Think I'll just wait for both to appear.
Think I'll just wait for both to appear.
I grit my teeth and had a go at the third episode.
Car bits round Italy - Pretty good
Everything else - Ebola
Part 2 of the Namibia special is up.
Good. The first one was woeful. 40 minutes of them driving back and forth through the desert. The second part did look better in the teaser though.Originally Posted by Yevrah
Having seen it, I think I preferred the first part.
It was better than the normal shows but it suffers from the same problem, almost everything is totally scripted.
Watching the first part now and definitely agree with the above. So boring.
I'm a twit
I liked the first but hated the second, although I loved the shots of the waterfalls.
This week's episode was pretty good. A nice blend of cars and silliness.
Just finished it there too. Much better.
Wasn't a fan.
The segment with the apocalypse proof vehicles would have been so much better if they'd all built their own each and done challenges.
Anybody still watching this? The last episode (10) was really quite good.
About to watch 11 tonight.
10 was the first one I turned off. I liked the Alfa bit at the start but the beach stuff was horrendously shit. Liked 11 a lot more.
Bit of a return to form this week.
I haven't watched it since the second Whitby episode (I'll catch up at some point), but apparently the Ford GT does 216 mph, and Ford claim to have taken one around some track nobody knows about faster than a McLaren 675LT. Even when taking manufacture claims with a skip full of salt, that sounds a bit more like it, as does the combined fourteen miles per gallon.
Just finished 10 and I'm really disappointed.
It could have been brilliant but I felt that they ruined it.
More bullshit crowd stuff, more fake cock ups etc.
I stopped watching at episode 6, I think.
Are any of them worth catching up with?
Whichever one was last Friday (9?) Easily the best so far. The one before it was the worst of the bunch.
12 mate.
Yeah 12, easily the best. Looking back at a list it was 10 (the one Mahow said) that was terrible. Only one I never got to the end of, the beach/sea bit is the worst thing they've ever done.
But it could have been one of the best things they've ever done.
They completely fucked it.
Beyond the bounds of staged.
The whole show has been shit really. I will give the second season a chance and hope they learn from their errors.
New one has been quite enjoyable so far.
So much better than last series.
I'll actually get round to watching this I suspect. Evans is irritating enough on the radio.
Yep, I gave up last year after about 3 episodes.
This was quite good. I'm a fan of the trio.
Same. Horrific on paper but the chemistry is there. Liked the celebrity bit.
Much better having them on like that instead of the mess the double celebrity thing was with Evans last year.
Much better than last year and better than most of what I've watched of Grand Tour.
Enjoyed the 2nd episode too. It's weird though because I can watch repeats of the old TG on Dave no bother at all. However I don't think I could watch any of the new episodes again. Ever.
I watched the first one (or whichever one they went to Kazakhstan) and apart from the black guy I found the other two forced and annoying. Could be me though.
Harris and Reid are decent but LeBlanc, who is okay, largely always talks and delivers his jokes like they're straight off the script, even when they're presumably not.
New top gear is still shit. It feels soulless and the presenter relationships come across quite forced.
The celebrity stuff is still a bit pointless (and having guests like David Tennant makes it look comparatively lame), but the first two episodes are much more like it. That four seasons test in America was bang on. There was no shitty staged comedy, but there was still enough light relief to ease the actual car content along, which is what made the programme what it is.
I've quite enjoyed this series of Top Gear, on the whole. I've not even bothered finishing Grand Tour.
The Grand Tour was shit. Really. Hope they pull it back cos I do like them three. Watched one episode of this Top Gear season and I almost vomitted at how shit it is.
I haven't watched last nights Top Gear but it's so much more enjoyable than the Grand Tour and a few of the later seasons of Top Gear.
I loved the Cuba thing last week.
Just watched the first episode of season two and enjoyed it.
Helped that they've binned off the shit celebrity death thing (was the ban on celebrities only one year or did the BBC give up?) and The American.
My favourite bit might well have been the motor museum though, that system was fucking incredible. Picking an exhibit to look at and then having it presented to you?
Was decent enough. I'd forgot all about the crash too, so it was unexpected.
All the promo stuff has annoyed me, so I might just avoid it completely and call myself a Chris Harris loyalist.
Continuity Top Gear.
I haven't watched anything past the first episode of last season but then I was the same for Top Gear. I prefer just watching Chris Harris's own stuff he still does on youtube under the Top Gear channel.
Have you watched his Joe Rogan podcast from a few years ago?
No although I might get onto that when I have a spare 2 hours. Assuming it's worth it?
Yeah, but I watched it over a couple of days in segments. I don't know whether I could listen to Rogan having his MIND BLOWN for hours on end.
lol
Good on Ford.
lol at him having to sell it for other expenses.
Easiest few-hundred grand he will ever make (or would have been). I doubt he actually needed it.
The first two episodes are crap, and James May looks like he has six months to live.
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