I understand that this is a completely different show from the original series so I will not make the comparison at all. Anyway it is a bad idea to combine "science" with "reality show". Reality show focuses on the social relationship between people, like how they work together or provoke each other. However science should never have subjective and emotional biases in it. Of course the audiences will complain that they are not seeing what they expected to see.
Also, people who have enough talents to be the next myth busters are usually nerds that they devote much of their lives in learning and inventing cool stuffs rather than dealing with people, so most of the contestants do not have the TV personalities that qualify a good reality show. Allen is an exception because he's a YouTuber and is good at appealing himself to the audience. Hackett is another very interesting guy, as I observed from his previous TV series named "Stuck With Hackett". It's such a waste that they put him in a low key position, covering all his funny and creative sides. So far as I see, "The Search" fails miserably at presenting any interesting personality from the contestants to make it a good reality show.
Meanwhile, the experimental designs for the individual competition are just way off science. It's a good idea to test their physical and mental capacity, just like in a normal real reality show, but taking samples from such a small number of amateurs to draw a "scientific" conclusion is just ridiculous. For me personally, I want to learn some real engineering stuff rather than knowing somebody in the team is slacking off or is abandoned by his teammates. Therefore, they also fail at making this a good science show.
However, I am giving it 5 out of 10 is because I like the hard works so far done by the contestants. They are talented people, and I like seeing the process of problem solving. And it's totally OK for me to choose the next generation of myth busters from them. I hope that will make the Myth Busters series fun in a different way.
Also, people who have enough talents to be the next myth busters are usually nerds that they devote much of their lives in learning and inventing cool stuffs rather than dealing with people, so most of the contestants do not have the TV personalities that qualify a good reality show. Allen is an exception because he's a YouTuber and is good at appealing himself to the audience. Hackett is another very interesting guy, as I observed from his previous TV series named "Stuck With Hackett". It's such a waste that they put him in a low key position, covering all his funny and creative sides. So far as I see, "The Search" fails miserably at presenting any interesting personality from the contestants to make it a good reality show.
Meanwhile, the experimental designs for the individual competition are just way off science. It's a good idea to test their physical and mental capacity, just like in a normal real reality show, but taking samples from such a small number of amateurs to draw a "scientific" conclusion is just ridiculous. For me personally, I want to learn some real engineering stuff rather than knowing somebody in the team is slacking off or is abandoned by his teammates. Therefore, they also fail at making this a good science show.
However, I am giving it 5 out of 10 is because I like the hard works so far done by the contestants. They are talented people, and I like seeing the process of problem solving. And it's totally OK for me to choose the next generation of myth busters from them. I hope that will make the Myth Busters series fun in a different way.