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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 11, 2015 23:34:29 GMT
Its six episodes long, last year was eight episodes starting in January, then seven starting in late June (two of which were episodes filmed two years or so earlier but not aired).
There will be a second block of 6-7 episodes later in the year.
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Post by the light works on Feb 12, 2015 2:15:44 GMT
Very short season it seems. Adam tweeted earlier that the season finale is Saturday. for some reason discovery thinks there are more than 4 seasons in a year.
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Post by blazerrose on Feb 12, 2015 7:51:30 GMT
A lot of "season finales" are coming up soon. Networks are ordering shorter and shorter runs, then showing them in blocks. TNT and the Food Network do this, too. Chopped has only been on since 2009 but the show is in its 23rd season. The new TNT series the Librarians only had 10 episodes total. Do I want more MythBusters? Yes. Will the seasons ever get longer? Doubt it.
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 12, 2015 13:05:13 GMT
The thing is that there is no official definition of a 'season'. Traditionally it has meant a run of 18-24 episodes starting in the Fall and ending in Spring of the next year. However this can only really be applied to scripted shows on main networks. Discovery has never really followed this pattern and MB certainly hasn't; The longest runs of the show have only been around 8 episodes long. Not even a half season by the standards of most shows.
Everyone but Discovery tends to consider an MB season to comprise of all episodes aired as a block in a year.
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Post by the light works on Feb 12, 2015 15:20:58 GMT
so if I ever get a TV show, I'll just call every episode a season, and I'll already be in my 5th season after my first month on the air...
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 15, 2015 8:29:08 GMT
Simpsons Special aired Wednesday 18th F8b 9pm Discovery UK. This is the start of a "Mini series" of MB's in UK.
So how long is a mini series?.. as yet unpublished.
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 15, 2015 14:48:26 GMT
There are six episodes in this run of shows.
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Post by the light works on Feb 15, 2015 15:20:41 GMT
Simpsons Special aired Wednesday 18th F8b 9pm Discovery UK. This is the start of a "Mini series" of MB's in UK. So how long is a mini series?.. as yet unpublished. I'm guessing the same length as our season. (there's another of those US/UK terminology differences. for us, a "series" is the entire length of a show, from first ever to last ever; and a "season" is the episodes of a show shown between breaks.)
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 15, 2015 16:04:54 GMT
Traditionally a half season is a run of 12-13 episodes, as a full season is 20-24 episodes. In this case I *think* the total number of episodes this year is going to be around 12-13 (Based on this being the total number of episodes A&J were able to make in their first season when there was no build team). So 'half season' sounds right if UK TV is including all the episodes that will air this year.
*Disclaimer; I don't actually know how many episodes will be aired in 2015, since there is usually around a years gap between filming and airing episodes. They've probably had about ten months to film episodes for this season, taking into account the tour. If it takes around two weeks to plan and film individual segments/myths and there are two segments per episode that would work out at around ten episodes for the year. However that ignores that some things they do can be set up and tested in maybe two or three days - both as individual myths and even entire episodes. I'd be surprised, for example, if the Drifting Myth episode (or what I've seen of it) took more than three or four days to film in its entirety.
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 15, 2015 23:10:41 GMT
Not to mention that they have to get into the groove of not having the build team around and figure out how they're going to do things now. Of course they have a plan for now, but there's no telling if that plan will change in the coming seasons, allowing for more episodes from 2016.
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 16, 2015 0:38:40 GMT
I don't think the lack of the build team will affect their work rate, given that they worked in different buildings and had different crews for each team. Nor is it likely to have made any difference to how they work. As they have explained the only difference is that we are getting to see more the build proccess they always went through in prior seasons.
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Post by blazerrose on Feb 16, 2015 4:08:04 GMT
Just that to fill an hour of programming falls solely on A&J now.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jul 1, 2015 17:46:06 GMT
The Mythbusters Facebook account has given us the date for the new 'season';
Ladies, Gentlemen and Australians Mythbusters will be back on air July 18th.
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jul 1, 2015 17:56:10 GMT
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Post by Cybermortis on Jul 1, 2015 19:23:34 GMT
That is his Master and Commander uniform, which he has shown off on Tested in detail.
More specifically it is a Royal Navy Post-Captains uniform (with three years seniority) circa 1800.
That looks interesting to me, and what might be considered to be 'classic' mythbusters.
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jul 2, 2015 17:50:52 GMT
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Post by Cybermortis on Jul 2, 2015 18:33:38 GMT
From that article; Those of you with long memories, or who just looked through the Star Wars thread in the hall of Fame, might realize that this is basically an idea from that thread. Namely how practical/well designed IS the Stormtrooper armor, and could that explain the poor accuracy of Stormtroopers in the films. I am, btw, claiming that as 'my' idea since I posted it in that thread. So there
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 2, 2015 21:45:38 GMT
I know I'm a minority around here in this regard, but more Star Wars? Really? I hope this is the last of that.
The falling pane of glass cutting someone in half sounds interesting.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jul 2, 2015 22:09:18 GMT
I know I'm a minority around here in this regard, but more Star Wars? Really? I hope this is the last of that. The falling pane of glass cutting someone in half sounds interesting. As far as Star Wars goes, I'll repeat what I said (and was told 'officially'); They'd been having real problems trying to find ideas that could be tested from Star Wars, since a lot of things involved fictional technologies and the other half the Force. The list of ideas we came up with proved to be incredibly useful in that regard. And in fact all three of the ideas they tested presumably came from TC as all three were on the list of ideas in that thread. Given this, and that I suspect that we covered practically everything that could be tested, I doubt that they would have enough material for a third Star Wars special. Of course that depends on A; How many ideas they actually test in the second special. If they only do two it is possible they might have two more they could do if they wanted to. B; If they spot anything in the new films, or at least the one that comes out later this year. Even one testable myth from the new film might be enough for them to do a third special...and lets face it Star Wars IS about trilogies.... It was hinted to me that they'd done a lot of 'classic' Mythbusters stuff, but that it just hadn't been aired early in the year and would make an appearance later on. It sounds to me like they've got a nice mixture this time around, with a roughly equal mix of specials and 'normal' episodes. Observation; Assuming two or three myths per episode and a run of six episodes in total that would give us 12-18 myths of which we only know of 4. Its going to be interesting to see what else they may have done, and if that includes anything posted on TC.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 3, 2015 0:30:14 GMT
Don't get me wrong, I think it's really cool that you guys (and I say "you guys", because Star Wars doesn't interest me in the least, so I wasn't involved in idea development) came up with pretty much everything they tested for a Star Wars special that they've been wanting to do for years. Even if the ideas hadn't come from TC, if someone else could have come up with something, they would have done it anyway, regardless of what I or anyone else had said, because it was a project they really wanted to do. So yeah, seeing as they were planning on doing it as soon as the opportunity presented itself anyway, I can see the complete coolness in you guys being the ones who gave them the opportunity. Good for you and good for TC as a board.
That being said, I still think doing Star Wars myths has more to do with the crew (especially Adam) living out childhood dreams of storm troopers and light sabers than it has to do with anything even remotely relating to the original intent of the show, which was to test myths. The Star Wars universe in and of itself being completely fictional and therefore mythical make the tests more or less completely moot. Yes, you guys did a great job of finding stuff from the movies to test that couldn't be explained away by fictional technologies or "the force", but they still didn't have anything at all to do with reality.
Take the tauntaun myth, for example.
Testing if you can survive on a fictional icy planet inside a fictional dead creature is completely pointless, because there are bound to be unknown parameters that can be used to challenge any result you come up with.
The icy planet itself, for instance. How cold was that place exactly? What were the wind speeds? Was it even water ice in the atmosphere, or ice made from a different substance and if so, what substance? How does that affect temperature?
And what's the normal core temperature of a tauntaun? Or the insulating capabilities of its fur and fat? Do tauntauns even have fat and if so, how thick a subcutaneous layer do they have? What kind of bacteria live in the intestines of a tauntaun and how does that affect the rate of decay when it dies? You have to assume the creature evolved from something else, like everything on Earth did, and that something else is likely to be bacteria adapted to thrive in that environment, so who says low temperatures slow the decay rate on that planet as much as they do on Earth? Who says bacteria on that planet don't thrive so much in the cold that the decay rate is the same or maybe even higher than they are under hot and humid conditions on Earth?
All of these parameters are worked out on the assumption that the tauntaun is a creature, which in many aspects of its basic biology resembles something like a cross between a camel and a polar bear on Earth. But when you're working with nothing but assumptions about a completely fictional creature on a completely fictional planet, all your results can instantly be challenged, because my fiction is as good as yours. Whatever arguments you can come up with based on YOUR fictional parameters, someone else can just counter with their own set of fictional parameters.
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