The One with the Mile-High Bavarian Bulls

The more and more I watch this new series, the ever more obvious its become to me what irkes me the most. Entertainers!! The duo of LeBlanc and Evans are from an entertainment background. Their main objective is to entertain people, and as such you see all these bloody gimmicks in their segments which is soo damn annoying to people like me who tune in expecting decent motoring content, not something that could pass off as a comic-relief Top Gear segment. You then step back and think about what makes the Harris & Reid segments soo good?? They're bloody motoring journalists, talking about cars. Its soo obvious that something works well when you have a genuine interest in the subject matter. Evans can have all the cars he wants, but he just doesnt have the skill to properly express the expierence of driving and instead reverts to crowd pleasing rubbish. Look at the old trio, and all three were motoring journalists who'd spent a career in the motoring press before becoming superstars. And look, lets not forget that they reverted to some awful guff (The hot hatch episode stands out), but that was a way to appeal to the mass appeal in small bursts. Clarkson could wax lyrical about the latest Civic TypeR one minute, and be part of some horribly scripted 'challenge' the next. With Evans, it seems he cant make that switch

I think the last two shows were good. It's certainly lost something, the new crew will be very easy to keep under the thumb, it's a show by committee now.

But it's still a decent show, it's getting better, not even as pissed off by Evans anymore.