traveltothesun
All I can say is, I won't be watching it. I think when the advertisers see the ratings it will die a quick death. It and the new wheeler dealers are on the same path. Trying to take something that had a good format and put in new people just doesn't work. Some one tries a new spin and it stops. Some times death before dishonor works.
Joseph Pelatohri
Anybody familiar with the original MythBusters is likely familiar with its gradual decline. The first 5 or 6 season were the "golden age" and then they started tweaking the formula for ratings / to reach a wider audience (i.e. less and less substance, and more and more "wow factor"). The last few seasons had devolved into a sort of "witches brew" of scripted reality TV, and a race to blow something up / create a spectacle, magnificently void of logic / reasoning."MythBusters: The Search" has once again lowered the bar. The show is now formatted as a competition, yet they attempt to shoehorn the elements of the original into the new format as if nothing has changed (e.g. classifying a myth as confirmed, plausible, or busted, when the new format provides virtually no rigorous, empirical justification for doing so).To present this uncontrolled, "fly by the seat of your pants" science (if you can even call it that) which takes place under the new competition format, as any sort of definitive, reproducible result is downright idiotic.Their mistake was using the "MythBusters" name for the show, as it creates a certain expectation, which goes magnificently unfulfilled.
Spec(R)
Only watch for the morbid fascination seeing a corpse decompose. This week's elimination was unknown only because the losing team had the following different people: someone who was struggling with using an angle grinder; someone who didn't know how to open the hood of a car; someone who seemed to be making last minutes changes to the control of a system (that eventually fired prematurely); and a group lead who seemed to be fine with over-pressuring a pneumatic system (that eventually fired prematurely). What drama.And the losing team wasn't even the one that looked most incompetent during the build!Eventually they went with a choice they were signaling throughout the show. Why they chose this person to be on the show at all is baffling. Presumably just for the humiliation potential.The host is entirely without any kind of scientific or engineering authority. The final set of new Mythbusters will have earned the respect of an editor at some tech website. I would pity the children while watching him evaluate the work of a junior high school shop class. Watching him comment on some of the more experienced workers while they nod and cheer actually reduces my respect for them.The people who are selected by this process may or may not be technically/scientifically savvy and have the charisma to host a TV show. I don't know. But they will certainly be able to denigrate themselves.I could go on and it was only an hour long show.Terrible. Just terrible.
