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Cat Terrist posted:That's because frankly for me it was a cringingly bad, just plain unfunny abortion and a blight on an otherwise terrific season opener. Remove those five minutes and you would have had a perfect show. Have to agree, it's that "omg I'm so awkward hahaha" style commedy that frankly was barely funny the first time. Basically, I get embarrassed for the people being embarrasing and have to skip. That's why I hate The Office. Ni!
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I thought the same for the first few minutes but then the announcer guy showed up and it was great. "Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannatyne and now he too is out." I do agree that a 2-3 minute trim of the P45 segment would've been nice.
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grover posted:I loved the TGUS mexican pinata derby The luchadores had me in stitches. I swear, Top Gear US has really come into its own. Its great.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:I thought the same for the first few minutes but then the announcer guy showed up and it was great. "Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannatyne and now he too is out." Yeah the voice over saying "Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannatyne and now he too is out." was the only funny part of that segment. In fact the funniest part of the whole show. I wasn't too impressed with the whole show really, it wasn't that great. The Pagani segment bored me, only the Bentley rally was decent. Measly Twerp posted:Have to agree, it's that "omg I'm so awkward hahaha" style commedy that frankly was barely funny the first time. Basically, I get embarrassed for the people being embarrasing and have to skip. That's why I hate The Office.
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I don't see how it was awkward comedy. I can't stand to watch any kind of awkward situation and I loved it. I think you people are just broken. It's not like it was painted as a realistic situation, it was clearly all fake.
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I wasn't saying the TG segment was like that, I know the Dragons Den show as I've seen it, that's why I found the ending so funny. Yes it was 'faked' as you say. I was just agreeing I don't like a type of comedy in general, which is a type of comedy TG don't do (well) anyway. Edit: VVVV What are you talking about? There were cars, fun and laughing in the Bentley rallying segment and I liked it. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Fo3 posted:Yeah the voice over saying "Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannatyne and now he too is out." was the only funny part of that segment. In fact the funniest part of the whole show. I wasn't too impressed with the whole show really, it wasn't that great. The Pagani segment bored me, only the Bentley rally was decent. Do you even like cars or fun or laughing?
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Quick side question, are the TGUK season DVD's for region 1 the edited BBC America versions, or the original UK versions of the show?
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kylej posted:next you guys will be telling me top gear is scripted I think it was mostly that the dragons den part felt a bit up its own rear end and was too sketch comedy show. Jeremy talking about how all the train companies in London snubbed top gear so hes taking a bus is funnier to me.
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Muffinpox posted:I think it was mostly that the dragons den part felt a bit up its own rear end and was too sketch comedy show. Jeremy talking about how all the train companies in London snubbed top gear so hes taking a bus is funnier to me. It should've ended with him getting off the bus and "accidentally" driving it into a
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CornHolio posted:The luchadores had me in stitches. I swear, Top Gear US has really come into its own. Its great. "Watch this launch" was hilarious. Also, I was waiting for that DSM to break which somehow never happened.
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Sir Tonk posted:Quick side question, are the TGUK season DVD's for region 1 the edited BBC America versions, or the original UK versions of the show? It's the edited versions.
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Measly Twerp posted:That's why I hate The Office. There is an interesting parallel between Clarkson and Gervais, though. They're loving brilliant until you realize they're just being themselves. Tonk, I'd check the final gear forums.
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ROFLBOT posted:for a minute there i thought i was the only one who found the P45 segment to be stupid, not particularly funny, ridiculously contrived and far too long. No you're not the only person, it was rehashed crap. The fact that they are bringing out the 'cars play sport' segment AGAIN doesn't fill me with confidence either.
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I thought the Dragon's Den was the high point of that segment. Clarkson screaming on the freeway was horrible.
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AN AIRBRUSHED VAN posted:It's the edited versions. I think even the british DVDs are edited due to the unique way that the BBC is funded, they can use certain songs that can't be used when selling a DVD.
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Afrika Shox posted:I have the last two in 5000x3750. Nice! Thanks! My friend is a top gear and car nut and he loved these, was thinking of checking with my neighbor to see how much the blueprint one would cost as a 60cm wide print. New top gear usa had some funny stuff, though I got the impression at the end that the guys weren't even at the beach when they had the floater.
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Was a good episode I think and I'm just glad Top Gear is back finally. Huayra seems awesome but I hate the gigantic wing mirrors. Bentley rally was cool and I wish they'd shown a little more of it. P45 got some laughs out of me, but I actually found the Dragon's Den portion at the end to be the least interesting part. Gee the Dragon's dislike Jeremy's stupid car? Shocking I say. Wreaked of BBC cross promotion rather than being anything interesting.
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TGUK: drat, if the rest of the season is this good it's going to be a good few weeks. TGUS: The hosts seem to be "getting" Top Gear more and it seems more natural than usual, but the filming was worse than last year IMO. I watched the latest Chris Harris on Cars (the 458 Spider) after finishing TGUS just now and it just seemed so much better done by comparison. Fuckit though, there's more car poo poo to watch on TV that's entertaining, who am I to complain. Fifth Gear comes back in a few weeks, so for the short bit of overlap it'll be car guy couch potato heaven.
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Shoving an entire mariachi band into an old VW bus is always funny, although the other two groups were good as well. I'm certainly glad they dropped SIARPC for this episode, it's always so jarring to go back to that segment when they're on a roll.
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They seem to be making the show more about the personalities and less about the cars, the problem is the personalities are TEEEEEERRRIIIBBLLEEEE. Rather than the cars in the challenges being the cars, they are in every situation part of the terrible hosts character.
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The trouble with the TGUS hosts is that I can never in a million years convince myself that these three guys would ever hang out together if they weren't being paid.
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Data Graham posted:The trouble with the TGUS hosts is that I can never in a million years convince myself that these three guys would ever hang out together if they weren't being paid.
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Data Graham posted:The trouble with the TGUS hosts is that I can never in a million years convince myself that these three guys would ever hang out together if they weren't being paid. If James May were not paid to go outside, he would just sit in his house and arrange things.
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fivre posted:If James May were not paid to go outside, he would just sit in his house and I bet his entire tool collection is completely spotless, despite actually working on his own cars and bikes.
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ROFLBOT posted:for a minute there i thought i was the only one who found the P45 segment to be stupid, not particularly funny, ridiculously contrived and far too long. No, like most Clarkson segments, they ran that poo poo into the ground and then kept digging.
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Haven't watched the new TGUS yet, is it like last season where they abandon the studio and there's just a central challenge for the whole episode and the winner does a little review in some new supercar?
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Pretty much, no supercar bit, just car destruction at the end.
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wolrah posted:I watched the latest Chris Harris on Cars (the 458 Spider) after finishing TGUS just now and it just seemed so much better done by comparison. Wow, thank you for introducing me to this dude. He is early Jeremy Clarkson with an added heaping helping of refinement. He's a guest on some bumbling idiot's show in this video - about 5:30 Harris learns that we never got the E46 M3 CSL and just grunts. Sunday's Top Gear was a 7/10. The Bentley rally was amazing - I thought the driver was reaming May a bit hard, but then he actually started being of some use and it became obvious how big of a handicap May was by calling things late/missing things. Jeremy in the P45 should have shown the battery transition then cut the mall scene, cut a bit out of the highway driving (got old after the third bump-related scream, though I was genuinely afraid for him a few times), and completely skipped the Dragon's Den part. Damian Lewis and Clarkson were both incredibly awkward during the interview and it's become completely obvious that SIARPC is nothing but studio-sponsored celebrity face time.
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Cellular Suicide posted:Lewis and Clarkson Goddammit, now I am envisioning a "Corps of Automotive Discovery Expedition".
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West SAAB Story posted:Goddammit, now I am envisioning a "Corps of Automotive Discovery Expedition".
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NathanScottPhillips posted:That was horrible. The first time in Top Gear history where the cheap cars they buy are actually in drat nice condition and pretty unique and then they trash them they do this fairly often in the UK version, but sure it sucks to see those cars get destroyed.
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I've always put it down to them being, basically, middle-aged farts. They don't quite grok that what was once a cheap use-it-and-chuck-it fun car is now actually quite hard to find in decent nick ten or twenty years later.
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NathanScottPhillips posted:That was horrible. The first time in Top Gear history where the cheap cars they buy are actually in drat nice condition and pretty unique and then they trash them They didn't buy them. The show bought whatever kind of cars the guys had in college. TGUS has a lot of "what kind of car did you have" things where the goal isn't to get a good car for whatever price, but just to buy whatever car at any price and then do dumb poo poo in it. I don't mind them spending money on lovely cars and ruining them, because the car was just rotting away anyway. But to buy decent quality cars that are probably in better condition than the ones the hosts owned and then destroy them for no reason is stupid. That's not really in the spirit of a car show.
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