Okay, a little behind but I'm catching up.
Usually I either enjoy both Adan and Jamie's myth as much as the Build Team, or I feel that Kari, Grant and Tori got the awesome Myth and I like it much better the the one Adam and Jamie are testing. Very rarely do I enjoy Adam's Myth more, just equal.
This episode I enjoyed the Myth Adam and Jamie tested so much more then the other one.
I had never heard the Myth that you can't swim in carbonated water. My first thought was "where the hell are you ever going to find a source of carbonated water big enough that you even could swim in ?". The Myth seemed far-fetched but I was willing to tag along for the ride.
I enjoyed the small scale test and Jamie's solution to making bubbles in water was really neat. I would probably have drilled thousands of holes in a sheet of metal like he suggested, the canvas was a stroke of genius.
I was a little bummed that the test rig was only 4 feet wide and 16 feet long. I think with the biggest material being the canvas they could have gone much bigger so Adam was not pushed to the side so easily. The underwater antics were epic setting it up and I'm a lot like Adam in that I love results that you didn't expect. Overall I really enjoyed everything about the swimming in carbonated water Myth.
On the other side, I really didn't 'get' the other Myth. So, a fan writes in and says his father would tie dynamite to an arrow, shoot it at a tree, and the explosion would split the tree ?
First, this is not a Myth. It's a story. Second, I know they like/use view suggestions but this one seemed really weak. Again, I think it would have been better as a mini-myth on a view special then used in an entire episode.
I was hoping the pay-off would be seeing a tree split with explosives but as cool as explosions are all they really did was blow-up a tree. Still, I always love the banter between the team and it's always neat to see the process.
I give the episode a B+. Hoping for an A+ on the next one.