Mythbusters dumps Kari, Tori and Grant

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner

Shark week is no longer really educational either. I flipped over to Discovery and caught part of two "documentaries" on the hunt for Megalodon and the mythical giant great white shark, Submarine. Except for the idea of their existence, the shows were completely fabricated! Right down to the interviews and reported attackes. Just a total waste of time. Actually worse than a waste of time, as they gave it a documentary format in an attempt to make it look true. They were no better than the mermaid documentary they ran. Basically even the sharks have jumped the shark.

Nat Geo's ran a bunch of documentaries that week that were wwwwaayyy better.

You are right. I was being generous including Shark Week and Cash Cab as they are barely educational, although it sounds like Shark Week can actually make you dumber.

[TjRhythmic]

I'll miss Kari

NSFW!

[troutman]

I would enjoy a show that was all about critical thinking. No sizzle required, just skeptical inquiries.

[Matata]

I never really liked the B team, but I've always considered Mythbusters to be 10-15 min of amazing television diluted with ~30 min of garbage television.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Man I miss the days when Discovery and the History channel were good.

Discovery World is pretty decent. I don`t have the regular Discovery Canada channel anymore and only have Discovery World.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Burninator

You are right. I was being generous including Shark Week and Cash Cab as they are barely educational, although it sounds like Shark Week can actually make you dumber.

You tell no word of a lie:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sc.../#.U_d8H_k7tcZ

[Nehkara]

I still watch every Mythbusters episode.

I'm sad Tori, Grant, and Kari will be gone but I am also curious to see what direction they go next.

Jamie and Adam are really smart and talented guys (even though they occasionally act like goofballs on the show).

[Huntingwhale]

I didn't even know this show was still on tv.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Man I miss the days when Discovery and the History channel were good.

Same, Nowadays Discovery is nothing but blue-coller work reality shows and History is a bizarre hybrid of Valuation Driven Reality shows and Conspiracy Nutcase programming.

[Bobblehead]

Well the show wasn't doing well as it was.

It has almost become too formulaic. Try something once, not get needed results, try it again, get results, then once more to cause a big explosion (at least if they could, which was more often than not).
And do that for the 2 storylines they had going.

And while they have always been pretty good at explaining some of the science behind what they did, they seemed to have gotten away from the back and forth brainstorming, and they fast forwarded through the build. All so they could get to blowing stuff up.

That probably got the biggest responses, but it also gets repetitive in a hurry.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by TjRhythmic

I'll miss Kari

fixed, haha

NSFW!

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner

You tell no word of a lie:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sc.../#.U_d8H_k7tcZ

Wow. I can't believe something like that can make it onto the air.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Man I miss the days when Discovery and the History channel were good.

It's hilarious that they created Discovery World and Discovery Science as new channels that almost replicate what Discovery used to be.

Smithsonian Channel would be a good replacement for History if it wasn't 75% American Civil War.

[photon]

Wow, when Discover magazine is harping on you for not bringing the science, that's bad.

Originally Posted by troutman

I would enjoy a show that was all about critical thinking. No sizzle required, just skeptical inquiries.

I don't think the all 11 of us that will watch it will draw in the advertisers.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by photon

I don't think the all 11 of us that will watch it will draw in the advertisers.

Critical thinking isn't exactly something most advertisers want to encourage either.

[Knalus]

One of my favorite Mythbusters episodes was one of the earliest, when they determined you can get a false positive for heroin from eating poppy seed cake. Followed by a look at how far a bullet will shoot through water in a pool. No explosions at all.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Knalus

One of my favorite Mythbusters episodes was one of the earliest, when they determined you can get a false positive for heroin from eating poppy seed cake. Followed by a look at how far a bullet will shoot through water in a pool. No explosions at all.

Indeed!

They have had a lot of fantastic episodes... many with explosions and many without.

The bamboo torture myth was really cool too.

I really liked the build team but I truly am excited to see what's next for Jamie and Adam and Mythbusters.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Knalus

One of my favorite Mythbusters episodes was one of the earliest, when they determined you can get a false positive for heroin from eating poppy seed cake. Followed by a look at how far a bullet will shoot through water in a pool. No explosions at all.

My favorite was when they first turned a hot water tank into a rocket. They explained the myth and I thought there was no way it was real, then not only do they prove it to be factual but it was far more epic than anything I had pictured

And I always refer to the show when people freak out about throwing a penny off of a tall building thinking it'll kill someone below

[troutman]

Originally Posted by photon

I don't think the all 11 of us that will watch it will draw in the advertisers.

Cosmos had a good audience, and won four Emmys.

[photon]

That's true.