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    Top Gear Season 23

    Starts tonight.

    Chris "Married a 17 year old at 40+" Evans hosting, with Matt LeBLanc and Chris that car dude off youtube who's last name I don't remember.

    Might be good, might be awful.

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    Gonna pass. None of them strike me as able to be entertaining. I never counted in the viewer statistics, but I really want the BBC to eat shit over the whole Clarkson ordeal.

    Eagerly awaiting The Grand Tour!

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    Im gonna watch for the same reason I watch american TG, withdrawal is awful.

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    This is quite a good sample video from the youtube guy:


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    I'll watch it for the lols, I think there will be some cringe moments as the presenters attempt to meld together.

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    Chris "not actually Captain America" Evans is channeling Clarkson in his delivery a fair bit.

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    Yes and it's not really needed, be himself. Australia tried that and moved away from it.

    Not laughed or chuckled yet. Lets see...

    There better be a news segment.

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    They got custody of you. Laughed at that at least.

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    Feels a lot like american top gear. Didn't really laugh, not that funny ( so far ).

    If May/Hammond/Clarkson broke down they'd be stuck trying to repair it themselves as well ( while the other 2 laugh ), Matt le Blanc just gets a rescue vehicle.
    The old challenge stuff was funny because of the poverty level of it in UK top gear, this whole laser chases at miramar and desert chase, bleh.

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    Haha @ the custody comment

    Well this is pretty poor so far.

    The lap added an unnecessary off road section
    The stars segment was all over the place. Jesse didn't even look comfortable to be there

    The challenges are really try harding at this point

    There's also no news segment (for now, might change)

    It doesn't feel like a boys show at the moment; one of the good things that worked with the original was they dicked around. There was very little of it here.

    Still early days, but yeh...

    edit: checking out extra gear at the moment

    news segment in extra gear!!! it's not funny, but they do talk about various things coming out

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    Top Gear Season 23

    The star part was REALLY hard to watch

    Also its either the tor- rent or they need to fire the new sound guy

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    I was more amazed at the wall during the star part. I did not realise the entire wall was a screen/projection! Initially I thought it was just 2 screens buried into the wall when they showed the photos side by side.

    I'll wait until tomorrow now when all the popular newspaper/sites gets updated with opinions. Should be an interesting read.

    Also the audience cheers don't feel genuine at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stig View Post
    Also the audience cheers don't feel genuine at all.
    To be fair in the original 1/2 the time they didn't either.

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    Chris Evans needs to realize he's not on the fucking radio.

    LeBlanc is actually much more passable than Evans.

    The star bit was bad. The scripted race bullshit in the beginning was so cringe-y I skipped the whole segment. Also why the fuck are they reviewing two shitty US "super cars"?

    Also, apparently the lap is rally cross now? I see that going really well...

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    Everyone with a brain knows that old TG was heavily scripted, but there was also a lot of genuine back and forth going on between presenters that kept it from being too annoying. Some parts that were awful and cringeworthy that stick out were when James reviewed an Aston that was between the DB7 and DB9 and was annoyed that it wasn't more comfortable and Jeremy agreed and they had to like fake argue about agreeing with each other for a solid 30s, there were other similar things like the golden shower bit in the burma special, but on the whole if you weren't looking for scripting, much of the challenges and banter felt natural.

    So far, and I know we are one EP in, but it feels as forced as Top Gear US (which was actually MUCHHHHH better so far this season despite still being reasonably cringeworthy) where you have Adam (Jeremy) calling Tanner (Richard) little fella 4 times in a season despite Tanner being like 2 inches shorter than Adam.

    If Chris, Matt, and most importantly I think, the producers, can get it through their fucking heads that trying to reproduce JJR isn't going to make the show good then there is still a chance. A knowing wink thrown by Chris going "I know you know that this is scripted WINKY FACE" doesn't make it any less awful to sit through.

    Edit: And the replacements for the "white coats" are the biggest fucking concoction of AIDS and Hepatitis A through E I have ever fucking seen. That shit is a third-world STD-frosted cake.

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    Oh, no denying that the old content was equally scripted. It was just delivered in a non-I AM A RADIO BROADCASTER RUNNING IN CIRCLES kind of fashion.

    I'll give it another 2 episodes. After that I can just rewatch old series until the new Amazon show comes out.

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    The Extra Gear show after was a lot better. The host for that seem really good.

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    I didn't even last 5 minutes, but then again I never gave a shit about the cars, I just wanted to see the three stooges do silly things involving cars

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    Wait a few months and you'll get it again from Amazon.

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