Top Gear S21 Episode 6 (9th March)

cdeb

Random tweets from Jeremy -

Top Gear enthusiasts. Honesty time. Part 1 of the Burma special tonight is OK with some good moments. Part 2, next week, is a bit special.

To be clear: part one is OK. Part 2 is sensational.

To be even clearer. Part 1 is good. Worth a watch. Part 2 is as good as we've ever been.

Right. We did our absolute very best with the Burma special. Worked our arses off. And the 2nd half next week is the best bit.

Wait!!! Just remembered. In part one, you get to see James on a horse. That's funny.

So sounds like next week one will be an improvement, which should be worth watching.

Dempsey

Enjoyable enough but I think part two will be much better

Tzar Chasm

I thought it was good, some of the gags were a bit obvious, mostly hammond, but a lot of it seemed natural.

the modifications were well done this time, hammonds stuff was secured properly for once.

looks like its building to something epic

dave1982

Did may fix his handbrake because when Jeremy got stuck on hill May was behind him stopped on the hill?

bnt

Dunno - was he at the wheel? If so, he had the usual brake there.

I thought Hammond's "peas" joke was the funniest he's ever been, to be honest! :pac:

Nody

I think a challenge or two would have helped lift it greatly; for example load and deliver goods from A to B or similar.

Ruu

Watching Clarkson on the horse had me in bits, big oaf.

minotour

I know its entertainment and all but if they had taken the wrong road out of Rangoon how is it that the producers had pre-booked their "hotel" at the end of the wrong road???

I know, ill get back in me box now.

kneemos

minotour wrote: »

I know its entertainment and all but if they had taken the wrong road out of Rangoon how is it that the producers had pre-booked their "hotel" at the end of the wrong road???

I know, ill get back in me box now.

Noticed that as well.
Embarrassingly bad at this stage.

dastardly00

I have to say that I nearly wet myself laughing when the three lads were on the horses. And also seeing the bloke on a motorbike with the German army WWII helmet!

Dolph Starbeam

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Watching Clarkson on the horse had me in bits, big oaf.

Same as, one of the funniest things I've seen on TG, the poor little horse, Clarksons feet were pretty much on the ground.

GavRedKing

Just caught it last night, was an ok episode, hopefully the 2nd part is as good as Clarkson says it is.

The capital city and the 20 lane road was brilliant, it was like a huge runway. :pac:

Mr321

Burma looks to be a beautiful country. Good news is Ive seen on a review from Jeremy Clarkson thats the second half on next weeks show is the best of the to part special. So something good to look forward to other then its also a long weekend! Woohoo

Red Kev

GavRedKing wrote: »

Just caught it last night, was an ok episode, hopefully the 2nd part is as good as Clarkson says it is.

The capital city and the 20 lane road was brilliant, it was like a huge runway. :pac:

I was reading about it yesterday. It is actually designed with the load capacity of a runway, just used as a road outside of emergency situations. Government seem to be paranoid. They moved the capital 350km inland as they were afraid of an amphibious attack on the previous capital beside the sea.

fryup

do you reckon they really sleep rough??

or is it just for show and then they're ushered off to some swanky hotel?

kneemos

fryup wrote: »

do you reckon they really sleep rough??

or is it just for show and then they're ushered off to some swanky hotel?

Pimping out the trucks wasn't done overnight.5 star or camper
vans I'd say.

pixelburp

fryup wrote: »

do you reckon they really sleep rough??

or is it just for show and then they're ushered off to some swanky hotel?

I found it hard to believe they slept rough in that first place they arrived at, (apparently) off the route they were meant to take. It looked like an honest-to-god hovel and were it me I would have sooner kipped out in the truck than sleep in that filth encrusted room. So yeah, either they had somewhere else ready when the cameras were turned off, or they just slept in their trucks. To be fair, Clarkson looked like a man that didn't get a proper night's sleep so I'd say wherever they slept it wasn't 5-star and they try and maintain some of the illusion of spontaneity.

More to the point: where do those in the camera car(s) sleep? Assuming there's a grain of truth in the trio's sleeping arrangements, do the cameramen just wave cheerio and head off to a budget motel?

cdeb

pixelburp wrote: »

To be fair, Clarkson looked like a man that didn't get a proper night's sleep

He always does (thinking North Pole, Bolivia, Nile specials in particular). But I always put that down to several pints the night before. They strike me as the kind of guys who'd regularly go on the piss on trips like this!

Mike Litoris

I finally finished the episode at the 4th attempt. Probably the worst episode of TG I've seen.:mad: None of them looked like they wanted to be there.

philstar

^^^^^^^^^^^^

ah come on now,

kneemos

Watching the repeat and Clarkson is on the walkie talkie to Hammond while driving up a laneway with forest on each side,however when it switches to the cab there's houses on Clarksons right?? Have they stopped trying or do they think any old crap will do?

Cartel Mike

It's awfull.

They could've taken all the commentary from the South American one a few years ago and used CGI to superimpose pics of Burma around it.

Who would have guessed they'd take the wrong route.
Or the 'So we decided to take a short cut ..but it didn't go well ' and the old ' so it got us thinking ..and we decided to add modifications to our vehicles'

You become even more aware that about the fact that your watching the three spoilt middle aged middle class manchilds who have nothing left to offer this dinosaur of a show only more bad ham and cheese.

Originally id say at least 40% of the events in these specials contained some honesty . Now it's more like 10%. It's as pointless as watching Made in Chelsea .

Mike Litoris

philstar wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^

ah come on now,

Name a worse episode.