"Blow It Out of the Water": Okay, the half that's testing that saying literally is pretty interesting. I never realized it was originally meant literally, that it described the effect of torpedoes on ships in WWII. I always took it more as an exaggeration, or figurative, in the sense that a boat blown to pieces would effectively no longer be in the water, at least as a boat. The idea that it refers to literally lifting a boat out of the water is surprising and interesting. The small-scale tests were pretty intriguing.
I'm not sure which is a greater act of trust on Jamie's part: Standing directly underneath a huge, heavy boat hanging from a crane... or letting Adam handle his beret.
I'm surprised they made so little of the cliffhanger of the bomb in the pond not going off. I remember when that happened to Kari, Grant, and Tory a few years ago, they played it up as this horribly dangerous thing because the bomb squad experts had to risk their lives to re-rig it and such. But here, they barely acknowledged it and just said they whipped up a new detonator. What happened there?
Interesting result -- I like how Jamie worked out the physics and concluded that the myth could never work.
The Breaking Bad myth does essentially spoil the ending for me, but then, I doubt I'll ever want to see that show. The one time I tuned in to a bit of it out of curiosity, it was right at the most gruesome possible moment, and the unpleasantness of that guaranteed I'd never be curious about it again.
Anyway, the homemade rig they recreated was kind of clever, in a murderous sort of way. But when they do these movie myths, I always wonder why they don't just contact the people who actually did the things in the original shows/films and find out how they did them -- in this case, whether it was done for real, and what parts they used. I mean, they did bring in the show's creator for a guest appearance, so it shouldn't have been hard to call up its property master. But instead they did the thing where they study photos from the episode.
Although I suppose that's the sort of thing they're good at, as we see in those YouTube videos where Adam recreates movie costumes and Kirk's captain's chair and things like that. I guess part of the fun is figuring it out for themselves rather than just asking.
What surprised me about the result was that the bullets didn't tumble/get thrown off more by going through the side of the car first. I think that did contribute to some of the bullets tumbling and going astray, but apparently it didn't disrupt most of them that badly.
Anyway, they left out one part, the trunk lid automatically rising. I'm not sure why that was necessary beyond letting the audience see the gun, but I guess maybe it was so that the cartridges could be ejected.
I'm not sure which is a greater act of trust on Jamie's part: Standing directly underneath a huge, heavy boat hanging from a crane... or letting Adam handle his beret.
I'm surprised they made so little of the cliffhanger of the bomb in the pond not going off. I remember when that happened to Kari, Grant, and Tory a few years ago, they played it up as this horribly dangerous thing because the bomb squad experts had to risk their lives to re-rig it and such. But here, they barely acknowledged it and just said they whipped up a new detonator. What happened there?
Interesting result -- I like how Jamie worked out the physics and concluded that the myth could never work.
The Breaking Bad myth does essentially spoil the ending for me, but then, I doubt I'll ever want to see that show. The one time I tuned in to a bit of it out of curiosity, it was right at the most gruesome possible moment, and the unpleasantness of that guaranteed I'd never be curious about it again.
Anyway, the homemade rig they recreated was kind of clever, in a murderous sort of way. But when they do these movie myths, I always wonder why they don't just contact the people who actually did the things in the original shows/films and find out how they did them -- in this case, whether it was done for real, and what parts they used. I mean, they did bring in the show's creator for a guest appearance, so it shouldn't have been hard to call up its property master. But instead they did the thing where they study photos from the episode.
Although I suppose that's the sort of thing they're good at, as we see in those YouTube videos where Adam recreates movie costumes and Kirk's captain's chair and things like that. I guess part of the fun is figuring it out for themselves rather than just asking.
What surprised me about the result was that the bullets didn't tumble/get thrown off more by going through the side of the car first. I think that did contribute to some of the bullets tumbling and going astray, but apparently it didn't disrupt most of them that badly.
Anyway, they left out one part, the trunk lid automatically rising. I'm not sure why that was necessary beyond letting the audience see the gun, but I guess maybe it was so that the cartridges could be ejected.
