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Supreme Allah posted:I used to hate Man vs Wild, because it really isn't as pure a survival experience as Survivorman. People mentioned it already, but Les (Survivorman) has to try and last for a week by himself, hauling all the various camera gear himself, and his only supplies are a Multi-tool, and whatever he scraps together from the vehicle that would get him to such a remote area (IE, a trashed bike or broken snowmobile). The show is very eerie at times, due to the lack of production. It's just one man trying to last in isolation and the elements, and the emotional impact on him is palpable in every single show. Eh, that adds something to it, but I would be beyond shocked if he hasn't got a sat phone, GPS, and a helicopter ready to come pick his rear end up if things go bad or he doesn't check in on time. He's alone in more ways than Man vs. Wild is, but it's not that big a difference. I don't think the Man vs Wild crew are allowed to help Bear out either unless something goes really wrong. Ozma posted:Interesting. I wonder if they pissed too many people off? Yeah, it seemed really, really staged most of the time, especially with the homeowners getting all fakely angry. The only interesting part was seeing the one guy break in and steal poo poo, which comprised maybe 10 minutes of the show total. It beat the poo poo out of all their paranormal/UFO shows though, and for that I hope it sticks around.
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lordblytzkrieg posted:Yea, I really enjoyed that special too. It was on Military Channel, and I think they still repeat it every once in awhile. If that's the name then it isn't on for the next 2 weeks. Also, I hope you realize that "Yea" is pronounced "yay" and hasn't been acceptable since medieval times. I hate people who type "yea" and think Bear should be allowed to carve them up and eat them for sustenance. SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Man, I wish they would bring back It Takes a Thief. That show was a lot of fun, especially when they started making it a surprise when the people would get robbed I liked that show, but it was only about 15 minutes of entertainment in a 60 minute sack. The only good parts were the burglary and the homeowners getting all angry about it (even though that was obviously heavily scripted). The whole second half of the show is just garbage. Installing a ridiculous security system and seeing whether or not people can be arsed to turn it on? THRILLING! IRQ fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jun 10, 2007 |
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Very true, it's just that that part was over so quickly. It was such a front-loaded show that I'd usually change the channel after they give the stuff back. I love his comments about how stupid the homeowners are as he's stealing stuff though, and when he brings that other guy with the huge truck to help.
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Bob Sapp Please posted:Dammit I forgot all about this being on. I was too busy catching up watching season 1 of Jericho. They'll re-run it like 7 billion times anyway, don't worry. Bear says "orientate" several times in this episode, I don't know why, but hearing that always makes me laugh.
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Jun 16, 2007 16:59
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soggybagel posted:I just don't get why Les wouldn't show the camera when he kills things...that always puzzled me. I'm 99% sure that he's actually a vegan/vegetarian/what-loving-ever-hippie-human being-bullshit in real life, and makes exceptions for the sake of the show. Which would explain why he's a bit sparse on details.
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Yeah, and that bait preparation job looked pretty dirty what with cutting off a bunch of fish heads and stuff. Plus, it seems like Phil smokes so much that just being around him would cover you in a grimy yellow film.
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The new ice road trucker show is pretty awesome though, you must admit. There was at least a documentary or something about it before though, I could swear I remember one anyway.
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DurosKlav posted:Which episode was this Jamie clip in? I remember them shocking him but I don't remember his reaction towards it so now I want to see it. This is lovely because it's someone filming their tv, but not that bad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buF-feh51eg Once you know what happens you can rewatch it and see how tense everyone is.
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Kentucky Shark posted:Bumping this thread to remind Mike Rowe fans that he's on Larry King Live tonight. Watching Larry King interview people these days tends to be pretty painful, but still, Mike Rowe It'll be worth it just to watch Mike mock that senile old fart.
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Dr. Memory posted:Man, this is like end of the world porn. It was like an updated Threads but with a much happier ending.
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There's some sort of Dirty Jobs on in 2 weeks that looks newish: "Dirtiest Machines on the Planet." Or it's old and I don't remember it... or it's just a clip show (sounds that way). I think they're just running out of dirty jobs to do, I haven't watched this week's yet, but that billboard one was lame and not dirty at all.
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I had been anticipating Ice Road Truckers since I heard about it. The one-off documentary they ran about it a long time back was really good, and I think the show has been pretty good too. Supposedly, someone dies next week.
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chesh posted:Most Trusted Name In News (NY POST) That's worse than the loving Daily Mail.
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chesh posted:Yes, that would have been sarcasm on my part. It's hard to tell these days. 
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smackfu posted:Is "Build It Bigger" really a new series? I could swear I've seen a few of those episodes scattered around randomly. Building the Ultimate? Really, after Flip this House and Flip that House, I stopped trying to tell the difference.
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slartibartfast posted:Wow, nothing on the MythBusters' baseball special last night? I'd have figured there'd at least be a few posts on it. I thought it was, like baseball, very boring. But yeah, Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs are both suffering from a lack of new ground to cover. Though I think Dirty Jobs still has legs, if they'd get out there and look. The shitsucker thread in GBS would be perfect Dirty Jobs fodder. IndieRockLance posted:Is it just me, or is How It's Made one of the most boring-rear end shows ever made? Not just because they're talking about the fascinating world of vegetable oil and masking tape manufacturing, but because they use the worst supermarket jazz they can find to play behind a narrator who couldn't make the Statue of Liberty becoming sentient and smashing through New York sound interesting. He's Canadian, ehhhhhhhhhhh, what do you want from him? I like that show just to see how all the crap we use every day gets to us. They keep the segments short enough to not be tedious, and it probably costs like $20 to shoot an episode.
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Darth Freddy posted:Oh I understand that but it just amazes me that it can sell for that much. True enough when I think of tuna I think of a bunch of fished caught in nets, so to find out a single fish can bring in more money then my car cost just floors me. It does make me wonder if there is stuff like tuna steak or what ever the equivalent of it would be. The thing is, some tuna are loving huge. Like as big as your car, and frightening. I guess that might be it, though I really won't watch a show about a vile fish that is common as dirt and tastes even worse. Robot Relations posted:I'm not sure what the Mythbusters' issue is, but with Dirty Jobs, I think the problem is Mike Rowe's busy as hell and doesn't have the time to go do the jobs they need for the show. Eh, I always thought they were just desperate for content, but you, I suppose, could be right. It's just that the last few DJ episodes have been a lot cleaner and a lot more focused. I don't see how narrating Deadliest Catch and doing lovely Ford commercials can take THAT much time though.
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nmfree posted:Take two on this concept, I guess. That one was pretty awful too. The back end of the boats were completely open, that's how calm the water was. I'm all for knockoffs and incestuous edutainment programming (Flip This/That/The Other House!), but my god that was lame.
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J33uk posted:Is it just me or does Mythbusters feel like it lasts ten minutes these days? There just seems to be very little content and lots of presentation. That's been the case since late season 2.
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I really think all the Discovery channel type shows that do gimmick episodes shouldn't, and the ones that don't should. Just think of it - What Not to Wear: Mogadishu edition. Flip This/That/the Other House: Fallujah edition. Man vs Wild: Mall of America. These are good ideas and Discovery should give me money.
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Wow. Discovery channel has started being massive faggots and added 24 hour timers to their shows through tivo. Why the gently caress did I pay for a DVR when I can't actually use it?
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Martytoof posted:Wait, hang on -- what did they do exactly? I don't see anything wrong with my TiVo's Discovery, unless I'm just not looking at something right. Mythbusters, Going Tribal and Survivorman (the new episodes) have all had 24 hour copy protection on them for me this week. IRQ fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 25, 2007 |
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Martytoof posted:Hunh. Nevermind, my mythbusters was, in fact, NOT missing. Go figure. I was just looking on the wrong page of recorded shows Does it have a little orange flag next to it? Mine just recorded the Dirty Jobs re-air at 1 today and it's yet another Discovery show with copy protection bullshit.
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Could be, could be my tivo is just hosed up or something. But the fact that it's only happening on Discovery Channel shows that first aired this week and nothing else makes me think something's up. Old reruns of Mythbusters etc don't get this. This is what's happening: http://www.notonefreename.com/pics/dj1.jpg http://www.notonefreename.com/pics/dj2.jpg It's not like it'd take me a week or more to watch them, and I don't really care that I can't copy it off the DVR, but I don't like prepaying $300 for a big chunk of tivo service to have them suddenly start implementing a bunch of DRM nonsense.
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It's a series 2 on comcast digital and no HD anything. It looks like it's happening to absolutely everything on Discovery. I'm going to guess that my cable box is a piece of poo poo (which I already knew) and try analog. Digital costs too much anyway. edit: Yup, swapping over to analog fixed it. Yet another incident in a long, long line of comcast and comcast related hardware sucking rear end. 
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KRSNA posted:Edit: I'm still wondering what happened to his sled dogs in the Labrador episode, he got flown out, but what became of the dogs? After he let them run off he said they'd make it back to the Inuit camp he borrowed them from. Given how much trouble they gave him wanting to go back in the first place, I believe him when he says they probably did. That, and the Inuit would not lend him a sled team that would not run home at the drop of a hat. Those dogs are very valuable, and they wouldn't stand for them just being loosed into the wild for some silly tv show. I certainly am not trying to call Les a fraud, but trained sled dogs are not something you just let loose to the fates.
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therochester posted:Does anyone else think that Kari has put on a bunch of weight? Like, enough that it's effecting her cuteness? I think you made a wrong turn, GBS was a right at Albuquerque.
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Ape Agitator posted:Also, that cable ascender that Jamie fashioned was sexy. Almost as sexy as one with reverse gear. I'm personally - as I have marginal knowledge of such things - surprised that he could take tiny a high RPM motor and convert that speed to enough torque to lift a man as fast as it did. I'm sure there's an explanation that makes sense regarding the conversion, but it was still totally awesome to me.
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Heh, I usually drive with that "vulcan grip." Perhaps that's not such a good idea. Anyway, like with most revisit/theme episodes, this mainly sucked. The only half-interesting thing that got brought up was Terry musing on RFID credit card info theft. I know only a few cards even use that and that it's probably easier to just steal someone's number, but that might at least be a decent segment. Maybe with testing the myriad of ways paranoid people try to prevent that, like wrapping your card in foil or something, I don't know, there must be myths about this as retarded as people get over RFID. edit: vvvv Seriously, I've only ever heard it as saying the letters. IRQ fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Sep 6, 2007 |
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Free Market Gravy posted:Same here, particularly the "film" that did distort the plate based on the angle. I never bothered to really think about it or suggest a revisit, though, because while I knew a different angle would make a difference, if it actually distorted the plate, it would have been outlawed and not be commercially available. Eh, the change from 5 feet to 10 feet given the distance to the car makes the change in angle minuscule. Yeah there's a difference if you're standing right by the trunk and looking down on it, but the camera would have to be taking pictures almost straight down rather than 20 feet away or however far it is. I thought that myth was terribly stupid the first time around and wish they hadn't redone it. But most of their stuff these days is completely  anyway.
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That's true. That needle was loving enormous.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I've never heard that he was in the special forces. His wiki page says nothing about it either. There's been rumors floating around forever that he was spec ops of some sort because - if I remember right - he just started doing underwater demolition out of nowhere or something like that. I think it's mainly just internet people.
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Why would anyone question the validity of MacGyver's genius? 
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Capn Beeb posted:Because he turned into a gross Green Peace hippie, which eventually killed the show. Ok but he did do some cool poo poo up until the last season or so when it became an after school special (do they even do after school specials anymore?) Besides which, he was needed elsewhere to kill megalomaniacal space slug parasites and save the world.
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TLG James posted:I'm digging the new style of Man vs wild. He looks like he's trying to keep it more "real" and realistic. Also 2 episode adventures are awesome. Yeah, where before it always felt a bit staged and such, now he's basically acknowledging that not only is he getting help but that he's doing the stupid stuff on purpose for educational purposes. and he hasn't laid off on the eating gross stuff/urine use at all. I think they handled the "scandal" quite well, though it didn't bother me at all in the first place.
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Similarly, does anyone know what sort of boots Bear uses?
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So the treadmill isn't in it? TVGuide said it was too.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I don't think Jamie laughs or smiles about a whole lot. He creeps me out sometimes with his seriousness. I'm not sure I want to know what really makes him laugh. He laughs when the show's contraptions work right. Especially when it involves blowing something up.
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