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Wait, why are we not talking about how Stephen Fry was one of the original Top Gear presenters?
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Nill posted:I'm not exactly expecting innovation from either show. Recall that one of their last episodes was literally a beat for beat redo of their London race in Moscow. Saint Petersburg, thank you very much.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:
Oh she was great. Is she enough of a celebrity to be a weird celebrity crush (tm) because she's going to have *fans* after this. Actually liked much of the show - it really was like an old top gear, stupid jokes, cheap but endearing cars. Even the turn to an earnest point with the SM after the race worked.
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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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Xelkelvos posted: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. And they were *so close* to being able to make it work here. "Here's fifteen grand, buy a car that was never available in the ex-Eastern Bloc" would have gotten them the Mitsuoka and the SSR, and James just has to go find an old TVR or XJS or an Alfetta and there you have a theme.
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Japan is also helped by it being genuinely foreign to him, while too much of Italy is reflecting on British stereotypes or contrasting British with Italian-ness. Hope India by its nature leans more into the former.
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