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The Top Gear MEGATHREAD!!!!
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In the first show they were saying it was a new and improved series of Top Gear with the banner of The Stig and then introduced the dog (which spends most of it's time sleeping) as another improvement.MacsRgr8 said:
Abyone else feel that Top Gear has become too much "dessert" and not enough "Meat and Potatos?
Its the funniest thing on TV but really lacks the intresting "normal" articles of Top Gear of yesteryear.
And, yes i do know that Clarkson walked out out the old Top Gear because he got bored - but as much as i like to see him on TV there is more to motoring journalism that POWER!!! every other sentence.
Its the funniest thing on TV but really lacks the intresting "normal" articles of Top Gear of yesteryear.
And, yes i do know that Clarkson walked out out the old Top Gear because he got bored - but as much as i like to see him on TV there is more to motoring journalism that POWER!!! every other sentence.
combatcolin said:
I agree with what you say but believe nothing will change, just look how scathing they are when someone complains about not showing affordable cars enough, but when they do have affordable cars on they just race them (or play football) it's okay showing off their power and stability but I'd like to know a little more and the power thing means much less to me since I got caught speeding twice in one day by mobile cameras ( the barstewards
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29.
Climbed to the 2nd rung of the housing housing ladder.
Don't drive.
Watched Top Gear for about 15 years now.
Know a huge amount about something i can't use.
Feel the irony!
Climbed to the 2nd rung of the housing housing ladder.
Don't drive.
Watched Top Gear for about 15 years now.
Know a huge amount about something i can't use.
Feel the irony!
Just watched the last episode...the van bit was great and the Jenson button interview is especially good in light of recent events.
Clarkson cracks me up...he constantly berates us Americans for being fat and loudmouthed. He himself would make a pretty good stereotypical American, with his belly, mouth and wardrobe. Clarkson is rather too old to be the frontman anyway...he's the epitome of the mid-life crisis.
I still think the show has flashes of greatness though. The three presenters make a rather odd couple, so throwing them together in the caravan episode was the source of much hilarity, even if the whole last bit was staged.
I also like the visual quality of the car reviews, the camera angles etc. are really nice.
Recently I downloaded some Top Gears from the early 90's...wow, what a differerence, they are positively dowdy. Still, I think a perfect car show would be a little less theatrical than the current format, which is essentially The Jeremy Clarkson Show.
Clarkson cracks me up...he constantly berates us Americans for being fat and loudmouthed. He himself would make a pretty good stereotypical American, with his belly, mouth and wardrobe. Clarkson is rather too old to be the frontman anyway...he's the epitome of the mid-life crisis.
I still think the show has flashes of greatness though. The three presenters make a rather odd couple, so throwing them together in the caravan episode was the source of much hilarity, even if the whole last bit was staged.
I also like the visual quality of the car reviews, the camera angles etc. are really nice.
Recently I downloaded some Top Gears from the early 90's...wow, what a differerence, they are positively dowdy. Still, I think a perfect car show would be a little less theatrical than the current format, which is essentially The Jeremy Clarkson Show.
That is really why he is there. People going through the midlife crisis is stereotyped to being obsessede with cars and buying their dream car, usually of a sporty type. Now, doesnt it make sense to have someone going through it present it?? And yes, the show has come a long way since the 1990s and even further since Angela Rippon presented it way back in 1983.Lord Blackadder said:
And you do seem to like British TV Lord Blackadder. That was an ultimate in the form of British comedy though.
®îçhå®? said:
I'll admit it, I'm an Anglophile when it comes to TV shows...Python, Blackadder, The Young Ones, Bottom...
American TV is often both too vulgar and clumsily moralistic, if you know what I mean.
The thing is, if you look at the studio audience it seems to be composed of two types: mostly young people and a smattering of Clarkson-like old men. When Top Gear had its driving song competition it sounded like an oldies station...
He does make the show work, though. He may be an opinionated fat old git but at least he makes me laugh, as does James May and his incomprehensible style and car taste. Hammond is more of the whipping boy sort.
Would disagree with you there, there is an awlful lot of very nice totty in the Top Gear audience....
Oh, I'm not denying that, as I said the audience is mostly young people. I imagine that they bring all the attractive women/couples to the front too. Which makes Clarkson more out of place
One of the things funny things about the show is that they'll do a closeup of Clarkson while he makes some comment about women, and in the background you can usually see one or more women grimacing, rolling their eyes or even frowning.
I wonder how many more series are left before the show finally calls it quits (at least in it's current Clarkson-centric form).
One of the things funny things about the show is that they'll do a closeup of Clarkson while he makes some comment about women, and in the background you can usually see one or more women grimacing, rolling their eyes or even frowning.
I wonder how many more series are left before the show finally calls it quits (at least in it's current Clarkson-centric form).
Oh it can't go on forever likes this, its the motoring version of a growing up - sooner or late you get bored/fed up of waking up with a hangover, no money in your wallet and the somewhat alarming sense that all the locals are speaking Welsh.....
combatcolin said:
Are you talking about cars, Macs or both?!
Sorry, feeling bitchy this afternoon
®îçhå®? said:
Which date were you there?
You have to be 18 and over to be allowed in the studio.
drlunanerd said:Are you talking about cars, Macs or both?!
Sorry, feeling bitchy this afternoon
Well sort of both really.
Don't drive (Although i have parking for 5 cars on my property) and don't use my iMac much as its very very slow (1st gen Bondi Blue model)
®îçhå®? said:
Wow, lucky you. Or maybe not, having to stand at the back with the, er, less attractive members and kiddies
Beats being spoken to by The Gob, aka Janet Street-Porter, which was the last punishment I endured at a TV studio.
combatcolin said:
It's high time you bought a new Mac my fellow Rumorist!
And join me in learning to drive too while you're at it!
I love cars but paradoxically dislike driving them. I should elaborate - I've owned, ridden and raced motorbikes (and other 2 wheeled vehicles) all my life and have never driven a car that gives me close to the same enjoyment. The vast majority of cars handle like barges and go like snails in comparison.
Actually it was 2nd - 3rd row back and i had a good view as 6ft2 so cxould easily see over other people's heads. Where was Janet Street-Porter??? She is an annoying witch.drlunanerd said:Wow, lucky you. Or maybe not, having to stand at the back with the, er, less attractive members and kiddies
Beats being spoken to by The Gob, aka Janet Street-Porter, which was the last punishment I endured at a TV studio.
Ye couldn't believe it when I heard it on the late news.
Hold in their matey. Fight it. Get well soon.
Hold in their matey. Fight it. Get well soon.
His hight might have saved him. Imagine if Jeremy had driven the jet-car, keeping in mind that his head would be sticking out a few more feet. Not a nice picture.
Get well soon
Get well soon
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