So I've been watching the new Mythbusters and I have to say it is quite awesome.

I didn’t think I’d like it because of the changes they’ve made this season (getting rid of Kari, Grant, and Tori, aka ‘the Build Team’). For a decade now, it’s been my favorite show and the people on it are like old friends.

But it totally works. It’s like it was in the first season before the Build Team were a featured part. It’s more science- and DIY-oriented and less explosion-oriented, which is a good thing. I thought it was getting a little too slick anyway, a little too boom boom. I thought the editing was getting too quick-cut and flashing, like the feces and vomit that are publicly displayed on MTV, the worst channel in the history of television.

It’s still a little slick (after all, their budget has suffered terribly by becoming pretty much bottomless), but it’s more nuts-and-bolts than ever. Plus, I do love Jamie and Adam, and could watch them work and think for hours.

Not gonna lie, it’s a little tough not getting to see Kari Byron. Long have I been in love with her. How could I not? A red-headed vegetarian hippie girl with a penchant for guns. Why, she was crafted among the stars as a special project by God Himself. I could just hear Him saying in His booming, divine voice as He set to work on her, “Ok, I’m really gonna try on this one.”

*sigh*

Television is basically an open sewer running through the living rooms (and subsequently minds) of America, but Mythbusters has always been an exception. If there were more shows like it, I might actually pay to watch and not just steal what I want off Television Underground.