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The end result was definitely more for the show than anything else given the small size/throughput and amount of staffing it'd need even being that small, but I wouldn't have been surprised if their intent originally was to make a viable restaurant before all the permissions were denied. Like hiring someone full-time to ferry people between the store and restaurant is a crazy expense given how few patrons at a time there are.
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FogHelmut posted:Jeremy Clarkson is only 62 years old. It's the mileage, not the years for him.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Second series was surprisingly good. Jeremy's basically playing a Farm Management Sim in sandbox mode IRL. Just buy whatever device/animals seem interesting, and turn a profit in 22,000 years. Put it on "antelope" speed. I think the first season was more like a farm management sim, while the second season was a rim world randy random playing the town council to find new ways to gently caress Clarkson over.
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I was so sure the thing with the mandolin was a bit, but nope, he did like the one thing you should never do with a mandolin (use one, lol). Also, Ive realized I dont understand Clarkson at all. If you watch this show he seems like someone who legitimately cares about the world, animals, some parts of the environment. But then you read some of the other poo poo he writes and it just doesnt square up at all. Does he just like stirring poo poo up?
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I think it's a case where he only cares about the things that affect him. He started caring about his farm, and now suddenly the things that affect his farm are important to him.
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"I don't believe a single word I write." - J. Clarkson.
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Colostomy Bag posted:It's the mileage, not the years for him. It's also closer to what most 62yos look like as opposed to what "TV 62yo" usually looks like. frogbs posted:Does he just like stirring poo poo up? Not all the time, because he does have plenty of poo poo opinions, but yeah, a lot of the time it's this. It can be easy to read his pieces and completely miss subtext and satire. And remember that while he's had plenty of real scandals, plenty of "Clarkson Scandals" are just poo poo whipped up by opposing tabloid outlets who both genuinely loathe him and also stand to profit from it.
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He has a great sense for what he can act peevish or scandalized by and get a rise out of the audience, even if it's wildly inconsistent in stance from one moment to the next. One minute he's showcasing the precarious situation English farmers are in post-Brexit and how much it's hosed everyone over now that the safety net is gone, and the next minute he's rolling his eyes at regulations and saying "I hate the government, I really do" The same audience member can nod along and be mad right along with him from one conceptual pratfall to the next without ever noticing the incoherence, or caring. It's just TV after all
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Cojawfee posted:I got to the council meeting episode. While I'm sure this show is edited to show Clarkson in the best possible light, that was a bunch of bullshit. The cafe is a great idea, his plan for the building basically showcases the AONB for the patrons, and it supports and is supported by local farmers. Blocking that was dumb as poo poo. Those council members are idiots. I can definitely see how British people can easily get upset over the stupidity of their government. A lot of issues he has that his fellow farmers are complaining about seem like things he could lead up a movement to change. i figure there's maybe a bit of creative editing, and it's unclear why the ad hoc coop didn't present their case as a whole. having present local long time farmer support would, i expect, have helped what definitely seemed a bit the council rejecting poo poo out of spite for clarkson clarksoning in and using his fortunes to build without meaningful financial concerns however i live near san francisco and can definitely sympathize with people running into idiotic busybody local government planning people who seem hell bent on opposing anything in a nearsighted attempt to preserve wherever they live in amber, exactly as it was right after they moved in
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Clarkson is a ultimate conservative: one minute mad about the government making it illegal/cost prohibitive to shoot yourself in the foot, then doing it anyway and complaining the government didnt do enough to prevent him from shooting himself in the foot and isnt helping him recover.
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I want to hear his neighbor's opinions about Brexit ca. 2019.
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frogbs posted:Also, Ive realized I dont understand Clarkson at all. If you watch this show he seems like someone who legitimately cares about the world, animals, some parts of the environment. But then you read some of the other poo poo he writes and it just doesnt square up at all. Does he just like stirring poo poo up? I've not watched the second season, but one thing that stuck out to me in the first is when he built that pond/wetland. He kept claiming he wanted to do it because of the environment and rewild it. But then after he finished loving around in a tractor/digger loving the soil up he was left with a dirt pit filled with water that he filled with trout. He then fenced it off because shock horror an otter thought it was a nice convenient food store. At not point did he appear to do any planting or wilding, or try to establish anything other than trout in a barren muddy pond. His actions were the complete opposite to what he was saying he was doing and I have no idea if that is intentional or if he was being completely obtuse and actually believed what he was saying.
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I didn't see the council make the point that I would have done, which is that the farm shop repeatedly broke the terms set out in the planning permission. For example the T-shirts from Vietnam. I'd have no confidence that the restaurant would have stuck to the planning permission either. Councils acting terribly is a British pastime, which is why they need to be glad-handed (and bribed). Clarkson only seemed to deal with the locals when he wanted something out of them. I don't have much sympathy with him, though I'm sure other more worthy farmers have had similar experiences.
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Well then: https://deadline.com/2023/02/clarksons-farm-viewing-record-amazon-meghan-markle-scandal-1235268525/ quote:Clarksons Farm has become Amazon Prime Videos most-watched original show in the UK since the countrys ratings body started collecting data for major streaming services.
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Jesus lol. Take that Bezos and your billion dollar vanity show
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I mean, I have always greatly enjoyed Top Gear, but something about Clarksons Farm is justnice and enjoyable. Maybe its that hes toned down, or shows humility, or the rest of the gang like Kaleb, but the show feels, comforting? I think Also saw a recent article that they had to close down the restaurant as the council wanted them to perform various upgrades in a six week time span, which they werent able / willing to do
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It is really nice. There's stakes to be sure, but you know due to the nature of the show that it isn't going to end on a total downer like "the cows all get TB" or "he can't open the restaurant and goes out of business" or whatever. It's going to be uplifting and inspiring to some degree, even if you take issue with his perspective as one might, in a thorny multilateral landscape of opinions and interests. I'm kind of surprised Wilman isn't involved. Clarkson himself seems to have a really good sense of how to spin drama out of humdrum everyday life (or at least can find directors with that talent). If you don't get misty at the end credits with "Ramble On" playing, geez e: or at Kaleb's first helicopter flight Data Graham fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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Data Graham posted:It is really nice. There's stakes to be sure, but you know due to the nature of the show that it isn't going to end on a total downer like "the cows all get TB" or "he can't open the restaurant and goes out of business" or whatever. It's going to be uplifting and inspiring to some degree, even if you take issue with his perspective as one might, in a thorny multilateral landscape of opinions and interests. From the credits on IMDB at least, Andy Wilman is an executive producer: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932799/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr4
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Kaleb and that chief consultant whose name I forgot are like James Mays that Clarkson doesn't constantly belittle and ignore for advice, but actually pays attention and does what they say. And yes, I generally liked the pieces and specials where May and Clarkson were doing some stuff together and Hammond was missing, but unfortunately those seemed to veer towards boring to the general audiences, since they stopped doing that configuration after Top Gear.
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Der Kyhe posted:Kaleb and that chief consultant whose name I forgot are like James Mays that Clarkson doesn't constantly belittle and ignore for advice, but actually pays attention and does what they say. May and Hammond work together surprisingly well without Clarkson. At least when they're drinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7ZewVbtyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUezTA5MF0
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65056723quote:The BBC says it has halted the latest series of Top Gear after presenter Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff was hurt in an accident while filming.
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Cojawfee posted:What exactly happened with this crash that has caused the BBC to apologize to the guy for it happening? It sounds like they made him do something really dangerous. According to the Independent, he flipped a Morgan Super 3 during a drag race and slid along the ground at high speed. I'm guessing he wasn't wearing a helmet, Hammond wasn't when driving the Morgan 3 wheeler.
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Powershift posted:According to the Independent, he flipped a Morgan Super 3 during a drag race and slid along the ground at high speed. Reportedly he was wearing a helmet, but still had extensive facial injuries and broke several ribs.
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That thing, the Morgan 3-wheeler is a deathtrap; 3 narrow wheels with a car engine and a hull that basically is a coffin. Why on earth would they allow one of the presenters to do that without a helmet? Especially considering what has happened to Hammond in the previous TG/GT history, that is just beyond words.
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Deteriorata posted:Reportedly he was wearing a helmet, but still had extensive facial injuries and broke several ribs. Top gear always used open helmets to make it possible to see the presenter face, something that is pretty stupid on an Ariel Atom or a 3-wheeler, where there is little to protect the driver.
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This is motorcycle crash data, but really shows how the face needs to be protected.
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Hope he gets well soon. Any three wheel car is not worth the risk, even those dumb Polaris ones that tourists love.
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That's excellent! I though May was considering retiring from series hosting gigs after the "Our Man in" S3 was out and his Amazon contract is done with. And that he wasn't attached to anything else besides Our man and the last Grand Tours at the moment. Hopefully he has changed his mind, if he had a show where he read through a London Metropolitan area phone book I'd probably watch it.
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Good news! I actually thought Oh Cook! was one of the better James solo projects, and I've enjoyed most of them but Oz & James is one of my wife and my favorite shows ever so we've seen it many times and it's fun to do a rewatch every couple of years, although it is starting to feel a bit Standard Definition since it's from like 2006 and TVs keep getting bigger and better but the source remains 480p. We actually got to chat with him for a few minutes at the taping of the 1st episode of Grand Tour, and he said he also really enjoyed those trips with Oz, so I would love to see that team get resurrected. Gordon, Geno & Fred on ITV did a fairly good job of replicating that show's feel but it sounds like Geno has quit the show now over money disputes, so. My wife and I have made about half the things James did in series 1 of Oh Cook (minus the joke recipes), and that fish pie recipe in Ep 2 is actually a huge success for how simple it is, it weighs up favorably to the best fish pie on earth (Inn at Whitewell)
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Oh dear god, this was brilliant The rover shuttle launch is one of my favorite top gear moments when james and richard were laughing uncontrollably while the rocket scientists were doing final prep and obviously annoyed at the ridiculousness of it all.
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