Top Gear Crew Expelled from Argentina
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pauljmcnulty
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It's what happens when the most deliberately provocative team on TV set out to cause offence, and meet the people with a chip on their shoulders looking for a fight....
Might change my mind watching tomorrow's finale, but it seems a pretty naive episode, with an obvious mistake in taking any UK plate even if they didn't see the interpretation.
"Where the Belgrano sailed from, and where feelings are still high"? 982 and any combination of FKL is goig to be seen as provocative, isn't it? [8|]
Joke that went wrong IMO.
JC swears blind it was a sheer coincidence ..... is part two back on tomorrow night?
pauljmcnulty
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I don't think it matters if the plate was a stupid attempt at humour, or a mistake: if you are going to drive British-registered cars to Argentina, with a team renowned for deliberate provocation and insensitivity, you'd check for anything that could be mis-read, wouldn't you?
I just think they forget sometimes just how deep feelings can run. It was hairy at times in the US episode, but you'd have thought they'd have seen that coming as well.
I just think they forget sometimes just how deep feelings can run. It was hairy at times in the US episode, but you'd have thought they'd have seen that coming as well.
dereksharpuk
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It's been said before, but the moral is:
DON'T LEND TOP GEAR A CAR.
You may be seduced into the desire to see 'your prize possession' on TV, you may believe that they will take good care of it. You may be happy with a tank full of petrol for your trouble.
But you may be sorry.
DON'T LEND TOP GEAR A CAR.
You may be seduced into the desire to see 'your prize possession' on TV, you may believe that they will take good care of it. You may be happy with a tank full of petrol for your trouble.
But you may be sorry.
pauljmcnulty
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Really sad to see that last episode.
Fair enough if you want to play idiots around the world, but putting the crew at risk is unfair.
Why try to send the "escape" convoy out with the "star cars"? Abandoning them, and going undercover, would make sense, but taking them with the crew was either asking for trouble, or part of a cynical plot to make some good TV.
Seemed like an attempt to make a sensational programme that went wrong. Thank God no-one was seriously hurt, and perhaps it's time to stop sticking the BBC nose in to a hornet's nest in order to make exploitative TV? [&o]
Fair enough if you want to play idiots around the world, but putting the crew at risk is unfair.
Why try to send the "escape" convoy out with the "star cars"? Abandoning them, and going undercover, would make sense, but taking them with the crew was either asking for trouble, or part of a cynical plot to make some good TV.
Seemed like an attempt to make a sensational programme that went wrong. Thank God no-one was seriously hurt, and perhaps it's time to stop sticking the BBC nose in to a hornet's nest in order to make exploitative TV? [&o]
dereksharpuk
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Yes I agree. This is not a motoring show, it is a comedy.
The trio would like you to believe that they are just 3 against the elements, but the truth is they have vast support, tens of crew, helicopters, repairs wagons etc etc. It is a total nonsense.
But we still watch it [
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The trio would like you to believe that they are just 3 against the elements, but the truth is they have vast support, tens of crew, helicopters, repairs wagons etc etc. It is a total nonsense.
But we still watch it [
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John H
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Ignoring the politics, why have we come to a so called car programme taking three perfectly good classic cars and deliberately wrecking them, and it is supposed to be entertainment? What next ... an Arena Art Special where they burn priceless Turner watercolours for a lark? Same thing really.
A friend of mine has just reminded me of that ghastly Noel Edmonds show, where someone innocent got killed in a silly prank that went wrong. Top Gear is flirting with true disaster.
Can it ... now!
A friend of mine has just reminded me of that ghastly Noel Edmonds show, where someone innocent got killed in a silly prank that went wrong. Top Gear is flirting with true disaster.
Can it ... now!
If JC is really brave then he should drive down the Falls Road in Belfast on July 12th with a Union Jack Car. I agree it pains me too to see good cars thrashed like this. Top Gear has become like a circus where you laugh at the pain of the clowns .
Neil Haughey
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100% my thoughts, all 3 rare and very desirable cars in their own right, in fact perhaps the most desirable versions of each type in many ways. So for 'entertainment' they decide to trash them in utterly meaningless and childish prating about in a foreign country. They could quite easily have done that drive and done practically no damage to the cars but that is not 'entertaining' enough for them. They are the opposite of petrolheads.
I didn't watch the last series btw in case anyone asks but couldn't help but have it on in the background this evening to see what all the fuss was about. The scenery was nice though just a shame about the other 90% of the program.
dereksharpuk
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Of course venting our spleen here will do little good, especially as we all watch the program with ever increasing incredulity.
What we need to do is just the opposite, together with other clubs and Pistonheads, all decide NOT to watch it.
What we need to do is just the opposite, together with other clubs and Pistonheads, all decide NOT to watch it.
After the North Pole and 4X4 specials all the Christmas shows have been pretty stupid to the point of tedium. Same jokes, same contrived scenarios. India was probably the worst by way of stupidity (of scenarios) but this came close. I can appreciate that watching cars drive along endless miles of smooth tarmac would be boring but "The road just ran out so we had to drive through a forest..." Really? "We had to land on the beach.." Cobblers!
The number plate incident does seem to be too much of a coincidence not to have been contrived but, either way, the resulting mob violence was apauling.
The number plate incident does seem to be too much of a coincidence not to have been contrived but, either way, the resulting mob violence was apauling.
Neil Haughey
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There is an interesting point buried in there John. Portillo seems to be hosting another rather enjoyable series where he just goes places on a train, I understand what those three are all about but someone could have made an epic driving adventure documentary through Patagonia instead we got yet more banal car crash television (literally).
They did put a call out for a Rubystone 964RS, which was answered by a certain dealer in Yorshire, to date never seen anything since. Maybe JC was too blown away to admit he liked a 911[]
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