That doesn’t look pleasant…
Coming to the Discovery channel in the fall, “Time Warp” is basically a show about a couple of MIT guys with a fancy (and admittedly, it’s pretty fancy) video camera that can take up to 20,000 frames of video per second, or to put it in layman’s terms….it can make EXTREMELY slow motion videos.
And that’s really the whole premise of the show. They take a few random things, like getting punched in the face, and they slow it WAY down to the point where it looks strange (and potentially cool). In the pilot episode they have a guy punched in the face, show what is happening to a wine glass as it shatters due to sound waves, show how a dog’s tongue works while it’s drinking, and do a couple of silly things with balloons just to show off how fast the camera is.
It was interesting I suppose, and maybe some of the future stuff will be cool to see, but it really didn’t grab me. They tried to keep things light with a bit of banter here and there (think “Mythbusters”), but failed miserably. That might be due to it being the pilot and they haven’t really found their groove yet, I don’t know, but it was a bit awkward from time to time…
Glass, bending and then shattering…really REALLY slowly.
All in all, if you want to see how strange things look when slowed down an insane degree, or enjoy things exploding, this may be a good show for you. There’s really not much else to it.
You can check out a video preview on the discovery.com website right over here to get a feel for the show, and they even have a forum setup to allow people to suggest things that they would like to see slowed down, so if you have an idea for them, head over here.
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