Another counter example (if the documentary is to be expected), Apparently Trey Parker and Matt Stone are essentially as close a 50 year marriage.
Even though a bit of a zombie…
The recent episode of Mythbusters where they paddle a barge with… not sure what they are called… steam shovels just doesn’t seem right, Adam commented something to the effect of “even though we don’t really like each other we work well together.”
Excavators. Pretty good episode. And I heard Adam say something similar in an interview on a podcast (maybe Skepticality).
Jaime was originally Adam’s boss long before Mythbusters.
He still holds onto that attitude. Jaime often reminds us that M5 is his shop. His tools and equipment. He complains that Adam is hard on his tools and he’s often sloppy.
That’s all true. But, doesn’t exactly foster a buddy buddy relationship between Adam and Jamie. Adam doesn’t work for Jaime anymore, but that old relationship is always there.
I’ve heard the show built the shop/set that Grant, Tory, Kari use. It’s not part of M5. Jaime can’t complain about their work habits.
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Mythbusters is really like two separate shows, Kari, Grant and Tory hardly ever come in contact with Adam and Jamie anymore.
I wonder why that is.
One complaint I have about the show is it’s become more or less a “You Asked For It!” sort of enterprise. A lot of what they’ve been doing over the last few series have been because of viewer requests on the website, or replicating viral videos.
I really enjoyed the early episodes, when they tested urban legends, and had a woman (I think she was a professor from somewhere) detailing the background and meaning of the legends. But there are only so many urban legends out there that can be tested, and besides, as we all know, “Jamie want big boom.”
You think it’s Jamie? I always thought it was Adam, Kari, Grant, and Tori who were the nitrophiliacs. Frankly, I blame them all for the dumbing down of the History, Discovery, and Nat Geo channels… And turning them all, collectively, into the Redneck Guns and Explosives channels. Crap, one and all.. let’s shoot something and blow something up is just crap broadcasting and has no redeeming qualities and the clones they have kicked off are becoming tiresome and boring.. They single handedly destroyed the last remnants of educational TV and have progressed the regressive policies of the NRA. People can actually conceal carry in a bar in my state thanks to the crap they kicked off..
It’s a direct quote from Jamie.
He talks about it on the Nerdist podcast. They have no problem admitting they don’t like each other, but when they’re doing some dangerous stunt, they want each other on the walkie talkies because they trust each other more than anyone else.
One thing which I don’t think was mentioned in this thread is that Jamie is the reason why Adam is on the show. Discovery originally approached Jamie alone about hosting a cable show. He said he was interested in the idea but recognized that he didn’t have the telegenic personality to carry a show by himself. So he recommended that Discovery hire Adam as his co-host.
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Probably just the complexity of coordinating their schedules. Some of the myths take a long time to shoot and it’s probably simpler for them to work separately. And the audience knows Kari and Grant and Tori by now. I don’t think the viewers feel they need to see them report back to Jamie and Adam.
I haven’t seen either of them say they don’t like each other, but they have almost diametrically opposed personalities and you don’t have to be friends to work well together.
I don’t think it’s simplicity so much as that there isn’t a necessity. Previous to Grant coming on, Jamie needed to plan out for and oversee the build team since none of them had the necessary skills to do the job. Both him and Adam seem to have hounded Grant for a while, trying to convince him to come on and lead the other team – presumably because trying to do their myths plus lead the build crew was negatively impacting the quality of the myths or making them work longer hours than they wanted.
With Grant there, there simply isn’t any need to put their hands in. Adam and Jamie can focus on their own work.
I suspect that they also try to keep separate just because it makes the other team a handy source of test subjects. In lots of tests, the person isn’t supposed to know what’s being tested, or else it might skew the results. But where possible, they would rather use a fellow cast member as a test subject than someone on the film crew, or off the streets. Keeping the other team in the dark and using them makes this all easier.
It’s true, I think, that Jamie tends on average to do better in his technical and scientific mindset. But you can’t deny that Adam has to strokes of sheer insane brilliance that truly leaps ahead of the game now and then.
Would you explain that to my wife?
Ya see, no matter what Equalizing, Contractual Defrayment, or Levity, it has always been quite apparent the pecking order. It has always been quite apparent, at a skeleton management level in early seasons, that Jamie was the big boss man, Adam was supposed to be the lovable sidekick, but was in reality the Foreman of the shop, delegating tasks to the laborers, and acting as everyone’s crazy shop teacher. Jamie was the administaration. I think that was why it was relatable …people can seethemselves somewhere in that imbalance of on the job power.
They’ve done a few myths with those kinds of tests, but, from what I remember, they’ve generally gone for usually off-screen members of their staff, rather than the Build Team experimenting on Adam and Jamie, or vice versa.
Also a lot of replicating movies scenes. Sometimes it’s cool, like with the James Bond episode. But sometimes it’s lame as with The Green Hornet episode earlier this year, which hadn’t even come out yet (so it’s not like people had long been wondering if the stuff in the movie was possible).
Despite Jamie’s somewhat “standoffish, no nonsense, I know what I am doing and am the boss persona” I gotta say that shows an amount of selfawareness, sense of fair play, and an ego thats under control that is a bit too rare in this world.
I must have seen this picture a hundred times now. When are you going to Photoshop out those red eyes?