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Post by OziRiS on Jan 21, 2017 12:57:26 GMT
Yup. Not a person I'd like to work with, that's for sure. I just re-watched the first episode. While his team was discussing how to go about the build, he was constantly talking about " MY idea" and " MY design". I actually liked Allen cutting through the crap at one point and going, "Both of these designs will get the seat out of the car, you guys are just arguing over which one is going to shoot it further." Hours later, they're still debating which one to use, while the other team is already tearing their car apart. I know it takes two to argue, but based on the design they ended up using after taking a vote, I'm pretty sure I know who was primarily responsible for holding everything up and annoying everyone else, because his design was the one that got scrapped. that said, I DID enjoy his failure in the paint machine. that was some nice devastation, there. Yeah, that did look pretty spectacular. Unfortunately - and this is why I didn't get the MVP nomination AT ALL - the outcome was predictable when it was still on the drawing board. The design was overly complicated and was bound to fail one way or another. I may not have the experience with explosives that the original MythBusters do, but even I could see that that many moving parts depending on harnessing the energy of an explosion just wouldn't work. Too many potential points of failure. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 21, 2017 15:30:36 GMT
that said, I DID enjoy his failure in the paint machine. that was some nice devastation, there. Yeah, that did look pretty spectacular. Unfortunately - and this is why I didn't get the MVP nomination AT ALL - the outcome was predictable when it was still on the drawing board. The design was overly complicated and was bound to fail one way or another. I may not have the experience with explosives that the original MythBusters do, but even I could see that that many moving parts depending on harnessing the energy of an explosion just wouldn't work. Too many potential points of failure. I give him points for taking a different approach from anyone else, but at the same time, I also considered it to be likely to fail in one way or another. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 21, 2017 21:44:01 GMT
I give him points for taking a different approach from anyone else, but at the same time, I also considered it to be likely to fail in one way or another. Just re-watched the episode to see if my recollection of him being just as combative in episode 2 as he was in episode 1 was true, or if I was just a bit biased against him. Yes, points for originality (and I think that's where the MVP came from) and it also turns out I was a bit biased against him. It actually ended up being him who cut through the arguments (his own included) and openly said, "Let's just test all three in small scale and work our asses off on the one that does best." A definite improvement from episode 1, but I still don't like him and I still don't think he should have been given the MVP. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 21, 2017 22:20:27 GMT
Yeah, that did look pretty spectacular. Unfortunately - and this is why I didn't get the MVP nomination AT ALL - the outcome was predictable when it was still on the drawing board. The design was overly complicated and was bound to fail one way or another. I may not have the experience with explosives that the original MythBusters do, but even I could see that that many moving parts depending on harnessing the energy of an explosion just wouldn't work. Too many potential points of failure. I give him points for taking a different approach from anyone else, but at the same time, I also considered it to be likely to fail in one way or another. Yeah. The more points of potential failure within a system, the more likely it is that a failure will occur in due time. |
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jan 23, 2017 18:52:54 GMT
When he first said something to the effect of, "let's use the explosives to make something else do work" I thought it was brilliant! Have it push a piston that sprays the paint all over. I didn't dislike his idea, I hated that he made it overly complicated, and seemed to do so intentionally, just to draw the spotlight on himself.
As for him being the one that cut to the chase, I think he did that because he knew his idea was going to fail, but still HAD to have it tested...
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