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Weaponizers was only a 3 episode run, so I guess we can stop complaining about it. I wish they would revamp it into a real competition show. They could fill 2 hours a week if they did it right. One night could be build night, then another night could be competition night. That way you could fit more than 2 teams in as well. A 4 vehicle rumble would be pretty sweet.
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MrDingleDangle posted:I think the editing is just getting really bad. Maybe they meant Phil being too sick to come back to fishing?
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May 21, 2009 00:12
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ToastyPotato posted:Maybe they meant Phil being too sick to come back to fishing? Yeah I figure it will either be that, or the new captain won't be back for crab next year due to bad numbers. Maybe lose the contract or something like that. I love this show, but this year is pretty drat boring. Guess that is what happens with un-scripted (for the most part) reality tv.
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May 21, 2009 00:47
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Plague Skillet posted:...Guess that is what happens with un-scripted (for the most part) reality tv. Yeap, "creative editing" and Mike Rowe narration can't save it. Deadliest Catch needs one more season to just drive it into the ground. Mythbusters has been having a good season in my opinion...
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May 21, 2009 01:28
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Tonights Mythbusters was pretty good. I have a feeling Kari's pregnancy was the reason we got the full crew on one myth. They should have found a way to have the girl come to a stop at the top of her arc. That would better simulate possibly landing perfectly on a nearby building. As it was though, it was a hilarious launch.
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May 21, 2009 03:12
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XK posted:Weaponizers was only a 3 episode run, so I guess we can stop complaining about it. I wish they would revamp it into a real competition show. They could fill 2 hours a week if they did it right. One night could be build night, then another night could be competition night. That way you could fit more than 2 teams in as well. A 4 vehicle rumble would be pretty sweet. They just needed to pick a way to go, either setup a large scale battlebots-style tournament letting people/teams spend however much they want or make it junkyard wars like with a few days to build and a grab bag or very limited budget.
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May 21, 2009 08:18
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Teek posted:Tonights Mythbusters was pretty good. Yeah I think it was the first legitimately interesting/good episode in a pretty long time.
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May 21, 2009 12:35
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hutch posted:Even after the Derby days, King Crab season is only about a week long. When it was still derby rules the season sometimes was as short as 4 days (but there were also two to three times as many boats out there). Are we sure about that? Mike Rowe's narration at the start of the most recent episode began talking about how it's been "Six weeks of brutal weather conditions," and as someone else mentioned the Cornelia Marie has somehow caught 290k pounds of crab while pulling 10 per pot. Trident posted:This season of Deadliest Catch is really lacking in story. There is no Phil to yell at his kids, Johnathan's kid isn't around so no family reminiscing, and Sig's greenhorn went from badass "I'll do anything to make you love me" last season to a meth mouth whiny little bitch this season. I still like the show, but it is really missing the personality. All there is to be interested in is watching them fish, and I got tired of that years ago. Jonathan's kid is still around and on the boat. He hasn't been shown much at all. The guy that's been shown even less is Jonathan's other brother. He must not be very camera friendly or something. The new boat isn't very interesting at all, either, except for that Hungarian guy who is the most bad rear end dude on the show, ever. I thought they might develop the whole "Which crew member won't be brought back on the Time Bandit?" thing a bit more, but even that has disappeared.
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May 21, 2009 12:44
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What mythbusters was it that they all came together for one myth? The narrator said it was only done once before last night. Discovery surprised me last Friday with a daytime show called "Wrecks to Riches", about how they take old junker cars and restore them for auctions. It looked like it was pretty decent with the how-to process and kept the drama to a minimum. I'm also of the opinion that Deadliest Catch this season is lacking something. The relief skipper's woes on the Cornelia Marie could have made for some nail-biting tension. The promo at the end of this week's episode made it look like that Phil was making a comeback, though. The only thing sadder than that Weaponizers show is the fact that I've caught every episode of Pitchmen so far. Every rational fiber of my being says I shouldn't be watching a show about the world's biggest loudmouth, but I can't help but see how many more ways Billy Mays is an rear end in a top hat. iastudent fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 21, 2009 |
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May 21, 2009 15:56
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Todd Flanders posted:Are we sure about that? Mike Rowe's narration at the start of the most recent episode began talking about how it's been "Six weeks of brutal weather conditions," and as someone else mentioned the Cornelia Marie has somehow caught 290k pounds of crab while pulling 10 per pot. I think Rowe's narration is "six weeks (of TV show)..." Wiki backs me up (sorta) about it being 2-4 weeks. Opilio crab season lasts generally about a month as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_king_crab_fishing#cite_note-deadliestcatch-4 quote:The most popular crab-fishing months occur between October and January. The allocated time for a season continued to shrink — at one point a red crab season was only 4 days long. After 2005, each boat was given a quota based on their catch from previous years and how many crabs are available to catch. The fleet went from 251 boats down to 89. Currently the seasons last from two to four weeks
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May 21, 2009 16:17
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iastudent posted:What mythbusters was it that they all came together for one myth? The narrator said it was only done once before last night. Confederate rocket? That's the only other 'big myth' that I can remember.
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May 21, 2009 20:54
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hutch posted:I think Rowe's narration is "six weeks (of TV show)..." Wiki backs me up (sorta) about it being 2-4 weeks. Opilio crab season lasts generally about a month as well. Well, you have to figure in prep time as well. The crew has to make sure every single pot is fixed and ready to go. They also have to make sure the boat is well stocked and everything is running. That has to take at LEAST a week.
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May 21, 2009 22:39
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FractionMan posted:Confederate rocket? That's the only other 'big myth' that I can remember. Oh, Archimedes Death Ray as well. I'm sure there were one or two episodes exclusively devoted to that.
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May 22, 2009 00:34
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I wish Mythbusters went back to testing actual myths, not reenacting word problems from SAT prep exams. And I wish the spikey-haired doofuses would stop whooping like drunken Hopis any time something remotely interesting happens.
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May 24, 2009 02:18
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Can we talk about HD Theater in here? It's a Discovery network. My mornings on weekdays usually consist of me drinking coffee and checking email with Sunrise Earth on. And also al the replays from the other Discovery channels.
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May 24, 2009 02:40
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My favorite myths are ones where they have absolutely no clue what is going to happen. Yesterday I was watching the Youtube episode and they had the Lego ball segment and it was hilarious how they spent so much time and money on the thing (they said they spent 2 weeks and over 1000 man hours on building it) but when they took it out to test the myth it broke completely apart within 10 feet of rolling. Stuff like that and the exploding rocket car (when they retested the pilot episode myth and got everything ready to go only for the rocket to detonate destroying the car when they tried to launch it) are why the show is worth watching even through the mediocre stuff.
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May 24, 2009 03:11
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muscles like this? posted:Lego ball That segment was the absolute worst instance of the contrived, exaggerated excitement from those two chucklefucks. When that ball crumbled, I was sad, and I only had a 10 minute investment. They should have been devastated. Instead: Drunken Hopis.
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May 24, 2009 03:51
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therochester posted:I wish Mythbusters went back to testing actual myths, not reenacting word problems from SAT prep exams. They're scrapping the bottom of the barrel for a reason, I think it's safe to say they've exhausted every practical myth that is possible at this point.
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May 24, 2009 04:24
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muscles like this? posted:Stuff like that and the exploding rocket car (when they retested the pilot episode myth and got everything ready to go only for the rocket to detonate destroying the car when they tried to launch it) are why the show is worth watching even through the mediocre stuff. The rocket didn't detonate all on its own, though. The idiots made a long metal tube to hold an incredibly powerful rocket and then sealed one end of the tube with a thin metal plate and some spot welds. Surprisingly, the 1/16th inch thick plate was unable to hold the 10 gazillion pounds of pressure the rocket put on it and all the hot burny parts ended up inside the car. Then it detonated
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May 24, 2009 06:12
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muscles like this? posted:My favorite myths are ones where they have absolutely no clue what is going to happen. Yesterday I was watching the Youtube episode and they had the Lego ball segment and it was hilarious how they spent so much time and money on the thing (they said they spent 2 weeks and over 1000 man hours on building it) but when they took it out to test the myth it broke completely apart within 10 feet of rolling. I was tempted to send in a complaint that if the legos had been staggered instead of built into intermediate sized blocks first, it might have stayed together, and thus needed to be retested  .But I'm not that cruel.
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May 24, 2009 07:59
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Bremen posted:I was tempted to send in a complaint that if the legos had been staggered instead of built into intermediate sized blocks first, it might have stayed together, and thus needed to be retested keeper fucked around with this message at 10:21 on May 24, 2009 |
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May 24, 2009 10:12
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Deadliest Catch wrapped up the king crab season tonight. That hugeass pile of dead crabs on the Cornelia Marie wasn't an encouraging sign at first. 
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May 27, 2009 03:29
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iastudent posted:Deadliest Catch wrapped up the king crab season tonight. That hugeass pile of dead crabs on the Cornelia Marie wasn't an encouraging sign at first. I find it funny how they painted the Cornelia Marie as getting the poo poo end of the stick all season (grinding for two weeks, tons of dead loss), and still their deckhands made the most per man of the entire cast of boats.
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May 27, 2009 03:36
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Yeah for all the drama they tried to create the boats that were supposed to be struggling like hell made $20,000 more per man than the others. And it's kind of funny that they stopped even bothering to follow that really small boat with the badass old guy. Also why are you guys spoiler tagging poo poo that has aired?
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May 27, 2009 03:52
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I liked how they kept going back talking about a 50 day season and a 15 day season. I know several times Rowe said "50" but then at the end one of Phil's kids said something along the lines of "two weeks out there, man that's my longest trip". Very inconsistent with how they edited it.
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May 27, 2009 04:25
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I want to know what Brian said on Canada's Worst Handyman. Or at least what the subject was about. 
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May 27, 2009 04:52
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GuavaMoment posted:I want to know what Brian said on Canada's Worst Handyman. Or at least what the subject was about. From what I've been reading, Brian P uttered threatening statements to Brian M, so I think it goes quite a bit further than "you f***** p****" that you hear in the episode.
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May 27, 2009 05:25
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IRQ posted:Yeah for all the drama they tried to create the boats that were supposed to be struggling like hell made $20,000 more per man than the others. And it's kind of funny that they stopped even bothering to follow that really small boat with the badass old guy. Yeah, what the hell happened to the Lisa Marie? They just stopped following it as abruptly as the introduced it into the show. Doronin fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 27, 2009 |
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May 27, 2009 05:31
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Regarding Mythbusters episode 84 (yes, I know it's 2 years old), their claim that cars can't be e-braked by shifting into reverse is wrong. I tried it on a 1996 ford explorer, with an automatic transmission, right before donating it to a school shop and was able to go from 65km/hour to a screeching halt in a couple seconds by doing this. The car also stalled, but I was able to restart it afterward and drive it perfectly fine.
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May 27, 2009 05:33
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Doronin posted:Yeah, what the hell happened to the Lucky Lady? They just stopped following it as abruptly as the introduced it into the show. Maybe they decided it was too boring and didn't show any more footage? There was a whole boat cut out of Season 1.
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May 27, 2009 05:43
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Luigi Thirty posted:Maybe they decided it was too boring and didn't show any more footage? There was a whole boat cut out of Season 1. But then it's weird that they included it at all, for all of the 15 or 20 minutes we ever saw of it. Show it or don't, you know? Not that I wouldn't agree to anyone saying it was mostly boring except for the badass old guy.
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May 27, 2009 05:50
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Luigi Thirty posted:Maybe they decided it was too boring and didn't show any more footage? There was a whole boat cut out of Season 1. IRQ posted:But then it's weird that they included it at all, for all of the 15 or 20 minutes we ever saw of it. Yeah, it was a boring boat and all, but why even bring it up if the were just going to cut it out of the end of King season? Or at least give a brief blurb of "Oh, yeah the Lisa Marie made the 90 mile jog, bombed out and came home. But 150 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor..." then proceed to talk about the other boats while tying up the Lisa Marie thing. I just thought it was weird that they bothered to include anything about it. EDIT: I had to replace "Lucky Lady" with "Lisa Marie" because I watched the Season 1 marathon earlier in the weekend and got the names of the season 1 and season 5 boats mixed up. Doronin fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 27, 2009 |
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May 27, 2009 06:02
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IRQ posted:Yeah for all the drama they tried to create the boats that were supposed to be struggling like hell made $20,000 more per man than the others. And it's kind of funny that they stopped even bothering to follow that really small boat with the badass old guy. yeah that was pretty funny...like the time bandit, got in a week before the other boats, but they earned a fraction of the money. i feel bad for the interm skipper on the cornelia marie, they made it look like he sucked, but then his crew earned more then anyone
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Ian_T posted:Regarding Mythbusters episode 84 (yes, I know it's 2 years old), their claim that cars can't be e-braked by shifting into reverse is wrong. I tried it on a 1996 ford explorer, with an automatic transmission, right before donating it to a school shop and was able to go from 65km/hour to a screeching halt in a couple seconds by doing this. The car also stalled, but I was able to restart it afterward and drive it perfectly fine. You should submit this to them and see if you can get them to revisit that myth.
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May 27, 2009 08:09
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Is anyone else still watching the Alaskan Experiment? Seems to be turning into watching people camp. About 15 minutes talking about how hungry they are...15 minutes not finding animals to shoot. 15 minutes of successful hunting and 15 minutes of eating each episode.
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May 27, 2009 09:11
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IRQ posted:Also why are you guys spoiler tagging poo poo that has aired? I did it because I posted just after it aired, and wanted to be safe in case someone hasn't seen it yet. As to the Lisa Marie, I'm not upset they stopped getting mentioned. Aside from the Hungarian deckhand, there was nothing interesting about them. It seemed like they were trying for another North American story, but fell just short.
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May 27, 2009 13:06
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MrDingleDangle posted:Is anyone else still watching the Alaskan Experiment? Seems to be turning into watching people camp. About 15 minutes talking about how hungry they are...15 minutes not finding animals to shoot. 15 minutes of successful hunting and 15 minutes of eating each episode. They're in the Alaskan wilderness in winter... what else would they be doing? I've enjoyed the episode. It was nice that they were able to get so much game this episode. But in the end, I think their will to go on in the show is about out. Had they managed to get a bear, they're probably all make it to the end. As it stands, unless it ends soon, I could see them all leaving.
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May 27, 2009 15:41
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Teek posted:They're in the Alaskan wilderness in winter... what else would they be doing? I noticed we didn't get a preview for next week, so I assume it will be there last. They also said in the beginning that it was going to be over 4 weeks (so we can assume between 4 and 5), which is about where they are at. Also, they are building it up to a breaking point, which makes it all the sweeter when they get out. So I'm guessing the next leg is the trek out.
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May 27, 2009 17:33
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hutch posted:I liked how they kept going back talking about a 50 day season and a 15 day season. I know several times Rowe said "50" but then at the end one of Phil's kids said something along the lines of "two weeks out there, man that's my longest trip". Very inconsistent with how they edited it. Even better is talking about 6 weeks of harsh fishing for the Northwestern, and then immediately cutting to the CM captain talking about the 2 weeks of fishing they did?
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One thing that was weird was when the CM went in to unload they showed one of their unloads from earlier in the season when they had no mohawks it completely threw me off.
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