Top Gear is the number 1 TV program of the decade apparently

 

Despite the comparitively shit episodes, I would vehemently agree. Quite enjoyed tonights, actually. So pleased it wasn't frigging X Factor at the top-spot.

 

I dont watch Topgear as much as it's 'kinda' deviated from a programme that reviews cars, still when i do watch topgear i find it fun todays was really good.

 

But it's audience figures are dropping and it's rumoured the Beeb have cancelled the next series.

 

re: Bolivia

I wanted to see this because I am always interested in seeing fantastic scenery (following on from the Vietnam trip).

What a shockingly poor episode though. It's bad enough having to accept a certain level of production techniques/cheats in their usual shows, but this programme surely insulted the intelligence of any sane human.

I think it would have been better simply to do the trip without trying to make the audience believe that these three muppets fixed their own cars with their bare hands, drove across precipitous cliffs within an inch of death and, let's-face-it, a serious helping of pre-planning to make it look "cool" and "dangerous". Wow, Clarkson...you're such a hero.

Top Gear has always fascinated me though. I have a morbid desire to sit through an hour of crap like this in order to see how far they can "push the boundaries" of realism on television and make people believe that they're doing a good job.

Maybe that's why they win awards. It's a shame though. A lot of money went into that production and it could have been much more interesting - and fun - without having to pre-plan everything down to a pack of tampax, and have in-car cameras trying to catch every nauseating sneer, raised eyebrow and bullsh!t comment from the three "presenters".

I'd like to see how they'd have got on without hand-held cameras and without a production team, multiple support vehicles and safety advisors. That would have made much better telly.

Later, I watched The Bridge to Terabithia on iPlayer. That was much better. Thank you BBC, for putting all your movies on iPlayer over the Xmas period

 

That's surely just a symptom of modern storytelling, surely?

I mean, look at all of the hyperbolated utter shit to come out of Hollywood the last 20 years; if the script were "Nick goes to Car Spares & buys 5 litres of washer fluid", it'd have to star Bruised Willey and there'd be a finale of cars leaping 3,000 ft and landing apparently unscathed and humungous great explosions and people hanging over mile drops by their fingernails and bein rescued from termial velocity descent and stuff.

Incidentally, this is why I do most of my shopping by internet, these days.