Top Gear

[Paul ™]

Series 14 is back in the winter

[Elbear]

Crap ending if so.

Apparently they all don't get along so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some personel change

[Wooderson]

Hmmm, rather cryptic ending to the current season.

Last ever episode perhaps?

[Paul ™]

I said the exact same thing to the missus tonight mate. Very very downbeat. Looked really tagged onto the end aswell... the Aston only got 3 minutes. Weird.

[Wooderson]

You need to check your clock.. was over 6 minutes

[Paul ™]

Aye true

[WS_Jack_III]

Crap ending if so.

Apparently they all don't get along so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some personel change

[Wooderson]

strange i thought May and Jez want to open a pub together after they finish Top Gear. Read a interview with may a few month back and he said he doesn't expect himself or Jez to continue much longer anyway as they are getting on.

[Alcatraz]

May and Hammond are never off the telly at the moment. Both total darlings at Auntie BBC... why would they finish now? Makes zero sense. They can do what they bloody like it seems! Case in point is the bloody Lego house thingy.

Edited August 2, 2009 by Alcatraz

[Wooderson]

May's done about 3 different shows for Sky as well though, and Hammond had a daytime show on ITV a couple of years ago.

They also seem to get away with saying what they like. I wouldn't be surprised if impartiality problems come down hard on them

[Alcatraz]

I think whats becoming a big problem is the level of scrpiting. In the early days of the relaunch a big claim was that is was un-scripted. They can no longer make that claim.

Interesting the last post on this thread was about the Vietnam special. Those are the programmes I enjoy most. The studio features are getting a bit tired.

[WS_Jack_III]

yes i've noticed how obvious some of the things have become. But still its a fantastic show and probs best on telly

[Wooderson]

yes i've noticed how obvious some of the things have become. But still its a fantastic show and probs best on telly

[pezzypops]

what's happened to hammond's hair?

it looks like he had a snowball fight with hair wax then hung himself upside down for an hour or two

[Kowalski]

Its hard for me to admit it, but due to the mega-smug media circle jerk nature of Hammond and May, Clarkson might just be the one out of the 3 that i'd go for a few pints with.

[The Nal]

I personally can't get enough of James May, he's brilliant. The recent moon programme was excellent.

[Purple Monkey]

I like Clarkson, not because I agree particularly with much he says, far from it. It's simply because he hates Piers Morgan. The enemy of my enemy is my friend etc.

Besides, all three of them play characters. James May is playing the dull toff twit (despite proving to be incredibly clever and witty). Hammond plays up the chavvy Americanised prankster boy racer (despite proving to being intelligent and incredibly eloquent) and Clarkson plays the macho, conservative buffoon (despite demonstrating more liberal qualities). All of which come across as satirical noise and not to be taken at all literally, despite clearly being based somewhat on their real-life personalities. And they play these characters because they know it pushes buttons, the more you push buttons, the more people will watch.

Edited August 3, 2009 by Purple Monkey

[The Nal]

I like Clarkson, not because I agree particularly with much he says, far from it. It's simply because he hates Piers Morgan. The enemy of my enemy is my friend etc.

[dakyras]

This whole series was a bit half arsed, which is a shame because the last 2 were pretty incredible

In fairness, Clarkson isnt the worst. He just comes out with total cobblers sometimes which makes him look a right prat.

[The Nal]

I think Clarkson is a bit of a satirical genius tbh. I've met him and he's definitely not the right wing fool he makes himself out to be on Top Gear.

[Wooderson]

This whole series was a bit half arsed, which is a shame because the last 2 were pretty incredible

[harper11]

the series had some good moments but was a bit tired

how many time can you watch them race from london to geneva or wherever by various means

or buying old cars and doing stupid tasks

[WS_Jack_III]

i love the old car stuff

[Purple Monkey]

About the cars - the sound of that Bathurst VXR made me have a little crisis.

Clarkson was right you have to admit. If the successor to the combustion engine is anything less than exciting, petrol driven cars will join the likes of the steam train in extinction, and only exist in rose tinted specs to a bygone era when things may have been less efficient and have more moving parts but it was definitely more interesting than the replacement tech.

Edited August 3, 2009 by Purple Monkey

[Wooderson]

Remember when Jay Leno was on a couple of series ago, he made the point that the petrol car will become the same as we consider horses. We used to rely on them as the main mode of transportation years ago, until the age of the motor car when they became purely used in leisure pursuits. Our petrol motors will become the same.