The Grand Tour (Vol. 2)

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Boleros

176 posts

7 months

Saturday 24th February
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E90_M3Ross said:
Boleros said:
Although I don’t think they’ve definitively said that it's the end of TGT have they?
Yes. The next one is the last one.
It's just that I'd not seen/read any of them categorically saying never again and that's it chum. I imagine that the TGT format has come to the end of its natural time anyway but whether something might replace it with the same three?

It would be a shame not to see the three of them do something together again, I get that some of it is repetitive but I still enjoy watching their shows.

biggbn

23,446 posts

221 months

Saturday 24th February
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Boleros said:
E90_M3Ross said:
Boleros said:
Although I don’t think they’ve definitively said that it's the end of TGT have they?
Yes. The next one is the last one.
It's just that I'd not seen/read any of them categorically saying never again and that's it chum. I imagine that the TGT format has come to the end of its natural time anyway but whether something might replace it with the same three?

It would be a shame not to see the three of them do something together again, I get that some of it is repetitive but I still enjoy watching their shows.
My gut feeling is they will be glad to be unshackled by contractual obligations to work together. It has been enjoyable on some level but has seemed forced and almost phoned in on many more recently, like their worst TG episodes were. And yet, their worst is still better than most any other car based show. I'll be sad when they stop all together but time and tide wait for no man

ninepoint2

3,308 posts

161 months

Saturday 24th February
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biggbn said:
My gut feeling is they will be glad to be unshackled by contractual obligations to work together. It has been enjoyable on some level but has seemed forced and almost phoned in on many more recently, like their worst TG episodes were. And yet, their worst is still better than most any other car based show. I'll be sad when they stop all together but time and tide wait for no man
Even at their worst they are still more entertaining/better than 99.9% of the dross that is on all of the TV world IMHO

vetrof

2,488 posts

174 months

Sunday 25th February
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biggbn said:
My gut feeling is they will be glad to be unshackled by contractual obligations to work together. It has been enjoyable on some level but has seemed forced and almost phoned in on many more recently, like their worst TG episodes were. And yet, their worst is still better than most any other car based show. I'll be sad when they stop all together but time and tide wait for no man
Spot on again there big fella.

Kev_Mk3

2,781 posts

96 months

Sunday 25th February
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It wasnt that bad but it was to long imo

Ari

19,349 posts

216 months

Sunday 25th February
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Weirdly, every season and every episode of The Grand Tour is coming up 'Video unavailable'. I'm UK based. Anyone else getting this?

E90_M3Ross

35,102 posts

213 months

Sunday 25th February
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Ari said:
Weirdly, every season and every episode of The Grand Tour is coming up 'Video unavailable'. I'm UK based. Anyone else getting this?
Just tried, working for me. Using a VPN?

Kerniki

1,880 posts

22 months

Monday 26th February
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Kev_Mk3 said:
It wasnt that bad but it was to long imo
Surely if it wasn’t ‘that’ bad it wouldnt have been too long?

Zetec-S

5,890 posts

94 months

Monday 26th February
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ninepoint2 said:
Even at their worst they are still more entertaining/better than 99.9% of the dross that is on all of the TV world IMHO
+1

There are very few "entertainment" programmes I watch on TV these days. Their best years might be behind them but for me I still enjoy watching it. And I could probably re-watch the mongolia episode numerous times before getting bored.

DSC OFF

191 posts

62 months

Monday 26th February
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I think that is part of it. The setups are becoming just too obvious...the fuel bowser across the minefield - which was so obvious it was coming due to the way the cars had been conveniently moved to the side and the full tunnel was in the shot, if not dominating it like some bad "found footage" movie. It would have been better for them to have been parked on either side of the road, having some sort of argument across it and whoosh the truck rushes through the shot in the blink of an eye and into the minefield.

And again, at the top of the mountain, the diggers and bowser were already there so obviously there is a way up and down. The snowmobile explosion was clever, but again inevitable. It should've just been three to five seconds of it heading towards the bowser in the distance, May going "What's that" BOOM. Like the errant lawnmower in India. It used to be far more subtle

Ari

19,349 posts

216 months

Monday 26th February
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E90_M3Ross said:
Ari said:
Weirdly, every season and every episode of The Grand Tour is coming up 'Video unavailable'. I'm UK based. Anyone else getting this?
Just tried, working for me. Using a VPN?
Nope, although strangely, I tried again and they were all back! Not sure what that was about. I thought perhaps Clarkson really had 'pleasured a horse', as per his comment back at the very beginning! biggrin

WPA

8,844 posts

115 months

Monday 26th February
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Some may find this interesting, looking back over TG and TGT, part 2 to follow.




PF62

3,659 posts

174 months

Monday 26th February
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DSC OFF said:
The setups are becoming just too obvious...
"becoming" - When were any of the setups not obvious, even when they were on TG?

Smollet

10,620 posts

191 months

Monday 26th February
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WPA said:
Some may find this interesting, looking back over TG and TGT, part 2 to follow.

I enjoyed it.

Blib

44,206 posts

198 months

Monday 26th February
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PF62 said:
DSC OFF said:
The setups are becoming just too obvious...
"becoming" - When were any of the setups not obvious, even when they were on TG?
I thought that the TG motorhome holiday in Devon was pretty honest and straightforward.

Who on here hasn't taken a Japanese garden of contemplation with them down the M4?

I know that I have, several times in fact.

yes

WPA

8,844 posts

115 months

Monday 26th February
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Blib said:
PF62 said:
DSC OFF said:
The setups are becoming just too obvious...
"becoming" - When were any of the setups not obvious, even when they were on TG?
I thought that the TG motorhome holiday in Devon was pretty honest and straightforward.

Who on here hasn't taken a Japanese garden of contemplation with them down the M4?

I know that I have, several times in fact.

yes
Biggest giveaway with that one was the crane on site, would take around 2 weeks to book in advance, yet on site first thing to pick it up when it blew over.

thegreenhell

15,415 posts

220 months

Monday 26th February
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Another podcast out today, although I haven't viewed it yet - James May on The Intercooler talking about TG and TGT.


Fermit

13,030 posts

101 months

Monday 26th February
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WPA said:
Some may find this interesting, looking back over TG and TGT, part 2 to follow.

Very interesting, as well as funny at points. Cheers for sharing it, will watch part 2 on the TV instead of the small screen tonight.

WPA

8,844 posts

115 months

Monday 4th March
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Part 2 now available