Series/MythBusters

That was kind of okay. Didn't need Adam and Jamie, I would gladly watch a show about competitive Rube Goldberg engineering if I had access to it (I watched the first episode on iTunes because it was free, but I didn't have Discovery).

What really bothered me was Smash Lab, which felt really strongly like "we want to make another Mythbusters without the myths or the busters."

Can't be worse than Dude, What Would Happen?.

Not quite. Smash Lab was at least trying to do something constructive while they were tearing things apart.

edited 31st Mar '16 6:31:37 PM by TParadox

I liked smash lab. It was no mythbusters, but they did a few cool things. I particularly liked the fluidized sand episode. Fluidized and aerated materials are very cool.

Didn't they learn anything from the outrcy over hear about the gutting of Top Gear?

The Build Team is coming to Netflix!

New series from the build team!

I'm... not sure I know any more about what the show is about than I did before. They're staging spectacular stuff in a reality format, but to what end? What's their angle on doing Mythbusters stuff without being Mythbusters (the show)?

edited 28th Nov '16 3:29:50 PM by TParadox

Does it really matter? They could be blowing things up for nothing but shits and giggles and I'd still watch it.

I'd at least check this out.

So Distracted by the Sexy is indexed on the Tropes Examined By The Mythbusters page but there's no entry on the page or on the sub-pages.

?????

Should I remove it or....

It's in the confirmed folder.

Didn't the show get a reboot? Im watching a new season right now with two new hosts in a new location. It looks pretty good so far.

Yeah, they had a reality show thing to find new hosts.

A FEMALE Buster? Somehow, this seems like a bad idea. It invites certain kinds of dude jokes. She even has hair, for unfathomable reasons. The original Buster rarely even bothered with clothes.

This will get uncomfortable very fast. I won't be surprised if Buster will turn genderless pretty soon.

... Oh goody, a symdaver. With the goofiest fucking grin you have ever seen.

It is lifelike... except it doesn't seem to have eyes. Or eyelids.

edited 22nd May '18 2:55:07 PM by Redmess

I miss back when Buster was one particular testing dummy rather than "whatever dummy we're using today".

I haven't bothered watching since they concluded the show as hosted by Adam and Jamie, and really, it was over when they let the M7 team go.

I'd argue it was over even long before that. You can tell they were often struggling to find myths to test (and often really stretching the definition of myth) by the midway point of the show. Removing the build team and focusing on Adam and Jamie doing two myth an episode (with more details on how they were building) was a good move for the final season.

I've been binging a lot on behind the scene stuff Adam and Jamie have spoken of since the show ended, as well as I am a big fan of Adam Savages' videos on Tested.

I know there was no way they would've, but I would've preferred they kept M7 and released Adam and Jamie from being shackled to each other earlier. M7 was a family, Adam and Jamie were two professionals forced to work together.

I fully get what you mean. And oddly, I kinda feel the opposite but because of the exact same reasons. Like, so often I'd be looking at the build team going "Stop playing together and get on with it".

I do love watching Adam Savage discussing the behind the scene of working with Jamie... That was one odd relationship, though now being aware of it and watching the episodes, it's sort of obvious.

To be honest, Jamie was the odd duck out. Like, sure, he's one of the guys who conceived of the show with Peter Rees, and while Jamie is a fascinating man, a truly modern renaissance man, he's so lacking in TV Charisma, the decision to keep him in front of said camera often comes across as baffling. (And I'm aware Jamie is self aware of this fact and it's the entire reason they brought Adam in).

Adam in his own as the sole host could've carried the show. For one thing, watch his videos on Tested and you'll see he's passionate, engaging, and yet less hyper than on Mythbuster because he's not forced to compensate for a co-host with the emotional range of a Terminator.

There's one early episode where Adam decided to test a myth in the only bathroom in M5 without asking Jamie and they actually showed their argument, but otherwise they were just subdued banter and you wouldn't really know they didn't like each other.

There's another episode, I don't remember the specifics, but they got in an argument over how to test something and it's pretty clear they weren't talking to each other that day anymore as they both went off to do their things :-P

That said, according to Adam Savage, it's not hostility between him and Jamie, they just don't get along, and constantly second guess each other. He says it's great for the show as it kept them intellectually honest, and pushed them to think what they did further. He mentions that it's not bad working with Jamie, and it is, it's just a bit draining coz everything often takes long from the arguing.

For reference:

edited 22nd May '18 4:56:23 PM by Ghilz

There was one or two arguments that were manufactured by the producers a la American Chopper (and later Pawn Stars) which Jaime and Adam had to fight against. One I think was that was forced on them during a myth that required a water tank build (either raising a submerged boat with ping pong balls, or building a self-contained whirlpool tub), which is admittedly often the more stressful builds, but the way Adam got upset was very contrived and they had separate "talk to the camera about your anger" bits.

It is a concept many have a hard time understanding and an issue I've seen in my own work experience, you do not have to be close friends to be good co-workers, period. The fact Jaime and Adam work extremely well together despite "never having dinner together" is held up as how a workforce is supposed to run, it's about the project at hand, instead people think their job has to accommodate for their personal stress.

The opposite happens too. I've met people who were very easy to hang out with and very sociable, but they were a terror to work with, mostly because they didn't work that much at all, and would either shove work onto you, or else steal credit for yours.

Watching the second episode of the new series, and I get the impression that they are retreading some of the techniques that the show had already gone over and perfected with the old hosts. Like the ideal propane mixture for an explosion, or how to aim a towed car into a target.

It is reinventing the wheel, and especially notable here since this is a continuation of the old series.

Two years after the fact is a good time to comment, surely.

Yup yup yup. They were really running out of materials towards the end. They tested the Jaws "shoot a compressed air tank" myth a second time for no reason at all. There was the episode where they were testing some video about running shoes that allowed the wearer to run on water. Adam tried it, and it didn't work. They got a sprinter to try it, and it didn't work. They they thought, well, let's get a lighter sprinter to try it, so they found some chick who weighed 90 pounds or whatever, and it didn't work. After all that they finally stopped pretending to test and said, ok, this is how they faked it for the viral video. It was just bad.

So I agree with one of the posts from the last page and a couple of years ago that the final episode had them just wandering around destroying stuff, rather than testing a myth, but maybe it was for the best.

The thing that surprised me from the finale was that they didn't bring out the narrator, Robert Lee. I would have bet money we'd see him.

Have no interest in watching the new show. Maybe it isn't bad, but they obviously fired Adam and Jamie so they could get a cheaper Adam and Jamie, screw that. And the lack of ideas near the end of the original show doesn't bode well for the new one.

I don't know why it bummed me out to discover that Adam and Jamie can't stand each other. It shouldn't, but it does.