MacGyver's writers are careful about physics and chemistry (so far as i know:
it's not my bailiwick) but their historical knowledge is nil and shows they have an ulterior motive rather than wanting people to learn or to set records straight. They are either fools or charlatans. But, hey, we'll be fair. Those things are not mutually exclusive. They can be both.
This part opens with McGyver strapped to a device out of Edgar Allen Poe rather than the Middle Ages (what a stupid term that is, anyway). It's called a device out of the Inquisition but it's not. Besides, the "Inquisition" (which they don't want to understand) wasn't big in England. Especially not in the twelfth century. If their chemistry was this ignorant they wouldn't be able to accurately predict what would happen by mixing vinegar and baking soda.
However, the lighting and music and art direction of this episode are worthy of a motion picture, albeit by Roger Corman rather than Spielberg, whom they are ostensibly ripping off (they've ripped off worst movies, like "The Naked Jungle," which was out and out plagiarism).
I like the Professor who lies and threatens and tricks MacGyver into this nonsense because she's very much like a woman I dated when I was closer to MacGyver's age, and for whom I have a lingering tenderness). But her ideas are pure, unadulterated, anti-historical nonsense and so is everything else they present as twelfth century (esp. Their rubbish presentation of the Holy Grail--see my sterling review of the first half of this folderol; Terry Jones wouldn't have allowed that foolishness in Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The writers can't even get the history of ring-around-the-rosy correctly. Did they do ANY research on this nonsense? I know the answer: No.
However, a lack of research or knowledge has never stopped a good story. And it is a good story, pack of lies and foolishness though it is. It doesn't stop MacGyver from describing physically an "optical pump," whose nature I won't reveal. Yet again, the history here is not knowledge: it's actually anti-knowledge. Obviously, the female professor got her promotion at her college and probably her job by reverse discrimination. She may even have had compromising photos.
It's funny how the "Temple" at the climax resembles the Hagia Sophia. Maybe they're making some sort of underlying pun. But, no, they're not that smart. Fun stuff (not as fun as part one) but no actual learning or historical or Grail knowledge here.
This part opens with McGyver strapped to a device out of Edgar Allen Poe rather than the Middle Ages (what a stupid term that is, anyway). It's called a device out of the Inquisition but it's not. Besides, the "Inquisition" (which they don't want to understand) wasn't big in England. Especially not in the twelfth century. If their chemistry was this ignorant they wouldn't be able to accurately predict what would happen by mixing vinegar and baking soda.
However, the lighting and music and art direction of this episode are worthy of a motion picture, albeit by Roger Corman rather than Spielberg, whom they are ostensibly ripping off (they've ripped off worst movies, like "The Naked Jungle," which was out and out plagiarism).
I like the Professor who lies and threatens and tricks MacGyver into this nonsense because she's very much like a woman I dated when I was closer to MacGyver's age, and for whom I have a lingering tenderness). But her ideas are pure, unadulterated, anti-historical nonsense and so is everything else they present as twelfth century (esp. Their rubbish presentation of the Holy Grail--see my sterling review of the first half of this folderol; Terry Jones wouldn't have allowed that foolishness in Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The writers can't even get the history of ring-around-the-rosy correctly. Did they do ANY research on this nonsense? I know the answer: No.
However, a lack of research or knowledge has never stopped a good story. And it is a good story, pack of lies and foolishness though it is. It doesn't stop MacGyver from describing physically an "optical pump," whose nature I won't reveal. Yet again, the history here is not knowledge: it's actually anti-knowledge. Obviously, the female professor got her promotion at her college and probably her job by reverse discrimination. She may even have had compromising photos.
It's funny how the "Temple" at the climax resembles the Hagia Sophia. Maybe they're making some sort of underlying pun. But, no, they're not that smart. Fun stuff (not as fun as part one) but no actual learning or historical or Grail knowledge here.
