The Grand Tour
Discussion
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. It's on constantly and it always feels like it's missing a punchline.
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.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.
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.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.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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.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.
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?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.
The front splitter on the M4 was definitely orange though, right?
The US Stig and sleb parts do not seem to be working:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2016/12/09/gr...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2016/12/09/gr...
Edited by Yipper on Friday 9th December 10:14
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?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.
The front splitter on the M4 was definitely orange though, right?
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...
I think we pretty much all agree on that. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2016/12/09/gr...
Edited by Yipper on Friday 9th December 10:14
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.
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.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 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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