Top Gear

yeah thats what i thought when i saw it

tell you sure there are people who go thru every frame of topgear wanting something to get offended by But the BBC is to blame for apologising for everything

The Top Gear India Special.

The Indian High Commissioner got all hot under the collar about what happened. However, it was agreed by the area manager of Indian Railways that banners would be rolled out to cover their rolling stock. You can't just put up any old banners on trains in India - or elsewhere - without official permission. If any "offence" was caused surely it was directed towards Clarkson, Hammond and May and their team for being buffoons.

The problem for me with the India special is that it was mean, from start to finish. I daresay the food tins thing wasn't really as disastrous as it looked, the train thing was too staged to be true, the ambassador's reception etc But the cumulative effect has to be "why go to all this trouble, just to piss off India?"

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I agree with events being staged on 'Top Gear', but the vast majority of the happenings that we do see are staged. 'Top Gear' is a light entertainment programme with large elements of comedy thrown in. It's a cross between 'It's A Knockout' and 'The Two Ronnies'.

One aspect which I believe they did treat fairly, and with a good deal of equanimity, was that they did show the appalling road driving conditions in India. They did state, correctly, that India does have the highest road accident fatalities per mile of tarmacked road.

(26-04-2014 11:58 )Billy_Nomates Wrote:  I agree with events being staged on 'Top Gear', but the vast majority of the happenings that we do see are staged. 'Top Gear' is a light entertainment programme with large elements of comedy thrown in. It's a cross between 'It's A Knockout' and 'The Two Ronnies'.

Yeah, I realise it's less naturalistic than it appears. A good example to me was the Majorca classic car time trial, where Maddie Welch had a succession of gimmicks to annoy James with. In plain terms, many of the camera shots must require phenomenal setting up.

Quote:One aspect which I believe they did treat fairly, and with a good deal of equanimity, was that they did show the appalling road driving conditions in India. They did state, correctly, that India does have the highest road accident fatalities per mile of tarmacked road.

Yes, I agree, but they could have said all that without sticking custard pies in the faces of everybody they met.

They're generally pretty smooth at drawing the fire of comedy onto themselves, but the India one didn't seem to work at all.

There was one segment in a 'Top Gear' show which, surprisingly, didn't receive any complaints as far as I'm aware. It was the one where they had to pretend to be 17 year old boys and drive around the circuit to deliberately drive into obstacles. As 'judges' three 17 year old girls where employed. The reaction of Hammond, and noticeably, Clarkson bordered on the line of sleaziness. I'm uncomfortable when I watch this part.

(12-02-2014 05:51 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  Cue the Bond!

this episode is on dave today at 5pm

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Clarkson found himself in trouble again for this stunt. This occasion it was the Health & Safety people who said he should have worn a life jacket and was going too fast.

What a coincidence. The "quad-ski" was on the news this afternoon as part of the Commonmwealth Games baton relay in the Isle of Man. The reporter said that although it can travel on land and water, it wasn't allowed to go in the sea because of 'safety reasons'.

Isn't Lake Como a lake? Forgive my ignorance of geology.