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Anyone else never really been that excited about the explosions?

posted 8 years ago by Allen23
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Maybe due to having watched almost every episode, the explosions are just less exciting to me than they were at first. But in most episodes, the Mythbusters seem to think that the only thing we're watching for is the explosions. Usually when they're done with a myth and they blow something up just to satisfy the viewers, I'm not really excited about it. Has anyone else felt the same way?

Side note, I will definitely miss this show for what it once was. I think this is the appropriate time to kill it because they can't seem to find many interesting myths to test anymore. Most of it is just movie myths now days.

[–] toldyousew 8 years ago

1) Relying on explosions at the end was/is part of the dumbing down
of the series.

2) I grew tired of the explosions. They're linked/intertwined with
the scripted dialogue.

3) I really will miss this series for which it once was.

4) No, I disagree that it is time to kill it. It was a couple of
seasons ago that was the time to kill it.

I think they should never have done any movie myths (that weren't
also just myths by themselves), because it seemed it became a
slippery slope. It really dumbed down the series.

And they should not have done cartoon myths, such as "The Simpsons."

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[–] bcotten81 8 years ago

Not a fan of the outline of troubles but the movie/cartoon/fantasy myths that killed T, G and C doing things relevant to science bothers me. I don't need to see elaborate builds to prove non-existent physics.

[–] rp69 8 years ago

The Simpsons and Walking Dead episodes were an absolute low point, along with the Star Wars ep.

[–] stevewyzard (1329) 2 years ago

Lower than the Green Hornet episode?

[–] PrimeMinisterOfTheSinister 8 years ago

4) No, I disagree that it is time to kill it. It was a couple of
seasons ago that was the time to kill it.

I think you're being too kind. I didn't even watch the last couple of seasons because the show had gotten so bad. I did watch last week's episode, though, because, for the first time in years, they were doing an actually genuinely interesting myth (vacuum crushing a train car). When Adam said that they had been wanting to do that one since the beginning of the show, I wasn't surprised. I also wasn't surprised when they said they were going to do another duct tape show, just very disappointed.

[–] rickymm3 8 years ago

Explosions were good in the early seasons because they related to actual myths. Then, the mythbusters became parody's of their original selves and also ran out of myths to test. So they just blew things up. You could tell that they enjoyed doing that as well, since it was less shop work.

[–] Airman87 8 years ago

You could tell that they enjoyed doing that as well, since it was less shop work.

This is an ongoing trend I have noticed over the last 5/6 seasons or so.

Every new season it seemed like both the myths they test, and the methodology they used, all seemed to do it in a way that progressively required the least amount of energy possible. The last season when T/G/C were still on the show, Jamie & Adam were basically only doing small, one-day experiments, while the build team was left to do all the hard work of bigger field myths.

It definitely seemed like they only cared about 'going through the motions' the last several years for a paycheck.

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[–] haynese_98 8 years ago

Hey, they made TV fun these last 10 years or so.

I think it would have been a good idea to end the show after they split a car in two with that rocket sled.

Shall we play a game?

[–] mamporrero 8 years ago

It's been many years since I last watched Mythbusters. I stopped when I noticed that I was getting embarrassed watching it in front of other people, because of how childish and dumbed down it had become, and the enthusiasm about making explosions or shooting stuff with guns was a big part of it. I came here after seeing a headline about the show coming to an end and, from what I've been reading, it seems that it never recovered, so ending it is undoubtedly for the best.

[–] ADz-83 8 years ago

No. That's like saying do you watch porn and get tired of the Tits. They're important part.

[–] liscarkat (17082) 2 years ago

Good analogy.

[–] TVippy 8 years ago

Exactly my point. After watching all the seasons I now can't even look at explosions on the screen anymore.
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[–] liscarkat (17082) 2 years ago

I never got tired of the explosions. The bigger they got, the funnier they were. There was plenty of room on the show to have both science and pure dumb entertainment.

[–] Stratego (29506) 2 years ago

I quit watching pretty quick because all they seemed to care about was explosions and not actual myths.