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DumbparameciuM posted:Direct link to the Amazon mailing list here, in case you live somewhere else like HoldenFan3000 and myself Dunno about signing up to another email list. Hopefully they announce something on Facebook.
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Pham Nuwen posted:You have hurt the feelings of the Argentine people. Argentine people's glass heart is too weak to undertake criticism. Shut the hell up, so-called "Pham Nuwen", you son of a bitch.
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Good news, Australia fans! US people will be able to watch it at 4:01pm tomorrow, a day early. http://jalopnik.com/the-grand-tour-will-actually-debut-a-day-early-in-the-u-1789056123
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Wonder what brought them to Nashville? It just seems completely out of left field.
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sean10mm posted:Wonder what brought them to Nashville? It just seems completely out of left field. hammond, hes a secret american
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Alighieri posted:hammond, hes a secret american Someone needs to give him Nashville hot chicken, tell him it's regular fried chicken, and watch him turn purple and fall over from capsaicin intoxication. With the cameras rolling, obviously. 
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guys, top gear is almost back !
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sean10mm posted:Wonder what brought them to Nashville? It just seems completely out of left field. But yeah, probably the secret American.
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Nashville has a pretty cool automotive related attraction if they want to see some classics and a short oval track if they want to get all NASCAR http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/ http://www.fairgroundsspeedwaynashville.com/
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The tail of the dragon isn't far from Nashville either.
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So since we're a couple hours from the show airing, here's some spoilers. Do not read this unless you want to know what happened. Both my wife and I were given invites to the filming of the Grand Opening sequence after a phone interview in which they asked questions like "Have you been to any outdoor car shows recently" and "do you like to attend rock and roll shows". We both answered yes to each. After we'd signed up they told us we could each bring 3 guests but in the interest of making our local friends appropriately jealous, we didn't bring anyone. We assembled in the desert at Apple Valley high school's football stadium parking lot at 9am on a saturday morning - about 90 minutes NE of Los Angeles. Lots of cool cars in the lot, I counted 3 E92 M3's, a bunch of GTRs, a couple Focus RS's, and various Lotus/Mustang/Corvette/Challenger drivers. From there, we waited in line to get past security (had to return our phones to the car, no videos/photos leaked!) and into the main waiting area, only go get in and find we had to wait 45+ minutes to use one of two porta-toilets they had provided for the crowd of 2000 people. At one point a huge roar went up from the mob while we were still queuing to get past security - we looked up, thinking maybe the boys had arrived due to the cheers - but it was just the arrival of 3 more porta-toilets on the back of a truck. From there, we all boarded a series of about 40 school buses, and were taken for a ride of about 25 minutes to a location into GTA V Trevor Country - the desert methlands in the Mojave desert - here: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4653709,-117.0419409,9804m/data=!3m1!1e3 Arriving on the scene, we were greeted by a bunch of Mad Max vehicles, a huge gathering of interesting and rare supercars/racers, and a variety of art cars including a giant VW bus, a 3-masted galleon, and a giant scorpion-car-thing that shot fire from all orifices, and a bunch of Cirque/circus performers in various states of apocalpytic costuming. There was also a burning caravan hanging from a crane. Burning Van, eh? Coolest rare car of the day was a genuine Vectra V12. The majority of the action took place in front of a stage in the middle of the dry lake where Hothouse Flowers were playing on and off all day, basically whenever the director wanted shots of the crowd clapping and cheering. Needless to say we had to do a lot of "big audience reactions!!!" on cue. They played endless refrains of "I Can See Clearly Now" as necessary to fit the needs of the filming. Clarkson, Hammond and May emerged to do some autographs and flesh-pressing before they got to work and then scurried away on golf carts to get shots in a huge convoy of all the roadgoing vehicles - it seemed to be that they were filming the end of a "race" so we saw them all rushing towards us from half a mile away across the lake bed, in a massive cloud of yellow dust. All the cars were caked in it and it will look properly Mad Max on film, I'm sure. It's most likely going to all look epic on film, because it was amazing seeing them making the sausage. The crowd was asked to look as though we were unaware of the convoy and simply enjoying the rock concert - at one point the AD asked for more women to move to the front of the crowd because it was a bit of a sausage party, so I tagged along as my wife was grabbed and dragged to the front - and then we were to part like the Red Sea as the three cars driven by Clarkson, Hammond and May arrived at the finish line and then pushed through the crowd up to the stage. The cars (a trio of Mustang GT350 variants) were driven into place by stunt drivers first of all, while the cameras got close shots of us all leaning in to clap and cheer them. Later, they repeated the stunt with the Trio driving the cars themselves. (Clarkson seems to have 'won' the race, needless to say, with May second and Hammond third). The production crew had asked us to try and bring a 1:1 male to female ratio in our guest invites, but it was probably more like 3:1 dudes. As the actual stars were driving up through the crowd, I dawdled in my eagerness to appear to be ENJOYING THE MUSIC and nearly got run down by Jeremy. I hope he shouts "GET OUT OF THE WAAAAAY" at me. My wife blew Jeremy a kiss through his window as he drove by and he looked a bit startled to see a woman. I gave requisite thumbs up and shouts of encouragement to each of them as they drove by me, on camera. Clarkson has got very very blue eyes. Hammond is very short. James looks exactly like he does on TV. Eventually we did some shots with them on the stage - this is the opening sequence for the show and so the shot was basically Jeremy talking to the camera over the crowd, and telling the home audience what's coming up throughout the series. They warmed the crowd up a bit first, though, each taking turns to introduce each other with piss-taking and increasingly vulgar roasts mainly centering around pornography and pedophilia, which somehow I doubt will make the cut. What will make the cut, because they had to do it three or four times to get their comic timing right including taking a 10 minute break off-stage to focusgroup the joke, was Jeremy saying "..but what this is really about is that we're three automotive journalists who've spent the last twenty years..." "GETTING FIRED" pipes up Hammond. Cue LOLs. Each of the 4 or 5 times we required to LOL. The last shot we did, we had the three cars back in place in front of the stage as though the race has just finished, and each of the three guys were filmed getting out of their cars into the crowd and being high-fived and celebrated. Then they all just stood amongst us by their cars signing some autographs for people and waiting for the next take. My wife and I were by Hammond (who was very jolly and kind, exactly the same as his on-camera personality) and May was just ahead of us, being May-like. Jeremy was sharing his cigarettes with fans near him, whilst we waited for a flypast by a formation of nine Breitling jets for the grand finale. The camera helicopter was higher than the planes and filmed them from above. They did the flypast three times and got the angle perfect on the third go, coming at us straight over the stage really low. Getting to enjoy James and Richard honestly being excited by the fly-over like they were proper punters was pretty awesome. All three were super cool and accommodating to all the fans, we shook hands with Richard at the end since he was so close to us for the fly-over bits, and then on the way out I shouted over the top of the Mustang James was at "We love you James!" And he looked up from the hat he was signing and said back to me "I love you too" and the crowd got a good kick out of that. Clarkson was walking parallel with us as we were heading to the buses back home, noted my wife's british accent (she's fairly tall so stands out anyway) and said "Thanks so much for coming!" un-provoked. All in all, they seemed just like they are on TV and it was a lot of fun. Then it got really weird. Due to the crush getting on the bus (and our understanding that the parking lot back at the high school was going to be a clusterfuck), we got towards the front of the bus line and onto the 2nd or 3rd bus, but there were only single seats so my wife and I got separated. I ended up sitting next to a chick I'd seen during the shoots, since she and the guy she was with had on cool "Grand Tour" shirts that looked official but turned out to be bootlegged by her (I asked where she'd gotten them.) In the course of conversation on the ride back to the high school, it came up that she'd travelled from [other city] , and as we were pulling into the lot the older gentleman sitting on her other side pointed out his car to her, and she starts mentioning the cars she and her husband (the aforementioned guy with the GT shirt I'd seen before) owned... and I'm like "I only know 1 person from X town who owns Cars Y and Z"... so I say 'This is a pretty weird question to ask a stranger on the bus... but Is your last name <theirlastname>?" Lo and behold, it turns out this woman is the wife of a guy I only know through the internet. I've never even met him other than through POASTING and I somehow identified his wife out a group of randoms on a bus in the desert by the cars she said they owned, and the location they had traveled from. Plot twist: That poaster is someone from here. I'll let him out himself if he likes, but it was truly one of the all-time "What a small world!" moments of my life.
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The first episode is up!
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What are the rules about posting about episodes in here? Keep everything in spoiler tags?
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it's available in the UK now. edit - beaten 
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keevo posted:What are the rules about posting about episodes in here? Keep everything in spoiler tags? On one hand, it's pseudo-unscripted so "spoilers" but on the other don't be a loving dilz and post things that people would rather enjoy on their own. Only snuck in the first ten minutes so far but... this is good.
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Trip report: This was good. Don't hesitate, watch it. edit: for future reference, this was live at 5 P.M. Central Time (2300 UTC), dunno if the rest are going to be up a little early too, but something to keep in mind. nmfree fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Jesus, the celebrity bit is just loving dragging
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Right now there are executives at the BBC with guns in their mouths, I guarantee it. I enjoyed the hell out of that, I cant wait to see how The Guardian tries to claim it bombed.
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howe_sam posted:Jesus, the celebrity bit is just loving dragging I thought it was funny at first but just kept going on and on. I am curious as to how they were able to get the Ferrari the Ferrari, the P1, and the Spyder on the same track and racing against each other. I thought none of the manufacturers would allow it?
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As far as I know the rules for spoilers, once something airs, you don't have to spoil it anymore. It's on Amazon and I watched it, so it has aired. Anyway, I thought the bit with the American driver was a bit too forced. Everything he did was unfunny and boring and really dragged down that segment. Other than that, it was a great episode and I can't wait to see the rest of the episodes.
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Yeah, I enjoyed it also. The celebrity bit was bad, and I didn't love all the set up/explanation of things like the new track and the driver. It felt a bit too much like a live show, but the hope is that a lot of that goes away after the first episode. I was a little worried that the visual and sound design would suffer a bit as the new team got accustomed, but both were really good (although I missed the BBC's music license. The music was a bit generic).
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It was flabby and a little too full of itself. Pretty much exactly what you'd think would happen if you give those three unlimited money. Which isn't to say it was bad, just indulgent.
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Had me grinning ear to ear. Not perfect, not rubbish. Ambitious?
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I liked it. Seeing the hybrid hypercars was cool, I like the weird racetrack, i didn't really dislike anything. Both the celebrity and RAF bits did that thing where they go from funny to unfunny and back again because of how long they were.
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I'm guessing they will use a new "driver" at each global location and post the board times together regardless. The USA driver and his bits were dumb - was he actually a NASCAR driver? The Air Force thing was (as already stated) too long and sort of dumb. I didn't like the new track especially that rough section that was rather narrow. The celeb bits were dumb but I bet they have canned interviews/drives to show later? Overall I give a solid B and I bet it gets better from here.
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That fuckin P1 is a demon. This first episode is completely self-indulgent and its wonderful.
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Cojawfee posted:Anyway, I thought the bit with the American driver was a bit too forced. Everything he did was unfunny and boring and really dragged down that segment. So is he going to be the permanent professional racing driver every week, or are they going to use someone from their host country every week? And if it's going to be the same driver every week, that's who they're going to go with? Also, was he Stig's fat American cousin from the first American special (the roadtrip through the South)?
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nmfree posted:So is he going to be the permanent professional racing driver every week, or are they going to use someone from their host country every week? And if it's going to be the same driver every week, that's who they're going to go with? He's in the credits, so probably?
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Keyser S0ze posted:The USA driver and his bits were dumb - was he actually a NASCAR driver? Not only was he a NASCAR driver, but he won the (truck) series!
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Overall a good (and expensive-looking) episode. It seems like they may have tried a little too hard on the humor aspect. There were some that I thought were hilarious (like the subtitle bit), but others came across a little too canned even if it was done tongue in cheek (like the RAF "fight", the celebrity segment, and the NASCAR driver), but overall it's still the fun show that old TG was, and everything still comes down to the chemistry between the hosts, which is tremendous as ever.
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Just finished watching the first episode of GT and gently caress me, that is some good poo poo. Its exactly what I wanted from a show with the three idiots. I was laughing my rear end off throughout the entire thing. If you're on the fence about it, just watch it. It was one of the most enjoyable moments on TV for me in a very long time. For me, it lived up to the hype and it was everything I wanted it to be. And that opening...THAT OPENING!!! I felt like I was going to tearing up. For real, don't read if you want something amazing to be spoiled. I have warned you. Holy poo poo, I am really hoping to see photos tomorrow morning on May and Hammond with bulldozers knocking down Clarkson's house with him throwing the bricks from his now distroyed home at the bulldozers. I want this to happen and not just be a tease. Please, let it be!
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IndianaZoidberg posted:Just finished watching the first episode of GT and gently caress me, that is some good poo poo. Its exactly what I wanted from a show with the three idiots. I was laughing my rear end off throughout the entire thing. If you're on the fence about it, just watch it. It was one of the most enjoyable moments on TV for me in a very long time. For me, it lived up to the hype and it was everything I wanted it to be. In regards to your bit in the spoilers: http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/09/jeremy-clarkson-angers-neighbours-by-blowing-up-his-4m-farmhouse-during-local-village-funeral-6118802/ I am willing to bet that this might be somewhat related...
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First episode is a mixed bag. I liked parts of it a lot, but some of the staged humor bits were kind of cringey. I hope the following episodes are a little more natural.
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It's a great place to start from. I hope that celebrity bit was them telling us the celebrity interviews are dead, oh please let that segment be dead.
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On Amazon (atleast when watching it on a computer) they have something called "X-Ray". Its basicly trivia throughout the episode about whats on screen at that moment. I didn't notice it my first go around but its just another reason to rewatch it!
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Spiffness posted:It's a great place to start from. I hope that celebrity bit was them telling us the celebrity interviews are dead, oh please let that segment be dead. I'm sure that's what they were going for. A whole lot of the episode was them telegraphing that they know what works and what doesn't, what they can get away with and what they can't. I'm sure the "Celebrity Brain Crash" machine was just a fake prop; I mean can you even imagine that segment working for real, them doggedly hooking celebs up to it week after week?  Personally I'm kind of surprised the format is so similar to TG. I thought (especially from the opening, jesus they can really do cinematic and epic when they want to—it felt like "this is what these three have been building up to for the last 20 years") that it would be going way off in its own new direction, but it's really like 90% sticking to the formula that they know works. I'm looking forward to seeing 
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IndianaZoidberg posted:On Amazon (atleast when watching it on a computer) they have something called "X-Ray". Its basicly trivia throughout the episode about whats on screen at that moment. I didn't notice it my first go around but its just another reason to rewatch it! They do this for movies and non Amazon tv shows as well, it's really neat.
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