This show is a shame for American engineering.I can't believe these are the people that will make a better world through better tools for a better life.... the people that will find solutions ... judge what's missing and make the tools.I have rarely seen a bunch of such frustrated, egocentric corporate-bible-playback behaviour monkeys in my life. This show should be called: fail army engineers.Mr Penn must be high saying after so many lame ideas and all those huge failures of those very lame ideas, that the last episode will decide who is the next outstanding mind of American engineering. Oh God, please have mercy of America and all those poor people that will depend on these geniuses.

I watched this show with a bunch of "smart" people, with some of the stupidest ideas ever.. never once have i seen a good working concept developed into an idea. "Smart" people tend to over think things, and that is obvious in this show. there were some good ideas that were dismissed by the also not so smart jury..Even when a good idea gets voted by the jury the execution is soo bad it made me wanna cry and wonder what happened to the good old discovery channel, in times far gone when you learned something by watching this channel.It's really a slap in the the face of actual smart people, don't watch it you will get dumber by the minute..

The host start by saying that the white house is awesome, and that he honors the president for being at top of the science, but what kind of science?, this show is about missiles, and explosives and how to construct the best one. The cast is horrible, a bunch of immature people.They should have done experiments of alternative energy, or something that WE ACTUALLY NEED in this hunger era, we don't need more War or weapons, I dot get why they keep making this kind of mindless shows, and this is from the discovery channel, what a disgrace. Please do all of us a favor and don't watch this show so it gets cancelled.

After watching two shows I'm ready to call it quits. While there is interesting science and unique thinking going on, I am tired of the angst, the backbiting and the deplorable "who do you think should be fired?" programming formulae. Eecch!! To me it totally ruins the show to the point I don't care about ANY of the contestants.And as for leadership, I haven't heard where leadership is one of the criteria for failure, but it's what caused the first person to be sacked. And what's with this bringing back a person who's been sacked. Where's the basis in reality for THAT?There have been similar shows in the past, like "Junkyard Wars" and "Mythbusters" that make the science fun, interesting, and even educational. "The Big Brain Theory" needs to be "re-architectured" to show true innovation and scientific analysis at work. In other words, concentrate on the science and not on the interpersonal squabbling.6 out of 10.