Top Gear Series 22

[peterperkins]

I though it was tad remiss not to name the three guys Hammond was up the mountain with.

"Look here's Bert Fred and Bob", especially if they are TG regulars.

A tiny moment of recognition for the fact they are freezing their arse's off up there.

[Blaster72]

andyps said:

threadlock said:

Hi mate. Hope you and A are well

At the end of filming on Wednesday and off-camera, Jezzer assured us all that Hammond and the whole crew really were up on the mountain for four days. I didn't believe him, but I don't really give a crap. I assume it's all fake anyway so I assume JC was lying to us then too. But it was weird that he was trying to reassure us that it was genuine.

My thought is that if he said it off camera then it probably was the case, they have nothing to hide at that point. I wonder what facilities the crew had, however, as that wasn't shown. When I went to filming of Top Gear (a few years ago) it was when they went on a caravanning holiday and set fire to the van. After one of the pieces of VT I hadn't realised Clarkson was behind me watching it but his comment, to no one in particular was something like "bds, they cut the part which proved I slept in that fking caravan". He had no reason to say it but it sounded very genuine.

Even Bear Grylls gets a hotel room during filming, I can't see any need for Hammond and crew to camp out for 4 days to get about 10 minutes of footage of him arsing about on a snowy hill. I'm pretty sure they'll have filmed the whole Hammond bit in one day and retired to a hotel for the rest.

[Robbo66]

It is staggering that some actually believe Hammond was 'cross'....this is acting...staged, and his punt at an academy award.

It's all acting, carefully rehearsed, scripted dialogue from the news to the reviews.

The biblically annoying vain little mouse was up there, but with 3 other blokes and a stack of mobile satellite devices.

[RemyMartin]

JonRB said:

RemyMartin said:

For the record once its used I presume Breitling need the watch to service and reset it, is that service free?

No idea. But one would presume that the 24/7 monitoring service and International Rescue can't be free, so there has to be a cost incurred somewhere. Maybe the price of the reset is included in the rescue fee?

Its not 24/7 monitoring, it simply activates a beacon when triggered.

[Lost soul]

piss poor last night

[Macadoodle]

Blaster72 said:

andyps said:

threadlock said:

Hi mate. Hope you and A are well

At the end of filming on Wednesday and off-camera, Jezzer assured us all that Hammond and the whole crew really were up on the mountain for four days. I didn't believe him, but I don't really give a crap. I assume it's all fake anyway so I assume JC was lying to us then too. But it was weird that he was trying to reassure us that it was genuine.

My thought is that if he said it off camera then it probably was the case, they have nothing to hide at that point. I wonder what facilities the crew had, however, as that wasn't shown. When I went to filming of Top Gear (a few years ago) it was when they went on a caravanning holiday and set fire to the van. After one of the pieces of VT I hadn't realised Clarkson was behind me watching it but his comment, to no one in particular was something like "bds, they cut the part which proved I slept in that fking caravan". He had no reason to say it but it sounded very genuine.

Even Bear Grylls gets a hotel room during filming, I can't see any need for Hammond and crew to camp out for 4 days to get about 10 minutes of footage of him arsing about on a snowy hill. I'm pretty sure they'll have filmed the whole Hammond bit in one day and retired to a hotel for the rest.

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

[surveyor]

Lost soul said:

piss poor last night

Whereas I enjoyed it.

It's a big bad mad world out there.....

[deadslow]

Lost soul said:

piss poor last night

yep, switched over half way through

[Lost soul]

Macadoodle said:

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

Yeah right

[johnxjsc1985]

deadslow said:

yep, switched over half way through

then you missed the best second half of all the shows they have ever done

[MGJohn]

Lost soul said:

Macadoodle said:

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

Yeah right

You doubt the four days ? ...

[JonRB]

RemyMartin said:

Its not 24/7 monitoring, it simply activates a beacon when triggered.

Surely someone has to be monitoring for that beacon though? After all, transmitting a Mayday is no good if nobody is actively listening for it, and responds to it.

However, after a little more research, I can see that this is an international distress frequency that is monitored as a matter of course, presumably taxpayer funded, rather than some subscription service offered by Brietling and as such there is no fee or subscription. In fact, if certain criteria are met, the Brietling will even replace the watch after activation (but only if the nature of your distress is aviation-related, it seems).

[TTmonkey]

Freakuk said:

croyde said:

I very much doubt that Hammond and a crew were up that mountain for 4 days.

My thoughts exactly, the continuity errors pretty much confirmed it, Hammond getting more and more stubble then I think day 3 he's clean shaven followed immediately by 3-4 days worth of stubble...

Just how does a continuity error prove anything? It just proves that the editing was poor, nothing else.

[Blaster72]

Macadoodle said:

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

No doubt they were filming in the area for 4 days - very doubtful any of them camped overnight up there. Just no need to.

[TTmonkey]

Blaster72 said:

Macadoodle said:

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

No doubt they were filming in the area for 4 days - very doubtful any of them camped overnight up there. Just no need to.

there appeared to only be one small tent - to serve 4 adults? No likely.

I would suggest that they were up that mountain for 4 days, but if they were, there was probably some 5 star lodge/hotel up there too,.....

[surveyor]

TTmonkey said:

Blaster72 said:

Macadoodle said:

Clarkson even mentioned Grylls after the recording on Wednesday. He said "we are not like Bear Grylls - they were up the mountain for four days!"

No doubt they were filming in the area for 4 days - very doubtful any of them camped overnight up there. Just no need to.

there appeared to only be one small tent - to serve 4 adults? No likely.

I would suggest that they were up that mountain for 4 days, but if they were, there was probably some 5 star lodge/hotel up there too,.....

Wot you mean it's faked... I'm aghast, shocked, outraged etc fill in the DM comments box.

Alternatively - who cares it's an entertainment show, not a documentary.

[IanMorewood]

It wasn't TG at its best mostly forgettable. Gillian Anderson is looking good for mid 40's definitely aging well.

[vxr8mate]

Was there any truth to the monkey story? I've found a vague reference to it, but it appears it's from some novel.

[aeropilot]

TTmonkey said:

I would suggest that they were up that mountain for 4 days, but if they were, there was probably some 5 star lodge/hotel up there too,.....

You've obviously not looked at where it was that was filmed.........

[TTmonkey]

aeropilot said:

TTmonkey said:

I would suggest that they were up that mountain for 4 days, but if they were, there was probably some 5 star lodge/hotel up there too,.....

You've obviously not looked at where it was that was filmed.........

You could enlighten us all.... would be nice to see. I assume there's nothing there then? And there's no way they got an R.V. up there with that snow etc.