Top Gear S22 Episode 6 (1st March)

colm_mcm · 27-02-2015 05:50PM #1

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.
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knucklehead6 · 01-03-2015 09:11PM

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

yipeeeee · 01-03-2015 09:14PM

Jesus hammond gets more annoying each week.

Loved the pick ups on the mountain though.

jca · 01-03-2015 09:16PM

Gave up watching years ago....

dfx- · 01-03-2015 09:22PM

jca wrote: »

Gave up watching years ago....

...ok?

Belly laugh at Hammond's preserved tree quip

01-03-2015 10:56PM

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

thelad95 · 01-03-2015 10:57PM

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.

CINCLANTFLT · 01-03-2015 10:59PM

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

thelad95 · 01-03-2015 11:01PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

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...

Harry Palmr · 01-03-2015 11:28PM

5/5 cos of Gillian Anderson.

IvySlayer · 02-03-2015 12:13AM

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.

grames_bond · 02-03-2015 10:24AM

missed this - what day does bbc replay it?

thelad95 · 02-03-2015 10:36AM

grames_bond wrote: »

missed this - what day does bbc replay it?

Tonight 7pm

The Black Oil · 02-03-2015 08:05PM

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.

BoJack Horseman · 02-03-2015 08:23PM

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?

CINCLANTFLT · 02-03-2015 08:46PM

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

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.

philstar · 02-03-2015 11:10PM

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

positron · 03-03-2015 12:43PM

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.

thelad95 · 03-03-2015 06:57PM

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.

muckwarrior · 05-03-2015 01:31PM

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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