Mythbusters

[remixedcat]

What do you all think of this show and what episodes do you all like? what is good/bad about it and just.. anything!! lol.

 

[natr0n]

Whatever happens stand behind the plexiglass shield.

 

[Toothless]

Explosives are good.

 

[entropy13]

"Failure is always an option."

 

[rtwjunkie]

I don't have a favorite episode. I've loved them all from the beginning!!! Yes, it's simplified, but they make science fun!

 

[brandonwh64]

I am not much of a fan but ever since they let go of the other people that did the myths with them. I get annoyed at the blond guy alot so having the episode go back and forth to the two teams was cool

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I am not much of a fan but ever since they let go of the other people that did the myths with them. I get annoyed at the blond guy alot so having the episode go back and forth to the two teams was cool

Adam Savage. I haven't seen the new shows without Kari, Tory, and Grant but I completely get what you're saying. Adam, I think, has gotten goofier as the series matured and if that goofiness isn't tempered by something else (like the cutaways), it gets old.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

I got tired of watching their antics whenever the science took a back seat to blowing crap up.

While I can appreciate that sometimes they did make it fun, I'd prefer either Beakman's World or Bill Nye the Science Guy when it comes to science shows. After one season of Adam I prayed for the cut-aways and Jaime. After season two they'd run out of gas, and decided that the goal was to make the myth happen. No longer was the focus on the voracity, but on doing whatever crazy thing they thought would interest people.


So, if you want science you should stop after season two. If you want to numb your brain, start at season three. Individual episodes blur together too much to give you a more accurate start point.

 

[brandonwh64]

Yes Bill Nye is the man!

 

[64K]

I used to watch the show regularly for a few years. I will still watch an episode if I happen to stumble onto it while channel surfing if it's something I find interesting.

 

[kniaugaudiskis]

The episode in which they attempt to escape from Alcatraz is one of my favorites

 

[Frick]

Are they still going on? I liked them at first when Discovery stopped doing documentaries and started doing terrible reality TV. Now I have no idea, but I have a feeling I would hate the crap out of them.

 

[sneekypeet]

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[twilyth]

The first couple of seasons they seemed to be fairly methodical and tried to do experiments that, although they weren't always really conclusive, were still interesting. At some point in the second or third season though I stopped watching them. I can't remember why but I think it was because it was the fact that they were getting a little too silly. Also, I can't remember for certain, but I think the types of myths they investigated started to become either uninteresting or just stupid.

One thing I do have to say for the show is that I loved the ingenuity they showed in creating some of the devices and techniques they used. I remember thinking many times 'wow, that's pretty imaginative.'

So I guess it really depends on what you want to get out of a show as to how you're going to rate it. I guess in the case of Mythbusters, they started out with one approach that was more rigorous and scientific and then gradually skewed more to what was entertaining. That's going to alienate a lot of the original fans, but it's the bean counters that make these decisions and they always have the last word.

Personally I liked a show called Junkyard wars where people had to build contraptions solely from parts they could scrounge in a junkyard. That had the same sort of imaginative thinking and creativity - if you assume that the designs weren't scripted by the writers from the beginning of course. But even then, it was still pretty cool.

 

[kenkickr]

I've always liked the episode when they were determine if a boat could actually split in two from hitting a dock support the best.

 

[Tatty_Two]

The place is turning into E friggin entertainment! Move over to GN, case closed.