Popular Post BOF Posted February 5, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: No human being less amusing than James May has ever walked the surface of this planet. Even allowing for an assumed dislike of Top Gear, you must not have seen very much of anything else he has done. He's arguably the funniest and definitely the cleverest part of Top Gear and his other shows are really good, generally very interesting and always full of humour 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) 7 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: No, entirely accurate. No human being less amusing than James May has ever walked the surface of this planet. well here's two without even trying Edited February 5, 2016 by chrisp65 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) 13 minutes ago, BOF said: Even allowing for an assumed dislike of Top Gear, you must not have seen very much of anything else he has done. He's arguably the funniest and definitely the cleverest part of Top Gear and his other shows are really good, generally very interesting and always full of humour I agree , his humour is very clever , maybe even missed by a lot of people as a result * .... and it sorta compliments Clarksons sledge hammer approach to humour .. Hammond I do find a tad irritating though , hams it up too much and he isn't a good enough actor to pull it off As for Top Gear being passed its sell by date I thought the current series was one of the best yet , shame we never got to see how it ended * I should clarify that in case its taken as a dig or an attempt at comedy superiority.... you have to be a bit of a Geek in a way or have an interest in certain subjects to get some of his references is what I mean .. Edited February 5, 2016 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Hammond overdid it too much and at one point seemed to be unavoidably hosting every show going. Of the 3, I preferred May anyway, struck me as decidedly normal and not-dickish. Not watched Top Gear for a few years though, but tempted to give these new lot a try at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) It's weird, I used to like Top Gear, once upon a time. It was good for a couple of seasons after it was brought back. I used to love cars, generally - when I was a small child, my hobby was lining up toy cars into traffic jams on the carpet, and I was much more interested in Formula 1 than football as child, and I went through a period of about two years when I purchased every edition of Autocar magazine. So, it's a bit difficult to say when why I stopped liking Top Gear, but I can isolate several reasons: 1] It became too much about challenges, like Stevo said previously. These went from very interesting (riding motorbikes through Vietnam - how many times did I teach that lesson!) to very contrived and dull. 2] It became more political. This is fine; I'm not complaining. But I'm very much not the target audience for it - indeed, I feel like I'm pretty much the imagined antagonist, so I don't really need to spend an hour being moaned and sneered at. 3] I just don't like James May. I honestly don't find him even slightly amusing. Hammond I find alright, because he's enthusiastic and that's good for television. Clarkson is a boor, but his jokes are funny and he just does line readings well. But May I don't think I've ever laughed at once. I haven't watched much of his other stuff - I don't watch much TV - but I did see a documentary about the history of toys once, and it seemed to be the same combination of smug and boring that he always emanates. He reminds me of so many other things I don't like about the UK - public schools, Mumford & Suns, idiotic tourists in loud shirts. and finally, 4] I'm just not that interested in cars any more, really. But I might give the new show a try. I won't return to the old one. Sorry, this was basically a reply to @BOF Edited February 5, 2016 by HanoiVillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Not a fan of Chris Evans at all - however, having watched Episodes I quite like Matt Le Blanc. Still won't bother watching it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Yeah Le Blanc was great in 'Episodes'. For me that show really rehabilitated him after he was stuck with the 'Friends' baggage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Watched Top gear since William Woollard as a lad. Looking forward to the new line up, was due a change, loved Clarkson, but all that blowing up cars went a bit to far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 full cast announced they seem to have missed a handicapped person out for a full house of BBC box ticking ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Isn't 6 presenters a bit much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Of course, it would actually be pretty useful to know which cars are easiest to transfer into from a wheelchair. Just the sort of thing a useful 'motoring magazine show' should be covering, really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 23 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: full cast announced they seem to have missed a handicapped person out for a full house of BBC box ticking ? To be fair, all those years of putting up with 'learning difficulties' Clarkson, they probably feel they've given that box more than enough respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted February 11, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2016 Dunno, Sabinuremberg, LeBlanc, Evans, Dunno, Dunno, Stig Are the blanks up there anyone I should know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaacckk91 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Dunno, Sabinuremberg, LeBlanc, Evans, Dunno, Dunno, Stig Are the blanks up there anyone I should know? Guy next to the stig is Eddie Jordan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 11, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 11, 2016 Eh, maybe Eddie Jordan there Tegis (beside Stig). I wonder how regular they'll all be. It's a bit much to have 6 on each episode. Or maybe not. I dunno. It just goes to show how much the others were on when they can divvy up the cash amongst twice as many now, one of which (Evans) is no doubt on a pretty penny himself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted February 11, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2016 Ah, I know who Eddie is but I could never point him out in a crowd. Never been a F1 guy per see. After quick Mooney, I've seen the Chris Harris bloke on the Joe Rogan podcast. Seemed alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It could be like old Top Gear, that had shitloads of presenters, they probably won't all be in the studio all the time. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them only really appear in the video segments. Every move they have made so far has been a good one as far as I'm concerned. I like Chris Evans, I like Matt Le Blanc (I was a teenager in the 90s, what else do you expect?) and the other announcements are good too. Sabine is popular with fans of the Clarkson era, Chris Harris is a cool guy who has done a shitload on YouTube. I'm not really familiar with Rory Reid though. Can't wait for the series to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I didn't know Okore was into cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 11, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 11, 2016 20 minutes ago, The_Rev said: It could be like old Top Gear, that had shitloads of presenters, they probably won't all be in the studio all the time. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them only really appear in the video segments. Every move they have made so far has been a good one as far as I'm concerned. I like Chris Evans, I like Matt Le Blanc (I was a teenager in the 90s, what else do you expect?) and the other announcements are good too. Sabine is popular with fans of the Clarkson era, Chris Harris is a cool guy who has done a shitload on YouTube. I'm not really familiar with Rory Reid though. Can't wait for the series to start. Sabine is the only positive for me. It's actually news to me that she's on the cast. Well, news in the past week anyway. I must have missed that announcement as I've pretty much resigned this show to being the desperate and ultimately failed attempt from an out of touch broadcaster trying to cling to as many fans as they can. Which is fair enough I suppose. What else could they do? They could hardly let a cashcow die. What I'm getting from the feedback so far is that people who really liked the recent Top Gear i.e. those who didn't watch it each week in order to moan about it, think the new one based on its presenters is shaping up to be shit. Whereas fairweather fans and people looking in from afar, neither of whom watch the show in great numbers or have a particular interest in cars, seem to like the changes. But the take-up in viewership of those kinds of people will be much lower. So you lose a fanbase and get some well-wishers who in all likelyhood won't turn up in their droves to watch you anyway. I suppose it is a form of damage limitation though as said above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Well, I think it's a given that hardcore fans of the particular three departed presenters aren't going to be interested in this show, at least compared to their new show. There's absolutely nothing the BBC could have done about that. Beyond that, you're left with arguing that there shouldn't be a primetime motoring show on the BBC. Which I don't think is an argument many people want to make. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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