MYTHBUSTERS 2015 Season Thread

[tharpdevenport]

Nothing is jiving with what they said behind the scene in interviews and conventions speaches.

First the trio they got rid of said they had their contracts renewed for like two or three more years, then suddenly we get a rushed together end cap to an episode saying good-bye to them using re-used footage from another episode.


Then Jamie and Adam said repeatedly there were myths to last years, with no end in sight, that they loved their job, and looked forward to it, then the show is cancelled?


I have a feeling there's more going on behind the scenes with the Discovery Channel than we know of.



I'll miss it, but I remember that they are developing a spy TV series for CBS that would star them, so there's something to look forward to.

 

[MacLeod]

Well I expect them to go out with a rather large bang.

 

[Christopher]

Here's Entertainment Weekly's piece, featuring interviews with Adam and Jamie and a preview clip of another MacGyver myth coming up next season:

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/21/mythbusters-ending-interview

This is sad news. I figured A&J would be getting too old for the physical demands of the show before much longer, but I was hoping that they'd pass the torch to younger hosts who'd continue the show -- a possibility that was scuttled when Kari, Grant, and Tory were let go. It'll be a great loss to television to be without Mythbusters and to be stuck only with "reality" television that fabricates its own misleading version of reality as thoroughly as any politician.

I'll miss it, but I remember that they are developing a spy TV series for CBS that would star them, so there's something to look forward to.

No, according to the EW piece, they are executive-producing a scripted show for CBS, but they won't be the stars. Neither of them has any expectation of working together regularly after MB ends, and Jamie has pretty clearly had his fill of being in front of the camera.


You know, it's often struck me over the past few years how much Jamie Hyneman reminds me of my father, my uncles, and my grandfather. He has the same quiet intelligence, the intrinsic shyness and personal reserve, the dislike for the spotlight, the meticulous focus on his work, but with a rich sense of humor beneath the cool facade. (My father was so uncomfortable with the spotlight than when the radio station where he worked did a TV commercial showing the faces of their announcers, he insisted that they limit their depiction of him to a brief, blurry glimpse. Yet at the same time he was an inveterate ham who loved to perform for people, as long as it was on radio or an intimate theatrical setting instead of TV. I guess there was some Adam in him too.)

 

[MacLeod]

Well shy people can be quite open if they are within their comfort zone, when they have to move out of thier comfort zone is another matter. I dislike being the centre of attention, having to give presentations etc... thankful that is not something I have to do that often.

 

[Christopher]

Well shy people can be quite open if they are within their comfort zone, when they have to move out of thier comfort zone is another matter.

Ohh, I know that all too well, believe me. I'm a lifelong introvert.

 

[MacLeod]

Well shy people can be quite open if they are within their comfort zone, when they have to move out of thier comfort zone is another matter.

Ohh, I know that all too well, believe me. I'm a lifelong introvert.

As am I.

 

[Forbin]

My comfort zone is smaller than most peoples', and I somehow got "volun-told" to be the company staff photogtrapher (I have to shoot "action shots" of a meeting this morning at 10 for the company newsletter), and to do voice-overs for online training modules (I sound roughly like Kermit the frog with a stutter). How the hell did all this happen!?

Anyhow, on-topic: I'll thertainly myth them.

 

[TheSeeker]

I just watched the teaser for the final season and it looks like they'll be blowing up another cement truck. Hopefully all their cameras were in place and rolling this time.

 

[Christopher]

I just watched the teaser for the final season and it looks like they'll be blowing up another cement truck. Hopefully all their cameras were in place and rolling this time.

That's probably why they did it -- to make up for the original failure to get a high-speed shot of the event. This is their last chance to get it right. We might see a lot of tying off loose ends this season -- revisits, retests of things that didn't go off quite right, bucket-list myths, that sort of thing.

 

[TheSeeker]

That's what I was thinking. Let's hope they go out with a bang!

 

[intrinsical]

Here's Adam Savage talking about the ending of Mythbusters (among other stuff).

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiCNb2XCOCI[/yt]

 

[publiusr]

Not much left on Discovery for me to watch--once they're done.

 

[Christopher]

Not much left on Discovery for me to watch--once they're done.

Mythbusters is the only show left on Discovery that still fits its original mandate as an educational/science channel, instead of the sensationalist, faked "reality" garbage that's taken it over these days. I've been wishing for years that MB would separate itself from Discovery, although I'd hoped it would be as a result of finding a better home rather than being cancelled.

 

[Forbin]

Truly. Way back when we first got cable, I had either Discovery or the Learning Channel on all the time. Or the SciFi Channel. Now I occasionally find something sciency on the Science Channel (when they're not running How It's Fucking Made all day), and occasionally something sciency on Nat Geo (when they're not talking about bigfoot or aliens), and occasionally something sci fi on BBC America (when they're not running Top Gear or cooking shows)...

 

[Christopher]

^This is why we need public television. Commercial TV is too dependent on ratings and popularity, so any science or educational channel inevitably has to compromise and pander more to the lowest common denominator to stay in business. Public funding is the only way a network can stay clear of that influence. (Which is also why NPR and PBS are the only places to get responsible, legitimate broadcast news in the US anymore.)

 

[TheSeeker]

Today is the last day of filming on Mythbusters.

 

[UssGlenn]

I just watched the teaser for the final season and it looks like they'll be blowing up another cement truck. Hopefully all their cameras were in place and rolling this time.

That's probably why they did it -- to make up for the original failure to get a high-speed shot of the event. This is their last chance to get it right. We might see a lot of tying off loose ends this season -- revisits, retests of things that didn't go off quite right, bucket-list myths, that sort of thing.

they never did get the Jado rocket car to work right. I always assumed the revisit on that would be the finale, but they revisited that a couple years ago. And of course, the rocket exploded on the ramp due to a manufacturing defect. It's probably too much trouble for them to try again.

 

[TheSeeker]

I think it would be really appropriate if the final myth on the show was the rocket car.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Adam's other project Tested has the latest episode of his podcast Still Untitled, which features some questions directed to the man himself:
http://www.tested.com/old-categorie...am-still-untitled-adam-savage-project-111015/

 

[nightwind1]

I'm on another forum that Adam's a member of (the Replica Prop Forum), and he offered comps to "Mythbusters Live" for forum members.

So my wife, my best friend and his wife, and I all have free tickets and meet-and-greet passes to see Adam and Jamie in Ames on 11/30!

It's going to be great!