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MacGyver Season 6 Episode 21

Hind-Sight

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AIRED: 5/6/91

As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.

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This lame flashback episode is perhaps the one MacGyver episode where there was zero hope of it being good from the get-go.

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By mark_28, Jun 18, 2010

Among the worst MacGyver episodes of all, this disastrous flashback episode started out uninspired and wrapped up a ridiculous mess. As I said in the review for season two's "Friends", expensive action shows like MacGyver pretty much have to do these flashback episodes to stay within budget for the season, but doing one within the context of Pete's eye surgery was a miscalculation in that that storyline had already been sufficiently exploited in "Blind Faith". It simply paved the way for over-the-top melodrama and awkwardly "tender moments" sandwiched in between flashback sequences. With all that said, the first half WASN'T horrible....but the second half was. The insertion of the "somebody's out to get Pete" subplot was idiotic and a strategic disaster, made worse by what was perhaps the goofiest line in MacGyer history..."You mean somebody's trying to do me bodily harm?". After going through the motions of "could it be Murdoc?" with the vanilla-wafer bland Willis, it's predictably revealed that Pete's stalker is in fact his loving ex-wife, who looks alot different than she did when we saw her four years earlier, and strikingly similar to the psychiatrist from "Brainwashed" and the principal from "Live and Learn". There was literally nothing salvageable from this episode other than the reference to Jack Dalton, the only time his name would even come up, let alone his being seen, in season six.

Season six also ended with a thud in the ratings, with "Hind-Sight" scoring a 10.2 rating, the lowest of the season and second-lowest thus far for a first-run episode of the series. Whether deservedly or not, ABC renewed MacGyver for a seventh season a couple of weeks later, even with declining ratings. They undoubtedly calculated, and most likely correctly, that nothing else could perform as well as MacGyver in the before/after Monday Night Football slot in the fall. It was no coincidence that the renewal was only for 13 episodes. Pretty much everybody knew the end was near by this stage.moreless
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Dana Elcar	Peter Thornton
Richard Dean Anderson	MacGyver

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Barbara E. Russell	Nurse Krandall	Guest Star
Forbes Angus	Surgeon	Guest Star
Linda Darlow	Connie Thornton	Guest Star
Bruce Harwood	Willis	Recurring Role

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- The notes that Connie sends to Pete refers to him as "Peter," which he hates. She also refers to him that way when she arrives at the hospital. However, in "Family Matters" she called him "Pete" constantly from the moment they were reunited.
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- Pete's ex-wife claims the Phoenix Foundation was more important than his family, which can't be true since they'd been divorced before Pete worked for the foundation.
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- Pete: I've been independent. I'm going to have to learn to live by a whole new set of rules. I'm going to have to learn to be very dependent.
  MacGyver: So what, what's the big deal? You and I have always been dependent on each other.
  Pete: Oh, yeah, sure. You provide the brains, and I come up with the paychecks.
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- Pete: Maybe I would like to handle this alone, okay?
  MacGyver: No! No, it's not okay! You've always been there for me. Friendship works two ways, you know?
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- MacGyver: Pete Thornton's room, please.
  Nurse Krandall: 211.
  MacGyver: How's he doin'?
  Nurse Krandall: If getting him into a hospital gown is any indication, terrible.
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- The following episodes are used in flashbacks: "Children of Light", "Deep Cover", "Passages", "Easy Target", "Brainwashed", "On a Wing and a Prayer", and "Cleo Rocks".
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- Previously played by Penelope Windust in "Family Matter", the role of Connie Thornton is now played by Linda Darlow. This is the third of her three, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. She can also be seen in season four's "Brainwashed" and season five's "Live and Learn".
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- The episode ends with Richard Dean Anderson appearing on-screen directing people to the National Society to Prevent Blindness.
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- The German episode title is "Lektion in Sachen Freundschaft", meaning "Lesson in Friendship". The Finnish episode title is "Katse taaksepäin", meaning "Looking Back". The French episode title is "Souvenirs", meaning "Memories". The Italian episode title is "L'uno per l'altro", meaning "One for the Other".
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- This episode is one of three clip shows. The other two are "Friends" and "Unfinished Business".
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