Friendly reminder that this has several times the budget of old Top Gear per episode

Because they're traveling around the world. Each week they're in a different part of the world.

One of the worst things you can do to a project is give it all the budget it asks for.

this

he should start his own show where he gets drunk and rambles on about random shit

id watch that

have you watched reassembler

it's ace biscuits

>each week they're in a different part of the world
>every time the humor is amerified
FUCK. I thought this would be a one time thing for the first episode in the US, but Amazon are forcing it on them every time.

Episode 3 summarize ;

>They go to road trip, hellcat was doing donuts over and over again.
>Clarkson and May shout at Hammond for this
>No other joke in 40 min segment
>Same, celebrity died in the way """joke"""
>Conversation Street bit was the only listenable part but you can see they can only get relaxed and go out of script for 5 sentences
>They blow the Clarksons house, lots of joke potential, non was used.
>And this bombshell...

Did they tune the show for americans so that it's basic as possible ?

This . It must be quite the larf to be blowing Amazon money like toilet paper in public WC.

TGT is just TG with first world cinematography

>lele I would totally watch James May being drunk lolo
>his unemployment channel xddd, haha I would watch that haha
can you redditards go back to the place where people think making the same jokes over and over and over again is ok?

What jokes? May's the best and most interesting presenter on the show.

And he hates street cars designed for the Nurburgring. Pointless bragging rights that makes the car less enjoyable to daily drive.

And he's right.

I think it is actually a legal issue with the BBC. I don't think they are aloud to have a brick and mortar set like they did because of some copyright shit. I could be wrong though.

This. You need restrictions to be creative which in turn makes it more entertaining and interesting. Something definitely isn't right with this series and I hope the numbers dwindle so they will listen to criticism and allow them to be more british free-form rather than this forced basic american humour.

>You need restrictions to be creative
And that's why American cars will never be good.

>I want James May to go back to posting drunk cooking videos on Youtube

These are honesty better then anything GT has put out yet.

They should let them ramble about incoherent things instead of staying around 1 hour.

Friendly reminder that I gave up on gop tear after watching 1st episode.

I'm not sure if I even want to waste the disk space archiving ep03...
All the bullshit with the hellcat really pissed me off. I just wanted a nice road trip vlog of the three as they drive through France and stop off to do activities. But it gets shitted on every 30 seconds by force.

Even the house thing, if I didn't know they were doing it to rebuild and it was planned, it would have been so out of place.

Sames, still hoping they'll see the error in their ways and get their shit together tho. Maybe season 2

Sup faggots

poo bum

sumtimes poo poo from bum bum

t-.

GT American Writers

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Americans loved British top gear m8

GAUHHHAHHWWW MAA EAADD

YES! The episode where he puts together the lawnmower was incredibly satisfying.

The US can ruin any British show, even Kitchen Nightmares was shit. When did it all go wrong? Could it have been American Choppers? (Perhaps it's always been shit regardless?)

Not that complaining and generalizing is hard to do.

Amazon gave them unlimited budget. That's something that almost always results in a lower product for "reality" tv shows.

This. Hope season 2, if they get one, is better.

>his review of the slow Caterham was the most on-point thing ever said on Top Gear

Top Gear UK had a pretty big budget though anyway

The three highest rated TV hosts in the UK don't suddenly become unfunny just because they have a higher budget. This pile of shit stinks of other people writing the script for them so that they can have a motoring show at all.

As a Brit who enjoys Astons, for $50k that Hellcat is damn good value and I'd have it over the DB11.

Throwing money at writers doesn't suddenly make them good.
The production value is good, the concept behind the show, the tent, the cars, the many locations show they make good use of that budget.
But money can't buy comedy.

More like Hammond desperately wants to be an American.

It's easy for us to comb through 20-odd seasons of the show, pick out the top 15 or 20 episodes and say "Ooh wasn't every second of that show brilliant? Isn't it just the smartest, funniest show you've ever seen?"

But let's be honest, Top Gear always had stupid skits and lame scripted bits and shit. In fact there are entire seasons where that shit is 90% of the season.

The parts that were always genuinely, super enjoyable were the challenges and the specials, neither of which we've really seen anything like on Grand Tour...

... yet.

Pic related, the last two episodes. We're expected to love it because it's these three, rather than there being any actual content.
I'm tempted to agree with you. Honestly, some of the best comedy in that show comes from challenges, cheap cars, and shitty modifications rather than big budget super/hyper/ultra cars. We have yet to see something along those lines. Something like turning a D21 into a boat and capsizing, driving an old dodge truck, a landyatch, and a third gen Camaro through America, or driving a volvo wagon through Africa, or a dually miata through a middle eastern desert. Hopefully their lawyers can figure out a way to make similar challenges while squirming around the copyright issue.

On a side note, I wonder what Oliver is doing right now.

>dually miata

OK now I'm imagining some sort of LS-swapped dually monstrosity and I kinda like it

This this this!

The show was always at its best when it was just the three of them dealing with absurd challenges or tearing about other countries in 30-year old used cars.

We haven't had any of that so far, it's been almost nothing but supercars and timed laps for three episodes.

It's far more stunning than that.
>it's been almost nothing but supercars and timed laps for three episodes.
*two episodes.

>If the british like it, it is refined
>If americans like it, it is vulgar

If the brits liked loud things it would be a beautiful, sophisticated symphony of aural automotive orgasms and a tribute to the ingenuity of man

If americans liked queit things it would be the vicious, animalistic silence of a jungle predator.

the american driver is intentionally annoying and stupid because they're going to randomly kill him off and replace him with the old stig. it's already on their youtube

No, three episodes now.

I think he was trying to make a joke about the South Africa episode.

>forced jokes
>not funny anymore

You guys are fucking retarded. Top Gear was literally the same shit.

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Just finished ep3.

It wasn't particularly good but it was definitely watchable. It wasn't that much more scripted than the later Top Gears were if you ask me. The celebrity thing isn't very good but it wasn't nearly as bad this time as it was in episode 1.

It's a pretty bad running joke that always takes far too long.
In comparison, the drone crashing before every episode might not be the highest point of comedy, it's at least sort of fun and doesn't feel as forced, nor does it waste 3 minutes.

I don't like it either but the worst part about it in episode 1 was that they did it 3 times in a row. At least this time there was just a shot introduction before they moved on with the show.

Anyone got stream?

I liked it. Much better than episode 2.

The boys have already agreed to three seasons. Once those seasons are up, they'll probably retire. There is no way they want to keep doing this.

that show exists

this is what i thought last night. They dont have producers making up shit and forcing them do it.
All shitcar challengers started with "producers gave us x amount and told us to do this" hopefully they'll get the supercars out of their system and get over their holiday shit and start doing shit

they do, in interviews they say they love it.

I don't get how in all of their interviews the guys say about how the show is made by their relationship, yet they insert so much scripted scenes. Just take this episode for example: Clarkson and May making angry faces over Hammon revving his Dodge was boring and forced and overdone, but the simple scene where Clarkson and Hammond read Rolls manual or something and make fun of it was a funny scene. Same shit was with old Top Gear. Take for another example India special: them dropping cans with food or writing rude words on a train was not funny, but the outtake where they're in Himalayas sitting around the fire and bickering was one of their funniest material. They constantly talk about that sort of things in interviews and promotional videos, yet when they go to make a show it's again just acting out cheap sitcom-tier jokes from the script.

watch top gear outtakes. there's like a playlist of 67 clips. They're all that kind of unscripted shit
they're really funny when camera is not rolling.

But yes overall i agree with you

positive
>cinematography

negative
>american """humour"""

Yes. GT has a ton of the crappy scripted jokes and sketches... so did 90% of Top Gear episodes. It's that 10% - the challenges, the specials, the outtakes that make it into the final cut where the best stuff has always been.

everyone bitching about the show: remember the first series of clarkson top gear? it might take awhile to figure out what works and what doesn't and how to best use the format. if i judged all of top gear by series 1 episode 3 i would probably have never watched it again.

That shit is better than the grand tour, no one is joking about it

You're comparing a set of new hosts trying to turn into entertainment old program that did nothing but straight technical car reviews starting their way from no audience whatsoever. They're not experimenting with shit, they've already did all the experiments on TG and they have largest audience any non-fictional tv show ever had, now they just carry it over. There's nothing to be worked out, everything's already worked out, and this is what they chose to go with. Maybe if their rating plummet seriously and criticism settles in they'll try to change, but as long as they keep up living on their reputation this is exactly how it will go until one of them dies.

Yes, but think about the amout of experience they have from making Top Gear for all those years

Its not really comparable

How many times are you going to "hurr durr murrika humor" in these threads, it's obviously you every time

Just a friendly reminder, they've already filmed basically everything. Nothing will change this season.

Fmovies.to

This, the show just started. If it's still like this by the 3rd season I'll feel differently.

The tri didn't write Tope Gear itself.
They aren't writing TGT either.
It's a typical case of writers now konwing what to do with their actord, particularly with the pressure of said actors being very well known and the audience thus having specific expectations.

Don't forget - all those years of Top Gear they were able to figure out what worked, what didn't.

Now they're in a brand new series and almost all the shit they did in the old series is now legally "off limits".

They're not starting from scratch, sure, but they're not far off.

good points, user, but have you considered that behind the scenes, maybe the cunts at BBC might not allow them to do a lot of the stuff that worked on TG? or that they might be pressured by amazon or just want to do things to appeal to the new audience considering that 99% of americans have never heard of TG except for the fuckawful american version of it, and 99% of americans think all british are douchebags and won't want to watch them?

they're still feeling out some uncharted territory

I was having a lot more fun than the last 2 episodes, although I liked those too, yet I didn't know why

Then I remembered The American wasn't in it

hammond was the honorary american in ep3

Top Gear US is now the best Top Gear out there.

Amazing how things have changed.

TGT is fucking horrible. I couldn't watch it. Is it even about cars at all?

>and 99% of americans think all british are douchebags
I mean they're not wrong

>I mean they're not wrong
They are wrong.
99% of brits are cunts, not douchebags.
Yes, there is a difference.

it looks nicer, too

Good thing you told us that you didn't watch it. You spoke like if you were entitled to an opinion over it.

I like the "accidental death of a celebrity" segment. Especially over the dull "celebrity track day" segment of TG.

no
he is correct

Plenty of celebrity segments were very funny on TG, Simon Peg was one of them.

Very few*
Fixed it for you. Most of everyone was not Simon Peg.

Hammond has the best taste, of course

agreed. fuck celebrities, anyway. seems like the star in reasonably priced car interview is where new tg viewers tune the fuck out, in my (american) experience.

z06 > gtr nismo

They were in Italy...

I'd watch it when it was an actor or musician who's works I tended to enjoy, but otherwise it was just a signal that I should go put the kettle on for a cup of tea.

I hope they drop the celeb trash desu

i love top gear and the goofy skits.
-an american

They did.
Clarkson and Wilman did, and Wilman is making TGT too.

>mfw watching the reassembler in my garage while working on my car