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muscles like this? posted:That kind of reminds me of a super cheesy Mythbusters thing where they were replicating the scene from Last Crusade where Indy puts a stick through a motorcycle tire. They do pretty much everything to replicate it using normal means and then they go and pretend that they JUST noticed how it was faked. Jamie and Adam are both special effects guys so I'm pretty sure they took one look at the movie and knew exactly how the shot was actually set up. Just because it was set up doesn't necessarily mean it's really impossible. Granted, it usually probably does, but then again most of the stuff on this show could be proved or disproved on paper in 5 minutes. Like the bullet myth, but it was still fun to watch them actually do it.
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ToastyPotato posted:Yeah, you can see Adam's concern for his hair when he burns his eyebrow off. It was all fun and games, until someone pointed out he might have burnt some of his hair off too. He got serious pretty quickly from what I remember. I remember hearing on one of the behind the scenes episodes a while back that he was mostly concerned because he had a date that night.
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Captain Novolin posted:I remember hearing on one of the behind the scenes episodes a while back that he was mostly concerned because he had a date that night. I'm pretty sure he said that in the episode.
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LordOfThePants posted:Did you check it out? I was going to try to catch a repeat but I didn't see any on until the new episode next week. Pretty much everyone in this thread hit it in the head as far as my thoughts on the show. It definitely has potential, but like someone said you're not along for the investigation. You see bits and pieces and then they all go nuts over some piece of evidence. Although, it's nice that they do have different ideas as to how to investigate. That whole "era cues" thing was interesting, it'd be cool to see different approaches on how to capture evidence other than wandering around a building asking "who's there?"
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Captain Novolin posted:I remember hearing on one of the behind the scenes episodes a while back that he was mostly concerned because he had a date that night. I haven't seen that episode in years!  I guess that makes sense.
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Captain Novolin posted:I remember hearing on one of the behind the scenes episodes a while back that he was mostly concerned because he had a date that night. I don't know why that would be a problem, it's a great story. "So what happened?" "I burned my eyebrows off making my TV SHOW."
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Oct 9, 2009 02:20
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I didn't really care when they introduced the 'build team' and made them more intregral to the show, I lost all intrest when the normally amusing banter turned into such a scripted mess it was just forced garbage chatter. Now when they're doing bumps and describing things between showing shots of something happening or building something, its like a vaudeville act.
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Oct 10, 2009 04:03
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Oct 14, 2009 02:45
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I dont know how Mike does it, I'm freaking out just watching him climb into that chair.
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Oct 14, 2009 05:51
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DurosKlav posted:I dont know how Mike does it, I'm freaking out just watching him climb into that chair. No kidding. I like to think I'm not to afraid of heights but poo poo that made my pulse pick up.
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Oct 14, 2009 06:00
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My fear of heights makes me edgy on a 12 foot ladder. I think i would pass out halfway into getting into that tiny swing.
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hobb posted:My fear of heights makes me edgy on a 12 foot ladder. I think i would pass out halfway into getting into that tiny swing. I wouldn't even be able to get within 15 feet of the edge of the thing that had the swing on it. gently caress that.
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I was on the roof of a 3 story building two months ago and I had problems looking over the edge. Also just looking out the window of a 50th floor apartment made me feel woozy.
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Darth Freddy posted:Oh god mikes Camera man. "Are you filming this?" "We're filming the HELL out of this" Some of those shots were nuts - I couldn't believe it when he was leaning over the edge with his entire body (and camera) weight supported by the rope. On a completely unrelated note, the Alaskan King Crab season starts tomorrow (10/15), so a bunch of Discovery guys will be heading out with the fleet to shoot a new season of Deadliest Catch.
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LordOfThePants posted:"Are you filming this?" Camera men are some of the bravest mother fuckers in the world.
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Oct 15, 2009 01:02
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The Deadliest Catch behind the scenes stuff they occasionally do is actually one of my favorite parts of that show.
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Silly myth busters yall are suppose to fire the entire potato.
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Darth Freddy posted:Silly myth busters yall are suppose to fire the entire potato. Aw man, I had company come over right when it was on and I never got a chance to see the "handyman's secret weapon" put to the best. When do they usually show an encore?
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iastudent posted:Aw man, I had company come over right when it was on and I never got a chance to see the "handyman's secret weapon" put to the best. When do they usually show an encore?
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I don't get all the hate for the build team on Mythbusters. Sure they're not as engaging ad Adam or Jamie, but they can be quite funny at times and often do take on interesting myths. Maybe it's just that I find Grant so  . I'm definitely sick of the overly scripted segments, though. And last night's episode had pretty terrible myths.Just reading through the last few pages I realize that I've been assuming The Colony was something it isn't. From the commercials it looked like it was all a pre-scripted, "what-if" type scenario. If I'm to understand correctly (and Wikipedia or the TV-IV wiki aren't incredibly helpful here), it's basically like an extended episode of Junkyard Wars set in a constructed apocalyptic setting? Or is it somewhere in between? e: Oh, that's too bad . It sounds like it would have been an awesome show if it was just a post-apocalyptic more realistic Junkyard Wars.
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The producers insist that it wasn't scripted, and that the survivors weren't given homework assignments, but the fact of the matter is that you can tell most of it was preplanned because the survivors always found exactly what they needed to build what they were going to build. Not to mention the scripted attacks on the compound.
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Oct 15, 2009 20:12
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feedmyleg posted:I don't get all the hate for the build team on Mythbusters. Sure they're not as engaging ad Adam or Jamie, but they can be quite funny at times and often do take on interesting myths. Maybe it's just that I find Grant so
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Mike McC posted:I liked the build team better when Scottie was there to sort of balance the hyper geekiness of Tory and Kari. When Scottie left and Grant was brought in, he added to that hyper geekiness, and it created a situation where it could become overwhelming. It also doesn't help that they always act so overawed when something that is supposed to go boom goes boom. Scottie, my one true tv love.
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Oct 15, 2009 22:32
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To Mythbusters' credit last night, I caught the opening minutes where they showed Red Green clips while introducing the duct tape myths. God I miss that show.  Lobstermen is supposed to premiere tomorrow night, but I dunno. I didn't catch the swordfish show when it was on, but did it come anywhere close to being as good as Deadliest Catch? If not, I'm not holding out hope for this other show.
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Oct 15, 2009 23:32
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iastudent posted:To Mythbusters' credit last night, I caught the opening minutes where they showed Red Green clips while introducing the duct tape myths. God I miss that show. I thought Lobstermen got the axe? I remember seeing it several years ago and then never really saw it again outside of the occasional rerun. I'm watching Time Warp right now - it looks like they retooled the show slightly from last season. There's a new announcer now, which is an improvement over the last guy. LordOfThePants fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Oct 16, 2009 |
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LordOfThePants posted:I thought Lobstermen got the axe? I remember seeing it several years ago and then never really saw it again outside of the occasional rerun. I thought it was meant to be a mini-series much like the one that birthed DC. I guess it finally got picked up officially? (Without a name change this time.)
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iastudent posted:To Mythbusters' credit last night, I caught the opening minutes where they showed Red Green clips while introducing the duct tape myths. God I miss that show.  iastudent posted:Lobstermen is supposed to premiere tomorrow night, but I dunno. I didn't catch the swordfish show when it was on, but did it come anywhere close to being as good as Deadliest Catch?
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So, much like the original miniseries, I gave Lobstermen a shot. Allow me to sum things up for you by comparing it to Deadliest Catch: The boats are smaller. The hauls are smaller. The pots are smaller. The crews are smaller. The pay outs are smaller. The risks are smaller. The work load is smaller. The weather is smaller. But the show is shot and edited IDENTICALLY to DC, which makes it all seem incredibly ridiculous.
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FYI, the premiere of Storm Chasers is tonight; Discovery is showing a highlight clip show from the first two seasons right now.
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nmfree posted:FYI, the premiere of Storm Chasers is tonight; Discovery is showing a highlight clip show from the first two seasons right now. I am way too excited about this premiere
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ToastyPotato posted:So, much like the original miniseries, I gave Lobstermen a shot. Allow me to sum things up for you by comparing it to Deadliest Catch: The thing that gets me about Lobstermen and the swordfish show as well is the generic narrator, that if you've watched Discovery in the last decade, you've already heard. I'm not expecting them to hire Mike Rowe for every nautical show they produce, but a little variety might help make them stand out.
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Looks like a pretty mediocre episode of mythbusters tonight.
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Gazaar posted:Looks like a pretty mediocre episode of mythbusters tonight.
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nmfree posted:FYI, the premiere of Storm Chasers is tonight; Discovery is showing a highlight clip show from the first two seasons right now. That one group's name they passed on the road was pretty clever: Severe Hail Intercept Team As annoying as Reed and Sean are, I envy the hell out of them and admire their passion. I'm lucky to see a thunderstorm or two per year up in the PNW.
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Oct 22, 2009 09:13
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Ahahahahahahaah Grant only drank 6 beers.
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Philip J Fry posted:That one group's name they passed on the road was pretty clever:  Also, that was the car that Reed hung halfway out of his car and gave the ol' double barrel, wasn't it? I thought that was pretty funny.
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Trophy Boner posted:Ahahahahahahaah Grant only drank 6 beers. Yeah, the disparity between Grant and Tory was crazy. When Grant woke up on the second day and said he wasn't hungover, I expected to hear him say he had thrown up in the middle of the night.
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nmfree posted:I completely missed that when I watched. Yeah, that was the it -- the one in front of them that was going slow. It was written across their tailgate but not so much as to look obvious.
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Mike McC posted:I liked the build team better when Scottie was there to sort of balance the hyper geekiness of Tory and Kari. When Scottie left and Grant was brought in, he added to that hyper geekiness, and it created a situation where it could become overwhelming. It also doesn't help that they always act so overawed when something that is supposed to go boom goes boom. I liked Scottie but I gotta disagree about Tory, he seems fairly far away from geeky stuff. I remember when Grant tried to do the Star Wars stuff in the duct tape episode and Tory seemed like he wanted to punch Grant for making him do that geeky crap on camera. Tory's much more of a child in an adult's body and just more experimental and fun loving than the rest. He's very much the Adam to Kari and Grant's Jamie because he's much more likely to look at something and jump in head first with funny results. Have to agree on explosions, though. At this point, there's no way stuff outside of major explosions would make me jump if I were them. I'm pretty sure they're told to act shocked all the time which is weird considering the producers tend to not care about Adam or Jamie's reaction which is typically just a "dude!" from Adam and an indistinguishable grunt or slight chuckle from Jamie.
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