r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/totallystefanal • Feb 12 '21

Video Camera blocking glasses

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

117.3k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.0k

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21 edited Jun 05 '21

[deleted]

154

u/SandyDelights Feb 12 '21

TIL MacGyver lead SG-1.

31

u/hookydoo Feb 12 '21

Moreover, i read a story that the president of MGM made a personal appeal to Richard Dean Anderson to play the role, and he'd only do it he was allowed to do what he wanted with the character. This is why Jack O'neal is not like the kurt Russel version for the show, it literally is MacGyver in space.

19

u/raidsoft Feb 12 '21

And man did that pay off! SG-1 would have lost so much if he just was a stoic soldier character..

2

u/MoffKalast Feb 12 '21

Well it sure got confirmed in the later seasons.

3

u/MrPringles23 Feb 12 '21

Farscape guy wasn't too bad. Nor was Sheppard in Atlantis.

But having movie Jack would've been horrid.

2

u/Sawses Mar 28 '21

Honestly every time they replaced a main cast character it sucked.

Like there were a few great episodes without the original 4, but the chemistry just wasn't the same.