Re:Gimli Glider
by 464192002d7fe1c on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:33PM
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Agreed, the earlier episodes were better, but I still don't think they were great. The last season of the show (when it was just Jayme/Adam) was actually fantastic though.
I've never actually seen any of the biography series (I just associate it with shallow celebrity profiles) I'll have to dig up the earlier episodes, thanks!
I do wonder how the show by the assistants will do on Netflix. I too cannot say I'm a fan of the original. Their snowplow episode hit way too close to home and came to entirely the wrong (and a dangerous) conclusion. Testing anything having to do with snow, ice, and curved road surface on a flat, dry runway is doomed to failure with horrific reporting of results.
[I get it, no criticism of Myth Busters allowed]
The earliest episodes were more scientific and educational. They spent quite a bit of time explaining how they were going to construct something and then showing how they actually built it. It became pure entertainment--devoted especially to blowing things up--once the show achieved success.
Another example of a show descending to the lowest common denominator: The first years of "Biography" on the A&E Network had stories about explorers, scientists, and world leaders--Michelangelo, Henry Ford, Julius Caesar, Marconi, Marco Polo--but now it's nothing but celebrities.