Arctic Light

There are always so many things I want to post about, and then I can never find time to write those posts (plus, my comment-answering fail is pretty well established by this point). But I ran across this AV Club article on MacGyver tonight and I appear to have tripped and fallen into a pit of nostalgia. :D

Richard Dean Anderson was my one big celebrity crush when I was a teenager, and MacGyver was the one show that I absolutely could not, would not miss. I did not have reliable access to a VCR (my dad had one, but my mom didn't, and I mostly lived with my mom) but when possible, I recorded all the episodes that I could, and one episode in particular -- "Passages", the coma episode -- I watched SO many times when I was about 15 that I still know some of the dialogue by heart.

I don't think I would recommend the show to anyone who doesn't have the same warm-fuzzy memories of it that I do. It is a very silly show, and it feels very dated and very, VERY '80s. I enjoy rewatching episodes even now, but mostly for the nostalgia-trip factor. Still, I have very good memories and lots of lingering warmth for it (even though I will freely admit that it jumped the shark very badly in the last couple of seasons; I can't bring myself to rewatch anything past season four or so).

And yes, I did start watching Stargate, in the beginning, because Richard Dean Anderson was in it.