Alright. I'll admit it. The part of me that's still a fourteen year old still loves a good "boom" now and then. Even when its a small video facsimile in our living room, the results can be mildly interesting. But, while the result being two grown men acting like I did as a kid, giggling and jumping in glee, it gets old, pretty quick.
The actual physics and chemistry of violent combustion and detonation still continues to hold fascination for me and a real elucidation of such science would have been much more interesting to watch. Unfortunately, like other products of the "Science" Channel, any actual science contained is purely coincidental.
The first episode I watched was entirely ruined for me as "the boys" set about setting off multiple examples of deforming metal using explosions. They were assisted by a guy claiming to be some sort of explosives expert and a lady who uses explosive forming for her artwork. The started out OK with an explanation of the differences between slower "pushing" type explosives vs "cutting" type faster explosives. Then they ruined it for me as the main host helpfully explained (in front of the "expert") that one of the explosives they were using was called "dynamite, also known as TNT". Thus they exhibited the total ignorance of the cast, crew and producers of this garbage. Maybe its just a pet peeve of mine, but this mistake has been made several times by the lazy editors of both the Science Channel and the History Channel.
