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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 0:42:56 GMT
Weeelllllll....
Its better without the ginger shouty twat, that's for sure. And its not crap. It is worth watching.
But....
It does rather seem like they've taken a Clarkson, Hammond and May script and merely crossed out the names. Even the scripted banter is the same. You can almost hear C,H & M saying the lines. I'm not sure how much life C,YH & M have got in them, but I am certainly sure there's no future in pretending to be them.
I expect that this lot will develop their own personalities, and hopefully they will do it quite quickly. The Grand Tour has a lot to put right in their break, and I think they can do it. Ordinarily Top Gear would be able to do the same, but after the Ginger Twat's efforts, they've already done that once, I'm not sure how much opportunity they wlll have to do that twice..
But its ok, its entertaining, and with a bit of luck we might end up with two motoring shows to watch.
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Post by iancapetown on Mar 6, 2017 5:35:24 GMT
Paul Hollywood is doing a motoring show as well, which looks like it has potential. His Aston Martin show was excellent.
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 6, 2017 9:29:12 GMT
Paul Hollywood is doing a motoring show as well, which looks like it has potential. His Aston Martin show was excellent. Was he driving aa A-M Vol-au-Vent(e)?
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Post by Alanović on Mar 6, 2017 9:55:48 GMT
Was suspicious that WDB's old S60 wormed its way on to the show. Wasn't quite sure what the point of that piece was, though. Bit odd.
I enjoyed the show very much, I would have liked to have seen more of Kazakhstan, but perhaps there wasn't enough time. Do we think that Rory's homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off was staged? Not sure.
The three presenters don't quite have the chemistry - yet. maybe that will come. Oddly, of them all Le Blanc seems the most scripted and wooden, and he's the actor.
Anyway, I liked it and will keep watching. I always like it when we get trips with beaten up old heaps. My kind of motor. I could actually do without the whizz bang hypercar stuff but I appreciate that my specific car interest is, er, 'niche'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 10:07:37 GMT
>> I could actually do without the whizz bang hypercar stuff
Me too, or at least not so much of it. Once its drifted around one corner, seeing it drift around another 10 doesn't add anything.
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Post by Rob on Mar 6, 2017 14:51:42 GMT
I wonder if the reason for the hyper Ferrari was because Top Gear under Clarkson's watch never got to race a LaFerrari in the UK. Then they did manage it on the Grand Tour. So maybe one reason for the item?
A pointless car though even if you are rich. They could have made a road legal version for sure at a price.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 21:58:44 GMT
A reasonable effort. Some parts of the conversation were very stilted and I'm with Vic, less supercar, more interesting travel with cars we might drive ourselves please. Wish we had seen more of Kazakhstan but if it's all Steppe, how much do you want to see?
However overall it promised less than Grand Tour but delivered proportionately more. It will get better as well I'm sure.
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Post by Rob on Mar 6, 2017 22:52:10 GMT
However overall it promised less than Grand Tour but delivered proportionately more. It will get better as well I'm sure. The Grand Tour promised much and delivered less than the trio did on TG. And that had got tired.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 18:09:29 GMT
I enjoyed last weeks show other than ballsing up a V70, which had done 100k miles more than others, with crap driving but that's entertainment. Looking forwards to tonight's show. I've seen a few of Amazon's show and it was OK but that star bit offing themselves seems a bit ridiculous, Top Gear may not be dead and buried and if we have two car shows to watch then so much the better as others have said.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 23:31:25 GMT
I just watched the second episode.
Or rather half of it. Utterly, utterly bored. Forced camaraderie, very obvious scripting, predictable and mind-blowingly boring. I simply couldn't be arsed to watch the whole thing.
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 19, 2017 10:16:54 GMT
I just watched the second episode. Or rather half of it. Utterly, utterly bored. Forced camaraderie, very obvious scripting, predictable and mind-blowingly boring. I simply couldn't be arsed to watch the whole thing. So, that's the new "Bake Off" covered - what about Top Gear..........
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 14:03:16 GMT
Maybe I was actually watching Bake-off, I'm not sure I would have known the difference it was that mind-numbing..
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Post by Hofmeister on Mar 20, 2017 13:15:31 GMT
Watched last nights, the Missus and I enjoyed it. Seems bits of it were filmed around Lake Garda, the James bond route, one that she and I did a year or two after the film.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 13:19:35 GMT
I'm surprised. Didn't you find it all very forced?
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Post by Hofmeister on Mar 20, 2017 13:28:18 GMT
I'm surprised. Didn't you find it all very forced? When they have the three of them in the studio, yes. But then thats just like the old team. Get them on the road doing stuff and it all becomes a little easier, and Mat Le Plank is very engaging in a dry way when he is not reading autocue. Its every bit as good (or bad) as TGT.
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