Catching up but watched Mongolia, really did feel like they're all alcoholics and were trying to make due in order to get more of their vices. Kind of impressive and sad at the same time. At least in the North Pole they did have liquor.
I mean May definitely has a glass of wine a day.
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British people in general tend to have a rather weird relationship with alcohol.
(Speaking as a British person, and making a vastly sweeping generalisation, but still. I've always felt our cultural relationship with the stuff is deeply strange.)
British people in general tend to have a rather weird relationship with alcohol.
(Speaking as a British person, and making a vastly sweeping generalisation, but still. I've always felt our cultural relationship with the stuff is deeply strange.)
Well you do drink it warm
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Fascinating. They are shooting 250 hours of footage for 1 hour that is the final episode.
This is cool because I've always been interested to know how they produce the show. I could watch several 1-hour episodes of just behind-the-scenes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Specifically how they dodge around how much of the show is scripted, how much of the show is real, etc. I think they're afraid they'd ruin the magic of the show if they revealed too much, but, c'mon, many of us still watch pro wrestling and magic tricks. This is no different.
Fascinating. They are shooting 250 hours of footage for 1 hour that is the final episode.
This is cool because I've always been interested to know how they produce the show. I could watch several 1-hour episodes of just behind-the-scenes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Yeah, I thought that too as I watched that clip. These guys (both in front of and behind the camera) really have had one of the greatest jobs for the past 17 years. That montage at the end of the last episode was pure magic.
EDIT: Speaking of that last episode. That talk of Clarkson and Mays dads and their new Ford Cortinas gave me flashbacks to the early 80s. I grew up in East Germany and I remember my dad buying a new car in 1983. One of these:
Not as fancy as a Ford Cortina, but the Ford buyers didn't have to wait 18 years for their cars - which we did. I do distinctly remember that we drove around in that car for a bit that evening - I was 5 at the time.
What I am trying to say, I can relate to Jeremy and James.
Also, fun fact about that car. My dad sold it a few weeks before the wall 1989 fell - for more money than he bought it!
it's great how thoroughly GT the show is at every level. I'm sure there are three janitors that go around arguing which floor buffer can get round the office the fastest while not actually cleaning much other than making sure the half drunk Gin and wine don't go to waste.
Fascinating. They are shooting 250 hours of footage for 1 hour that is the final episode.
This is cool because I've always been interested to know how they produce the show. I could watch several 1-hour episodes of just behind-the-scenes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Yeah, I thought that too as I watched that clip. These guys (both in front of and behind the camera) really have had one of the greatest jobs for the past 17 years. That montage at the end of the last episode was pure magic.
EDIT: Speaking of that last episode. That talk of Clarkson and Mays dads and their new Ford Cortinas gave me flashbacks to the early 80s. I grew up in East Germany and I remember my dad buying a new car in 1983. One of these:
Not as fancy as a Ford Cortina, but the Ford buyers didn't have to wait 18 years for their cars - which we did. I do distinctly remember that we drove around in that car for a bit that evening - I was 5 at the time.
What I am trying to say, I can relate to Jeremy and James.
Also, fun fact about that car. My dad sold it a few weeks before the wall 1989 fell - for more money than he bought it!
Yeah, I seem to recall Trabants becoming quite collectible in good condition, at least after the wall came down and a few started creeping into the West.
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Great ending to the show and the current format, the kind of ending that isn't so much sad but just feeling happy about seeing something that was just "good" put into our lives for so many years, like a long lived dog who passed happily in his sleep after going 17 years. Really loved the Ford sedan history and eulogy, such a shame the Cortina wasn't the Mini in terms of notoriety and worldwide impact, it just looks so much better.
What is incredibly interesting about the whole thing was, the first Top Gear episode I ever watched was when I was in Europe in Summer 2006, it was the Kia towing the caravan holiday episode, but the opening segment was Clarkson talking about hot sedans and the Ford Mondeo being the one he loved (and how it was even more rare than BMW3 and DB9 in terms of UK sales at the time). And because of how the BBC aired things then in different countries, I watched that same episode like 4 or 5 times that week and just became hooked on the show, back when you had to do real legwork to get the show online and youtube wasn't even a real thing yet, oh those were the days...
British people in general tend to have a rather weird relationship with alcohol.
(Speaking as a British person, and making a vastly sweeping generalisation, but still. I've always felt our cultural relationship with the stuff is deeply strange.)
In Taiwan, people drank a lot more during the forty-year capitalist police state dictatorship.
Top Gear is back, and has a genuinely useful (sort of) tip on how to change a wheel when you don't have a jack. See, it's educational!
This is pretty promising so far, although for those of you not in the UK, I'm wondering how you'll get on with McGuiness and Flintoff's accents! This definitely seems like the strongest line-up since Clarkson, Hammond and May, though.
Specifically how they dodge around how much of the show is scripted, how much of the show is real, etc. I think they're afraid they'd ruin the magic of the show if they revealed too much, but, c'mon, many of us still watch pro wrestling and magic tricks. This is no different.
I think when you watch the three of them for long enough you can pick up on when they're laughing because the thing they wrote themselves to say in the script requires a laugh (not that they aren't genuinely laughing, because their scripts will still be hilarious) and when one of them says something off the cuff that genuinely surprises and amuses them. Clarkson in particular has this thing where one of the others will say something and it's always clear when it wasn't scripted because he just stares for a heartbeat then loses it.
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Top Gear is back, and has a genuinely useful (sort of) tip on how to change a wheel when you don't have a jack. See, it's educational!
This is pretty promising so far, although for those of you not in the UK, I'm wondering how you'll get on with McGuiness and Flintoff's accents! This definitely seems like the strongest line-up since Clarkson, Hammond and May, though.
They all look too much like they could be on next season's Bachelorette for my liking.
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Top Gear is back, and has a genuinely useful (sort of) tip on how to change a wheel when you don't have a jack. See, it's educational!
This is pretty promising so far, although for those of you not in the UK, I'm wondering how you'll get on with McGuiness and Flintoff's accents! This definitely seems like the strongest line-up since Clarkson, Hammond and May, though.
They all look too much like they could be on next season's Bachelorette for my liking.
How can you expect to have a proper British automotive show without at least one person who might really be related to orangutans?
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I finally realized DriveTribe is something the three created, for the longest time I thought it was just a site that lucked into having an in with them, since theview count when they're in a video compared to when they aren't is kind of like Grand Tour vs. Top Gear a zing.
Plus Jeremy is spot on in this video despite his freakish eyebrows:
Here is an article from their fansite defending it.
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I wasn't expecting two episodes, more like 6 episodes, probably two two-parters or something. And while I am now watching DriveTribe, some of their stuff is basically paid shilling, like Hammond with his Ford Ranger.
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2 episodes at an hour 45 each, so 4 regular episodes. And some solo projects popping up. I’ll take it. I’ve also been buying years of their top gear as they go on sale. Honestly, while I always want more I’m not dissatisfied.
2 episodes at an hour 45 each, so 4 regular episodes. And some solo projects popping up. I’ll take it. I’ve also been buying years of their top gear as they go on sale. Honestly, while I always want more I’m not dissatisfied.
I suppose...
Looking forward to James May organizing his collection of different length wires or what ever mundane thing he somehow makes rivetingly entertaining.
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2 episodes at an hour 45 each, so 4 regular episodes. And some solo projects popping up. I’ll take it. I’ve also been buying years of their top gear as they go on sale. Honestly, while I always want more I’m not dissatisfied.
I suppose...
Looking forward to James May organizing his collection of different length wires or what ever mundane thing he somehow makes rivetingly entertaining.
I love the grand tour viral video challenge
where James May unboxing a car won by a landslide.
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I mean May definitely has a glass of wine a day.
(Speaking as a British person, and making a vastly sweeping generalisation, but still. I've always felt our cultural relationship with the stuff is deeply strange.)
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Well you do drink it warm
Like, Americans don't seem to drink through the week at all, but cut loose Friday and Saturday.
That's just my observation.
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Fascinating. They are shooting 250 hours of footage for 1 hour that is the final episode.
This is cool because I've always been interested to know how they produce the show. I could watch several 1-hour episodes of just behind-the-scenes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Specifically how they dodge around how much of the show is scripted, how much of the show is real, etc. I think they're afraid they'd ruin the magic of the show if they revealed too much, but, c'mon, many of us still watch pro wrestling and magic tricks. This is no different.
Yeah, I thought that too as I watched that clip. These guys (both in front of and behind the camera) really have had one of the greatest jobs for the past 17 years. That montage at the end of the last episode was pure magic.
EDIT: Speaking of that last episode. That talk of Clarkson and Mays dads and their new Ford Cortinas gave me flashbacks to the early 80s. I grew up in East Germany and I remember my dad buying a new car in 1983. One of these:
Not as fancy as a Ford Cortina, but the Ford buyers didn't have to wait 18 years for their cars - which we did. I do distinctly remember that we drove around in that car for a bit that evening - I was 5 at the time.
What I am trying to say, I can relate to Jeremy and James.
Also, fun fact about that car. My dad sold it a few weeks before the wall 1989 fell - for more money than he bought it!
it's great how thoroughly GT the show is at every level. I'm sure there are three janitors that go around arguing which floor buffer can get round the office the fastest while not actually cleaning much other than making sure the half drunk Gin and wine don't go to waste.
Yeah, I seem to recall Trabants becoming quite collectible in good condition, at least after the wall came down and a few started creeping into the West.
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What is incredibly interesting about the whole thing was, the first Top Gear episode I ever watched was when I was in Europe in Summer 2006, it was the Kia towing the caravan holiday episode, but the opening segment was Clarkson talking about hot sedans and the Ford Mondeo being the one he loved (and how it was even more rare than BMW3 and DB9 in terms of UK sales at the time). And because of how the BBC aired things then in different countries, I watched that same episode like 4 or 5 times that week and just became hooked on the show, back when you had to do real legwork to get the show online and youtube wasn't even a real thing yet, oh those were the days...
Just a very interesting personal closing of this broadcast circle, feels very zen to me.
In Taiwan, people drank a lot more during the forty-year capitalist police state dictatorship.
Coincidence? Maybe.
This is pretty promising so far, although for those of you not in the UK, I'm wondering how you'll get on with McGuiness and Flintoff's accents! This definitely seems like the strongest line-up since Clarkson, Hammond and May, though.
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I think when you watch the three of them for long enough you can pick up on when they're laughing because the thing they wrote themselves to say in the script requires a laugh (not that they aren't genuinely laughing, because their scripts will still be hilarious) and when one of them says something off the cuff that genuinely surprises and amuses them. Clarkson in particular has this thing where one of the others will say something and it's always clear when it wasn't scripted because he just stares for a heartbeat then loses it.
They all look too much like they could be on next season's Bachelorette for my liking.
How can you expect to have a proper British automotive show without at least one person who might really be related to orangutans?
Never thought I'd see a Subaru BRAT on this show! Pretty awesome to see that.
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Plus Jeremy is spot on in this video despite his freakish eyebrows:
yes I too can't wait till the next season of Grand Tour
Those are some proper British old-man eyebrows.
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Only 2 episodes this time around so ration them
What? Why?
Here is an article from their fansite defending it.
I suppose...
Looking forward to James May organizing his collection of different length wires or what ever mundane thing he somehow makes rivetingly entertaining.