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As
you may know, Amazon stepped in to rescue the lads after Jeremy, rather
boorishly, punched a cheeky BBC producer, and was fired. I had pretty
much stopped watching it anyway, because it had become a self
parody.
The early shows, however, had so captured my soul that I watched the
whole series (Netflix) something like eight times. And would still if
the BBC hadn't yanked the first dozen, or so, series off the air.
I
looked to see if I could buy them,without luck. But, I digress.
Amazon signed the boys up to do a Top Gear-ish series called "The
Great
Adventure." From early clips I've seen ... not interested.
But, as part of
the package, Amazon offers the entire Top
Gear shmeer. Even some "Series 1, " that nobody on earth,
evidently, had
ever seen. Here are some some of the steps that began to annoy the crap out of me, and a few winners.
- Look for the lead-in shown above (aircraft
hanger). A sign of quality.
- The very first time you hear the "Stig"
intro begin "Some say he ....;" you have entered the beginning of crap
zone.
- Early episodes showed edited clips of
celebrities
driving the "reasonably priced car." When they somehow thought is would
be fun to see the whole 2 minutes, or so, the shtick drifted into
yawner.
- The celebrity interviews were pretty much
jewels, every one. Watch them all.
- After a fashion, the audience grew from an
intimate
gathering of gear heads and their often lovely girl friends (that
Jeremy would hit on), to something akin to a Super Bowl crowd.
- The
producers did however round up the best lookers, and use them as front
row scenery.
- The "NEWS" segment was, IMO, the best
feature, but eventually scrapped. Sigh.
- The COOL WALL. Pffft.
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