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MacGyver's First Name...Spoiler


It's Angus. Betcha didn't know that.

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Glad you mentioned that. The other day I was on the CBS site and was happy to find all the episodes of season 7. They're not listed in order and I clicked on a title I didn't remember. As it turned out, it was the finale and I only recognized it as such when his name was mentioned -- one of those "Ah-ha" moments.

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That's one ugly name. Just remove the g and you know what you what's left.

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stace

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Great show but dumb first name!

Jesus NEVER existed! He is Judeo Christian MYTH!

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I saw an article years ago which called him Stace MacGyver, but according to IMDB, his son lets it slip during an episode that his name is actually Angus. Go figure.

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In the pilot he was Stace in the credits but never mentioned on air. We discovered that Angus was a family name in the episode where he dreamed he went back to King Arthur's court.

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Yes it is revealed in the season 7 two part episode Good Knight MacGyver.

At the beginning of the episode MacGyver bumps his head and finds himself in medieval times. In part two he eventually winds up in a castle where he reveals a message his ancestor wrote on a wall for his son. MacGyver says that he and the son have the same first name so when the message is revealed the name is Angus.

I like the first name because it goes with his last name and gives it more of a Celtic feel to it.

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If my first name was Angus I might want people to call me by my last name.

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I had a copy of the pilot script. It was originally Stace.

I refuse to be outwitted by a 2-dimensional character in a cheap romantic thriller!

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Ah! Thanks, Catherine. Nice to know I wasn't just imagining things.

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You're welcome. I never saw what was wrong with Stace, and I know enough people at the Celtic games named Angus that it doesn't make me blink, so I was waiting for something really deserving the "oh my gawd, that's your name?!" reaction that everyone always had.

I refuse to be outwitted by a 2-dimensional character in a cheap romantic thriller!

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Actually I did know that. I watched this as a kid in the 80s and the only information I retained into adulthood was his first name, Jack, Murdoc, and duct tape and paper clips can create anything.

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It's no secret now considering that the new show uses it all the time.

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"It's Angus. Betcha didn't know that. "

You lost the bet. What do I get?

In any case, I hate when they do this - they string you along for multiple seasons, then SUDDENLY "reveal" the 'first name' (which shouldn't have existed in the first place).

They did the same thing to Kramer. For many seasons, he was just Kramer, there was no first name associated with it.

Then someone had a 'bright idea' and suddenly he's Cosmo. Agh.

I mean, I love the name 'Cosmo', it's possibly the greatest name they could've come up with, but giving him a sudden name interferes with the identity and personality of the character, as now everything has to be structured around that, and it doesn't always gel or work. Richards had clearly already created the 'Kramer' character to a perfection, now he suddenly has to re-identify it and you can see in some episodes how fake it seems when he uses the name 'Cosmo'.

Angus is not a good name for MacGyver, it makes him more down-to-earth, less mystical, less 'magical' character, it's just some 'dude' now instead of our beloved all-knowing, distraction-out-ot-nothing-creating wizard-genius called MacGyver.

They mundaenize people when they give them first names or reveal things that are SUPPOSED to be hidden.

I am really glad they never revealed Maris (because they couldn't, but they WANTED to, what damn idiots), but I am pissed off that they showed the 'red-haired girl'. That should have ALWAYS remained an unseen mystery. Now we know she looks just like everyone else, except a stupid-looking red hair. BORING!

It's like they want to ruin and boringify everything... sigh.

As far as I am concerned, 'The Matrix' has no sequels and MacGyver has no first name. You can shove your 'Angus' that was revealed, when, in the fifth season?? It was already NINETIES, MacGyver is an EIGHTIES' TV show, dagnabit.

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I am really glad they never revealed Maris (because they couldn't, but they WANTED to, what damn idiots)


I'm glad that they resisted the temptation of showing her hair if not her face like they did with the prequel to Frasier i.e. that episode of Cheers where Norm's wife Vera had a splattered cake on her face.

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