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Top Gear New Series |OT| No Longer Starring Chris Evans
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milanbaros
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Very good episode.
Loved the Ferrari and Hatchback films.
The weakest film was Matt's and he continues to be a bit awkward.
The audience applause for voting needs to go. It doesn't work. People just cheer. Should have cards to hold up if they insist. Pretty sure they had to sound mix to get a clear winner in the first round.
Loved the Ferrari and Hatchback films.
The weakest film was Matt's and he continues to be a bit awkward.
The audience applause for voting needs to go. It doesn't work. People just cheer. Should have cards to hold up if they insist. Pretty sure they had to sound mix to get a clear winner in the first round.
Yankee Ruin X
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Much better episode this week. Less Chris Evans was defs what was needed.
Exterminieren
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Much better- FINALLY developing its own solid personality.
As predicted, Harris and Reid were great, and deserve more stuff to do.
As predicted, Harris and Reid were great, and deserve more stuff to do.
I mean, that's pretty much what's expected. There's no intention of making it a real vote; the point is really to have both the guests tied so the lap is what matters. In real terms it's more a means of provoking discussion about the guests' car history.
LoveCake
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Better, only due to the cars though and Chris Harris still the best thing by miles, what I did notice though is even though the cars were more the sort of cars I like, nobody other than Chris Harris managed to transmit any excitement through to the viewer (me at least) it still seems that the presenters are trying to hard, once again not Chris Harris though because his F12 TDF was as good as the content he used to do himself on YouTube, the BBC should just get rid of all the presenters other than Chris Harris give him the Top Gear budget and let him do his thing.
They need to ditch Chris Evans, Eddie Jordan, the studio stuff and the 'stars in the rally-cross car' imo.
They have bought themselves another week from me.
They need to ditch Chris Evans, Eddie Jordan, the studio stuff and the 'stars in the rally-cross car' imo.
They have bought themselves another week from me.
Good episode I thought, felt packed. At one point I thought to myself "i guess they're not doing a challenge/gimmick segment this week" as i assumed they just few getting to the end, completely forgetting that I'd seen the preview for Matt's trip around London. They missed a trick by not having him get into the map though.
Wax Free Vanilla
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It's still as bad as the first episode from the bits I saw whilst flicking channels, even the Ken Block piece was total crap compared to the James May one, and next week we get their take on the car vs train challenge. There's just no hope with Evans and LeBlanc being the main players in this, I'm out.
bodyboarder
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Chris Harris for 60minutes would be godlike.
JonathanEx
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Ratings down again to 2.4 million according to Guardian after 2.8 million last week.
A shame, as I think it's starting to settle in nicely. I quite enjoyed last night's episode.
A shame, as I think it's starting to settle in nicely. I quite enjoyed last night's episode.
Exterminieren
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It was on opposite the football and Coronation Street. It did well not to drop more.
Formula 1 as well.
Fallout-NL
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Hope the producers have taken note of how much better this is when Harris and Reid are on the show.
Evans again managed to say absolutely nothing about a car. Sabine is cool, but in terms of talking about cars, I feel she may be held back by her not being a native speaker. This could be a lot better if those two made room for Harris and Reid.
Evans again managed to say absolutely nothing about a car. Sabine is cool, but in terms of talking about cars, I feel she may be held back by her not being a native speaker. This could be a lot better if those two made room for Harris and Reid.
AlphaSnake
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Turns out Harris and Rory will be in every episode going forward and Evans has been asked to step back by producers?
I think even Harris or Reid tweeted about how they'll have a vid in every episode.
If true, that's a very good thing. Very good.
kaname-san
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Pretty good ep this week. Matt is still pretty awkward tho. seems like he doesn't even want to be there.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Disagree. Matt seems fine. But Evans' terrible acting and him pretending to "run away" scared in all of the episodes thus far is grating. Make him stop.
Despite being a HUGE fan of the original Top Gear, my message to the BBC regarding this remake is merely one of absolute apathy. I simply do not care, and am not giving it any attention whatsoever, and especially no viewing figure. Particularly as Evans thrives off hate. Best of luck to 'em (sounds like they need it, by all accounts) - I'll just be here awaiting the Agra d Tour patiently. 
Zvonimir Boban
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Show's definitely improved since the first episode, more Harris/Reid bodes well. Something needs to be done about the celeb guest segments as those are the weakest part of the show by far.
Good decision.
I always liked Rory back from his CNET days on the podcast. Glad he's doing fairly well on TG so far.
SIARPC shouldn't have been changed.
That's a sensible decision. Can't wait to hear the ginger Kermit's spin on the whole thing...
Fallout-NL
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I suspect he's not going to say anything.
Great news though. Should have been like this from the start.
Sabine bit was good minus Evan really.
Loved the Matt segment just for how bonkers it was, Block can drive and how fast was that car! The scripted bits were on point.
I'm not sure of Harris or Reid, I like them delving into cars more but they aren't that good at presenting, I didn't think Reid had anything interesting to say whatsoever. Harris was better but pretty awful with superlatives like Reid.
Loved the Matt segment just for how bonkers it was, Block can drive and how fast was that car! The scripted bits were on point.
I'm not sure of Harris or Reid, I like them delving into cars more but they aren't that good at presenting, I didn't think Reid had anything interesting to say whatsoever. Harris was better but pretty awful with superlatives like Reid.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
You guys are over-analyzing the whole thing.
You're forgetting that much of episodes 1-3 were filmed first, before Harris and Reid joined the cast. So naturally those episodes didn't include them much at all. Though I get the suspicion that the F12TDF video was added into the 3rd episode last minute, just so they could feature Harris in it and gauge response.
Naturally, Harris's and Reid's videos would end up airing later on in the show's season. So this is what we're seeing. I don't necessarily think it's a blunt matter of the producers telling Evans to take a backseat. It's just that the show took some time to assemble a cast last year and was partially recorded without a full cast just to meet an airing deadline for a new season.
IIRC, I think I heard that the studio segments of episodes 3 and 4 were both recorded on subsequent days, so if this is a decision made after 3 was screened, you may not see the difference in 4. If it was made earlier, though, 3 might have been the first sign of that.
Wax Free Vanilla
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scorcher59
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Harris' and Reid's segments were the best of last weeks show, great reviews, they need to balance that with the buffoonery, although keep it light on that end, also More than Less Evans i think he needs to tone it down a notch, too screechy and shouty
just watched Ep3
its missing something/s some of them intangible. its also lacking the interplay that was natural with clarkson, may and hammond
bringing in Sabine to do the serious driving is not working from a show POV if you cant drive it well enough to do it yourself, what are you doing?
and they just shout in the studio. even matt was doing it.
its sort of watchable but it isnt in the class of the Clarkson Hammond May top gear
its missing something/s some of them intangible. its also lacking the interplay that was natural with clarkson, may and hammond
bringing in Sabine to do the serious driving is not working from a show POV if you cant drive it well enough to do it yourself, what are you doing?
and they just shout in the studio. even matt was doing it.
its sort of watchable but it isnt in the class of the Clarkson Hammond May top gear
chromatic9
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Was a real surprise how good the third show was. All the car segments were top stuff.
Only problems is the celebrities introducing each other, asking the audience to vote and the silly jumps and water splashes of the laps. It's pretty cringey stuff.
Agreed, nice rundown and nice to see the Ford Focus back on top again.
Only problems is the celebrities introducing each other, asking the audience to vote and the silly jumps and water splashes of the laps. It's pretty cringey stuff.
Agreed, nice rundown and nice to see the Ford Focus back on top again.
Betta Lines
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The last three presenters could not drive well enough to do this piece either.
JonathanEx
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I think the issue is that we've so far really only seen Sabine to do that - rather than as a part of the team in her own right. So if she's only drafted in to do the proper heavy test, it feels a bit rubbish.
That said - she'll be more involved this week:
That said - she'll be more involved this week:
Not a race - or at least, they're not describing it as a race as now. The premise is trying to get the most luxorious trip to Venice buying a car for less than a ticket on the Orient Express.
LoveCake
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Yeah, well they are now having to cook a meal in the cars and on Matt's bike.
Who came up with this idea :/
I liked it when they had to catch their own food.
milanbaros
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The main problem with the race is that they say nothing about the cars/bike.
It was. The challenge had promise at the start, but it fell flat towards the end.
Chris Harris nailed it as ever. The celeb challenge is still just as pointless.
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