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sharkytm posted:I guess I'm in the minority, but I thought the episode had some issues. The air force fight was just cringy, the vignetting was turned up to 11, and I'm honestly not a huge fan of the new track. I'm sure as gently caress going to watch next week, the intro was amazing, and I'm glad we got to see the three Hypercars finally. I laughed out loud honestly a couple of times, which isn't common for me. I agree with all this. The Air Force thing went on far too long. The track seems really underwhelming.
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Rewatching it, I see what people mean about the smiling girl. I think it's the excessively white teeth and it feels like something of a forced grin. Does make you think of Dwayne Dibley somewhat, though distinctly more attractive. Edit: Oh, Reddit: "Can't stop looking at the pretty girl behind Jeremy Clarkson in S01E01" "Same here, but why do they keep laughing at how slow she drives?" InitialDave fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Nov 19, 2016 |
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Nov 19, 2016 16:11
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It was entertaining, but I'm not gonna love it until there's a challenge, a race or a country trip. Same way I've always felt about Top Gear, though.
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Nov 19, 2016 17:59
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Was good, but not great. My wife isn't really into cars, but absolutely loved old TG. She got bored and went upstairs halfway through, just saying it was awkward and nowhere near as funny.
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Nov 19, 2016 19:31
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The only part I thought was outright bad was the American driver. It was just unfunny poo poo but it was also brief.
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Nov 19, 2016 19:41
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What part of that P1 kept hitting the track to send up showers of sparks like that? I'm assuming part of the exhaust, doesn't titanium give those huge showers of white sparks? Maybe some magnesium aero stuff? Whatever it was, I'm sure each plume of sparks was making the directors pucker up praying for no real damage. Also thank you thread for introducing me to the Regera, I didn't know Koenigsegg had been working on anything past the Agera R. That thing looks absolutely mental. And it's supposed to be a softer more luxury sort of car  . I hope they end up doing more Koenigsegg cars, ever since seeing the CC for back in the 90s I've never been able to see Lamborghini as the pinnacle of insanity some people claim. Like, come on, they even made the doors cooler. Even if they don't do a Regera, I hope they get their hands on a 1:One and make May drive it until he throws up.Oh, and my brother and I saw a no poo poo McLaren F1 driving around in the New Hampshire fall a couple weeks ago. Add that to the P1 and MP4-12C I saw in Boston earlier this year and I can almost complete my batshit British car birdwatching list.
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Ecstatic posted:Ferrari, in particular are very demanding when it comes to media on their cars. They famously "don't advertise" instead promote their brand via car shows/mags/website review their cars combined with the F1 team for media exposure. This has led to certain amounts of "gaming the system" when providing cars, Chris Harris writes about it very well here. http://jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins If you pay attention to the dialogue when they are talking about driving the cars back to the hotel, they explicitly say the reason the Ferrari isn't registered for the road is because if the owner registered it to get plates, he'd have to pay the secondhand car tax; I'm pretty sure they got it from someone who was not the original owner, thereby bypassing Ferrari's threat to not allow anyone who provided a LaFerrari for comparison against the 918 and P1 from ever buying another Ferrari again. They can't do that if they don't know who the owner of the car they borrowed was. So Ferrari didn't agree to poo poo, they just found one owned by someone who wasn't at risk of being blacklisted.
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Or just someone who had the balls to tell Ferrari to pound sand. I figure anyone who can afford a La Ferrari can afford a middle man to buy whatever they want in the future anyway.
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iwentdoodie posted:Was good, but not great. My wife isn't really into cars, but absolutely loved old TG. She got bored and went upstairs halfway through, just saying it was awkward and nowhere near as funny.
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InitialDave posted:Rewatching it, I see what people mean about the smiling girl. I think it's the excessively white teeth and it feels like something of a forced grin. She's cute and it's just this - it's just a huge contrast with her darker skin so it constantly draws attention to what is supposed to be the background, and it does feels a bit forced or at least weird in the way, who holds a grin like that for minutes. CBJamo posted:Or just someone who had the balls to tell Ferrari to pound sand. I figure anyone who can afford a La Ferrari can afford a middle man to buy whatever they want in the future anyway.
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Nov 19, 2016 21:37
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I figured it was either Ferrari leading it to them or one of those Valley billionaires that Ferrari couldn't piss off.
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They nailed it and it will only get better. Good to see the boys again
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Nov 20, 2016 03:40
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I kinda wish they had picked up Tiff instead of the Nascar guy.
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HotCanadianChick posted:If you pay attention to the dialogue when they are talking about driving the cars back to the hotel, they explicitly say the reason the Ferrari isn't registered for the road is because if the owner registered it to get plates, he'd have to pay the secondhand car tax; I'm pretty sure they got it from someone who was not the original owner, thereby bypassing Ferrari's threat to not allow anyone who provided a LaFerrari for comparison against the 918 and P1 from ever buying another Ferrari again. They can't do that if they don't know who the owner of the car they borrowed was. Yeh I was more referring to the show itself, giving the car a bum review. Don't The show might have enough clout that the exposure is worth more than anything the team could say. I mean, the only objectively bad supercar review I can remember TG giving in recent memory was the Zenvo (small volume, small company, no real repercussions for their future).
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Nov 20, 2016 09:13
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I always liked how they dealt with car companies jerking them around: "Challenger has refused because we're mean about them cars. Well Britain is not a rock in the North Atlantic, and we won't be messed around by a two-bit car company." ......"This is a Challenger that I've just bought." Also the
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Plucky Brit posted:I always liked how they dealt with car companies jerking them around: Ah yes, the famous Challenger Challenger. It's the Ferrari The Ferrari, but fat.
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Nov 20, 2016 11:50
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A thoughtful review of the grand tour by the beeb
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sean10mm posted:The only part I thought was outright bad was the American driver. It was just unfunny poo poo but it was also brief. Agreed. There are some genuinely interesting NASCAR drivers if they must use one, dunno why they went with Shrek impersonator Mike Skinner. I also hope celebrity brain crunch was a one time thing to sell the dead celebs gag.
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Nov 20, 2016 16:50
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What's this about Clarkson and May. I keep hearing the same thing over the years.
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It's weird, I always heard the opposite (Jeremy and James were great buds and Hammond was the third wheel). No evidence for this that I'm aware of though.
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The whole thing about them not actually liking each other has always been really dumb. Why the gently caress would these millionaires continue making TV together for like 15 years if they didn't like each other?
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Andrast posted:The whole thing about them not actually liking each other has always been really dumb. Why the gently caress would these millionaires continue making TV together for like 15 years if they didn't like each other? Loadsamoney? Adam Savage and Jaime Hyneman liked each other even less but that didn't stop Mythbusters from being great.
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Nov 20, 2016 18:55
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I constantly tell my best friend what a loving rear end in a top hat he is. Their relationship seemed pretty natural to me, including James' non Top Gear stuff, where he mentions Jeremy from time to time.
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Nov 20, 2016 19:42
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Top Grand Gear Tour TV Megathread: Relationship status complicated.
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I remembered it was Sunday and got really excited for a new episode. Then I realized this isn't Top Gear. Come on Thursday err Friday?
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Wasabi the J posted:Their relationship seemed pretty natural to me, including James' non Top Gear stuff, where he mentions Jeremy from time to time. "It's now home to the odd rabid stray dog and the most distressed surfaces this side of Jeremy Clarkson's face" - James in Cars of the People
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If they don't genuinely like each other then they're all three the greatest stage actors in the history of the world because they were all hanging out and joking and having fun in-between takes and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the entire event almost as much as us punters at the shooting of the opening sequence. They did the opening roasts on the stage repeatedly to get the best sick burns/warm up the crowd, and all three x-ratedly bashed the poo poo out of each other and no one ever looked cross or at all taken aback by being called a pedophile/shopper for used dildos on ebay/horse-sex aficionado etc.
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I say no simply because how hard James had Clarksons back through all of his bullshit over the years.
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Yeah, I don't buy it. The reason the show has always worked as well as it has is because you get glimpses of their real friendship off and on throughout the series. If they're faking those bits and all the behind the scenes and non top gear stuff they're seriously the greatest actors of all time.
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I think this is my favorite example of their genuine friendship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayjqliO-nHY&t=62s
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If they truly didn't like each other, Hammond and May would have left Clarkson behind and kept going with Top Gear.
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Nov 21, 2016 01:59
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Americans also need to take into account that derogatory piss-taking is what good friends do in the UK.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Americans also need to take into account that derogatory piss-taking is what good friends do in the UK. Americans do it too, unless they are boring.
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You don't tell your good friends that you love and respect them, you call them assholes.
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Nov 21, 2016 02:59
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So how bout that gbs gt thread...
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Nov 21, 2016 03:09
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Yeah, not doubting their friendship. It's just weird that some "news" outlets keep hinting the opposite.
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Nov 21, 2016 03:14
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They wouldn't get many views if the article was: "Three middle aged guys had fun making a car show and everyone enjoyed watching it."
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Nov 21, 2016 03:23
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I tried to read that BBC article and was immediately distracted by the hairy tumors growing out of the authors head
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Nov 21, 2016 06:01
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Hooooly poo poo how much money did they spend on the first five minutes alone??????
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