IanW – I totally agree, throw in some factual music docs on BBC4 and cookery progs and that’s enough TV for me.
If you do want to over analyse then actually the TG trio are actually very good comedy actors, the way they set up the pranks is both entertaining for a 6 and 60 year old. TG hasn’t been factual for years.
Yep but drove well and really practical and frugal – 49.6 mixed mpg for petrol, nicely put together too given the price – also 20% off but a 4 month waiting list. Probably helped that I’d just tried a C3 Picasso that I hated so anything would seem better really.
I enjoyed it. Not the best one ever (and Clarkson was a little creepy while Amber was on – a little too much “Rar! Bi-sexual woman! Must make stereotypical lager drinking lesbian comments!”) but it was otherwise semi-amusing entertainment.
But I think “entertainment” is the key word there.
I’ve watched every episode and can definitly see the decline.
I have to agree – it certainly isn’t as good as it was (by some degree). But it is still good Sunday night brainless entertainment and better than most things on the box (apart from most natural history/nature stuff).
But it amuses that every week people come on here telling us all how rubbish it is – why don’t they all do as ‘Why Don’t You’ once told us ‘Switch off your television set and go do something more interesting instead’.
(and Clarkson was a little creepy while Amber was on – a little too much “Rar! Bi-sexual woman! Must make stereotypical lager drinking lesbian comments!”)
Watch it again. That was all in your own mind. Which I’d find a bit worrying 😯
I still like it but they jumped the shark a few years ago, mainly by raising the bar with some excellent specials (Vietnam, the North Pole) and they haven’t bettered them since.
But it amuses that every week people come on here telling us all how rubbish it is – why don’t they all do as ‘Why Don’t You’ once told us ‘Switch off your television set and go do something more interesting instead’
See that would be fine if I wasn’t interested in the cars. But I am.
I also love F1 and the BBC have made it better than ever… except I hated Legard as the main commentator.
So, as long as the BBC send those three tedious gimps on TG the same way as Legard, I’ll watch it every week.
(and Clarkson was a little creepy while Amber was on – a little too much “Rar! Bi-sexual woman! Must make stereotypical lager drinking lesbian comments!”)
Watch it again. That was all in your own mind. Which I’d find a bit worrying
No it wasn’t in PimpmasterJazz’s mind. Clarkson was acting like a perv. I’d suggest that the fact that YOU can’t see it is more than a little worrying.
Clarkson implied that he was thinking of Heard naked – is that acceptable behaviour in your world?
Clarkson implied that he was thinking of Heard naked – is that acceptable behaviour in your world?
Oh ffs…
Constructive!
But you can say ‘ffs’ all you want – if you tried doing what Clarkson did in your workplace you’d probably be sacked.
He’s a middle aged man being a perv to a young woman – I thought we’d got past that on the tv. The fact that he’s only doing it for controversy is irrelevant.
But given that STW has a weekly thread of semi-naked women for the middle aged men on here to ogle at, I’m probably typing on the wrong forum..
He’s a middle aged man being a perv to a young woman
That whole interview came across as a bit ‘off’, mainly because of the age gap between them; it was all a bit American Beauty. It wasn’t helped by the impression she’s a bit of a ‘try hard’ with all the guff about being a gun-toting, charger drivin’ lesbian, then turning in a pretty dire lap time while wearing black studded gloves.
What’s really funny is people getting upset about cars not being taken seriously.
They’re just transportation boxes.
Surely no-one would want to watch a programme about mpg and revs – thought they’d already tried it. So Top Gear has to be comedy and satire to get an audience.
I think that the guy that picks the music earns his money. This week we had John Murphy, Vangelis, and, er, Terrorvision.
I went to the filming of the episode with the Alfas with my mum. Hans Zimmer’s “Leave No Man Behind” is the most moving thing I have ever heard, not least because I subsequently had it played it at my mum’s funeral. We left the crematorium to Brian Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent).”