamad]

Link to trailer:

http://www.cbs.com/shows/macgyver/

 

[jazub]

Cool! Love that the SAK is part of the logo. :thumbup:

[video]https://youtu.be/Gt8E6X6-744[/video]

 

[pyro777]

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]

Interested to see the show when it starts this fall.

 

[Hickory n steel]

It's cool that they went with a sak seeing how easily they could've used a leatherman for the v.

 

[Uncle Padre]

Dont like the actor, and I don't like the logo.
And usually I'm not that critical either.

 

[The Zieg]

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.

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

 

[GIRLYmann]

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.

 

[JasonJ]

I'm excited for this new show. As much as I both enjoy/am getting tired of reboots of things from my early childhood in the 80's... I'll give it a chance.

But I hope it has the same spirit of ingenuity and wit that the original did.

 

[Professor]

I'm not sure why, but I got the impression from that trailer that he's the original MacG's son. If that's the case, his dad truly could have taught him everything he knows!

 

[Sosa]

Maybe Mac jr. Gets killed by murdoc and Pete Thornton brings his dad out of retirement. But not before penny Parker seduces the young lad haha.

 

[22-rimfire]

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.