The Grand Tour

[paolo]

Five minutes in.

Have I ever been so conflicted?

Mr "oops I'm sorry I punched you at work, but I'm not *really* sorry" combined with an intro sequence that has giddying production values way beyond even the high standards of Top Gear, and shows where the Amazon money might have gone.

(Oh and it's not without subtle nods to Burning Man - the burner community won't like that. And fair dos.)

(Oh and be prepared to have a little sick. The presenters smugness is awful. "We're back, and we're brilliant" you can almost hear them saying... But oh my... those cars en masse in the desert, that's a mint shot)

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Two words to relieve your guilt.

Chris Evans.

Relax.

Breath out.

 

[DotCommunist]

If I wanted to watch fat middle aged pricks riding high end motors I'd move to glouscter

 

[Beats & Pieces]

If I wanted to watch fat middle aged pricks riding high end motors I'd move to glouscter

Stay where you are and buy a dictionary.

Just saying.

 

[DotCommunist]

buy

no, no, I'm sorry but that is an offensive word to me

 

[Beats & Pieces]

no, no, I'm sorry but that is an offensive word to me

Means of production / ownership / labour exchange and shit? I love Marxists - so funny!

 

[DotCommunist]

Means of production / ownership / labour exchange and shit? I love Marxists - so funny!

I'm not 100% sure that 'being a cheap bastard' is covered in Capital

 

[Beats & Pieces]

I'm not 100% sure that 'being a cheap bastard' is covered in Capital

You need to sleep.

 

[DotCommunist]

why, is there a fry up due at 6 am?

there are more and less things dreamed of in all yer philsophies etc.

 

[paolo]

I *knew* this thread would go so well.

The middle of the first show is same old same old. Hmm.

 

[mauvais]

I just can't be bothered with it. It was already deeply self-indulgent cringe on BBC, and now there's a whole load more baggage. I have Prime & all, I just can't bring myself to watch it.

 

[dessiato]

I'll try it later but am not bothered too much. If I wanted to watch fat old blokes driving I'd look in the mirror.

 

[wiskey]

I'm not going to watch it because Clarkson brings me out in rage but the producer was on R4 the other day basically saying that the desert shots were dirt cheap to do and look fantastic, but he'd apparently never heard of burning man.

 

[hash tag]

I'm out. I won't subscribe to Amazon and don't want to see that lot ever again.
On Freeview, there are lots of good car porn programmes if I need them, more about cars that that lot ever do, together with some comedy and cheap tricks if you want them.

Thank you, goodnight.

 

[Orang Utan]

An advert for the programme is currently all over IMDb. I actually mistook James May for Owen Wilson and presumed The Grand Tour was a new Wes Anderson movie.

 

[paolo]

Sam Wollaston in the Guardian gets a good measure of it. The review is more nuanced than the headline.

The Grand Tour review – Clarkson and co leave the BBC in their dust

 

[danny la rouge]

I keep thinking this thread is going to be about Grand Tour - Wikipedia

It never is.

 

[hash tag]

I did, which is why I came to this bloody thread. Especially as I have just started reading Tim Moore's Continental Drifter about his Grand Tour, in a clapped out Rolls don't you know

 

[Kaka Tim]

maybe they could do the Paris - Dakar race - with mark thatcher as guest navigator

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Question on Amazon Prime; if we sign up to it, (£50-£90 a year depending on what deal you get), you get free next day delivery + Amazon Prime TV. But do you also get Netflix and all that shit too, or do we need to keep our subscription to that? And if we do get Netflix with prime, is it valid for three TV's as it currently is with our Netflix subscription???

 

[Orang Utan]

No, Netflix is a competitor to Amazon Prime.

 

[DotCommunist]

amazons shit anyway

 

[Orang Utan]

amazons shit anyway

Yeah, I have Prime and never watch anything on Amazon video as I find torrents easier to deal with than streaming sites. My laptop lags on streaming sites, even YouTube

 

[skyscraper101]

I'm presuming this is on the torrents already?

 

[SpookyFrank]

maybe they could do the Paris - Dakar race - with mark thatcher as guest navigator

Mark Thatcher more experienced in hooning it away from west Africa IIRC.

 

[souljacker]

I'm presuming this is on the torrents already?

Sure is, and getting big seed ratios so came down for me in about 10mins.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Amazon is much better recently, it's got my favourite show, Mr Robot, and all 7 seasons of Parks and Rec (which I finally finished yesterday, sadly).

 

[mwgdrwg]

Plus it's getting a live action The Tick series!

 

[Nivag]

I watched it, pretty much the same as before but with more Americanism bullshit
, clearly pandering to Amazon. Though this might be due to the first episode being based in the USA. Will have to see what next week brings.
Hopefully less slapping each other backs too.

 

[krtek a houby]

They could have a show where Clarkson repeatedly lays a steaming turd on the studio floor and it would still be a massive hit.