Top Gear India Special

[TW]Fox;20899314 said:
I thought it was amusing but it seems I am the only one who got the memo about it being a general comedy show not a car show.
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It was about as funny as the League of Gentlemen, and that wasn't funny at all.
 
seems strange, they had a great formula; cheap cars, impassable terrain and 3 funny blokes making it through. When you look at challenges such as the polar one, The one across the dessert and the trail through the rain forest. These were fantastic, tonight's show seemed like they wanted to change it a little too much, the most enjoyable part was when they were on the dual carriage way, this works they should stick to it and save the rest for the show.
 
Parts were funny, like the brake horn system and straight six cricket, but as others have said, not as good as usual I think. It was the train and party that made it dull for a bit.

And blimey at the dual carriageways, makes you thankful for the driving standards we've got :o
 
I do cringe at some bits on top gear normally but do enjoy it for the most part.

But i really didn't think much of tonight's episode it just had no flow, some bits were really funny but it just didn't all seem to work together like some of their other ones like the Bolivia or Vietnam specials.

But then again i think top gear USA is really good...
 
First one I didn't enjoy that much. I know it's set up to an extent, but this was just over the top and as fox says, it was more of a disapointing comedy show.
 
Ey?

So much hate/disappointment for this, it was quite good, yes some bits were staged, but I thought it was better than the 3 wise men special.

Don't understand why people are complaining.

It's not old top gear, it has changed, they have a massive world wide audience. I mean were you expecting them to tell you the specification of each car and meet professional racing drivers and then do a segment on the way the car has changed India and the number of people buying cars.

I don't understand how it's worse than any of the other specials. (Maybe the Vietnam one was better)
 
People take this show way too seriously. Just imagine the planning gone into making this, that is part of the reason why it's entertaining whilst also being funny at the same time!
 
NathWraith said:
Typical haters gonna hate. It was a laugh, enjoyed it :)
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Agreed. I enjoyed it as well, as much as the other specials. :)

I really do LOL at the people in this thread moaning about how it is no longer a car show but then go on about how the vietnam special was the best ever...such hypocrites. Why even bother watching... :rolleyes:
 
It's not a case of turn it over if you don't like it because I did.

It's advertised as a factual car show but it ends up being a completely blatant comedy show with dumbed down gags that you can see coming a mile off.

People moan because it use to be good viewing, a decent comedy/car show with a real life, three mates mucking around elements but with every new episode it becomes anything but.

Avid followers of the show, like myself get a little annoyed at how bad it's progressively become.
 
shifty_uk said:
It's advertised as a factual car show but it ends up being a completely blatant comedy show with dumbed down gags that you can see coming a mile off.

People moan because it use to be good viewing, a decent comedy/car show with a real life, three mates mucking around elements but with every new episode it becomes anything but.

Avid followers of the show, like myself get a little annoyed at how bad it's progressively become.
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It's hardly advertised as a factual car show :confused:

People have massively rose tinted spectacles when it comes to Top Gear IMO. Go back 5 years and it wasn't some wonderful utopia of brilliant off the cuff comedy, it was all exactly the same staged, predictable, set up humour that it is now, the only thing that's changed is that people have got used to it.

Let's take the 2007 US Special for example:

Setting lap times and oh so unpredictably one them has brake failure.
Then they're doing a braking test, next to alligator infested water and one of them just happens to nearly end up in it, surprise surprise
Then they set about upgrading their cars with such fine inventions as an interior shower
Then when looking for roadkill they fail miserably, until Clarkson hilariously just happens to find a whole cow
Then we move onto a bit of car decoration with completely not set up offensive slogans painted on the cars that get them into trouble
To top it off, they totally randomly were unable to sell their cars and even got sued for trying to give them away!

...it's always been like that, it's predictable, it's completely set up etc. but it's still funny. If you don't find it funny any more then you've either outgrown it or just grown tired of it, but it was no different 5 years ago.
 
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Funny how i now fit into the 'typical ocuk member who watches top gear even though he doesnt enjoy it' group just because i didn't find one episode amusing. :rolleyes: mjt just above me hit the nail on the head, staged? who gives a **** so long as it's funny, which this episode wasn't. Barely even smirked in the first hour with the exception being when hammond knocked all the tins off his roof in the U turn.

@blackhawk, the vietnam episode was hilarious. They spent plenty of time on the road larking about and doing things that could have been done in cars, with the exception of the train but again i thought that bit was crap aswell. The first hour of this episode had none of that.

DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE POST IS PURELY MY OWN OPINION AND IN NO WAY REPRESENTS THE VIEWS OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FORUM NOR DOES IT TRY AND IMPEDE ON THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
 
Good in the same way as the middle east special.

Doesn't even touch, Botswana, Vietnam, Pola, Bolivia which is what I want more. They are just breathtakingly good in the top gear way.

And the US one was good but bellow those four, but miles above middle east and India.
 
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Kenai said:
It's hardly advertised as a factual car show :confused:

Let's take the 2007 US Special for example:
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Lap times - to do with cars
brake test - staged and to do with cars
upgrading cars - funny and to do with cars
roadkill - funny, not to do with cars
car decoration - to do with cars (just)
selling cars - to do with cars (staged and a bit crap)

Not to mention there was loads of filming while on the road, in petrol stations etc.

Tonights episode just had to much 'filler'. Seriously what was the need to have 10 minutes of james being in a queue and the others talking about a party. The band bit on the train wasn't funny. The party itself was terrible, obviously staged which doesn't matter, just wasn't really funny. The hill climb bit was great, fair enough. And everything after the car modding was great. Basically it just didn't need to be 1:30.

I have nothing against Top Gear not being a factual car show and i normally love it, this just didn't work for me. Yes i'm going to get slated for having a negative opinion but whatever.
 
as with all the 'specials' this was never intended to be factual in a motoring review sense. did you not take any notice to the description and the first 3 minutes, you know, the part outside downing street, the prime minister saying 'don't go to india'? if you did, you may understand why it was what it was. if you were expecting a run of the mill ep, you were bound to be dissapointed.

hey, atleast they didn't have to put a star in a reasonably priced car!
 
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