Lights, Camera, Action! 11

When I was young, I simply loved watching MacGyver which ran on television from 1985-1992. It was described as “The adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.” But that really didn’t matter me. All I cared about was Richard Dean Anderson…my first tv star crush.

There was also my love for Knight Rider (1982-1986), but that had very little to do with David Hasselhoff, as it did with K.I.T.T (Knight Industries Two Thousand), the talking car, which I thought was the coolest thing imaginable! (Jeez, how lame was that!)

Of course, when I look back at these shows now, I can’t help but wonder, “Huh???” I simply don’t get what I liked about them. That just goes to show how much we change over time, sometimes for the better, a few of the times, not. I miss the innocence that comes with watching a show and just accepting everything at face value. So what if in one scene the man was wearing black shoes, and in the very next clip, he’s wearing brown? So what if the story is trying to convince me that the moon is really made out of cheese? So what if the romance is unbelievably clichéd?

I guess on the upside, in a couple of decades from now, I’ll look back at the shows I watch now, like House, Monk, Alias etc, and I’d shake my head disbelievingly that I used to actually enjoy them…and the cycle continues.