Comments on: Has Top Gear gone off the cam?

By: robert

robert — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:12:26 +0000

I agree entirely, I have always loved cars and don’t like to see good engineering and design slagged off.
Also never liked the patronising “Star in a reasonably priced car” feature, oh how funny it is to see a rich person driving a family car that most of TG’s audience can only afford. Good point too about oppinionated Clarkson going all weak at the knees with whatever celeb is on. Time for it to go.

By: Herve

Herve — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:13:27 +0000

So much agree, no creativity at all, my 3 yrs old son could write up the next episode. Don’t need to elaborate, the article is bang on! BBC, pls kill it

By: Gareth Crew

Gareth Crew — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:00:55 +0000

@Chris – ah, see Chris, you’re comparing it to other shows, not Top Gear as it was. Compared to other shows, that were mentioned by @RobGT, then yes, perhaps.

Lovng the Tax comment, I always wondered about a TV License when I was young, thought you had to take a test of current TV events. If that was the case, I think I’d fail!

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:56:36 +0000

I missed the first episode of this season but I laughed out loud more than once on the most recent one. While it can still make me laugh it is worth watching. I would much rather watch TG than most of the other tripe that’s trotted out in return for our ludicrous television tax :)

It’s the best comedy on television, bar none.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:58 +0000

Well I’m hoping its just a duff episode, but at the end of the day its just a entertainment program which has done what it says on the tin for a good few years. Everyone slips up sooner or later.

By: RobGT

RobGT — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:24 +0000

You may be right that the formula is getting a tad stale, but I’m a middle-aged bloke who woul love to join in the banter with some like-minded blokes, thrash expensive cars round a test track, be critical and stereotypical and take part in challenges all over the world on exciting roads in great, great cars.

And that’s why it’s still successful – some of us live vicariously through Clarkson, May and Hammond.

Long live the big kids!

By: Gareth Crew

Gareth Crew — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:09 +0000

@Robert – Interesting that you’re putting Top Gear in the same bracket as X-Factor, but surely they try to jazz it up with new, awful presenters and acts? TG is just the same place, same things. The only thing that changes is Richard Hammonds’ hair.

@Mike CJ – Perhaps they’re saving the really big stunts for later in the series, but they may have run out of ideas.

By: Mike CJ

Mike CJ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:11 +0000

How funny – I watched episode 2 last night of the current series. And I came to a similar conclusion.

What used to be cutting edge and feel a little dangerous, just somehow seems to come across as the jolly japes of a bunch of middle aged guys.

Hopefully, things will get better as the series unfolds.

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:56:02 +0000

I quite like it. It makes for good fun and a good laugh. Yeah some things are of the same theme, But then so many other things are just the same in the entertainment industry.
How many Survivor shows, Pop Idols, X-factor?
Movies, there hasn’t been a new movie for decades. All the same theme. But we watch them anyway, they make millions and billions.

Nothing new under the sun