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Top Gear S22 Episode 6 (1st March)

  • 27-02-2015 5:50pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭


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    How well do hamsters fare in extreme cold? Time to find out, as Richard Hammond is dumped in the frozen wastes of Canada, armed with a newfangled watch that has the power to project an emergency Bat-signal, or Hamster-signal in this case, into the sky in times of distress.

    Hope he’s got a flask and a blanket, because would you believe it, the rescue squad is Jeremy Clarkson and James May, riding in a Hennessey Ford F150 Velociraptor and a Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD. In case you don’t know, those are “muscle trucks”, ie ludicrously tough and weighty 4x4s. Can Clarkson and May find their friend before their testosterone reaches crisis level?

    Back at home, Gillian Anderson wrestles with the Reasonably Priced Car.



    ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
    6/10. In this week's programme, Richard Hammond is dropped into the remote, frozen wastes of Canada to test a watch with a built-in emergency beacon. The distress signal is sent directly to Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who get their hands on two machines and set off on an epic adventure to find their colleague. Plus. Jeremy puts the new 471bhp Lexus RC F coupe thought its paces, while The Fall and The X-Files star Gillian Anderson takes to the track in the Reasonably Priced Car.
    Radio Times

    Rate tonight's episode 36 votes

    Excellent
    0% 0 votes
    Above average
    16% 6 votes
    Average
    50% 18 votes
    Below average
    22% 8 votes
    Terrible
    11% 4 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,711 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Not too bad at all. SIARPAC was reasonable enough. I can kinda see why people fancy Gillian Anderson too!!

    The pickup segment was good, a couple of laughs. Don't know why they essentially redid the LFA review though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭yipeeeee


    Jesus hammond gets more annoying each week.

    Loved the pick ups on the mountain though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Gave up watching years ago....


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    jca wrote: »
    Gave up watching years ago....

    ...ok?

    Belly laugh at Hammond's preserved tree quip


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,907 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Hammond's Scottish accent bit was hilarious! I rewound it twice :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Bit too much faffing around and scripted stuff but seeing the pick-up trucks on the mountain was fun. I would nearly have preferred this as the extended episode instead of the Australia one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Do you think Hammond really was 3 or 4 days up that mountain...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Do you think Hammond really was 3 or 4 days up that mountain...

    I'm surprised if he was there for 3 or 4 hours...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    5/5 cos of Gillian Anderson.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Considering he's spent weeks going to the Magnetic North Pole and reaching it, surely 3 days in the Canadian wilderness should've been a doddle.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    missed this - what day does bbc replay it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    missed this - what day does bbc replay it?

    Tonight 7pm


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,802 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Thought Gillian was good fun. Expected her car history to be rubbish.

    Hammond did the best he could with a non-role, 'acting'. Clarkson clearly going for power! with the F150, which he certainly threw around the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Gillian's accent has gone all blighty.
    Some strategic surgery means she looks younger than she did 2 decades ago.

    Loved the pickup segment.

    I wonder what the crew were driving, paving the way?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Gillian's accent has gone all blighty.
    Some strategic surgery means she looks younger than she did 2 decades ago.

    Loved the pickup segment.

    I wonder what the crew were driving, paving the way?
    Nope... She spent quite a lot of her childhood in England and to quote Wikipedia...

    Anderson is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, Anderson was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location — for instance, in an interview with Jay Leno she spoke in an American accent, but shifted it for an interview with English broadcaster Michael Parkinson.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    i wonder did hammond really spend 4 nights in the wilderness??? somehow i doubt it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,455 ✭✭✭positron


    When they did that TopGear interview on Youtube before the season began, I thought Richard Hammond was dropped off on his own somewhere in the wilderness, Bear Grills type find your own way to survive type thing. Recording on his own with tripod and camera etc.

    But Hammond had three other technical guys with him. And all the gear, power, fuel, food everything. They could have made his role a bit more active in the whole thing, like having to skii down to the pick up or something.. but it was enjoyable all the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    positron wrote: »
    When they did that TopGear interview on Youtube before the season began, I thought Richard Hammond was dropped off on his own somewhere in the wilderness, Bear Grills type find your own way to survive type thing. Recording on his own with tripod and camera etc.

    But Hammond had three other technical guys with him. And all the gear, power, fuel, food everything. They could have made his role a bit more active in the whole thing, like having to skii down to the pick up or something.. but it was enjoyable all the same.

    So does Bear Grylls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    jca wrote: »
    Gave up watching years ago....

    Do you leave a comment on the threads of every TV show that you don't watch? Seems like strange behaviour. What next? Perhaps you could go to the music forum and leave comments like "I don't listen to this band".


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