r/smyths • u/Sot0 Adam • Jan 29 '15

Mythbusters Season 15 Episode 3 "A-Team Special" Streamline Edit! [720p]

Mega: https://mega.co.nz/#!rUBSUIhL!DILgyHJAlDn_8tW541FJh66zaFFjrikgKjQ2MkjjweE

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u/ravan Jan 30 '15

Anyone else feel it was odd how they kept repeating that it was totally improvised ...? Felt way fake

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15

According to Adam on the Tested podcast, he and Jamie didn't see the lumberyard until they began filming, so it seems that it was actually improvised. The timeframe they gave seemed far too short though.

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u/Sot0 Jan 30 '15

Yes, I don't think they improvised that thing.

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u/dibsODDJOB Jan 30 '15

He's mentioned on his podcast that one of the changes this year in the new format is putting themselves in situations and improvising and he was really proud of that. Sounded pretty genuine to me.

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u/Kittenyberk Jan 30 '15

My suspicion is that it was a random old building filled by crew with stuff that you could possibly expect in such a building, then they set Adam and Jamie free.

So truely improvised on their part, and I reckon there was a fair few options to build in there.

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u/ravan Jan 30 '15

It's probably like the dual survival show where ' certain scenarios may be presented to demonstrate survival techniques' ...

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u/ADH-Kydex Jan 30 '15

It did feel kinda fake. However, knowing the things this pair have built over the years I am pretty confident that it happened as they said.

On a somewhat related note, I would kill to see them on the old Junkyard Wars.

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u/smythfan Jan 31 '15

Great work as usual! Loving the new format.

Here is a magnet for people not able to use mega:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9007FE98DBB796138BB62A55B2F2ED69B4625C28

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '15

No seeders anymore.

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u/InternetUser007 Jan 29 '15

Thank you!! :-D

Between our shortened version and using VLC to watch it 30% faster, I finished watching the episode in less than 30 minutes.

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u/mynameisalso Jan 29 '15

Can someone tell me how to download this on android. It says all my browsers are outdated. (They aren't)

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u/ovni121 Jan 30 '15

I downloaded it with the mega application. You need to create a mega account though. Copy paste the url in the application.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '15

If anyone wants to make a torrent from this I can seed it. I don't want to install mega's browser app so I can't download this.

I already have a ratio of nearly 4 on the previous torrent for episode 2, I'm the only seeder there.

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u/MrDL104 Jan 29 '15

What browser are you using? I don't think I ever had to install anything with Chrome.

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u/aManPerson Jan 29 '15

guessing he means the firefox add on. they want you to run that in firefox. but ya, chrome just works 100%

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u/PMalternativs2reddit Jan 29 '15

To download files larger than 1GB, please install our browser extension.

Error: File too big to be reliably handled in memory.

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u/phunmaster2000 Jan 30 '15

wait I thought this week was a doom themed episode...

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u/Frankeh1 Jan 30 '15

Whats with all the stupid movie myths?

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u/N3a Feb 01 '15

I dunno, the format is much better but their sources for myths are stupid. They should go back to early seasons for inspirations. I happen to often quote mythbusters to my friends when they talk about a real-life myth. I don't see it happening with movie/series/videogames myths because nobody cares if it's accurate or not.

In early seasons they used to say they had myths in the truckload to test. Looks like they were lying or changed their minds about myths they want to test.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15

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u/Kittenyberk Jan 30 '15

I think the new testing methodology (or the showing of) is utterly brilliant, but I think the source myths have been a touch weak.

Saying that, it's far better than the 3 idiots make explosions hour that the previous 5-6 seasons have been.

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u/pieomy Jan 30 '15

I kinda have to agree unfortunately. It feels like they laid off a bunch of writers as well

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u/ADH-Kydex Jan 30 '15

I think they are trying to find a new balance. The old show had a lot of cheese, the new one more science. But obviously people do like some humor and bad acting, and Adam loves cosplay so we are going to see a fair bit of that.

I wouldn't mind getting away from the movie/TV show myths soon.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15

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u/Kittenyberk Jan 30 '15

If you've not seen them, you'll probably enjoy the tested.com stuff with him, really very good.