If you watched new Top Gear was it any good, yes or no?

[Shambler]

Did anyone else find watching Rory quite difficult as it looked like his eyes were mimicking a hammer head shark? I thought Chris Evans was awful and to be honest I struggle with Sabine.

[r11co]

Weirdhead said:

Feels like so many people are slagging it off because it's the opinion to have.

Or, alternatively they have watched it and they know it was ste. 80% of 4.4 million people can't be wrong.

[Gary C]

LDM said:

Weirdhead said:

I actually rather enjoyed it, Evans has room to improve but Leblanc was good, I thought he would be from previous stuff I've seen him do with dirt bikes

Feels like so many people are slagging it off because it's the opinion to have, watch it and make up your own mind, don't be afraid to say you enjoyed it

Well said!

Leblanc good !, so scripted and wooden.

Will give it another go, but it's not piquing my interest.

Edited by Gary C on Tuesday 31st May 22:17

[JimmyConwayNW]

It wasn't very good was it.

Would have been good to see a big roadtrip type episode bit of team building to help warm to the new 'characters'.

Evans jumping about was just annoying and his boots wardrobe were just mental.

I didn't mind Ramsey being on he is into cars. Didn't like that little American dweeb on the star in a car.

I think Matt le blanc will develop very well and Evans will get the boot promptly.

[MarshPhantom]

Shambler said:

Did anyone else find watching Rory quite difficult as it looked like his eyes were mimicking a hammer head shark?

Pleased this hasn't gone unnoticed.

[AshBurrows]

Does Ramsay actually enjoy driving? I get the impression he's just a show off more than anything. No insight into the laf whatsoever.

I quite enjoyed Leblancs bit except he seemed sorta scared and overly scripted. Just let him talk.

Couldn't stand Evans but have never been able to so not surprising. He was like an annoying child at a wedding. All dressed up but just running around shouting and making people feel a bit awkward.

Sabine's bit was weird. Like playing her up as a foul mouthed disliked of things is just bizarre?

Dunno. I'll watch a few more episodes to decide and see how it progresses.

[Vocal Minority]

I have to say it was pretty underwhelming.

The links were done a bit like a warm up act, and the natural easy going chit chat wasn't there. Le Blanc can drive a bit and obviously likes cars. But Evans' links weren't great, too much shouting to cover up the fact he wasn't really saying anything of note.

Also the interviews were incredibly wooden.

The thing that bothered me the most though was in the first film. Am I imagining it or did they tell us nothing about the cars. The olde version wouldn't talk about it in massive detail, but enough to pique the interest of car people and keep the essence of the car show. Aside from it's fast and has a big wing, did we learn anything about the Viper?

I think I old Top Gear proved this stuff can be delivered entertainingly and can actually be entertaining in it's own right,

[r11co]

Vocal Minority said:

The thing that bothered me the most though was in the first film. Am I imagining it or did they tell us nothing about the cars. The olde version wouldn't talk about it in massive detail, but enough to pique the interest of car people and keep the essence of the car show. Aside from it's fast and has a big wing, did we learn anything about the Viper?

I think that criticism can be levelled at the entire show. Missing was the detail. Everything in CHM Top Gear had a premise, however tacit. In ELeB Top Gear we were just supposed to assume everything made sense because Top Gear.

• Why Rialtos?
• Why climb a hill?
• What's worth knowing about the Viper?

etc.

Even sodium and eels made more sense than the whole of yesterday's show.

Edited by r11co on Monday 30th May 19:05

[Vocal Minority]

I secretly enjoyed the sodium and eels

[delboy735]

"little skid there" "little slip" Evans appears to know nothing about actual driving. Just thought I'd give it a second go, and I think I was right the first time........it was dire. Didn't realise just how much CE was shouting. Also, did anyone else think the audience was a bit sparse, and a bit well dressed and polite, but completely detached from what was going on. I will watch again, but probably on catch up, so I can skip through and just see the "best" bits......if there are any
Need fibreoptic on the West coast of Scotland so that I can stream Amazon Prime.

[Stickyfinger]

aggg....repeat on BBC2 now, just watched a bit....yep, still CRAP !

[droopsnoot]

delboy735 said:

"little skid there" "little slip" Evans appears to know nothing about actual driving. Just thought I'd give it a second go, and I think I was right the first time........it was dire. Didn't realise just how much CE was shouting. Also, did anyone else think the audience was a bit sparse, and a bit well dressed and polite, but completely detached from what was going on. I will watch again, but probably on catch up, so I can skip through and just see the "best" bits......if there are any
Need fibreoptic on the West coast of Scotland so that I can stream Amazon Prime.

I wondered about a few of those - didn't he say "counter steering" at one point, rather than "opposite lock" or just lock? I suspect the audience, which was pretty thing and seemed to be a lot older for the few I noticed, are maybe a last-minute thing. Was anyone on the waiting list for the previous show, and did that get cleared or are these still on that list? Wasn't it some years long? Sorry if it's already been mentioned.

I thought it was quite like one of the "filler" episodes from the previous few series. A few things went on, none of them caught my eye, maybe a future episode will bring back a decent road trip. There was a bit of familiarity - driving around while someone tries to get a "missile lock" was done quite recently, and a bit better, and as part of a bigger piece. I didn't get the Reliant piece - what was the point of the trip? Before, we'd had trips that were races, or economy drives, or car vs. something, but this just seemed to be a drive to Blackpool for no reason.

I actually quite liked that they didn't try to completely deny the existence of the previous incarnation, though I thought keeping the "Some say" bit was poor.

I guess I'll see what it's like for a few more weeks.

[JoeMarano]

Anyone else notice Rory (or whatever his name is) say Rally course course. Instead of "rally cross course"

[HardtopManual]

I got as far as the Indian caterers sitting on a Vauxhall. I think I counted five cuts to the bored-looking audience applauding some weak jokes before thinking, "This is just going to annoy me."

Evans looks like Steven Merchant did in Extras, way too past it to be doing the TFI act all over again.

[r11co]

Vocal Minority said:

I secretly enjoyed the sodium and eels.

I did too. It was ridiculous until you reached the punchline.

Rialtos with flags was just ridiculous.

[Merc 450]

Poshbury said:

I can't stand Evans full stop, even more so after hearing him trying to mimic JC.
The Vette/Viper segment was contrived rubbish IMO. Could have been much better.
Reliants to Blackpool, also rubbish.
Matt Le Blanc came across as likeable and Evans it appeared, had to be number 1. Not!
What about the Asians sat on that Vauxhall. What's that all about?

So, in a word, garbage.

My missus, a keen petrolhead, went to bed as soon as the so called top gun went green.

Asians sat on Vauxhall were to indicate they are equal in weight to the one ton of down force created by the wing on the viper

[normal bloke]

'Listening to the Adrian Chiles show on R5Live this morning and they had a "new Top Gear - what do we think?" slot.

As usual the BBC wheeled out on a few "independent" critics to say how much of an improvement it was on old Top Gear. It was laughable; when one of the girls from the BBC's press office.....sorry...I mean, independent critic came on to say the new show would be more marketable to the RotW because it was blander than the old show with less controversy, I nearly fell off the lawnmower.
She didn't stop there....she then went on to say that so far, they had had only positive comments from the CBeebies website forum. So there was the youth thumbs up, then!
In my (very biased) opinion, a lot of the 4.3 million viewers were probably made up of people like me, who will NOT be watching next week. So let's see, shall we?

Incidentally.....has anyone on this forum ever been asked or monitored as to a TV viewing/election poll. No? Me neither.

Edited by normal bloke on Monday 30th May 22:00

Edited by normal bloke on Monday 30th May 22:01

[r11co]

normal bloke said:

It was laughable; when one of the girls from the BBC's press office.....sorry...I mean, independent critic came on to say the new show would be more marketable to the RotW because it was blander than the old show with less controversy, I nearly fell off the lawnmower.

Considering it is their biggest selling program to world TV markets (as opposed to franchises where local versions are made like Strictly) the BBC should be more worried about holding on to their existing audience.

Been reading the reviews on Final Gear forum - mainly Americans contributing and universal hate for Evans sums up the general opinion.

[Previous]

Not an Evan's fan, so my opinion will be biased.

Thought it was rubbish. Though MLB could work, in time

[dc2rr07]

Thought Matt was quite good and would have liked to have seen Harris on the main show (did not watch bbc3), I got a bit bored with the last two series and unfortunately this was not an improvement at least it can only get better, hopefully.