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wolrah posted:Kinda. I was just thinking how that all worked, cool concept hosting the show in a different location every week but the workload it puts on the traveling crew. International flights, hotels, hire cars, meals all that jazz once a week for 3 months. Probably alright for the presenters flying business or first and has PA sorting all the paperwork and running about for them but as someone that has to do that sort of travel for work I can seriously see that getting old quick.
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InitialDave posted:I think his point was that the shorter barrel makes it a carbine. Assault rifle denotes the functions of the rifle (select fire). Carbine denotes the physical properties (shorter barrel). The gun can be called a rifle, carbine, or assault rifle. However not all rifles are carbines and certainly not all guns assault rifles. It's just different names for different properties of the same gun. Hopefully this makes it clear as mud. Anyway does anyone else think like me that the reason there are not more films taking place in the host country is because they are filming those segments after they film the tent segment? djdanno13 fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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drunken officeparty posted:The celeb interview segments were Good And Cool and I want them back Some of them were cool and interesting. One of the best that I can recollect was with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Most of them were like meeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.
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I'm pretty sure it was like the Young Ones and some sort of weird budget thing. Top Gear inserted interviews with celebs to be classified as an entertainment show and not just an educational/informational show. The Young Ones always had a musical act in every episode so they could be classified as a variety show rather than a comedy and thus get a bigger budget. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Not every episode. Once they had a lion tamer.
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"Mike! It's the cure!" "No Neil, it's Madness this week" djdanno13 posted:Assault rifle denotes the functions of the rifle (select fire). Carbine denotes the physical properties (shorter barrel). The gun can be called a rifle, carbine, or assault rifle. However not all rifles are carbines and certainly not all guns assault rifles. It's just different names for different properties of the same gun. Hopefully this makes it clear as mud. Falken posted:I wonder how many TFR nerds were triggered when he called that carbine an assault rifle.
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The only bit of the special forces scene I liked was May's one-sided feud with the queen.
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djdanno13 posted:Anyway does anyone else think like me that the reason there are not more films taking place in the host country is because they are filming those segments after they film the tent segment? Iirc they film the country segments before tent, but its like just few days before. My source on this was a random finn who claimed they had visited a race track here.
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djdanno13 posted:Anyway does anyone else think like me that the reason there are not more films taking place in the host country is because they are filming those segments after they film the tent segment? All of the films were created before they even knew where the first tent segment would be.
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I was just thinking about the changes from the old Top Gear, and out of all the gags or other copyrighted things they can't use anymore, I think I miss Jessica most of all.
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I'm really disappointed they didn't use ramblin man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68X8o0S7vJc
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Eifert Posting posted:The only bit of the special forces scene I liked was May's one-sided feud with the queen. Who could resist shooting the queen tbf
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No. Just no. Barry Humphries needs to be set on fire and shot into the loving sun. His shtick was old thirty years when I first saw it and hasn't changed since.
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Gorilla Salad posted:No. Just no.  John Inman's cremation ashes are fresher at this point.
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Gorilla Salad posted:No. Just no. Plus it turns out Barry Humphries is a proper Tory oval office.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Plus it turns out (BBC personality of your choice) is a proper
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I actually enjoyed this episode. I think the military thing was a pretty fun mockery of how your average man thinks he would be an ultra-competent badass when put into a situation like that, and the reality that they just bumbled around and got killed over and over. It dragged on a bit, but I think the underlying punchline was solid. The thing that detracts for me is the cheeky segment names (conversation street, celebrity brain crash, etc). They were funny the first time as a "chat show segment names are dumb" kinda thing, but they're dumb as actual regular names.
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I never expected them to keep that celebrity thing going. It was funny as a first episode joke. Second episode was "Are they seriously doing this joke again?" If they do it again, I don't know.
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The military thing struck me as something that was funny in a production meeting but didn't work in real life
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shadow puppet of a posted:If they knew they were going to stick with it they should have pre-taped 12 episodes worth of Jeremy Renner dying each time they try to bring him on. I think the episode would have been better if he actually landed behind the hosts and crawled under the tent to join them on stage. Would have been a great entrance.
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And then after the applause tell Renner oh sorry the producer just cancelled this segment to pursue other creative outlets but thanks so much for your hard work goodbye now.
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Or, after parachuting and climbing under the tent, just had him stand in the audience and watch the show without any comment.
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They need like a aerial view or a minimap on the track parts because to me it's always been just a series of unconnected shots and I have no idea what turns into what or anything
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drunken officeparty posted:They need like a aerial view or a minimap on the track parts because to me it's always been just a series of unconnected shots and I have no idea what turns into what or anything This would be awesome, especially if it was subjected to Clarksonian gimmicks on occasion.
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drunken officeparty posted:They need like a aerial view or a minimap on the track parts because to me it's always been just a series of unconnected shots and I have no idea what turns into what or anything they had that in the early seasons of new top gear and it was dumb. it looked like a cheap video game. the reality is literally that it doesnt matter. the track segments are to see lots of cool slides and hear loud noise, then be told "by golly, this car is fast"
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drunken officeparty posted:They need like a aerial view or a minimap on the track parts because to me it's always been just a series of unconnected shots and I have no idea what turns into what or anything http://jalopnik.com/this-is-where-the-grand-tours-brand-new-test-track-is-l-1789134294 I spent some time studying it and comparing it to Clarkson's lap in the first episode to figure out just where he was and what it all looked like. It helped a bunch.
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Worst thing about the new track is all the buildings in the middle of it so you cannot get a panning shot of the entire track, you get a huge hangar just sitting in the middle of it. If it was wide open it would be so much better to visualize. I am guessing Lotus had nothing to do with this track?
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The new track seems kind of boring to drive seeing as how there's very little elevation change, though that was the same problem with the old one (except doubly so I imagine).
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Rated PG-34 posted:The new track seems kind of boring to drive seeing as how there's very little elevation change, though that was the same problem with the old one (except doubly so I imagine). The lack of elevation change may be necessary, as some of those cars are drat low to the ground and would scrape at speed. Remember the sparks from the P1 scraping the ground on tgat little incline in ep1? How much harder would it be to get test cars if that kind of damage was a constant threat. If anything, this one seems more fun/demanding given how narrow and tight it is in spots.
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They can't change the track because then they'd have to lose that hilarious, topical Ebola joke they spent a lot of time making go absolutely nowhere.
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KozmoNaut posted:I vote for elevation changes, just to spice things up. I want them to take a supercar mudding
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:they had that in the early seasons of new top gear and it was dumb. it looked like a cheap video game. the reality is literally that it doesnt matter. the track segments are to see lots of cool slides and hear loud noise, then be told "by golly, this car is fast" Exactly. Also if they do the mini map thing, they actually have to show the whole lap which is usually boring (otherwise the edits would be obvious.) What we see is just the interesting bits with the boring parts of the track cut out. The lap is not a scientific test. It's a bit like the rest of the show. It's there for them to bicker about what car is better.
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