Sometimes I think fondly about Macgyver (2016) season 3 episode 13 Wilderness + Training + Survival....and how absolutely batshit this episode was. If the creators had decided to confidently maintain these chaos levels, I think the show would have been better and had a longer run in general (but that's just my opinion).
Some random insane details that got fully brushed over but make me lose my mind every time:
Mac actively choosing to bring no emergency supplies out of pure god complex.
That time the bad guy leader tore Mac's beanie off and grabbed him by the hair sexual-style. Absolutely no other character has thought to grab Mac by the hair in the original show or the reboot like wtf
EDIT I've been reminded by some friendly reblogs that hair-pulling happens in a couple other episodes. Regardless, it cracks me up every single time. The guy seems to do it out of pure frustration and that is so funny to me.
Riley wearing acrylics into the wilderness
The bad guy just up and massacred his entire squad so he wouldn't have to share the money. Like he just shot them all in cold blood. That's some GOT shit.
Mac getting shot in the thigh from like two inches away and not having his entire femur shattered.
Riley and Bozer running into a clearing scattered with dead bodies?? With Mac bleeding out (?) in the middle?? No questions asked.
At least two of the bad guys were SEVERELY injured and they just got left to die in the absolute middle of nowhere after all that emphasis on how dangerous the wilderness is lmfao
RILEY WEARING ACRYLICS INTO THE WILDERNESS
Bozer being totally confused by the word yarrow implying that he did literally none of the reading.
That one guy who was blinded by burning poison oak and left to die in the woods
Mac doing math and science word problems outloud while a group of murdering criminals stare at him in confusion
Why did he have a random hillbilly friend in the mountains
Why did he suddenly have a pickup truck for the occasion
anyway i miss Macgyver and i wish it would come back RIP ok bye
thinking about how the Master was heavily implied to have tortured and killed Jack Harkness for a full year, and how much harder and more ruthless Jack was as a person once he returned to torchwood. that year took something that he never got back
1x02 Spellingg Bee - Motorcycle crash, hospital, knee brace, limp, bumps into bin, pain
1x03 Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Held at gunpoint x2
1x05 Lives - Held at gunpoint
1x06 Weekend Warriors - Held at gunpoint
1x15 Scary Sherry - Nightmare
2x02 65 Million Years Off - Shot at, scared
2x03 Psy vs Psy - Hostage
2x04 Zero to Murder in 60s - Brief boo-boo (chair race sabatoged)
2x05 And Down the Stretch... - Childhood bully
2x07 If You're So Smart... - Bullied by children
2x09 Bounty Hunters! - Handcuffed, jumps off boat, held at gunpoint
2x13 Lights, Camera… - Nearly nailed to death (38:00), character funeral
2x15 Black and Tan - Sad (18:30)
2x16 Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead - Mummy 'curse'
3x01 Ghosts - [Flashback; emo/arrested] Increasingly angry about mothers' return, confrontation, heartbroken
3x04 Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable - Shot at, chased x3, restrained, held at helicopter-point and gunpoint, betrayed
3x06 There Might Be Blood - Held at gunpoint, dangerous confrontation
3x08 Gus Walks Into A Bank - Held back, worried, bank hostage, tight gus hug, manhandled
3x10 Six Feet Under the Sea - Held at gunpoint
3x11 Lassie Did a Bad, Bad Thing - Punched unconscious, hostage, held at gunpoint, pistol whipped, fatherly care, nearly passes out (40:15)
3x12 Earth, Wind And… - Runs into burning building, oxygen mask, held at firepoint, caught in burning building, briefly thought dead, coughing/smoke inhalation
3x13 Any Given Friday Night at 10PM - 'Abducted'
3x14 Truer Lies - Held at gunpoint
3x15 Tuesday the 17th - 'Trips', held at 'knifepoint'
3x16 An Evening with Mr. Yang - Angry, mom held hostage, scared, heartbroken
4x01 Extradition: British Colombia - Held at gunpoint x2
4x02 He Dead - Daddy issues
4x03 High Noon-ish - Stampede/pushed, falls into mineshaft, pain, held at gunpoint, trapped
4x04 Devil is in the Details… - Confession
4x05 Shawn Gets the Yips - Scared/dumb ("bomb" on treadmill)
4x06 Bollywood Homicide - Slapped (39:15)
4x07 High Top Fade Out - Held at gunpoint, shot at
4x09 Shawn Takes A Shot in the Dark - Shot, abducted/missing, bleeding, pain, knocked unconscious, choked, jumps on moving car, weak, sling
4x10 You Can't Handle This Episode - Shot at
4x12 A Very Juliet Episode - Held at gunpoint, punched x2, knocked down x2, kicked
4x16 Mr. Yin Presents - Nightmare, angry, heartbroken x2, fatherly love
5x01 Romeo & Juliet & Juliet - Held at gunpoint, falls through window, kicked through wall, insane dodging skillz, knocked down, sore
5x03 Not Even Close, Encounters - Held at gunpoint/abducted by 'aliens'
5x04 Chivalry is Not Dead - Hanging upside down (tomato face), poisoned, collapse, hospital, unconscious
5x07 Ferry Tale - Held at gunpoint x2, hostage, kicked in the face, tear gas inhalation, restrained, trips/tumbles down a hill
5x09 One, Maybe Two, Ways Out - Seriously heartbroken
5x12 Dual Spires - Trapped in burning house
5x13 We'd Like to Thank the Academy - Held at gunpoint x2
5x16 Yang 3 in 2D - Held at shotgunpoint, scared
6x01 Shawn Rescues Darth Vader - Jumps off roof
6x02 Last Night Gus - Hungover, stressed, jumps from balcony, shot at
6x04 Amazing Psych-Man & Tap-Man - Trips, found unconscious, punched, kicked x2, thrown, sand to the eye, exhausted
6x06 Shawn Interrupted - Mental patient, hands covered, knocked unconscious, restrained, held at gunpoint
6x09 Neil Simons Lover Retreat - Robbed, heartbroken x2 (29:35), smile through the pain (42:00)
6x10 Indiana Shawn and the Temple - Hand stuck, slapped, manhandled, held at gunpoint, 'crying'
6x13 Let's Doo-Wap it Again - Appendicitis, collapse, hospital drama-queen, held at gunpoint, drugged, drugs wear off, le rigor mortis, le pain, le kitty cat!
6x16 Santabarbaratown - Held at knifepoint, knocked unconscious, black-eye
7x01 Santabarbaratown 2 - Scared, angry, thrown, active mine, held at gunpoint x3, Lassie love
7x02 Juliet Takes A Luvvah - Traumatized (27:00)
7x03 Lassie Jerky - Shot at, held at gunpoint
7x04 No Country For Two Old Men - Held at gunpoint
7x06 Cirque Du Soul - Pain from pull-ups
7x07 Deez Nups - Huge confession, heartbroken
7x08 Right Turn Or Left For Dead - Insomnia, regret, depressed, head slammed into glass, bruise, concussion, denial, stabbed, nearly hit by truck, headache, tackled
7x11 Office Space - Poked x2, trips, bloody nose, scared, framed
7x14 No Trout About It - Painful yoga, choked, fired
8x01 Lock, Stock… - Held at gunpoint, "restrained"
8x05 COG Blocked - Jumpscared out of hammock, painful poke, body decked by cane, held at gunpoint
8x07 Shawn & Gus Truck Things Up - Hand squeezed painfully
8x09 Nightmare on State Street - Slapped, zombie
8x10 The Break-Up - Nervous, held at gunpoint, shot at, emotional
Character: Colter Shaw, performed by Justin Hartley.
Type of whumps: under gunpoint and on his knees, shot at his arm and collapsed on the ground, groaning in pain, grunting getting up, furious chase through the woods by foot, jumped on a running truck and almost fallen off, grunting in effort pulling himself up, hanging over a waterfall from a falling truck by only one arm and bleeding by the other, jumped into the waterfall from a great height, arm sling, shown bicep bandaged.
IM BACK.
1x01 Pilot - Emotional, car crash, leg injury, bleeding, limp, weak, ambulancia
1x02 Fallout - Climbing/leg pain cont., limp, shot at
1x03 Four Horsemen - Limp cont.
1x04 Walls of Jericho - Slight limp
1x05 Federal Response - Confronted by Eric, mysterious knowledge, begins to talk about past
1x06 9:02 - Mitch lore, angry, knocked unconscious, punched, thrown, held back
1x07 Long Live the Mayor - Jonah lore (🥵), manhandled
1x08 Rogue River - Shot at, flashbanged, held at gunpoint, Iraq lore, hospital invaded
1x09 Crossroads - Spaced out (beginning), shot at, suicidal
1x12 The Day Before - Flashback; Afghan/Iraq/Contractor lore, wanted, friend dying,
1x13 Black Jack - Voluntold LOL (04:50), shoved, gut-punched w/ stick, pain
1x14 Heart of Winter - Truck flipped, leg pinned, bleeding, pain, slowly freezing to death, hypothermia, tired x3, comforted, guilt, confesses PTSD, emotional pain (+dad bonding), crying
1x15 Semper Fidelis - Hypothermia recovery, limp, betrayed, confrontation, held at gunpoint, knocked unconscious
1x16 Winter's End - Limping
1x17 One Man's Terrorist - Held at gunpoint, hostage
1x18 A.K.A. - Pinned, held at gunpoint
1x19 Casus Belli - Angry, worried, arrested
1x20 One if by Land - Hostage, interrogated, knife put to throat, shot at/surrounded
1x22 Why We Fight - (Flashback; POS/family drama), shot at, sobbing x2
(referred to main character Zorro / Diego de la Vega, portrayed by Miguel Bernardeau;
*bonus: Enrique Monasterio, portrayed by Emiliano Zurita.]
Season 1
.01: brief scuffle and under swordpoint during a training session, received upsetting news about his father's death and tears in his eyes, grief, shot at and unpleasant confrontation, nightmare and rough awakening, upsetting news and conflicted, fought against multiple armed soldiers twice, rough sword fight, zorroed himself on his chest.
.02: red fresh Z sign on his chest from previous episode, into a hostage situation during a robbery and under gunpoint, pistol-whipped at his neck, under gunpoint, scuffle and almost shot, worried and defeated, conflicted, brief scuffles and sword fight.
.03: harsh confrontation and sort of shot at, various scuffles, gun pointed at his head, disappointed, lured into a trap and under gunpoint, under gunfire and captured, hands tied above his head and identity exposed, upsetting news and almost shot in the face.
.04: hands tied above his head from previous episode, stabbed and heavily breathing, collapsed and dragged by his arms, laying unable to move and heavily breathing, moaning, falling from the horse, taken care of, feverish, upset but unable to leave the bed, shirt stained with blood after an effort and fainted, helped laying on the bed and wound exposed and bleeding, moaning helped getting undressed, Z scar on his chest, pale, wound taken care of, hand pushed against the wound and groaning in pain, under arrow point, into a duel with swords.
.05: upset, blade at his throat twice, Z scar on his chest, brief scuffle against two armed men, under gunfire and brief scuffles, under gunpoint, disappointed.
.06: ackward conversation and uneasy, Z scar on his chest, upset, brief scuffle, under gunpoint, under gunpoint and chloroformed, passed out and kidnapped, slapped in the face and helped getting up, pointed the gun at his own head and pressed the trigger without consequences, chloroformed again and grabbed when collapsed, upset; *bonus Enrique Monasterio: shot with an arrow at his shoulder, bloody and taken care of.
.07: blackmailed, rough scuffle and pushed to the ground, blade at his throat and heavily panting, upset and heartbroken, difficult conversation and conflicted, annoyed.
.08: brief scuffle, threatened and upset, bitten, angry and argued, rough fight and stabbed, upset and crying.
.09: unpleasant conversation and identity exposed, massaging his injured leg, under gunpoint, sword fight, grieving his father and tears on his cheeks, upset and conflicted, indignant, stabbed in flank and shot at, fallen from the horse semi-unconscious and taken care of, groaning and heavily breathing, grunting in pain and passed out.
.10: holding his flank because of the injury from previous episode, received upsetting news and agitated, moaning during physical effort, harsh confrontation (on purpose), intense sword duel, harsh confrontation (for fake), under gunpoint, rough sword fight and cut at his thigh, stabbed in the back and collapsed on his knees, almost killed, grunting in pain while getting up, pale and sweating, upset, silently crying on his father's grave, rejected, emotional goodbye; *bonus Enrique Monasterio: intense sword duel, stabbed and collapsed (dead for fake), shot at then swordfights.
In the original book "The Mark of Zorro" (1919) by Johnston McCulley:
brief scuffle, various chases, rejected, brief scuffle, fought and chased, sword duel without consequences, surrounded and rescued.