Judging by the fact that they renewed the show for another season despite the fact that a lot of devoted Discovery Channel watchers complained endlessly lets us know that Discovery doesn’t really care. They saved a show that was failed from the start, and only focuses on explosions and “solving” mundane problems. What have they ever ever really solved that was both a poignant problem and a viable one? In the entire first season, that answer is nothing. This season? Fairly sure it’s nothing so far.

Something like Project Discovery Earth is so much better and more inviting because it’s focusing on real problems with viable, if oddball, solutions. Figuring out how to keep a semi from tipping its load of logs while barreling around a turn isn’t a problem (this week’s episode). There’s a solution: braking. I just saved myself from wasting an hour of my night watching their dumb experiments.

Smash lab was junk, I never made it through the first episode. It reminded me of the episode(s) of mythbusters rocketcar where they took 30 minutes to figure out to put the rocket thrust vector pointed at the center of gravity. But, as stupid as it was, at least they had some enthusiasm.

I am continually keeping abreast of renewable energy, I read every power/renewable trade magazine front to back word for word. I love it and I get psyched at the level of research and development happening today. Watching Invention Nation was like getting salmonella. The whole show is framed incorrectly and that starts the bellyache and the forehead sweats. Next comes the hosts, not even engineers!!! and they obviously have no clue about what it is they are looking at (now I’m getting the turd button pressure). The final blow out spasm is that they aren’t excited and have zero personality. They obviously have no interest in the material other than being on TV… I guess its hard to imagine but I’m like a combination of Billy Hayes (sp?) from oxyclean and Tony Little on the gazelle about this stuff. (Throw in a little hulk hogan and mr. t and you’ve pretty much nailed it).

In case someone from the network is reading this, no, do not actually put hulk hogan or mr. T on the network. They are cool, but you’d have to find the personalities that can fire up a tv show.

Too bad Beyond Tomorrow is gone, that show and its predecessors was(were) great. Those hosts (who were in reality physicists and such) knew how to present the material in such a manner that you were really looking forward to what might be ‘beyond tomorrow’.

Cheers!

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