There's a second out? Nice. I liked the first, though I do reckon he's definitely been ill.
There's a second out? Nice. I liked the first, though I do reckon he's definitely been ill.
This was really good. Ended up watching most of it in one go.Originally Posted by Lewis
You'd think they'd have been able to take steps to prevent such entirely foreseeable 'losses'.
Like making more of them in the first place.
I doubt they actually care about the financial side of it. It sounds more like protecting the integrity of their policy, which more manufacturers would probably copy if they had the coconuts/bank balance to ride it out.
Do you ever watch any of the stuff Jay Leno has on YouTube? I didn't know Americans didn't like him, but they are right that he is mega on cars.
No although I probably should. I seem to have a natural dislike of American presenters, more so with car shows.
Henry Catchpole (formerly of Evo magazine) makes some of the best videos if you like the Chris Harris on Cars style-
I like their dull videos, and I can't bear to watch any of those shrieking YouTube channels run by amateur Jeremy Clarksons that contaminate my recommendeds. Leno is more towards the dull side, to the point where if the car in question is a boring one you won't watch to watch it; but when he's going round something that you are interested in he gets right into it.
That one's a beauty.
Fuck sake all the torrents on Pirate Bay of this have gone. What's gone on? Can't find anything anywhere.
EDIT: Thank God it was just the search being shite.
It's been very good the last couple of weeks too.
I think the last 2 have been some of the worst they've ever done.
The unscripted bit was so scripted and the Jeremy skidding thing was horseshit.
I don't know what people expected when Amazon started making the show. It's exactly what they did on Top Gear when they were on it.
The sheep thing had me properly lolling.
It's still balls, and I should have given up when they raced that Kia against the skateboarders and told you absolutely nothing about the car.
Ball & Boe were comfortably the best guests ever.
The whole thing wreaks of them running out of ideas (and this year's 'Christmas Special'/two parter, if they even bother doing one) will probably confirm that.
Yep by a mile. That segment hasn't been bad, it's just a pity the track makes the laps look so slow on camera.
This is all stuff people were saying during their last two years of Top Gear too. Like I said, I don't know what people were actually expecting.
I watched the first couple of episodes of this season and thought it was better than most of the last one but still haven't cared enough to go back.
There are enough cars coming out all the time to not really need 'ideas' beyond comparing them in different places and having some of their shit BANTER, so that might be their problem.
You were saying this about Mad Max too and it's such an odd line. People don't need to have been expecting genius to comment when something is shit.
It's not really. I've heard people complain, and get quite worked up, that they're not reviewing any normal cars on the grand tour. Yeah that had been a staple for years.
People can, of course, think something is shit but their reasons still might be dumb.
I don't care about them not actually reviewing cars and never have.
Are they doing some sort of two part challenge this year? It was over Christmas last year. In theory those are my favourite episodes, but their last few have been poor. Last year’s was terrible.
The show is beautifully shot and put together, which helps make up for the parts where it’s a bit boring.
If I recall right, I think they were about to go shoot it in South America when Clarkson got the pneumonia. Not sure if they shot it later or didn't bother at all.
thoroughly enjoyed that.
Jag skiing was absolutely class.
I'm still going with this. The Audi vs Lancia bit is the best thing they have done (Jeremy Clarkson was always underrated at 'serious' bits), and it takes the total of good stuff up to about forty minutes across the whole series.
Yeah, that was genuinely great.
That was the last episode I watched though as I took a bit of a break.
Yep, that was great and really enjoyed the last episode too.
The whole thing is generally looking very tired though.
If we go off the Wikipedia series round-up I reckon we've got:
The Bugatti Chiron bit (episode three)
The tank bit and the Volkswagen Up GTI (episode five)
Audi vs Lancia (episode seven)
Nick Mason and Stewart Copeland (episode eight, and I skipped the actual race)
There were a few other things that could have been good if they had been a bit more detailed or had less Richard Hammond in (the nineties supercar test in the most recent one being a case in point, since they cut it short to BANTER about how women take their jumpers off), but it's a pretty crap return.
I liked the Jaguar skiing.
Boe and Ball were the best guests ever.
BTW I've loved this series.
Yeah I really liked them too. And the boxer/wrestler.
Dynamo and 'the lady'.
I skipped the celebrity bit, but the rest of Top Gear did their car comparison thing better (that is to say more informative and less not funny) than the Grand Tour has been doing, so promising start keep it up BBC with your unique way of funding.
I did like the Mozambique special for the Grand Tour. I think the second half was a lot stronger than the first half of the season.
The new Alpine.
The Mozambique special would have been better if they hadn't gone "Hey, James may getting seawater tipped on him might be funny! Richard Hammond falling off a bike too!" and doing exactly that for 70% of the remainder of the episode on a loop.
Grand Tour has improved though.
I did enjoy last night's Top Gear too and Joey / Harris / Reid are getting better as a collective. Presumably just as they get to know each other.
I really enjoyed this series of GT but that last episode was awful. It was only rushed together after Clarkson got pneumonia and couldn't do the proper one (Colombia I think) but apparently that two-parter is done now and still to come.
Forgot about TG last night and no way of watching it back on iPlayer as it's not allowed here. When's the repeat on?
I've enjoyed the whole lot. It's great, Top Gear was always a must watch for me, and now there's two programmes that are excellent? Heaven. Before it was 5th Gear which was shite.
Jesus the guests here are churned out BBC luvvies. Brydon now Mack? Fuck off just scrap the guest shite.
Those Sherps are incredible. People on YouTube take them through all sorts of impossible shit and they just stroll through it like nothing. I skipped the celebrity bit, and that reverse camera race was pointless, but the off-road stuff was fun and the McLaren section was like the old Chris Harris internet days.
Fatt LeBlanc mate keep your coat on.
The new series has been really good so far, though that backwards racing bit last night was beyond stupid and felt so much like filler, not to mention the big continuity fail at the end.
It was obviously a BAME bit.
I liked that a lot, as has been said the celebrity and reversing bit was bollocks but I loved the off-road stuff and Harris fawning over McLarens.
Next week in Japan could be amazing.
I happened across the new Top Gear for the first time. They were searching for bigfoot. Painfully bad.
Grand Tour axed.
http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/11/jeremy...eries-7377592/
That sounds like they've just had enough. Axed implies it was cancelled after failing. Hardly the case as its been the biggest money maker for Amazon.
I'd say nobody signed up just to watch like Amazon hoped. It's easy to watch for free.
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