The Grand Tour
 

Just watched the first episode and I like it.
It needs to mature a bit but it was very enjoyable.
Looking forward to the next 11 weeks :)

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Best thing about this...
The BBC collectively choking on their bile when Clarkson started cracking jokes at the Beebs expense.

Joyous.

Lets hope for more unshackled content like this, free of the bias and political correctness that has hamstrung creativity at that place for so long.

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so not much has changed bar a shake up to 'the show'. good stuff. what are the bbc going to do

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I just watched it and loved it ,i was a big fan of the old TG and was absolutely horrified at the attempt that Chris Evans made ,the BBC might as well give up with top gear

More of the same please Amazon

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It was good! I really liked the start. I always felt that some pieces are forced but none the less it's basically Top Gear.

The BBC should just turn it into a different show. They're not going to recapture what went before.

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Episode 2 was dire. Tried way too hard to be funny. Was a real struggle to watch. Hopefully the coming episodes will be a return to form cause I can't watch that every week.

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I am glad you said that, I thought it was just me thinking it was a bit of a let down.

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You can deffos see the jokes that they'll keep using every week. Despite how staged the challenge was, I enjoyed it. It'd be nice if they actually tested cars out on the road though.

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Yep ,it still needs some work but even at it's worst it was waaayy better than Chris Evans's Top Gear.

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I thought that about the last few years of top gear, glad I'm not missing anything

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E2 was meh - the Special Forces bit was overdone.

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Chris Evans was never suitable for it in a months of Sunday's.

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Strangely I enjoyed Ep2 more than Ep1? The absolute silliness of it all got to me. :D

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I like the episodes where they're on a long road trip across foreign land. I also like the challenge episodes where they've got to get from point A to point B somewhere in the UK driving clapped out motors.

An episode of this type must be around the corner.

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Episode 3 was much better :)
Back to the fun with the cars and Clarksons house copped for it :P

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Love the new show but as people are pointing out, there are certainly niggles. The special forces thing last week and The road trip in Italy this week, by that I specifically mean how unfunny the whole Challenger thing became after 5 minutes.

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The truth about Clarksons house:D

Awsome :D

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Are there any viewing figures for this juvenille tripe, or are they barely recordable? Personally I just want Amazon to deliver my pressies this Xmas.

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You don't get viewing figures for streamed shows from Amazon but we do know it has taken over from The Man in the High Castle as the most streamed show on Amazon and is rated 4.5 out 5 stars on IMDB.Amazon have also seen subscriptions in Prime increase since the shows launch

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Anyone a bit underwhelmed? It's enjoyable and I'll continue watching as long as it lasts but I'd rate their episodes of top gear over this. Putting TGT in the middle between their Top Gear and the new Top Gear.

Maybe it'll just take time to adjust. The celebrity segment does nothing for me and the hot lapper really gets on my.... It's lacking that someone that never spoke to give it the old effect. Seriously. They could've hired a talking Ben Collins and I'd be far happier.

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I'm not underwelmed but it is annoying when the same jokes get made in each episode. At first the jokes were funny like oh look the camera crashed and several people pretended to die but in the second episode it was yeah OK I'm past that now please move on...

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Towards the end the old Top Gear was dropping off as well. It was always a bit repetitive and adhered to a formula and the best episodes were the specials. I am not sure The Grand Tour was any different but people notice more as their expectations - what with this getting far more attention - were higher.

I've also heard the theory that having a higher budget hurt them as the creativity involved in getting around budget/legal constraints from the BBC was higher than the creativity involved in being able to do what they want.

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The BBC legal department stopped them from being able to interview celebs on a car show, as well as not allowing them to have a celeb driving around a track in a car and also not having a full standing audience. Apparently they are all Top Gear attributes which cannot be used.


So that is why there is a line or two of seats in front of a standing audience to get around one of the rules. It's also why the star each week has an accident and fails to make it to the tent.


Not having the star racing and interview bit does change the format from their old top gear but they still make up for it with some good old top gear car eye candy filmography and random stuff imo :)

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Hammond air lifted to hospital after fireball crash in Swiss alps
:(

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Suffered no serious injuries - unsure how accurate that is yet. Another shave for him though after the last incident at top gear.

Looks like he's binned the Rimac C One electric supercar.

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I have just started to watch it. Looks interesting!

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Well the new season is here.
Episode one was very good.
Dropped the really poor stuff and concentrated on the entertainment.
It shows how settled they are with Amazon after the restrictions at the BBC
I hope it continues to get even better. :)