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« Reply #30 on: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 10:03:24 » |
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Top Gear comes across a bit like Last of the Summer Wine lately. I fully expect Clarkson to be screaming down a hill in bath tub before long. I do still love it though.
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« Reply #31 on: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 10:08:45 » |
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I only started watching it about 3 years ago so most of it's still new to me. Some of the clearly scripted stuff is irksome, but overall it's very good. Love that idea of the bathtub, would excpect some rockets or the suchlike on them.
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« Reply #32 on: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 10:47:07 » |
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The middle east one on Sunday looks ace.
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« Reply #33 on: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 21:52:20 » |
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the iplayer buffers every minute living where I do. It's crap
Have you thought about downloading it. If you're connection's that shit it might take an hour, but you can always do it overnight.
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« Reply #34 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 09:18:51 » |
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Top Gear rocks... even if it is scripted!
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« Reply #35 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 09:30:01 » |
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I'll start watching Top Gear again once Clarkson and Hammond have been killed. I just can't watch those two utter cunts.
I might put them on the 2011 Death Prediction list, if there is going to be one this year?
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« Reply #36 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 09:33:44 » |
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I'll start watching Top Gear again once Clarkson and Hammond have been killed. I just can't watch those two utter cunts.
I might put them on the 2011 Death Prediction list, if there is going to be one this year?
Explain. Clarkson and Hammond make the programme and May is the perfect sidekick. Clarkson's views are often tongue-in-cheek and he is, in my opinion, the best journalist in the last twenty years. Hammond is the perfect victim for his bullying, and is a decent journo in his own right. The programme has lost it's grip on reality, with endless trips in cars no one can afford being an odd thing to show during the time of economic downturn. However, the old format of a factual review of a Rover Metro was far less successful.
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« Reply #37 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 09:44:58 » |
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I just find them both extremely irritating, especially Clarkson.
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« Reply #38 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 09:53:42 » |
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I watched the first part last night. It was ok.
I can see why people find Clarkson (and to some extent Hammond) extremely irritating, but for me that's all part of their charm. I find them managable in small doses.
I think they had the format right a couple of years ago when they did serious reviews of a good mix of cars with the odd joke/sketch thrown in here or there. Nowadays it just seems to be all about getting laughs, which for me is wearing a bit thin. For example, the whole knocking out the studio lights and then setting fire to the Christmas tree thing was rather tedious IMO.
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« Reply #39 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 11:16:26 » |
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*************** DRIVE BY ON THE STIG ***************
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« Reply #40 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 11:19:32 » |
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What?
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« Reply #42 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 12:24:34 » |
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Yeah, I saw it. I just didn't understand the need to post *************** DRIVE BY ON THE STIG ***************.
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« Reply #43 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 12:25:49 » |
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Because it was fuckin quality so it deserved to be mentioned in stars!?!
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« Reply #44 on: Friday, December 24, 2010, 12:27:41 » |
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I'm looking forward to applying that to the rest of the forum. Come on ****************Charlie Austin*************
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