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I'm not sure if I'm ready for Clarkson being Clarkson on the topic of Hungary
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Jun 6, 2023 13:15
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So is this the last one?
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Jun 6, 2023 14:15
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No, I think they are contacted for 3 more after this one.
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Jun 6, 2023 14:27
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I don't know if it's that many, but there are definitely more. When Jeremy got "cancelled" again, Amazon basically said "ok, we'll do everything we had agreed to and then it's done." Which was probably the plan anyway
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Jun 6, 2023 15:39
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There was an article on Jan which mentioned 4 more at the time, expected to stretch into 2024.
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Jun 6, 2023 15:40
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Wow, Final Countdown is really expensive to license, isn't it?
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Jun 6, 2023 18:27
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Why is the titties n beer car right hand drive?
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Jun 16, 2023 04:04
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Those Hungarian horse archers  Edit: why is there no :hungary: withak fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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Jun 16, 2023 04:13
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the Mitsuoka driving around with candelabras on the front fenders, plus Richard's Nigel Mansell voice, had me in stitches
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Jun 16, 2023 04:26
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I think I'm over this never thought I would say it. Predictable forced trash. They are sick of it. It's obvious.
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Jun 16, 2023 04:32
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I'm drunk
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Jun 16, 2023 04:36
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I  ed at the lunch table so carefully festooned in empty beer bottles, but the amazon editors were having none of it.
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Jun 16, 2023 04:39
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After the Formula East it gets a tad bit boring to be honest. Its a middling road trip-feature from a forgettable episode, just without the "back to the studio" part. They did absolutely nothing with Hammond's car, and May's alleged car was too over-the-top shitbox. And I actually liked Jeremy's car more after they added the dalmatian interior. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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Jun 16, 2023 14:08
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I can't believe they let May take such a lovely car. I guess they probably script it that way, but it always seems like he never understands what they are doing and just picks something that seemed interesting.
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Jun 16, 2023 17:00
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That Mitsuoka is basically the same thing as this isn't it? https://journal.classiccars.com/2018/09/15/kit-car-based-on-88-mercury-cougar/ I saw like 1 million of these tooling around California in the 90s
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Data Graham posted:That Mitsuoka is basically the same thing as this isn't it? Yeah, the basic design seems to have kicked around from one company to another, who adapted to various autos through the 80s and 90s. As to the show, it was pretty meh. They tried hard but were just going through the motions, being good sports to fulfill their contracts. Their hearts aren't in it, though. Very scripted, very well-rehearsed "spontaneity." Hit all the expected notes for a TG road trip without deviating much from the formula. Pleasant enough if I just turned my brain off and enjoyed it, but very predictable and tame. Two stars out of five
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Jun 17, 2023 04:47
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That Le Mans Skoda was very cool.
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Jun 17, 2023 04:58
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Thinking back on it, you're right, there wasn't really much to this episode. Aside from James' car being absolute poo poo, this was nothing more than a road trip that someone filmed. I get they can't live in the wilderness like they used to, but this was just a vacation. I really enjoyed the formula race, I enjoyed them looking at those cars. Everything else was just going to a tourist destination and looking at it. The "challenges" weren't really anything. I think throwing that car down the ski slope was just to force James to keep driving his car because it wasn't even broken, just slow. I guess there's a couple more, but I'm not really expecting much out of them. I can see why they are winding it down, and Jeremy getting "canceled" again was probably a good thing for them. The challenges used to be "It's not possible to take a car from this place to this place, prove us wrong." And this was just "go find a weird car, drive it on these smoothly paved highways for a week".Data Graham posted:That Mitsuoka is basically the same thing as this isn't it? I immediately thought of the one that was built off fox body mustangs. I don't understand how there could be that many people that thought it was good.
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Data Graham posted:That Mitsuoka is basically the same thing as this isn't it? What a waste of some very pretty scenery both in town and out. May's car was just idiotic and clearly chosen for him for fake drama purposes. As if he hadn't already gotten the short end of the stick in the previous trip! Could have been fun if a bit uninspiring, but it was decided to be stupid. Like, even if they had to saddle someone with a bad car, they could have stuck to the theme and given an Iron Curtain leftover.
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To be honest I watched it and felt the same feeling about the May Man in X specials, nobody was incredibly invested in it and all the stunts were forced by writers that thought to be far funnier than what they really were. It's not like there weren't enough meat about motoring in Eastern Europe, they could have done half of the special just about all the weird Skoda specials.
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Jun 17, 2023 15:33
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I had no idea Formula Easter was a thing, that's a fascinating subject that maybe they should have centered an entire documentary style episode around. Or they could have mentioned it in any of their previous Soviet-Bloc car shows
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Data Graham posted:I had no idea Formula Easter was a thing, that's a fascinating subject that maybe they should have centered an entire documentary style episode around. Or they could have mentioned it in any of their previous Soviet-Bloc car shows Probably means they didn't discover it until doing research for this episode.
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Jun 17, 2023 17:41
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I was surprised to hear how negative the reactions were here. I didn't think it was A tier classic stuff, but for late grand tour, I really enjoyed it
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Grumpwagon posted:I was surprised to hear how negative the reactions were here. I didn't think it was A tier classic stuff, but for late grand tour, I really enjoyed it I think that it wasn't funny at all, just May being miserable and a few nice panning shots via drone. There is far worse on tv but one would hope they get something fun out of an hour and change of playtime.
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Jun 17, 2023 19:00
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I prefer episodes where Clarkson suffers with the worst car but this one was fine. I didnt know about Formula Easter either, and the shot of the important bit flying off Hammonds car was excellent. And of course Nigel stole the show.
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Jun 17, 2023 19:01
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It made me want to some day check out Lake Bled. That looked really cool.
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Cojawfee posted:It made me want to some day check out Lake Bled. That looked really cool. I live relatively near and I can confirm it's pretty nice to visit, prices have sorta skyrocketed in recent years tho.
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Grumpwagon posted:I was surprised to hear how negative the reactions were here. I didn't think it was A tier classic stuff, but for late grand tour, I really enjoyed it It wasn't bad, it was just tired and a repeat of old jokes told many times. It felt uninspired. It seemed to be done by checklist, not joy.
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Jun 17, 2023 19:34
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God, Clarkson's gotten fat. His jowls are the most visible I've ever seen. (I didn't watch Clarkson's Farm S2) I assume the whole theme of this road trip that was cute is the 2nd World and other #2s.
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Fresh new video from Harry's Garage, interviewing a certain improvised farmer about range rovers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS54AJSadT4
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I will say that lake is now on a list of places in Europe I want to visit
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Ohtsam posted:I will say that lake is now on a list of places in Europe I want to visit I might partial to it, but if you are across the atlantic, get to Europe via Ronchi/Trieste airport and then drive by Bled. Slovenian airports have always gave me a bad vibe.
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Deteriorata posted:It wasn't bad, it was just tired and a repeat of old jokes told many times. It felt uninspired. It seemed to be done by checklist, not joy. Yes, this 100%. It wasn't bad, it was dull. The only interesting thing was the Formula East, and everything else was just a very mediocre roadtrip by Hammond and Clarkson, May being stuck behind with a shitbox that wasn't even an Eastern European commie car, like the backup car wasn't, and not engaging with any of the places they visited. I personally find May most of the time most interesting of the trio, and he now has been sidelined in two trips in a row. Actually on most post-studio Grand Tour, now that I think about it. And they even didn't come up with anything to do with the pickup/sportscar abomination Hammond brought with him. I don't think they even bother to open the tailgate once during the entire episode, let alone do anything interesting with it.
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That may be because there's nothing interesting you CAN do with an SSR, but proving that isn't very interesting either Also wasn't it at least sort of plausible at one point in the distant past that they themselves had done the pranks on each other's cars? Installing candelabras is sort of in the spirit of super-gluing the audio system on full, but a full-coverage dalmatian upholstery job is just ... guys gimme a break
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The archery bit was kinda cool incidentally. Some of those hits were pretty incredible, though the fact that there were no arrows stuck in anything BUT the targets made me think of that diagram of the WWII plane flak damage Seeing short Hungarian-style bows in action was cool in any case. They somehow got through that segment without talking about Agincourt
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compared to their peak this poo poo is dire isn't it? id honestly rather they all rolled into a country pub carpark in one of their own cars, sat at a table outside and drank one beer while a phone on the table streamed it and then ended it after 1hr.
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Qmass posted:compared to their peak this poo poo is dire isn't it? id honestly rather they all rolled into a country pub carpark in one of their own cars, sat at a table outside and drank one beer while a phone on the table streamed it and then ended it after 1hr. I think that the Clarkson talks poo poo at a pub table videos on drivetribe youtube channel did quite the views. It's almost as they forgot that a lot of people watched top gear for the news segment banter. They could do a monthly podcast with the same amount of effort as the post covid specials and rake in much more hits. Stuff like https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/smith-and-sniff/id1507539214 SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 14:14
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That or the old school "here's 5000 quid, what can we buy that ends up both crap and loveable". It feels like they've ended up just going more to either extreme recently, rather than that sweet spot in the middle. And yes, I know, they haven't done exactly that in many a year, but still.
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JohnCompany posted:That or the old school "here's 5000 quid, what can we buy that ends up both crap and loveable". It feels like they've ended up just going more to either extreme recently, rather than that sweet spot in the middle. And yes, I know, they haven't done exactly that in many a year, buy still. It almost feels like they attempted that in this special given that two of the cars were about the same price, but there also wasn't much of a coherent theme between them.
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