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  • Top Gear without Clarkson?

    Are you looking forward to the next show, or was Evans just a second rate substitute for Clarkson?
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    Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

    It was painful. Very wooden
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    • #3
      Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

      I'm prepared to give them a few episodes to "bed in" but I agree that felt very stilted. Plus Chris Evans looked like he was trying just a little bit too hard.

      In fairness, Clarkson, Hammond and Captain Slow had several years to develop their characters and build their relationship.

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      • #4
        Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

        I thought the old Top Gear was starting to become repetitive, and this seemed to be the same old stuff, but with a loud and annoying new presenter, and a bit less humour. I am not going out of my way to watch it again.

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        • #5
          Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

          you cant take it away from Clarkson, he was a brilliant writer and the show owed its success to the dynamics between the presenters . I managed to watch about 5 minutes of the new show before I was frankly bored!

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          • #6
            Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

            I have never liked Chris Evans so probably won't bother to watch again

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            • #7
              Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

              When Evans managed to stop shouting every sentence it was reasonably palatable, unfortunately it didn't happen enough. Matt LeBlanc was a good choice as co-host and was entertaining enough. And all this doesn't detract from the fact that Clarkson is an over paid bully boy and one of the reasons I stopped watching the old top gear.
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              • #8
                Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                Are we ready for another abomination?
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                • #9
                  Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                  I thought it was actually pretty good this week.
                  As for Clarkson being overpaid, at least he could string a sentence together which is more than most of the professional footballers out there!
                  Each to their own.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                    I enjoyed it this week. Still unnerving that Evans is barely paraphrasing Clarkson though. Wouldn't be so bad if Clarkson had been reading someone else words of the tele promoter.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                      I thought it was better than last week. I'm disappointed that they have not taken the chance to change it a bit more. The fear is that they will lose fans, but the fans of the old crew will doggedly not watch anyway so they should take the chance to shake it up a bit. At the moment it's the same show, same script but new faces which is a bit awkward at times.

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                        Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

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                        Three core radiator, Renault Clio vented front discs.
                        The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                          Originally posted by scott h View Post
                          I thought it was better than last week. I'm disappointed that they have not taken the chance to change it a bit more. The fear is that they will lose fans, but the fans of the old crew will doggedly not watch anyway so they should take the chance to shake it up a bit. At the moment it's the same show, same script but new faces which is a bit awkward at times.
                          I agree. However it's early days and will take time to gel. I said I would give it three episodes before making a decision. Roll on next week!

                          Was it just me or was episode one a tongue in the cheek dig at the "old" version? Reliant 3 wheelers etc? .

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                          • #14
                            Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                            There we clear references to the Clarkson era, probably more due to audience expectation than fact.
                            i just find it disappointing that the BBC writers and producers could not come up with anything other than what has been an imitation of Clarksons version.
                            When Clarkson first took over as lead presenter of Top Gear he changed the format from its sedentary Edmunds type presenter to a more dynamic interactive show. He honed his writing and presenting skills with more journalism and some excellent documentaries, that I think more fitted his talent, his enthusiasm for engineering. He totally avoided the shouty overexcitable Evans style, exemplified in every TV and radio show that Evans has presented.
                            Evans may own some very nice machinery, but I doubt that he understands or respects the true development path of the technology he drives.
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                            • #15
                              Re: Top Gear without Clarkson?

                              I must admit was getting bored with Clarkson, enjoy reading his books he is obviously a very clever guy, however I must have missed the point about engineering unless you can fix it with a Birmingham spanner that is. I kind of lost faith in the 3 of them when in one program they all did not know the difference between positive and negative chamber, I thought at least James would have got it right.
                              it will be interesting to see how things shape up on Amazon, or there is always Fifth Gear with the real drivers.

                              Graham

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