I've watched the first couple of episodes of the latest season of MythBusters. It's the first with the new hosts, Jonathan Lung and Brian Louden, who were selected in the reality competition series MythBusters: The Search. Episode 6 of this new season premieres on Wednesday in the U.S. on the Science Channel, and you'll likely be able to binge all of them at the end of the MythBusters megamarathon that starts later this week. Short review - if you liked the show before, you'll probably enjoy it still. Whether the new hosts engage you like their predecessors did remains to be seen.
The graphics have been tweaked slightly, and the hosts are now based out of Santa Clarita, rather than San Francisco. (This is no doubt in part because the show had been using previous host Jamie Hyneman's SF shop during production.) The US narrator (based out of Australia) remains, and the concept is the same - test myths, sayings and movie scenarios to see what basis they have in reality, if any. The workspace is bigger, and there seems to be fewer support personnel (at least on camera), which makes the production seem bigger as a result. But I'd guess that, at least starting out, that the budget is a bit smaller. I still enjoy the show, but the new hosts don't engage me like Adam, Jamie and the Build Team do. Brian and Jonathan are skilled builders and comfortable in front of the camera, but there's no obvious dynamic between them. The selection of this pair at the end of The Search surprised me because the show gave me no sense of how they might work together. I had some idea of how other pairings of the top five in the competition might work, and kind of expected one of those combinations (which could have included either Brian or Jonathan) to be the final pair as a result. It's also worth noting that this is the first time Brian and Jonathan are working together, while Adam, Tory and Grant all had prior experience with Jamie, if not each other, before joining the show. I do miss having women involved in front of the camera, and not just for the example they set for young people seeking to get into science and/or engineering. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
