The problem of MacGyver is really one of television scriptwriting. The characters have no sense of urgency even when they are leaping about like a bottleful of grasshoppers. In the midst of  life-or-death situations they melodramatically pause, reminisce the past, reflect on their sad childhood verging on dragging monologues, rib each other, and even crack jokes. Still hopelessly 20th-century commercial writing techniques.