It reminds of the way they try to turn music videos into softcore porn - not only is real porno allowed to be more explicit but, as Phil Spector pointed out, the music is usually better too. Whereas the guys from Jackass were free to pull any prank that took their fancy in order to maximise the comedy value, the Mythbusters would find it hard to provide a scientific excuse for having a fake retard wet his pants, or for a fake blind guy to drive a car, or for guys to walk around with a dildo bulging under the front of their trousers.
The urban legends have to be selected and interpreted and tested in a way which provides visual interest. This basically means that the tests usually revolve around exploding something or dropping an object from a great height or destroying test objects in some other way, or else doing something gross.
Not only does this get predictable and tedious afer a while, but it has a desperate tryhard quality which grates on me. It's a bit like a geeky science teacher who talks in loud whacky voices and wears rotating bow-ties in an attempt to enliven an otherwise dull subject - the effect is only to make him look geekier and his subject duller.
And ridiculous facial hair for entertainment value is best left to cricketers, Borat and the Village People. The program reaches an unsuccessful compromise in other ways too. It spends considerable time showing the elaborate preparations for the tests. This is neither sufficiently rigorous to be of DIY educational value, nor sufficiently interesting in its own right to merit the time spent on it. I suspect that it's only included because of the limited time they can spend actually doing the tests, with the rest having to be padded out with SOMETHING to fulfil their contractual obligations of X hours of broadcast in a season.
Jackass was edited much more pacily, perhaps because they had the freedom to bypass scientific rigour, and thus more time to get the money shots.
Likewise the eye candy, both male and female, is neither sufficiently pretty to qualify as bimbos, nor given sufficiently weighty roles to earn the viewer's respect for their intelligence. Despite the negativity of my tone so far, the program is not completely awful. On occasion it does feature items of passing interest. However it's not a program I seek out. When I first started watching this show a few years ago, I thought that it was pretty interesting. Most of the tests seemed to show some empirical, scientific thought.
Unfortunately, in the past few years the trend has drifted far toward the "woo-hoo we blew it up" subjective experience while showing greatly flawed design or well-thought design in their "tests. It would be nice to see more focus on scientific and empirical repeatable result experiments, but unfortunately I expect that the expense and serious thought versus the current ratings-grabbing thrills would be financially counter-productive for the current production's aspirations.
Basically, I no longer can consider this show to be serious experimentation or valid evidence of whatever conclusions are reached. I also note that the show has increasingly shown inconclusive or flawed-design results in its attempts. MythBusters Paul 22 February This is absolutely the best show on television right now. Without a doubt,it has it all I don't like all the reruns,and wish they could do 52 new episodes a year Discovery has a huge hit here That is if Jamie and Adam can take all the abuse they get from all this mythbusting Thumbs way up Discovery You can thank Adam and Jamie for your network's ultimate survival.
Pythe 28 November Rarely do we, the television audience, experience the privilege of a show that is equal parts educational and entertaining. Not that I'm learning anything from it, mind you, but other people very well might. The simple premise is that our two hosts, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, recreate the conditions of popular myths to verify or, as is more often the case, bust them. Of course, a premise alone does not a good show make.
The fun comes from watching Jamie and Adam gleefully trounce the sometimes ridiculous stories. Adam is the energetic and outgoing one, taking every opportunity to goof off and make the work look more like play, whereas Jamie reacts to things with a much drier sense of humor and is somewhat more sarcastic.
I was as disappointed as anyone upon learning of the inclusion of three "Jr. Mythbusters" for the second season, but my concern was ill-founded, as I realized that they had just as much personality as Jamie and Adam, and my conclusion is that anyone who thinks the show has gone downhill as a result of the new additions is simply averse to any change whatsoever. The show remains a favorite. On a side note, you really have to admire how smart these guys are.
Most of what they do can be traced back to physics, which makes me respect them all the more, based on my consistent inability to grasp the simplest of concepts in this particular field. DashTheGreat 3 October I love this show. Mythbusters is about as good as they come when it comes to TV programming. The Cast is great, seem to know what they're talking about as opposed to random TV personalities thrown out and given lines, while those in back do all of the work , and can tackle new ideas each time.
It never seems like this show will run out of steam, despite the limited number of myths that they can do. The "specials" such as the Pirate, Superhero, and Shark myths specials are great, which is unheard of on cable TV.
Usually the word "special" is enough to make you run away. I can't see this show going off the air anytime soon. Excellent show! Wow, words cant describe how interesting and fun this show is, my words can and probably nobody else's can. I can't remember when i first started watching this show, every now and then i watch, but I'm too busy doing other stuff or watching my other favorite shows. My favorite myths were the pirate series, so much fun. It's interesting how they get along, even though they don't consider them selves friends, Jamie and Adam they still get along well together on the show.
Classic show, i will always love it, i hope they will remain on the air for a long time. Grade A entertainment. DrLex 3 March This used to be one of my most favorite TV shows ever. It has never been entirely rigorously scientific, but that would have been too boring anyway.
In the first seasons they managed to strike a great balance between sensation and scientific validity. Initially each episode spent quite a bit of time showing how Jamie and Adam constructed their experiments, which made it quite educational. Then it gradually went downhill. The attention for how the experiments were built, was gradually reduced with every new season. Until however it never reached a level where the show was reduced to all style and no substance.
Then however, episodes started popping up that were obviously intended to promote some other Discovery show. This only got worse with the season which started with a Star Wars special that gave a forced impression like "someone paid us to spend an entire episode on this franchise that has no ground in reality at all". Then came the live Twitter pop-ups, which I find horribly annoying. Every thirty-something seconds there is this moving rectangle in the corner of the screen that grows to cover a substantial area of the image.
I do not care at all about the text inside it. Having comments from random viewers shoved in my face is like watching YouTube and being forced to read the inane comments below the video. Ignoring these pop-ups is nearly impossible due to the attention-grabbing animation and the simple fact that they cover essential parts of the image. Please, please stop superimposing this junk on the broadcast.
TV is not interactive and I like it that way, so do not pretend it is by feeding us these obviously heavily moderated tweets. Anyone who badly wants to read live tweets can see them on any other device they like. My dwindling respect for this show got another hit when I stumbled upon a report of some episodes being unauthorized re-makes of copyrighted material, like the "airplane boarding" episode which never aired in the USA because the lawsuit is still ongoing.
I still have respect for Jamie and Adam because I tend to believe they just go with what their producers hand them, and most of all, because of all the years of televised enjoyment they offered me. Yet I am afraid that if MB continues on its current trajectory, I will have to say it goodbye. I just love this programme to bits. Mythbusters takes ordinary facts or stories and sets out to prove them. Fair enough good idea. But I have to say, I begin to dislike this series when it begins to spoil movie stunts.
OK of course they're not going to work, they're from movies! It does ruin some stunts by disproving them but some of the results are good to see. The guys doing it clearly know what they're doing and some of their experiments produce interesting results, the 'bullet in the crotch' for example. Reality: NC officials have no evidence of widespread fraud in elections. The State Board Investigations Division investigates alleged violations and refers them to the proper authorities if warranted by evidence.
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