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uPen posted:It's not on amazon, it's not on netflix, they don't have episodes or even clips on their website and it doesn't have a wikipedia page. It's almost like they don't want you to watch their show. Well, that's discovery.ca for you.
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uPen posted:It's not on amazon, it's not on netflix, they don't have episodes or even clips on their website and it doesn't have a wikipedia page. It's almost like they don't want you to watch their show. first episode premieres(ed?) this week I think, based on what I can find so that's why.
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Did it seem like they prepped the limo to be sliced in half when the Crown Vic sailed through it? It just seemed to snap in half a bit too easy.
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ZippySLC posted:Did it seem like they prepped the limo to be sliced in half when the Crown Vic sailed through it? It just seemed to snap in half a bit too easy. Top Gear would never fake anything.
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Jul 12, 2013 22:36
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Casual Yogurt posted:Top Gear would never fake anything. They have won awards for non-scripted tv after all!
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G-Mach posted:They have won awards for non-scripted tv after all! And Princeton Law School is very highly regarded. What's your point?
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fivre posted:And Princeton Law School is very highly regarded. What's your point? It's a joke.
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I think I suggested it awhile ago, in this thread even, but I will reiterate. I want them to do a Top Gear Special Blitzkrieg! Clarkson, May and Hammond have to purchase three VW Beetles for less than the cost of a new car in June 1941 (its about $1000 or £650) and drive them from Berlin to Moscow (about 1100 miles) faster than the Germans made the trip! The Germans made it to Moscow in about 7 months - June to December, I figure the boys can do better and do it in just seven days while conquering challenges along the way. Technically 1100 miles in seven days shouldn't really be extraordinary but gotta give them some leeway they are making a television show after all. Why the VW Beetle? Other than it's obvious German heritage it also just happens to be one car the three agree on. They all hate it. Which can only end well for the viewer. Can Clarkson cross Poland without making a joke? Will May spend the entire week schooling everyone about the war and forget to drive at all? Will Hammond be mysteriously blown up by a Soviet tank as he sleeps? We'll never know until they try.
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Sedgr posted:
Clarkson can't even think of Poland without making a joke. It's a great idea though.
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Galler posted:I like Hammond but I would certainly not be upset with him getting replaced with Sabine. I have an enormous crush on Sabine and I would be more than OK with this change.
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G-Mach posted:It's a joke. Oh, I never would have known.
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Qwijib0 posted:Other speculation is that it's Sabine Schmitz (daily mail, but this is speculation anyway) Doesn't she already do some Top Gear-esque show in Germany though? I mean I suppose it's completely possible to do both but that would have to be pretty tiring on her to have to keep going back and forth.
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I like that they decided to do proper budget cars for this week's episode.
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SiliconX posted:Doesn't she already do some Top Gear-esque show in Germany though? I mean I suppose it's completely possible to do both but that would have to be pretty tiring on her to have to keep going back and forth.
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I'm sure most of this week's episode must have been filmed in condemned/slated-for-demolition housing blocks or something, and sneaky camera work can make even Manhattan look like the zombie apocalypse hit it, but jeeezus that's one deserted-looking country. I know I haven't read about the mass depopulation of Spain on CNN lately, though maybe that's just because it's world news or something. Someone please train these guys how to pronounce "pie-ella" though. Also Cummerbund Bandersnatch made a pretty hilariously awkward guest. Mention Trekkies and immediately he's off talking about all the creepy slash fiction he's been forcing himself to read as role research.
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Data Graham posted:I'm sure most of this week's episode must have been filmed in condemned/slated-for-demolition housing blocks or something, and sneaky camera work can make even Manhattan look like the zombie apocalypse hit it, but jeeezus that's one deserted-looking country. I know I haven't read about the mass depopulation of Spain on CNN lately, though maybe that's just because it's world news or something. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/spain-ghost-towns-real-estate-crash_n_1281032.html
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...Welcome to Top Gear, the world's leading motoring show.  Data Graham posted:Someone please train these guys how to pronounce "pie-ella" though.
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Does anyone know what the song is they used during that mountain road they were on? I've been wanting to know ever since they did that Senna segment.
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Am I the only one who thinks that Jaguar is the best looking car out of all of them?
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That was a good episode, the 3 have such great chemistry together, like they're lifelong friends. I couldn't make it very far into the Bandicoot Cabbagepatch interview, something about that guy creeps me out.
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OptimusMatrix posted:Am I the only one who thinks that Jaguar is the best looking car out of all of them? I agree. It also sounded the best.
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Can the Benedict Cumberbatch silly names go the way of the M Night Shyamalan ones? It's grating and not funny. Of course, I didn't think it was all that awkward and weird but for the fact that he was slower than Warwick Davis.
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Cojawfee posted:Does anyone know what the song is they used during that mountain road they were on? I've been wanting to know ever since they did that Senna segment. You might be interested in this: http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs/
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Galler posted:You might be interested in this: http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs/ Thanks, it's Radiohead - Optimistic.
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Soundtracks aren't unusual for them (they fell in love with TRON: Legacy's for a while) but I can't recall them using video game stuff before.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Soundtracks aren't unusual for them (they fell in love with TRON: Legacy's for a while) but I can't recall them using video game stuff before. The amount of times they use Clint Mansel Soundtracks is staggering.
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Qwijib0 posted:Other speculation is that it's Sabine Schmitz (daily mail, but this is speculation anyway) That's crap. Stig doesn't have breasts. Also, a lady driver wondering around the set would be too conspicuous. On top of that, new Stig opened his mouth in front of a camera. He's British and male.
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Whiteycar posted:The amount of times they use Clint Mansel Soundtracks is staggering. Heh, I thought I recognized a piece from The Fountain.
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I wonder how much a quarter panel costs on a Ferrari? And I bet that underside isn't cheap to replace either. I enjoyed the episode but fast forwarded the SIARPC. There's something about abandoned cities/infrastructure that's really creepy, touching a part of the human brain that I can't quite put my finger to. It's been ingrained in media throughout history, from an episode of Rugrats to that Langoliers thing.
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Do we know if they even did all the disintegration to the underside? For all we know that was a press car and had been run a bit ragged.
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It's not implausible, given all the other damage they were pretty sure had happened just then. Those long telephoto shots where the car is surrounded by a dust cloud? Probably more like a pebble cloud.
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grover posted:While Top Gear certainly can't resist certain exaggerations, pre-planned "spontaneity" and literary license, there are real ghost cities in Spain and the airport was a real airport that was closed 3 years after it opened; all victims to the great recession and bursting of the housing bubble. China's even worse. When I was in Beijing last summer I saw massive areas of 30+ story highrise condos completely deserted and as you procede out of the city you drive by this creepy place: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/chinas-abandoned-wonderland/100207/ The HBO show Vice did an episode about a couple of China's ghost cities earlier this year.
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A good episode, much better than that piece of poo poo they put on last week. I think they succeed the most when there is less focus on scripted jokes, and more on the cars.
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neckbeard posted:China's even worse. When I was in Beijing last summer I saw massive areas of 30+ story highrise condos completely deserted and as you procede out of the city you drive by this creepy place: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/chinas-abandoned-wonderland/100207/ An even better ghost city: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/chinas-hangover/china-replica-manhattan-loses-its-luster
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After watching this week's SIARPC, I now love Benedict Cumberbatch even more than I did before. I guess stardom hasn't quite gotten to him yet, he felt like a real person.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Soundtracks aren't unusual for them (they fell in love with TRON: Legacy's for a while) but I can't recall them using video game stuff before. Some years back they were using stuff off the Halo 2 soundtrack, so it's not a new thing for them at all.
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Hey guys have you heard of these three cars: Ferrari 458, McLaren MP4-12C, Audi R8? It'd be so cool if they'd test those cars against each other. Then do it again. And again. Year in year out. Again. And yes, the most interesting car in the whole episode, the Jag, could've used a lot more screen time. What an awesome car.
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Haven't watched this weeks episode yet but I do have to say that by and large I like segments where they're just having a good time in general. I also really like when they do genuinely informative segments. Like their love letter to Saab. Looking back the last couple seasons I really liked when they went to China, I liked when they built the car for the really old person, and I liked when Hammond went to America/Texas to cover NASCAR.
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I want Top Gear to become nothing but hour long specials of them building a race car, taking trips around the world, comparing 3 junk heaps etc rather than multiple separate segments.
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kylej posted:I want Top Gear to become nothing but hour long specials of them building a race car, taking trips around the world, comparing 3 junk heaps etc rather than multiple separate segments. So, Top Gear US?
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