The way I see it is this: if Full House (a show that nobody asked for to return) can come back, then ANY show can.
I could see them doing stand-alone Mythbusters specials (like one or two a year) as the years go by, for example.
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I see stand-alone episodes starting up within 3 years.
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They need people with Adam and Jamie's experience & expertise, a big budget, and film crew of at least this quality. Myths don't even really need to be tested, just do things to educate viewers. Do things like showing how a water heater can end up being a rocket, demonstrating how to escape from a sinking car, and how to shoot a ping pong ball at 300 MPH.
I know a lot of people will disagree about testing supernatural stuff, but I'd like to see a show that mixes of Mythbusters and Ghost Hunters. No walking through buildings at night talking to any spirits that might be there and listening, but really just trying to gather evidence of hauntings by setting up video & audio recording devices, motion sensors, and devices that spirit could trigger. One thing that always bugged me about Ghost Hunters is they'd only investigate a place for one night instead of an ongoing investigation where a building or area in question is unoccupied for several consecutive nights.
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I think it'll come back too for standalone specials with Adam and Jamie or with a new team. Which would be nice either way.
What I loved most was seeing whether something was confirmed, plausible or totally untrue.
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Torry and Kari have both hinted at a new project they they wernt able to talk much about. Perhaps its mythbuster related? We just found out the discovery game the science channel the right to air mythbusters episodes as well as the lost episode.
Its possible that the science show is doing a mythbuster reboot with part or all of the build team?
I could see a similar formats come back and perhaps even with some of the same persons.
In my opinion the biggest problem with Mythbusters was that they tried to be "aweseome" and "scientific" at the same time. Unfortunately this often lead to that they focused more on the awesome part than the scientific. Although it was great that they inspired so many young, it was at the same time sad that a lot of adult apparently failed to see when Mythbusters methodology was insufficient for actually proving what they meant they had proven, resulting in a lot of incorrect confirmation or busts of myths as a lot of people took Mythbusters verdict far to serious.
So I think actually there could be room for TWO shows in the vacuum after Mythbusters.
One show that just mess around with basic theories in science to get kids engaged and use nice way to on a basic level explain certain phenomena and myths.
Another show that is 100% scientific and actually test myths using the actual scientific method (not the Mythbuster's light version of it). A show that does not try to be cool but instead be really loyal to the scientific method.
I think I could have enjoyed BOTH those shows probably better than Mythbusters as it would eradicate this grey area of all this "almost testing" and "well, they didn't take this and that into account"...
They already did Unchained Reaction which only lasted 1 season. I thought was interesting but was just straight forward building. I do not see a basic science show being very entertaining.
I don't think they tried being "cool". I think they started running out of myths and legends so they did more movie and tv stuff.
So does anyone know what the lost episode is about or when it airs?
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The word "building" is very interesting though. To me it seemed like Mythbusters was often more interested in the actual build of a thing than to actually test the myth in the best possible way. For instance just this last episode where they build a "fart machine" instead of just farting themselves. It often felt like they fell in love with the construction part of a myth even at times there really was no need to put so much emphasize on it.
I don't need the show to be entertaining. I think a show that properly actually test myths in a very scientific way would be very interesting in itself with no need to try and entertain. But I am afraid the dumbing down of TV makes it rather unlikely that someone would actually invest in such an idea in these times.
Although Mythbusters have done over 200 episodes, it's remarkable how many myths they still haven't tested or not tested properly. It's not like "Well now Mythbusters have debunked everything interesting myth there is..."
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So does anyone know what the lost episode is about or when it airs?
^ Oh, thanks Ill have to catch the rerun.
@ Graggoz, you really think they did not properly test myths to the best of their ability? Seriously? What more did you want?
Nothing was dumbed down. It's obvious they they put a lot of effort in each episode and even did revisits and brought in experts to perform actions in things they couldn't do.
You make it sound as if it was all scripted just to be fun and games.
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Nothing was dumbed down.
Each myth was given the benefit of the doubt sometimes multiple times when it was already farfetched. They often went down to the most unlikely circumstances to get the best possible result.
Confirmed, Plausible or Busted...it's obvious their tests replicated a given situation as close as humanly possible without actually being "there". After this point you pretty much know what would happen in that situation. You don't need a thousand tests to figure something out.
Even with revisits they would often get the same type of results unless some variable was totally different or added in. Some things were just common sense at the end of the day. I really do not know what more you expected them to do.
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Each myth was given the benefit of the doubt sometimes multiple times
The majority of myths was given the benefit of the doubt sometimes multiple times.
Confirmed, Plausible or Busted...it's obvious their tests replicated a given situation as close as humanly possible without actually being "there".
I will agree that there are probably myths that were worthy of revisits.
I'm not saying everything they did was "indisputable fact" but in my opinion their methods were more than solid enough to get legitimate and significant results.
You'll agree the majority were tested sufficiently, I guess or just that they were given the benefit of the doubt...so I still don't know what you expected.
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There are many clones but none of them are very good, in my opinion. However as for the finale episode it was not very good at all - especially if you compare it to the duct tape episode(10). Which was far superior and a great way to say goodbye to the show.
shareI really liked the grand finale. No myths, just some fun. I also liked the reunion. I thought the duct tape return was kind of boring.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the real reason they blew up another cement mixer. The original cement mixer from 10 years ago was the largest explosion they ever did, and the slow motion camera failed.
Main problem with Mythbusters was it was very expensive to shot. On shooting days if they got 4 minutes of footage suitable for airing that was a good day.
Compare that to a show like Outrageous Acts of Science where they just bring in a few experts for a few days and shoot an entire season of them explaining things.