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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Maybe that's because of your pathological hatred for Clarkson?
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As someone owns several of his books and read his newspaper column every Sunday in the 2000s, I'm not sure where you are getting that idea...
But I am slowly developing a pathological hatred for this show. It's all focused on lowest-brow entertainment and it isn't allowing the journalistic/documentary side of these hosts to come through. These guys are amazing writers and journalists in their own rights (books, radio, newspapers, magazines, documentaries, and tons of other shows and series they do on the side). Grand Tour is like Amazon threw a ton of cash at Andy Wilman and he's turned into George Lucas without the oversight of the BBC to keep the show on track.
From the segments where Clarkson jokes that they are getting dangerously close to giving out consumer advice - I wonder if there's some legal reason they can't do that.
Grand Tour competitions are about which host is best by being the biggest ***hole to the other hosts. Top Gear competitions still had that but they did focus on the actual details of the cars themselves and how they were a core focus of the competitions. It's the difference between a show of rich spoiled brats playing with toys and a show of journalists having a good time while also presenting something that consumers and viewers can relate to.
Example of old Top Gear segment that was actually a competition between cars and their features/abilities not some perceived slight exaggerated for entertainment values ("Hammond's car looks like giant dong" type thing).