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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
No offense, but I don't think your a fan of Top Gear. Top Gear is and foremost a car show, they didn't start cocking about until series 8.
All Top Gear is good.
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What is that supposed to mean? It's like saying: "oh hey, you're criticizing the Flames, I don't think you're a fan of the Calgary Flames"
Sorry, that's totally "bollocks". No offense, but I don't think that you've even watched enough Top Gear to realize how it's changed over the years. I've watched Top Gear from before it's previous incarnation as it was from the 60s to late 90s and when Tiff Needle and Clarkson were both on the show and it was actually trying to be an informative motoring show before Clarkson quit, the BBC cancelled it, Needle moved to Fifth Gear, etc. I've even watched Clarkson's first ever bit as a presenter on the show from back in 1989 when he presented a segment on swap meets for car parts. That's when it was first and foremost a car show. It hasn't been that since Clarkson came back and reinvented it in 2001.
The entire concept of the current version of the series since 2001 is about 3 mates (well there used to be the other creepy guy before May came in Series 2) who love cars and love cocking about and providing entertainment. That is a good thing. The show is heavily scripted and much of it is prepared and not spontaneous like you would imagine. Even the studio scenes are reshot over and over again (the audience is asked to laugh again, etc.) and heavily edited. There's nothing wrong with that, it makes it more entertaining. Go look online and sometimes you can find uncut videos of this or uncut segments of "The News" (usually the best part of most episodes).
Also, everybody go watch the South America episode. It's an hour and sixteen minutes and probably the one redeeming good episode of this series as BBC has had some major budget cuts. You guys seriously don't think that quality of the show has dropped this series? Most of the episodes are much lower budgeted due to cuts and it shows. I don't mind that, as long as they manage a travel show or epic race episode per series. The episode is also brilliant as BBC is now in HD and you can find 720p versions. It's too bad this wasn't available for last year's Vietnam episode.
My dream life has always been to be a presenter on Top Gear or even to just work on the show or something similar. The sheer adventure and fun of doing all those things, or even the hard work of setting everything up behind the scenes seems like it would be so rewarding (of course Clarkson, May, and Hammond don't actually build the things they are filmed building - or completely rebuild an exploded diff with basic tools in the middle of South American desert).
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