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Having cracked a rib just laying over the doorsill of an Elise trying to manipulate a brake pedal while someone flushed the fluid, I really felt for James and his not being able to pick up a halfshaft due to it being too drat painful to flex his chest really struck home with me. But then later I thought it was weird that he wasn't grunting with pain every time he laughed. Crawling out of the Evo and trying to hook up the tow rope he should have been completely immobile. He was making noises about his ribs the whole time but, and maybe I'm just that much of a styrofoam wuss or something, but if you've actually injured your ribs you will barely be able to breathe let alone contort yourself out of a sinking car Point is parts of that subplot felt very real and other parts felt like if those ones were real the rest must have been filmed 8 months later
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Mr Beens posted:Yeah the "timeline" narrative was clearly made up. There is no way they modified and wrapped their cars in one night in a random shed, James "caught them up" somehow etc. Still all great fun and their best special in ages. Well I mean the cars are obviously different ringer cars anyway, like when they swapped out one of their Nobles in Italy for one of a completely different color (and the steering wheel on the other side too I think) and pretended they did it in a garage. I thought it was completely the joke that they were playing it off like they "modified" their own cars that night.
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"I'm rich so I will move to this area of picturesque beauty that is unspoiled by crass commercialism, where I can buy my way past the objections of those in charge who want to keep it unspoiled by people like me" *builds a factory*
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"I'm sorry I made that one clumsy reference to Game of Thrones (the rest of the article is fine though)" I apologize to GRRM for my heinous appropriation of his work
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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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Jesus lol. Take that Bezos and your billion dollar vanity show
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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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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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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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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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I like how all their banter sounded exactly like if they were doing a eulogy for Clarkson
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I want to be James when I grow up. (I'm already most of the way there)
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Liking India so far, one episode in. It was a good move to frame his first day in Mumbai with getting paired with a standup comedian, it really helps with the "laughing with rather than at" aspect. Plus they get in some good roasts on him
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Lol'd at  ^^ I have to say, Richard's particular flavor of turns of phrase really tickle me, especially when he and Jeremy are riffing off each other. Their repartee at the minefield was great. People say he's dispensable but I will defend him. He tries so hard to make it seem convincing that he knows how to wrench
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Yeah I kept thinking "OK drone guy, you loving BETTER get this shot right, it is going to cost an absolute fuckton if we have to redo it"
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I mean of course he would say that But I said I would defend him so I will
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It was pretty transparent (lol) that the plastic bottles weren't a functional component of the rafts at all (they were just bobbing around independent of the main mass of each), but it was funny anyway because we got to see them all wallowing around in the mud and James almost going down with the van, he had to step pretty lively there
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As soon as it started kicking up rocks I was like "ok that's the end of that radiator"
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Well now I have to order some gin.
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I love how Kaleb has grown into his screen presence. He started out kind of a gimmick local yokel but now he's throwing out topspin as fast as Clarkson can fend it off
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The "MONOCULTURES ARE BAD, PAY ATTENTION TO THIS" overtitles seemed to be a teensy bit pointed lol
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Not sure i expected Jeremy Clarkson to be the one to step into the uk’s timeless James Herriot role but here we are
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At a certain point you have to wonder whether there is any "him" left at all (Clarkson's Farm is closer to that than Top Gear certainly because we get to see him trying to hold his personal relationship with Lisa at arm's length while still having her be an on-screen character semi-consensually)
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