The Grand Tour
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The Spruce Goose said:
V1nce Fox said:
James May in Japan on the other hand was excellent. Really watchable. I'd love him to do more travel stuff.
Yes works well.The issue I have with Clarkson is this image of the racist, right winged petrolhead now trying to become something else. It was interesting but just didn't fit with his image. James May has done loads of shows that worked, he is very multi skilled.
I think it's your bigoted views clouding your judgement. I forgot a few obvious jokes and column in The Times is enough to write someone off as a right wing racist.
You see what you want to see.
ChocolateFrog said:
Trying to become something else?
I think it's your bigoted views clouding your judgement. I forgot a few obvious jokes and column in The Times is enough to write someone off as a right wing racist.
You see what you want to see.
Bigoted views, I saw him at the motor show in 1998 talking about the Koreans in the usual way. I think it's your bigoted views clouding your judgement. I forgot a few obvious jokes and column in The Times is enough to write someone off as a right wing racist.
You see what you want to see.
He has a vast history of xenophobia you really can't be arguing he doesn't because that would be moronic. The issue is is this the image or the man himself. Probably explains why no second season of the Farm.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 31st July 09:01
Mr E said:
Smollet said:
Do you mean the island or the bar?
I think the latter is this place however I may be wrong
https://www.theridgeswindon.com/
That is certainly it. It’s about 800m from my house. I think the latter is this place however I may be wrong
https://www.theridgeswindon.com/
There’s a yank car meet every month - I _presume_ that’s why they were there but decided to not use the footage.
It certainly wasn’t the inside of the bar.
If it was going to be the wrong day you would think the Ridge would have let them know so maybe was the latter?
Normally a bit more like this, which would have fit into the narrative a bit better. One of the local clubs basically think they are 1950s Americans and come dressed up most of the time so would have been good for the narrative too.
The Spruce Goose said:
Bigoted views, I saw him at the motor show in 1998 talking about the Koreans in the usual way.
He has a vast history of xenophobia you really can't be arguing he doesn't because that would be moronic. The issue is is this the image or the man himself. Probably explains why no second season of the Farm.
He has a vast history of xenophobia you really can't be arguing he doesn't because that would be moronic. The issue is is this the image or the man himself. Probably explains why no second season of the Farm.
errmmmm looks like you may be wrong there
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/...
Well, in the absence of anything else, I watched it - after the comments here, I was not expecting much.
Aside from my AP stream being as flakey as hell (4k on Netflix every time - I can't understand why Amazon's own platform can't stream it's own content without resolution jumping up and down...) we really enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what people are expecting from these shows, but it's light entertainment. And a lot less 'bottom of the barrel' than a lot of the light entertainment on our TVs these days.
It didn't have the heart of Clarkson's Farm, but it's not the same show.
Aside from my AP stream being as flakey as hell (4k on Netflix every time - I can't understand why Amazon's own platform can't stream it's own content without resolution jumping up and down...) we really enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what people are expecting from these shows, but it's light entertainment. And a lot less 'bottom of the barrel' than a lot of the light entertainment on our TVs these days.
It didn't have the heart of Clarkson's Farm, but it's not the same show.
Had the chance to watch this on the flight home. Now, I like some of the stuff they've done, let's start with that. But, that special, from the terrible scripted 'hilarious parts fall off' to Hammonds terribly dyed off his head hair there was only the odd glimpse of Clarkson to entertain on any level.
It was a dreadful episode, switched it off after 30 mins or so, unable to ignore the blatantly obvious 'everything'. Top Gear on occasion might not reach certain highs, but this is just a dead dog.
Truly terrible.
It was a dreadful episode, switched it off after 30 mins or so, unable to ignore the blatantly obvious 'everything'. Top Gear on occasion might not reach certain highs, but this is just a dead dog.
Truly terrible.
DodgyGeezer said:
Yes in the last few days it seems, well done.Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 31st July 12:09
Vocht said:
The whole China thing at the end though really was rather strange.
I wonder if they're saying that the US used to pride itself on everything being made in the USA, but if you scratch beneath the surface now, much of everything, everywhere is made in China? They started off presumably with the MG in the car park,It was worth a watch, but not a re-watch. Except perhaps the bridge building bit in conjunction with Google Earth to figure which bit of water they were crossing.
To be fair it must have been difficult filming anything during Covid.
Must have leakproofed the hell out of May's caravan to allow it to fill up like that.
You didn't need to know that Hammond had suffered a dunking from a boat sequence to know that towing the bridge malarkey was going to end in tears just from the way he'd attached the tow line and angle of tow. Muppetry.
Quite liked JC's Mustang. Interior looked a bit flimsy though.
To be fair it must have been difficult filming anything during Covid.
Must have leakproofed the hell out of May's caravan to allow it to fill up like that.
You didn't need to know that Hammond had suffered a dunking from a boat sequence to know that towing the bridge malarkey was going to end in tears just from the way he'd attached the tow line and angle of tow. Muppetry.
Quite liked JC's Mustang. Interior looked a bit flimsy though.
The Spruce Goose said:
DodgyGeezer said:
Yes in the last few days it seems, well done.Edited by The Spruce Goose on Saturday 31st July 12:09
TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
Your post was this morning though, so within the last few days, no?
yes i was wrong about his second series, what do you want a public apology and a biscuit. i wasn't wrong he is a xenophobic racist, that hasn't changed which is why he is so popular. I've always though may was better in this this regards.it is a bit like Barnard Manning always said he wasn't a racist, it was his Character. Anyway lets no bogged down in who said what it is all on google, i just umbrage to be called a bigot myself lol
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 31st July 13:26
The only recent special that has worked for me was Seaman, purely due to the boat premise and the absense of cars (even though there were plenty of predictable elements). The last two just haven't worked for me and just feel like the team going through the motions to fulfil their contractual obligations. They've all clearly enjoyed making their own shows, and for the most part it really shows on screen (Hammonds god awful desert island show excepted). This just felt phoned in to me.
Edited by RacingBlue on Saturday 31st July 13:42
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