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That one was pretty good but like usual could have been more focused. They must have lost some script writing talent in the TG -> TGT move and/or have just been too rushed to get everything all polished up and perfect. I bet season 2 will fix a lot of that.Eifert Posting posted:If you thought any of the other Top Gear specials were accomplishing anything you're just romanticizing things you liked when you were younger. Data Graham posted:What was more authentic about the theme of the Amazon special over this one? I just rewatched the Bolivia/Amazon special and both of these points are correct. The Bolivia special is every bit as scripted and pointless as the Namibia special but the script was also a lot more fleshed out. The Bolivia special being shorter (86 minutes vs 102 minutes) than the Namibia special probably helped it a lot in that respect but the Bolivia special just had a lot more and better jokes. The Bolivia special cars got fixed off and on screen a bunch and it was obvious they had a support crew just like with the dune buggies.
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Jonny Nox posted:So are rubber penises plentiful in the Namibian desert or did Jeremy just happen to have one in his luggage? "In case of loving with your co-presenters, break glass." I'm sure they all have one.
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Personally, I'm glad my coworkers never threw me in a car while I was sleeping and then dragged me around with a helicopter. I liked the special. Namibia is really pretty.
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Galler posted:That one was pretty good but like usual could have been more focused. They must have lost some script writing talent in the TG -> TGT move and/or have just been too rushed to get everything all polished up and perfect. I bet season 2 will fix a lot of that. Bolivia had a couple things going for it that this didn't/couldn't: 1) wildly varying terrain (Namibia is spectacular and all, but compared to the jungle/crossing chasms/Highway of Death/La Paz/volcano/Atacama/final cliff, Namibia did seem a bit samey after a while 2) some of the best music cues the BBC could buy I still have several of the tracks in my rotation that I bought just from hearing them in the Bolivia special. The music adds more than we might realize.
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1) Being slightly less interesting than the most interesting place they ever went doesn't seem that bad to me 2) There was only one track in the Bolivia special that I actually noticed (when Jeremy had his earbuds in) and I didn't like it enough to even look up what song it was 
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At the end of the Namibia special... Wife: .. wait, it's over? They didn't... DO anything! Me: they sure didn't. Disappointing.
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They didn't really do anything in Botswana either.
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Requesting a GIF of that dong toss. Because that was impressive.
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The absence of the formerly spectacular soundtrack is really hampering the show.
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opengl128 posted:Requesting a GIF of that dong toss. Because that was impressive. 
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opengl128 posted:Requesting a GIF of that dong toss. Because that was impressive. I wonder how many takes they needed for him to get it right.
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Galler posted:1) Being slightly less interesting than the most interesting place they ever went doesn't seem that bad to me This is what they used a couple of times, including over the credits, more or less as the "theme" for that special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91BUZ6ru0fA This is the music for the sunset in the high desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDC1QvMhNs Pulling onto the Pan-American Highway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfHOrZ0dwY And this is the earbuds one, which was also part of the season-long running joke of Jeremy having a crush on Will Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u8Uq_oqXE
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Well apparently The Grand Tour Facebook page got banned for 24 hours because a bunch of gay cunts reported that picture of Jeremy sleeping and someone holding up the sign that says gay oval office next to his face.
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OptimusMatrix posted:Well apparently The Grand Tour Facebook page got banned for 24 hours because a bunch of gay cunts reported that picture of Jeremy sleeping and someone holding up the sign that says gay oval office next to his face. All right guys. Our show isn't going over very well. Better generate some mild controversy to get people to pay attention again.
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The music has definitely been lacking overall but I was happy to hear some Maserati during an early segment of the special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03uNTLlPLM
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Ireallylikeeggs posted:All right guys. Our show isn't going over very well. Better generate some mild controversy to get people to pay attention again. Uh, that picture was from months ago, and I'm pretty sure the show is doing extremely well.
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hopterque posted:Uh, that picture was from months ago, and I'm pretty sure the show is doing extremely well. There are six people who post in this thread who say the show is bad, yet they continue to watch it every week, so it's clearly not doing well.
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Just watched the Namibia special, and it was too little, spread too thin. It wasn't unwatchable poo poo like the India special, it was just dull like the Patagonia one. There's probably a decent 1 hour special in there if you edited it down, but they spent too long on the beach bit at the beginning, and the rest of it felt very padded out.
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IMO it was a good, but not great special. In the realms of the patagonia one or the river nile one, but not up with Vietnam or Bolivia. Pretty drat good for a jumping off point in terms of special quality though.
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Shrapnig posted:There are six people who post in this thread who say the show is bad, yet they continue to watch it every week, so it's clearly not doing well. I don't think it's all that good yet. But I agree with the poster who said they're still getting their feet and trying to adjust to the idea of unlimited budget and location and being able to do drat near anything they can think of. It takes a while to adjust to that. Mind you, it's still the most entertaining car show being made by an incredibly wide margin. I just think the guys can do so much better than they currently are.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqtqPX3If0 Trailer for this week's show. They visit Stuttgart, James tests the NSX, Richard builds a survivalist van, and Jeremy makes a lifted Jag (I think?) as an alternative to luxury SUVs. Looks pretty fun.
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projecthalaxy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqtqPX3If0 That's an MG.
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Mister Kingdom posted:That's an MG. Ah, my mistake.
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projecthalaxy posted:Ah, my mistake. Don't blame yourself... MG is actually British Leylands mistake?
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New James May Reassembler on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYPOkzy-oI
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Mister Kingdom posted:New James May Reassembler on YT: Another thoroughly enjoyable episode. James mentioned that it wasn't his workshop in the Hornby episode, I felt a little disappointed in that.
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Humphreys posted:Another thoroughly enjoyable episode. James mentioned that it wasn't his workshop in the Hornby episode, I felt a little disappointed in that. I like how he has so little respect for the conceit of television, he doesn't let any opportunity pass to sabotage it. "I'm going to explain....I know you're all screaming "don't"". "I will try to put this together before you change over to a soap". Old school James material. It really only comes out on the BBC, doesn't it? Amazon doesn't do Jamesness very well.
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hopterque posted:Uh, that picture was from months ago, and I'm pretty sure the show is doing extremely well. It took five days for anyone to even realise that dumb ice cream joke happened, so how well can it really be doing?
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Humphreys posted:Another thoroughly enjoyable episode. James mentioned that it wasn't his workshop in the Hornby episode, I felt a little disappointed in that. Far too messy to be his own.
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Judoon Platoon posted:It took five days for anyone to even realise that dumb ice cream joke happened, so how well can it really be doing? The "dumb" ice cream joke was an inside joke that pretty much only Finnish people would get. It was in reference to a Finnish commercial wherein a guy is delivering ice cream to his presumed girlfriend, but upon delivery ends up leaving with another guy for some reason. I haven't seen the commercial so I don't know all the details, but that's why all the Fins were laughing and the rest of the world thought Richard was homophobic or somesuch. They like to put local jokes into these episodes. Edit: This is where I read about that. Shoren fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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I'm out of touch with everything so I'm looking forward to seeing what German joke I won't get tomorrow.
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Data Graham posted:That... would have been a good thing for them to explain to their global audience. True, but unlike the jab about South Africa's president's math ability, cutting away to play the commercial would have broken up the interplay between Clarkson and Hammond. I know the popular thing is to rip on how scripted TGT is and how stiff the interactions seem at times, but I've really enjoyed every episode thus far and wouldn't change any of it.
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Mister Kingdom posted:New James May Reassembler on YT: The suspense when he said "To the memory of Kenneth Wood" was palpable. What a show. Ola posted:I like how he has so little respect for the conceit of television, he doesn't let any opportunity pass to sabotage it. "I'm going to explain....I know you're all screaming "don't"". "I will try to put this together before you change over to a soap". Old school James material. It really only comes out on the BBC, doesn't it? Amazon doesn't do Jamesness very well. scuz fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Shoren posted:The "dumb" ice cream joke was an inside joke that pretty much only Finnish people would get. It was in reference to a Finnish commercial wherein a guy is delivering ice cream to his presumed girlfriend, but upon delivery ends up leaving with another guy for some reason. I haven't seen the commercial so I don't know all the details, but that's why all the Fins were laughing and the rest of the world thought Richard was homophobic or somesuch. They like to put local jokes into these episodes. I'm Finnish and I have absolutely no idea what this is referring to. I think it's more likely my fellow Finns were laughing because "haha gays are funny" or "the tiny British man is joking about gays, how awkward."
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Jeremy's Land Rover / "the excellent" bit was pretty funny. I loved the NSX film, and the everyday "solutions" to battery charging was funny but hammond's increasingly ridiculous prepper car bit was boring and too long. Blowing up expensive stuff (or just the appearance of blowing up expensive stuff) isn't really that fun for me. Jeremy spent 14 thousand pounds on the various cars that turned in to "the excellent" so to me that would mean that they were all working cars when they were purchased so I guess it's a little sad that he destroyed some cars people care about. Not one of the best episode but not an abomination.
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This was the most Top Gear rear end episode they've done, I liked it.
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GutBomb posted:Jeremy's Land Rover / "the excellent" bit was pretty funny. I loved the NSX film, and the everyday "solutions" to battery charging was funny but hammond's increasingly ridiculous prepper car bit was boring and too long. Blowing up expensive stuff (or just the appearance of blowing up expensive stuff) isn't really that fun for me. Same here. Though of course my roommate (who is always looking at gun porn websites when I look over at him) thought it was the best thing ever.
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