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Campbell posted:I kind of get the feeling she had a word or two with him, but either way, it was a good episode in between parts where Saga took up the screen. I just fast-forward Elliott's segments. Can't watch that clown anymore.
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kefkafloyd posted:I just fast-forward Elliott's segments. Can't watch that clown anymore. You're going to miss out when his crew finally snaps and murders him.
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I'm waiting for a crew member to walk and Elliott to hire Jake Harris.
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Campbell posted:I kind of get the feeling she had a word or two with him, but either way, it was a good episode in between parts where Saga took up the screen. And rightly so. How should she ever be respected by the rest of the crew when Sig does treat her differently? Doesn't need to be Wild Bill bitching out his son in front of the crew for being a complete idiot, but if you have your kid on the boat you have to treat them at least somewhat like all others.
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I can't get enough of Discovery reality shows. Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, Jungle Gold, Bamazon all of these shows are loving amazing buta lways end. I also liked Game of Stones. I don't know why I guess it is because I work in an office and a computer monitor tipping over and hitting me in the dick is the kind of perils I need to worry about. I like Street outlaws and fat n furious also. I wish Jungle gold would come back on those guys were the worst at everything and it is really funny to watch them try and fail.
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smg77 posted:You're going to miss out when his crew finally snaps and murders him. He's going run the Saga at full power into the docks at St. Paul Island Speed 2 style when he realized the mutiny is under way. Except, if I recall, it wasn't intentional in Speed 2. I hope Thom Beers is on the ship for that trip and gets tossed overboard when Elliot runs that fucker aground. Cameras will be in position on the dock and on the ship because it'll be obvious it was planned all along. Meowbot posted:I can't get enough of Discovery reality shows. Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, Jungle Gold, Bamazon all of these shows are loving amazing buta lways end. I also liked Game of Stones. I don't know why I guess it is because I work in an office and a computer monitor tipping over and hitting me in the dick is the kind of perils I need to worry about. The only "reality" shows I've ever been able to stomach on Discovery have been Deadliest Catch and Storm Chasers. DC, as discussed, as been able to fend off the staged situations. Storm Chasers was interesting when they actually focused on the science and Josh Wurman's research, with Wurman playing Air Traffic Controller to the TIV team. It got painful when it became Reed Timmer's Extreme Adventures featuring Sean Casey and The Amazing Technicolor Never-Ending IMAX Project and I was glad to see it cancelled. e- Airplane Repo v2.0 was terrible and I quit watching after the first episode when "Philadelphia" was actually Daytona Beach International Airport, complete with Daytona International Speedway grandstands visible in the background. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Have the Mythbusters ever gone to that runway and *not* sent a runaway vehicle through that fence?
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haveblue posted:Have the Mythbusters ever gone to that runway and *not* sent a runaway vehicle through that fence? I don't think so. I wonder how many hate letters they'll get from Mustang/Corvette owners?
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I'm surprised that after Jamie kind of got hurt they just went ahead and let Adam do it again with no new safety precautions.
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muscles like this? posted:I'm surprised that after Jamie kind of got hurt they just went ahead and let Adam do it again with no new safety precautions. Payback for Adam pussing out on the upside-down bungie bobbing. That was horrific and the one time I felt really bad for anyone on the show.
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muscles like this? posted:I'm surprised that after Jamie kind of got hurt they just went ahead and let Adam do it again with no new safety precautions. I'm guessing that stunt was filmed before the knock off the road stunt. "Hey we want to do a thing where we have a huge chance of flipping the car at worst and at best might be violently landing back on all four wheels. Hmmm no neck braces or helmets needed!" "Playing bumper cars with real life cars? Full racing safety gear!"
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I'd like to see a behind the scenes thing for Mythbusters where they talk about how the process really goes for filming an episode.
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That's almost what the first generation of the show was, and I miss it. Just try to imagine how much wasted time is now crammed with bullshit like those worthless little "spontaneous" asides where the build team members make a deadeningly unfunny wooden joke or pun, and then aggressively mug for the camera like they're on 'Laugh-in' circa 1970s. Barf. It was barely tolerable when only Adam was guilty of it years ago. That being said, the new episode was loving great. Hard to believe they hadn't tackled these fundamentals of movie car stuntwork yet, and anything else this immediately interesting and obvious should be dispensed with ASAP so we don't get more seasons comprised of stupid reaching myths, clipshows, viewer mail or 3rd rehashes. To be fair, the episodes of the new season so far have been much higher quality than what came immediately before.
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They showed a preview or a clip from an episode I guess will air next year on their Facebook page and I think they changed the style of the show up. Looked like totally different cameras were being used. It was a clip of Adam building something I think, but the production value seemed really great.
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Shark Week schedule, for anyone interested. quote:SHARK WEEK, television’s longest running must-see summer TV event, returns to Discovery Channel on Sunday, August 10. Building upon last year’s 11 shark-filled specials, a whopping 13 SHARK WEEK shows coupled with a live talk show each night gives this year’s SHARK WEEK the most premiere hours ever featured in the event’s 27-year history. Compared to previous years there actually sounds like a fair bit of interesting stuff here. There's of course the usual fearmongering titles and of course yet another Air Jaws (which isn't really that bad but is just beyond tired at this point), but I like the shows focusing on science and lesser-known species. Too bad they brought back the aggressively unfunny post-show garbage but that's easy enough to skip through. Discovery also apparently focused on the "overwhelmingly" part of the "overwhelmingly negative" response to last year's dumbass fake Megalodon documentary and are making another one. Can't wait for another year of "OH HAY U STUDY SHARKS DID YOU SEE THAT SHOW WHERE THEY PROVED MAGGLEDON??" If enough people care I'd be happy to make a thread, but the vibe I get is that most people around here are sort of cynical/burned-out after the past few years. Hazo fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Aug 3, 2014 |
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Tonic immobility is in no way a new thing, as I'm guessing you know, but from what I can tell this is a new TV special about the activity specifically related to great whites. Can you remember any more details about what you saw? It could have been a related project that aired on NatGeo or something like that.
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Hazo posted:Tonic immobility is in no way a new thing, as I'm guessing you know, but from what I can tell this is a new TV special about the activity specifically related to great whites. Can you remember any more details about what you saw? It could have been a related project that aired on NatGeo or something like that. I want to say it was NatGeo but it may have been on Science Channel. They interviewed many witnesses from the event, I believe there was some small amount of footage from the event they kept showing over and over, and there was some cheap, documentary, CG work to show what was happening under the water. They showed them demonstrating tonic immobility on another shark species as well. I think the main point of the show was trying to explain how this could happen and the explanation they came up with was that the Orca learned the great white's blindspot, came up from underneath, and grabbed them from a weird angle so that when they flipped upright, the shark would be upside down, which would all explain why there didn't seem to be much of a struggle and how it happened so fast.
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Irish Joe posted:Payback for Adam pussing out on the upside-down bungie bobbing. Seriously. I don't think the bungee jumping over and over would bother me, but they were clearly hating it so much that you just feel awful for them. Jaime looked like he was about to have an anxiety attack.
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Interesting interview with Cape Caution skipper Bill Wichrowski on working on Deadliest Catch.
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Jamie has such a bad fear of heights you'd think they would have pawned that one off to Tory, Kari and Grant. Anyway, thst interview with the captains from Deadliest Catch has an interesting thing where he says that the show has made it really annoying to hire greenhorns because they end up with a lot of people who want to do it just to be on the show for a season and then quit.
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muscles like this? posted:Jamie has such a bad fear of heights you'd think they would have pawned that one off to Tory, Kari and Grant.
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muscles like this? posted:Anyway, thst interview with the captains from Deadliest Catch has an interesting thing where he says that the show has made it really annoying to hire greenhorns because they end up with a lot of people who want to do it just to be on the show for a season and then quit. That's been a thing from very early on. No matter how often they explicitly say how much the job sucks dicks please don't apply to do it, people keep thinking "oh it can't be that bad let me do it."
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IRQ posted:That's been a thing from very early on. No matter how often they explicitly say how much the job sucks dicks please don't apply to do it, people keep thinking "oh it can't be that bad let me do it." they really do try to drive it home that 99% of people are not built for that kind of work. There aren't a lot jobs that require an awake time for 24+ hours on the regular.
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IRQ posted:That's been a thing from very early on. No matter how often they explicitly say how much the job sucks dicks please don't apply to do it, people keep thinking "oh it can't be that bad let me do it." I think the point he's driving at isn't that the people they're seeing apply for work of late aren't any less qualified to make it, it's that they have no intention of continuing on in a fishing career whether they can do it or not.
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Madurai posted:I think the point he's driving at isn't that the people they're seeing apply for work of late aren't any less qualified to make it, it's that they have no intention of continuing on in a fishing career whether they can do it or not. I don't think that has ever happened on the show, and he never references it in the interview. He seems to be explicitly stating that people sign up and then find out they can't handle it, but they take the risk in the first place because they want to be on TV and it doesn't look as bad as it really is. That is why he mentions his strategy of offering them a job on a non-TV boat, to see if they are still interested.
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ToastyPotato posted:I don't think that has ever happened on the show, and he never references it in the interview. Except when he says: Wild Bill posted:What the show has done is created an effect where people come up to me and say, “Oh, I want to just try this once.” Well, we’re not looking for someone to buy a ticket and go for a ride for 20 minutes and get off and say, “I rode that ride.”
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Madurai posted:Except when he says: Yeah but I'm specifically referring to the idea that someone who did that was actually a really decent greenhorn and then quit anyway because they accomplished their silly goal. I don't doubt that a ton of people want to try it, but that fits into what he was saying about people not thinking it is as hard as it is and the 90% failure rate. That's a different statement than saying people are trying it, and some are actually quite good but they still quit.
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404notfound posted:Welp, the two clearest shots of me either have my head obscured by a Volkswagen ad or show me from behind They talked up how good the wigs looked, but they looked pretty fake to me. Although that might have been just because I knew they were wigs. Did you catch on at all during the experiment?
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PostNouveau posted:They talked up how good the wigs looked, but they looked pretty fake to me. Although that might have been just because I knew they were wigs. Did you catch on at all during the experiment? Something about their hair looked off, but I didn't really put two and two together and think of wigs until another one of the guys mentioned it It looked pretty real on a few of the girls though.
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Didn't take long for the first blatantly fake shark documentary to show up. gently caress off Discovery.
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Hazo posted:Didn't take long for the first blatantly fake shark documentary to show up. gently caress off Discovery. I have spent the last 20 min trying to figure this out. I can't even find info on the boat sinking, a random website puts it in April of this year? The shark pushing the guy looks so drat fake right now...
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spwrozek posted:I have spent the last 20 min trying to figure this out. I can't even find info on the boat sinking, a random website puts it in April of this year?
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After not following shark week for a few years, I decide to take a look. Shark of Darkness is one of the most blatantly cynical ratings ploys I've ever seen. I wasn't even aware of the megalodon show controversy last year, but it looks like they think that type of fake documentary is the business path they want to pursue. They don't even play the "this is what could happen" angle, they just present it as if it is completely real. This thing is somehow 2 hours long as well.
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A couple of scientists are saying Discovery lied to them to get them to appear on their fake-rear end documentaries and then edited their interviews in a misleading manner. http://io9.com/shark-week-lied-to-scientists-to-get-them-to-appear-in-1619280737
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