Parenting & Family Quote by Adam Savage

Savage is staking out a creative politics: the right to be scrappy, imperfect, and still legitimately visionary. By invoking Star Wars not as myth or lore but as an "aesthetic" rooted in a "do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic", he pulls the franchise back down to the garage. That phrasing matters. Hotrods are ingenuity plus attitude: you take what you have, you tinker, you race, you accept the rough edges as proof of life. Lucas becomes less corporate mogul than hometown kid with grease under his nails, and Savage positions MythBusters (and maker culture more broadly) as inheritors, not imitators.

The subtext is a quiet rebuttal to a world obsessed with polish. "It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done" is a manifesto against the tyranny of seamlessness - the idea that if it doesn't look expensive, it isn't real. Savage is defending the visible stitch, the exposed rivet, the duct tape that reads as failure to outsiders but as honesty to builders. In TV terms, he's also justifying a production style: practical effects, real builds, and experiments that show their work instead of hiding behind post-production sheen.

Contextually, this lands in the long afterglow of both Star Wars' used-future design (the scuffed ships, the lived-in tech) and the 2000s-2010s rise of maker media, where competence is entertainment and process is the plot. Savage isn't borrowing Star Wars cool; he's arguing that its soul was always a workshop ethic - and that the magic survives precisely because you can see the fingerprints.