Saint in Paradise Posted 30 December, 2011 Share Posted 30 December, 2011 Anyone watch it? Only I can't see anyone talking about it and I thought it was a big favorite of a lot of you on here. Can't watch it here of course but it might be shown sometime in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG Posted 30 December, 2011 Share Posted 30 December, 2011 (edited) I'm normally a fan but this one was utter ****e, the last series was poor too, its getting a bit tired now. Edited 30 December, 2011 by DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 30 December, 2011 Share Posted 30 December, 2011 Was enjoyable but the show is past it's peak. I miss the days when they actually talked about cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 30 December, 2011 Share Posted 30 December, 2011 It could have been such a great episode. India is a fascinating road trip and the concept of advertising British cars over there was a pretty good basis for an episode. Alas, Top Gear went and ruined with their puerile, slapstick behaviour. Hammond has got to go, he just acts like an 8 year old arguing with his older brother most of the time and apparently that's supposed to be funny. The bit where he is a valet and just chucks all the car keys in a bucket is silly and doesn't come close to being interesting or funny. The only parts of that episode I found at all funny were the banners on the train "SH I.T. For your business" and rewiring James brakes to set off the horn. Even that was on the lower brow of what I'd call funny. It's a shame really because I don't think TG is tired or has run out of ideas. They are just really badly executed and resemble something from Laurel and Hardy's cutting room floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulSaint Posted 31 December, 2011 Share Posted 31 December, 2011 I think it would work better as a buddy travel show with the occasional "non contrived" practical joke, there's just too many running jokes like when they bump into each other constantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 31 December, 2011 Share Posted 31 December, 2011 I had it on but didn't pay much attention to be honest. I'll watch if it's on and do enjoy some bits of it still but like others have said, not as good as it used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 31 December, 2011 Share Posted 31 December, 2011 Even my 9yo, who love TG, went, "meh". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 1 January, 2012 Share Posted 1 January, 2012 I quite enjoyed it. It wasn't as good as it could have been though. The foothills area of the Himalyas look an amazing place for a holiday. I like programmes that show stuff like that. In their middle east special they showed northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and that area (including Turkey) is somewhere with so much uncomercialised history and culture i'd love to tour it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 They need to stop trying so hard. Do a road trip and funny things will happen, they have a good chemistry going but ruin it with some contrived dross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Alert Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 IMO the best road trip they have done was to Vietnam, there was very little of the silly slapstick humor used in this recent episode. They let the journey and the story of the country do most of the work and it came across fantastically well. Every road trip episode since has fallen well short of that high bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 The USA, Vietnam and Bolivia specials were fantastic. The Albanian one was a bit meh, far too scripted, the Indian one was terrible, they are terrible actors and that is what they were asked to do in this episode. Really got on my tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 It was alright, but as others have said, it isn't up to the usual standard of their roadtrip specials. I know it's all scripted, but in the past you could sort of have some suspension of disbelief that it was all actually happening, for some reason it wasn't present in this special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockportsaint Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 They should stop doing these "specials" now. They're all incredibly contrived now. The Bolivia special was the last decent one. That was a genuine challenge, whereas this India one was mostly full of very lame ideas, and quite a lot of it was rather cringeful - some of it because the "jokes" fell flat, and much of it was quite post-colonial patronising. They also got the name of their starting point (Mumbai) wrong - According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai the city of Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai in 1995 - watch any BBC news report that mentions the city and they'll use the name Mumbai, yet Top Gear used the old name all the way through the programme. Either they didn't do their research properly (quite possible), or they were trying to make some kind of political/post colonial point (embarrassing if true) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 2 January, 2012 Share Posted 2 January, 2012 They should stop doing these "specials" now. They're all incredibly contrived now. The Bolivia special was the last decent one. That was a genuine challenge, whereas this India one was mostly full of very lame ideas, and quite a lot of it was rather cringeful - some of it because the "jokes" fell flat, and much of it was quite post-colonial patronising. They also got the name of their starting point (Mumbai) wrong - According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai the city of Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai in 1995 - watch any BBC news report that mentions the city and they'll use the name Mumbai, yet Top Gear used the old name all the way through the programme. Either they didn't do their research properly (quite possible), or they were trying to make some kind of political/post colonial point (embarrassing if true) Yeah, I had an Indian ex girlfriend from Mumbai, if anyone called it Bombay she would get a little hot under the collar..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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