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Top Gear - 22 November, 2009

  • 22-11-2009 9:08pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭


    anyone else watching it - these 'build your own car' things are getting a bit tedious.............


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I want a geoff!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    phasers wrote: »
    I want a geoff!


    over an R8???? - it's the knees of the bee!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    cjmcork wrote: »
    over an R8???? - it's the knees of the bee!
    I care about the environemnt :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    so we just don't kneecap the bees then!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    just as i was about to say this episode was a bit boring, they go and do that slo-motion crash test.

    absolutely brilliant.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    yeah, that's priceless!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    ooooohhhh, they'll get in trouble with the politically correctness police for the label on that button!:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    James with the moustache - LOL!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    I often wonder if Roy Keane is the Stig.............he sure has his people skills! and I LOVE Roy the Boy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    cjmcork wrote: »
    ooooohhhh, they'll get in trouble with the politically correctness police for the label on that button!:eek:

    I don't think they give a **** about what the PC brigade think. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,432 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    The last 20 minutes saved the ep for me.

    Part 1 of the Electric car - Boring
    News - Boring, although I did giggle a bit over James' fizzing prostate :pac:
    R8 vs ZR1 - Not bad, not the most standout review ever, but...not bad.
    Sheen - Good, lost points for talking about Twilight though...
    Part 2 of Electric Car - Brilliant, loved the slow mo crashes :D, and all their faces at the end :o

    Overall...6.5/10. Was kind of disappointed overall...:( compared to last week it was a bit of a letdown.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    I want an R8!!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Spudzz


    Have posted this elsewhere on this forum.


    For the first time ever I switched off Top Gear tonight,what a load of CRAP, the last series was getting poor ,but this new series is pure CRAP,it seems to me that they have lost the plot,three grown men fucxxxg around in a self made electric car for over thirty mins of the show.:mad:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,803 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    I know I'm complaining again, but that was pretty much indefensible on every level.

    The electric car could have been fun or interesting, but no, obviously scripted. Yes, we all know it's scripted, but they could have at least tried to not know that the car was going to run out of power or roll down the field. There was a glimmer of hope with the first few seconds of the second half of it, but meh. I could hardly believe it when I checked then TV menu and it was 9:56pm..outside of the star guest - two items? It's hardly news that they're stuck for ideas or can't do as much, but something else could have been thrown in there...anything. I didn't mind the Audi/Corvette, though and Michael Sheen seems like sound chap.

    The news was bad last week and it wasn't much better this week. Puerile rubbish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Stop bloody watching! :p

    I enjoyed the testing ground shennanigans and it killed an hour (getting stuck in traffic is happening rather too often, though I could believe it happening in Geoff).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


    Before the show used to be great, but now it just feels too scripted and kind of the same, but done more badly.

    Shame really, since I do still like the Top Gear, but it used to be much much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Not the best episode tbh, the electric car went on for way to long and was just boring for the most part with only a couple of saving graces. Just hope it was the low budget episode of the season :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭Mr.Boots


    Disapointed.
    I love the lads and the show but its getting weaker and weaker.
    Wht apealed to me in the begining was there lack of profesionalisim......they seem to be gatting better at being .....good....there turning into Germans:eek:

    Anyways im gonna drop them a mail and let them know my views...the more people who do this the more the show will inprove(if they take it on board)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Start the email with "Dear so-called Top Gear..." or they won't read it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,008 ✭✭✭rabbitinlights


    Very poor episode.......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    crap episode, apart for Michael Sheen

    i taught the crash test was in poor taste tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    I used to be so into TG, last night I feel asleep watching it.........yawnnnnnnnnn

    its just not what it used to be and risks going out as a shadow of its former self when it will be pulled - but when is the question?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I think the top gear format has essentially done all it can do at this point. I love the show, the lads too...but my god last season was bad, and this season doesnt seem to be faring any better. I think the format is now just tired, and the scripting just takes any/all of the fun out of it.

    I'd love to see the lads venture out and do something similar to top gear...but yet different. The north pole special, the vietnam special, the japanese episode.....all class. All involved travelling, scripting only works to a point, and directly competing with each other. Did any of you guys watch what Charlie Boorman did (By Any Means)? Some liked some hated....but what Im saying is, imagine that type of show but it had the lads in it. A kind of travelog/competition/docu-comedy all fused into one.

    Just one or two seasons break from top gear, do the travel thing for 5 or six episodes across europe or some exotic continent maybe, NO supercars allowed, public or local transport only. Id love to see something like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    I used to be so into TG, last night I feel asleep watching it.........yawnnnnnnnnn

    Same here, first time for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    Jip wrote: »
    Same here, first time for me.

    not a good sign is it?:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭The Don


    Not the best episode. I agree that its starting to get stale. Sheen was a really good guest even thought he was jetlagged. He drove the car bravely around the track. Liked the R8 and there were some great shots of it. The electric car was a bit meh until they got to testing it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,803 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    It's like a Top Gear tribute band at this point. They just need to get back to making an entertaining show. It doesn't matter if some parts are set up, but it's they're going through the motions at the moment. Surely they know they're not on the ball and must be cringing at some of what they're doing.

    Jeremy also needs to stop his attempts at "cutting-edge" satire at the expense of the UK government/Gordon Brown. They're boring.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    When the do the "celebrity guest" bit, why can't all 3 do the interview - Clarksons good, but I'd be much more craic if done by all 3.
    They need to evlove the way they do things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,432 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    When the do the "celebrity guest" bit, why can't all 3 do the interview - Clarksons good, but I'd be much more craic if done by all 3.
    They need to evlove the way they do things.

    Nah. That would be too messy. Everyone talking over each other.

    It would be sort of like that Family Guy spoof of The Round Table or whatever it's called. ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    I think the best way to some it up was it was an average epsiode, wasnt great and wasnt bad just middle of the road 5/10.

    I think TG at the moment is just lacking something, maybe because they have done nearly everything they can do and they are just doing similar things, the challeneges and races are getting similar I hope they can get back to making it fun because they have some of the best film making and producing around IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    Nah. That would be too messy. Everyone talking over each other.

    It would be sort of like that Family Guy spoof of The Round Table or whatever it's called. ;)

    It'd work alright.:)


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