The Grand Tour

[xjay1337]

Quickmoose said:

exactly, that 'point' has been exptressed before, and been answered before....
One wonders why xjay posts here if he loves the show so much and doesn't bother to read the contributions here...
I mean I love Porches...but I don't join in every thread about them to let them know

I dont "love it so much ".

I just enjoy it how it is. We've not had any AMAZING episodes but been perfectly acceptable way of wasting an hour.

My issue is people who say they aren't going to bother watching it because other people say its bad.

[Patrick Bateman]

I was merely asking if it would be worth my time given I'm sceptical if it's more of what put me off Top Gear the past few years.

[Quickmoose]

xjay1337 said:

Quickmoose said:

exactly, that 'point' has been exptressed before, and been answered before....
One wonders why xjay posts here if he loves the show so much and doesn't bother to read the contributions here...
I mean I love Porches...but I don't join in every thread about them to let them know

I dont "love it so much ".

I just enjoy it how it is. We've not had any AMAZING episodes but been perfectly acceptable way of wasting an hour.

My issue is people who say they aren't going to bother watching it because other people say its bad.

fair enough I spose... people should definitely watch it and make their own mind up. If you like the old 3 guys, it is a great way to waste an hour. If you like cars, it's a great way to waste a quarter of an hour....

I'm putting together another mass of letters here in the hope it adds up to more than hope...plus actually contributing to the discussion of course.

[Gary C]

Well

Made it to episode 4 and will continue to watch

Only managed one and a half of Chris Evans.

So tgt for me

[stuartmmcfc]

Has this been mentioned yet?
The old TG was better in one area at least.
They had some pretty fit girls in the audience. TGT not so much.

[SidJames]

GCH said:

_Leg_ said:

I genuinely thought that they had realised the best bits of TG were stuff like the Africa trip, Bolivia, USA (x2), Polar trip, Vietnam etc and were taking advantage of the extra budget to create that very show. A series of road trips linked together to create....a Grand Tour.

I was surprised when episode 1 was what it was, disappointed when I watched 2, hopeful when I watched the Italian bits of 3 and I stopped watching 3/4 of the way through 4.

Shame. I can't understand why they didn't do that.

Agree with this.

+2

[RobDickinson]

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/the-grand-tour/news/a...

Most pirated show ever. Considering this beats GOT I'd say its popular.

[MarshPhantom]

The audience in Whitby are like something off Jeremy Kyle.

It is grim up North.

[Disastrous]

xjay1337 said:

Disastrous said:

What if you used to like Emmerdale, but felt it had declined hugely and then the cast and crew started making a very similar program that you had high hopes for, watched a few of but ultimately were disappointed with?

Do you think you might then express that diaappointment on a thread discussing the new program?

Probably not, I certainly wouldn't say "well, I won't bother watchiing it because other people say it's crap"

It wouldn't make sense to say that as in the example above, you have watched it and been disappointed by it.

Personally, I enjoyed the first, found the second tedious beyond measure and came on here to read the comments of others before wasting an hour watching the others. By the sounds of it, they are much the same so won't bother until I've really got nothing else to do.

I don't enjoy 'wasting' my time, and even when watching tv, I would apply a level of critical curation to what I watch. I don't think this is unusual.

[anonymous-user]

I think a lot thought it might be original and different to the old stuff. They could have done something like introduce a celebrity car review, or something that uses celebrities but not the traditional interview format.

[Rich_W]

RobDickinson said:

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/the-grand-tour/news/a...

Most pirated show ever. Considering this beats GOT I'd say its popular.

Ep1 - 7.9M
Ep2 - 6.4M
Ep3 - 4.6M

Granted these figures aren't brilliantly accurate. But it's a decline episode on episode which probably mirrors the legal figures.

[DamienB]

I have to admit I didn't think GT would be... tedious.

Fat yank as annoying as Evans; the trio all cringingly *badly* scripted as opposed to *well* scripted... self indulgent, boring, and they could do so much better. Oh well.

[Adam B]

Was an ok episode I thought

Porsche v M3 good because they remembered it's a car show
Stupid boring joke about celebrity was stupid and boring
Car chat was reasonable
The eco Discovery bit was good in places, as usual they seem to take an average joke and flog it to death - this time it was May who was the fall guy playing the idiot, the other week it was Hammond in the loud yank car.

I will continue to watch it as it occasionally has cars on it, and occasionally its funny - but I fully expect to enjoy the next TG series more.

Edited by Adam B on Tuesday 13th December 13:24

[devnull]

The celebrity brain crash thing needs to stop now. It was hilarious in EP1, but now it's just got me thinking really guys?

[FiF]

Tbh I wouldn't put it past them to deliberately do the opposite to the Top Gear "wrangling fitties to the front" just because because.

Same with the exuberantly upholstered redneck test driver act. OK the BBC may have a Stig equivalent clause but it's the complete opposite of supposedly clinical Stiggy just because because.

[Yazza54]

Have enjoyed them so far, thought the second one was tedious but the two Whitby episodes were decent brain out TV. Just can't stand the American.

[Yazza54]

MarshPhantom said:

The audience in Whitby are like something off Jeremy Kyle.

It is grim up North.

Me and the Mrs had the same conversation, I remember on TG they put all the fit wimmin to the front, I was wondering if that was another TG trademark they had to swerve

[Ste1987]

The Spruce goose said:

I think a lot thought it might be original and different to the old stuff. They could have done something like introduce a celebrity car review, or something that uses celebrities but not the traditional interview format.

But how would that be flipping the bird at the BBC?

On a serious note, that would never happen. TGT is all about CHM, one big ego trip

[cologne2792]

I'm very glad that the trio are back together and there are many enjoyable aspects of TGT that deftly poke fun at the the threats made by the BBC Lawyers.
I know it's early days and they're still finding their feet but it just seems a little joyless to me ?
It's almost like they're back together because they know we want them to be, rather than the natural daftness and fun that they developed on Top Gear.
Hopefully it'll come together.

[fullbeem]

I watched on Saturday morning over a fry up.

Yes, little suprised to see it was filmed in Whitby again. Was then looking for same audience members sitting down to see if it was filmed on the same day as ep3.

The comments from those saying the features are too long. Is that because SIARPC used to be 10 - 15 mins long in TG. And now Celebrity Braincrash is 3- 5mins thus the features can be longer. Just my thoughts.

Hammond eco vehicle being hedge trimmed was typical British humour. Parked were something would happen to it. Interesting to see Hammond not being the fool in this episode as he was in ep3.

On a side note. James May's youtube channel is loading up with content recently. Unaired outtakes from TG etc.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQqXWlO-yxK2IZ0aK...