The Grand Tour

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TheGuru

744 posts

100 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Jonesy23 said:
And fk knows where they're spending the budget
Salaries

NJK44

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1,364 posts

95 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Why does the drone keep crashing in the intro? Am I missing the joke? Aren't Amazon meant to be promoting drones what with them wanting to launch Postman drones?

NJK44

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1,364 posts

95 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Enjoyed episode 4 a lot. Brilliant. Favourite one so far.

Main feature was great, review was funny, even the celeb bit was good. Thoroughly pleased with that!

Bring on next week!

HARTLEYHARE1

588 posts

128 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Finally some positive words

Dr Doofenshmirtz

15,186 posts

199 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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It's all a bit like buying the 'value' or healthy version of something you eat or drink. It looks the same...but it's missing flavour. Kind of like semi-skimmed milk.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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NJK44 said:
Why does the drone keep crashing in the intro? Am I missing the joke? Aren't Amazon meant to be promoting drones what with them wanting to launch Postman drones?
its just their version of The Simpsons couch gag.

durbster

10,223 posts

221 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Shakermaker said:
NJK44 said:
Why does the drone keep crashing in the intro? Am I missing the joke? Aren't Amazon meant to be promoting drones what with them wanting to launch Postman drones?
its just their version of The Simpsons couch gag.
Ah... is it something to do with that bizarre Fire TV stick advert where Clarkson sends drones carrying the sticks out?

It's on constantly and it always feels like it's missing a punchline.

98elise

26,376 posts

160 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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carl_w said:
varsas said:
Maybe they are missing that last level of experienced oversight to say 'No, that's too long, cut 3 mins' or 'No, that won't work, how about you change it slightly and try this' though I thought that would be Andy Willman's job and he went over
I wondered that, same with the variable sound. BBC gets a bad rap but without it our TV would be endless game shows and reality TV series. Their technical department is first class.
Have you watched BBC recently?

BBC Daytime TV is full of cheap shows filming the public either being ripped off, buying something (antique/house etc.), or appearing on game shows. "Cash in your loft under the hammer" type shows.

Every evening there is a soap opera, and Saturday nights is a celeb panel show....just like every other broadcaster.

If they want to take free cash then they should deliver something that isn't the same as every other broadcaster.


sandman77

2,366 posts

137 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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NJK44 said:
Why does the drone keep crashing in the intro? Am I missing the joke? Aren't Amazon meant to be promoting drones what with them wanting to launch Postman drones?
In episode 1 when it happened they played out a joke where they had a mock argument about getting too focused on who shot what. The joke went over my head and I think they are referencing whatever it was on every episode now.


MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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98elise said:
carl_w said:
varsas said:
Maybe they are missing that last level of experienced oversight to say 'No, that's too long, cut 3 mins' or 'No, that won't work, how about you change it slightly and try this' though I thought that would be Andy Willman's job and he went over
I wondered that, same with the variable sound. BBC gets a bad rap but without it our TV would be endless game shows and reality TV series. Their technical department is first class.
Have you watched BBC recently?

BBC Daytime TV is full of cheap shows filming the public either being ripped off, buying something (antique/house etc.), or appearing on game shows. "Cash in your loft under the hammer" type shows.

Every evening there is a soap opera, and Saturday nights is a celeb panel show....just like every other broadcaster.

If they want to take free cash then they should deliver something that isn't the same as every other broadcaster.
The BBC is st because the Tories have slashed and are planning further slashing of their funding.

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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I wanted to dislike this episode because of the lack of car content but the eco car stuff was pretty hilarious. Still have no idea what the "Grand Tour" aspect refers to though.

Was it just my TV or was that GT3RS red rather than orange? Might have been the HDR settings but the cars and grass looked seriously oversaturated.

Hosenbugler

1,854 posts

101 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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98elise said:
carl_w said:
varsas said:
Maybe they are missing that last level of experienced oversight to say 'No, that's too long, cut 3 mins' or 'No, that won't work, how about you change it slightly and try this' though I thought that would be Andy Willman's job and he went over
I wondered that, same with the variable sound. BBC gets a bad rap but without it our TV would be endless game shows and reality TV series. Their technical department is first class.
Have you watched BBC recently?

BBC Daytime TV is full of cheap shows filming the public either being ripped off, buying something (antique/house etc.), or appearing on game shows. "Cash in your loft under the hammer" type shows.

Every evening there is a soap opera, and Saturday nights is a celeb panel show....just like every other broadcaster.

If they want to take free cash then they should deliver something that isn't the same as every other broadcaster.
The BBC are absolutely dire. The last time I watched it was the last of the CHM episodes of Top Gear. Thank God I've let my TV license lapse . The sooner they are made to earn a living on a voluntary subscription model the sooner they might make series that people want, not what they dictate they want.

George111

6,930 posts

250 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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MarshPhantom said:
98elise said:
carl_w said:
varsas said:
Maybe they are missing that last level of experienced oversight to say 'No, that's too long, cut 3 mins' or 'No, that won't work, how about you change it slightly and try this' though I thought that would be Andy Willman's job and he went over
I wondered that, same with the variable sound. BBC gets a bad rap but without it our TV would be endless game shows and reality TV series. Their technical department is first class.
Have you watched BBC recently?

BBC Daytime TV is full of cheap shows filming the public either being ripped off, buying something (antique/house etc.), or appearing on game shows. "Cash in your loft under the hammer" type shows.

Every evening there is a soap opera, and Saturday nights is a celeb panel show....just like every other broadcaster.

If they want to take free cash then they should deliver something that isn't the same as every other broadcaster.
The BBC is st because the Tories have slashed and are planning further slashing of their funding.
BBC is going down hill because they are too politically correct, they have *loads* of money, plenty to do the job. There is one good show on daytime - Daily Politics on BBC2 with Andrew Neal and Jo Coburn, I usually watch in the evening on iPlayer. Trouble is it shows up the poor quality of our politicians - many of them find it difficult to maintain a discussion with facts and have to revert to shouting and statement of party policy.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Shaoxter said:
I wanted to dislike this episode because of the lack of car content but the eco car stuff was pretty hilarious. Still have no idea what the "Grand Tour" aspect refers to though.

Was it just my TV or was that GT3RS red rather than orange? Might have been the HDR settings but the cars and grass looked seriously oversaturated.
I never considered the GT3RS was any colour other than Red when watching last night; is it only meant to be orange?

The front splitter on the M4 was definitely orange though, right?

Jordan210

4,503 posts

182 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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What I'm amazed about. Is on Amazon one of the GT promo company's is selling office Grand Tour t shirts and so on. Yet these are not sold by amazon or even eligible for prime. They want £6.95 for shipping !

These are 100% genuine as Hammond and May promoted them last week on twitter.


Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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The US Stig and sleb parts do not seem to be working:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2016/12/09/gr...

Edited by Yipper on Friday 9th December 10:14

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Shakermaker said:
Shaoxter said:
I wanted to dislike this episode because of the lack of car content but the eco car stuff was pretty hilarious. Still have no idea what the "Grand Tour" aspect refers to though.

Was it just my TV or was that GT3RS red rather than orange? Might have been the HDR settings but the cars and grass looked seriously oversaturated.
I never considered the GT3RS was any colour other than Red when watching last night; is it only meant to be orange?

The front splitter on the M4 was definitely orange though, right?
I just assumed the RS was Lava Orange as that's the launch colour...

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Yipper said:
The US Stig and sleb parts do not seem to be working:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2016/12/09/gr...

Edited by Yipper on Friday 9th December 10:14
I think we pretty much all agree on that.

I do want to see how the cars perform against each other on a relatively arbitrary (but equal) footing around the same track with the same driver, but the driver making such nonsense comments is worse than "this week The Stig is listening to Morse Code" which was bad enough.

and the "kill a celeb" bit needs to be killed. Its a place where the "killer" is just "filler" and doesn't work.

hairykrishna

13,159 posts

202 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Jonesy23 said:
I think everyone was left with the impression (from the supposed budget, the advertising, the first episode) that they were going to be travelling the world doing things along the lines of the best of the specials, mixed with reviews.
This is the problem isn't it? I certainly hoped that given freedom from content restrictions and budget concerns they'd raise their game. Some of the specials show they can do it. Unfortunately they've just carried on where they left off, with a just few changes to get around the bits the BBC still own. I'll still watch because when they're good they're still very good. It's just that you have to sit through quite a lot of rubbish to get the good bits.

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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hairykrishna said:
Jonesy23 said:
I think everyone was left with the impression (from the supposed budget, the advertising, the first episode) that they were going to be travelling the world doing things along the lines of the best of the specials, mixed with reviews.
This is the problem isn't it? I certainly hoped that given freedom from content restrictions and budget concerns they'd raise their game. Some of the specials show they can do it. Unfortunately they've just carried on where they left off, with a just few changes to get around the bits the BBC still own. I'll still watch because when they're good they're still very good. It's just that you have to sit through quite a lot of rubbish to get the good bits.
I too assumed California, South Africa etc would mean an epic drive across the country, the same with every other location for the tent.

I can't believe they wasted millions of pounds travelling the world just for it to be a studio which isn't much of the actual show.
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