Top Gear, Evans version, starts Sunday....

[Levo-Lon]

[QUOTE 4301674, member: 43827"]What's the fuss? How many variations can you get on a show about cars for juvenile petrolheads. At least there are now two chances for them to get their fix. It's like arguing about whether you prefer being bored by Emmerdale or Coronation Street.

The new show is not a great deal different from the old show, just as many of the old shows were not a great deal different from many of the old shows.[/QUOTE]


says Arthur Pewty...

 

[DCLane]

I've watched "Top Gear: Extra Gear" tonight. That wasn't bad at all; no shouting and much more informal. Chris Harris and Chris Ramsey were better than Chris Evans, who was more relaxed on this programme. There might just be a future for TG using those two more.

 

[jonny jeez]

Watched it on catch up earlier on.
I can't understand why they kept the same format, when they had a golden opportunity to come up with something fresh.
Evans and co seemed desperate to replicate the old style, but it was too obviously staged. Sorry, it didn't work for me.
I realised, after about 15 minutes, that the reason I watched the old TG was for the non PC banter of the old crew; it had nothing to do with the cars.
I switched it off after about 20 minutes - don't think I'll bother again.

Thought le blanc was just that, blank. if he's an actor then I should have a dozen oscars. Talk about stilted. The show itself was a rehash of a rehash, they didn't even try 'new' ideas. Two teams race to top of a hill, race to Blackpool, both have been done bigger and better by the old team, whats betting next week they will turn a couple of cars into amphibians and drive across the lake in Evans back garden?
The highlight was Sabine, she can race around my ring anytime

[QUOTE 4301674, member: 43827"]What's the fuss? How many variations can you get on a show about cars for juvenile petrolheads. At least there are now two chances for them to get their fix. It's like arguing about whether you prefer being bored by Emmerdale or Coronation Street.

The new show is not a great deal different from the old show, just as many of the old shows were not a great deal different from many of the old shows.[/QUOTE]

I suspect that, as the show is now an international franchise, that the format is not allowed to be changed. So the new presenters are just that...it's not a new show.

Problem is, the scripts seem to still be written for the other three guys and you can't help but compare every tiny detail.

le blanc was more blanc than ever, I can't see him carrying it forward...he is so monotone and preoccupied with keeping cool.

And there was no play between personalities, no sense of mockery between the two...they were just too pally

 

[srw]

And there was no play between personalities, no sense of mockery between the two...they were just too pally

In other words how normal people behave in real life?

I watched the last 5 minutes or so of the show. It looked like silly Sunday evening entertainment - which is what it should be, but what Clarkson had veered away from - and at some stage I'll watch the rest.

 

[Pale Rider]

I stopped watching Top Gear long ago, to me it had become like watching a couple having sex, great fun for those involved, but not a spectator sport.

Stories knocking around suggest Evans is not happy with the script and has brought Danny Baker in to improve it.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I stopped watching Top Gear long ago, to me it had become like watching a couple having sex, great fun for those involved, but not a spectator sport.

Stories knocking around suggest Evans is not happy with the script and has brought Danny Baker in to improve it.

Noel Gallagher once said if you made fun of Evans you had to wait 30 minutes until he'd phoned Danny Baker before you got a witty comeback.

 

[jonny jeez]

In other words how normal people behave in real life?

I watched the last 5 minutes or so of the show. It looked like silly Sunday evening entertainment - which is what it should be, but what Clarkson had veered away from - and at some stage I'll watch the rest.

Do you mean it's normal to be too pally, or to feel free to mock

 

[srw]

Do you mean it's normal to be too pally, or to feel free to mock

Normal to be friendly.

 

[AndyRM]

I quite liked it, though I did find Evans' boots and midriff a bit distracting.

Thought LeBlanc was probably the best presenter, though they did play the Dumb Yank card a bit too much at times.

Also, the "drag" thing was way too obviously trying to be controversial.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Its time the bbc binned TG..lol their biggest most costliest own goal ever..

 

[Dec66]

"Extra Gear" sounds like what Lance Armstrong needed on his last Tour de France.**








** on his cassette, obviously

 

[Dec66]

Its time the bbc binned TG..lol their biggest most costliest own goal ever..

If only that big galoot hadn't committed a racially aggravated assault whilst inebriated over his dinner not being on the table when he got in, eh?

Bloody BBC, pouring all that grog down his throat and making him four hours late back to the hotel.

 

[jonny jeez]

Normal to be friendly.

Really?.
I find with close friends, we are able to be honest and call each other on our personalities. In your defence, perhaps "mocking" is not the right word..but nice is not appealing either.

 

[Levo-Lon]

If only that big galoot hadn't committed a racially aggravated assault whilst inebriated over his dinner not being on the table when he got in, eh?

Bloody BBC, pouring all that grog down his throat and making him four hours late back to the hotel.

and out of work time too...

 

[Dec66]

and out of work time too...

...and on a BBC employee, whilst undertaking a shoot for a BBC production.

It's lucky for Clarkson that Oisin Tymon didn't press charges, otherwise the upcoming Amazon Prime series would have had to have been a fly on the wall documentary from HMP Leicester, or somewhere.

"Some say that he murdered his business rivals, and they're now propping up motorway bridges... And that he's just come into my cell and told me how pretty I am... All I know is, he's called Mr. Big..."