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Ok i just started watching Macgyver (i was a convert via fanfic) and Ive only watched a few episodes but Ive already counted half a dozen times that Jack has teared up.... its just so sweet! I love it especially in such a conventionally masculine character
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Oh gosh, I think that’s why my love for Jack Dalton knows no bounds. It would be so easy for him to just be a rough and tumble, masculine, military ooh-rah (yes, I know he’s a Delta not a Marine) type character, but he’s so much more than that. And even though he occasionally says things like “I’d tell you I love you, but you know I don’t do that kind of stuff” he’s a big ol’ liar liar pants on fire.
Who loves ya, baby?
And his absolute panic as he lands the helicopter and races to where Mac landed on the highway after Mac’s improvised parasailing out of the truck carrying the bomb and bioweapon
Getting off track here, sorry, but I could write a dissertation on why Jack is my favorite. But lets move onto the next episode.
You can say whatever you want, but I’ll be forever grateful that the MacGyver writers decided to give the second episode of the series (the very first episode after the pilot) to Jack Dalton… to diving into his character and his past and so many lovely moments where he just knows his boy so well.
It might be my favorite cold open. Jack turns off the radio to express his concerns about Mac, to Mac privately.
he sits here and lies to Thornton’s face that Mac is alright, when he is very clearly not. When just hours ago, he was calling Mac on the same concerns that Thornton is expressing now.
Apparently leaves this meeting and goes right to find Mac. In Nicki’s apartment, and again calls Mac on the fact that he is not okay.
But I’m getting off track again…
Tears. The whole point of this was about tears. Well, we got them and they are glorious, and oh so painful
Not many shows would let “the muscle” cry, especially this early in the series. And the level of heartbreak. The minute details in the moments right before he cries, the devastation…
excuse me while I cry for minute.