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By *W69Couple
over a year ago
Bournemouth |
Enjoyed part 1 and curious to see how how they (the production team) report (what footage they show) of the number plate incident that was reported whilst filming and referred to in another post above. At the time of filming, it's fair to say it got a reaction.
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By *W69Couple
over a year ago
Bournemouth |
"I think it was over hyped for the pr and to pull in the viewers."
Think your probably right in what you say with regards to the media. Interested to see how they portray the events on the programme. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well I managed to catch up on the first one on iplayer and found it erm a bit boring.
So watching the second one in the hope that it got going, and unfortunately it just went downhill. You can tell they've run out of ideas in the writing department and now it's just very ridiculous and tedious.... Like Richard ooh no I've broke my track rod end how will I ever fix it on this snowy track in the middle of nowhere.... Ooh yes that 50 odd crew with welders and parts should do it  .
In the end I was kinda glad they run them out of Argentina as it brought the show to an end at least. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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just seen top gear and it seems to have been freightning for them. i mean, how hard can it be. am just off to send an email to buenos aires. asking if they still think the falkland isles are still argentine.  |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Well I managed to catch up on the first one on iplayer and found it erm a bit boring.
So watching the second one in the hope that it got going, and unfortunately it just went downhill. You can tell they've run out of ideas in the writing department and now it's just very ridiculous and tedious.... Like Richard ooh no I've broke my track rod end how will I ever fix it on this snowy track in the middle of nowhere.... Ooh yes that 50 odd crew with welders and parts should do it .
In the end I was kinda glad they run them out of Argentina as it brought the show to an end at least."
I spent most of the episode rolling my eyes. The challenges are always the same now. I love the programme but they really need to start doing better specials. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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yeah, but did you notice that producers drove land rover discovery 4*4? and no one damaged it before the mob turned up? so they bloody hypicates(think its nearly spelt right) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The beaver comment was brilliant  
They were just on about eating beaver, as well as beavers liking hard wood. Why is that brilliant?  "
.It's quite funny at a teenage level.... But they've done it before , it's the same joke recycled on every show, it's clichéd and tiresome now.
And I wouldn't at all be surprised if the whole mob scene hadn't been manufactured by the producers and then got out of hand. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I spent most of the episode rolling my eyes. The challenges are always the same now. I love the programme but they really need to start doing better specials."
The specials were fun for the silly pranks and stunning scenery, but this one focused on a silly number plate which I am sure the show producers both bought and leaked (and explained) as FLK is not much of an abbreviation of Malvinas.
I also suspect with the opening challenge and closing scene the entire thing was scripted and the mob were paid extras.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh for gods sake its just a tv programme, if you really believe that was all manufactured or set up etc then write in and complain or turn of your tv and go outside and doing something less boring instead ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh for gods sake its just a tv programme, if you really believe that was all manufactured or set up etc then write in and complain or turn of your tv and go outside and doing something less boring instead ! "
lol, I remember not watching that program when I was a kid
I guess it's no different to the shows that pretend to be news based inspired by Orson Wells war of the worlds, but this one just didn't have the script.
I have ridden parts of the area they filmed in, but only on tarmac and it is as stunning as they portrayed but forgot to focus on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Clarkson is normally a very astute writer, his whole media image of "power" and the "Buffonery" is completely staged to appeal to the average petrol head, it used to be written with clever wit and novel ideas but alas as with most shows I think it's run its course.
The staging of the events in the shows has gone overboard in the last few years in the attempt to keep out bettering the previous stunts, this is usually the first sign that the writing has failed, even the laughing looks staged now.
I actually think there would be more genuine interest in returning top gear to it's roots but probably with James may as the only presenter, as he appeals to the Haynes manual car appreciation types (me). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Clarkson is normally a very astute writer, his whole media image of "power" and the "Buffonery" is completely staged to appeal to the average petrol head, it used to be written with clever wit and novel ideas but alas as with most shows I think it's run its course.
The staging of the events in the shows has gone overboard in the last few years in the attempt to keep out bettering the previous stunts, this is usually the first sign that the writing has failed, even the laughing looks staged now.
I actually think there would be more genuine interest in returning top gear to it's roots but probably with James may as the only presenter, as he appeals to the Haynes manual car appreciation types (me)."
Then dont watch it lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"just seen top gear and it seems to have been freightning for them. i mean, how hard can it be. am just off to send an email to buenos aires. asking if they still think the falkland isles are still argentine. "
Only problem is...Britain had settled the Falklands before Argentina was invented! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Clarkson is normally a very astute writer, his whole media image of "power" and the "Buffonery" is completely staged to appeal to the average petrol head, it used to be written with clever wit and novel ideas but alas as with most shows I think it's run its course.
The staging of the events in the shows has gone overboard in the last few years in the attempt to keep out bettering the previous stunts, this is usually the first sign that the writing has failed, even the laughing looks staged now.
I actually think there would be more genuine interest in returning top gear to it's roots but probably with James may as the only presenter, as he appeals to the Haynes manual car appreciation types (me).
Then dont watch it lol "
.What's that got to do with anything I'm critiquing a show I used to like that's the point of the whole thread! |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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"Then dont watch it lol "
Blimey! Bit strong there even with the thrown in "lol". People are entitled to their own opinion and also entitled to type them on here. , . Maybe you should read your own post.. "Oh for gods sake its just a tv programme" and stop getting heated! Like most "reality" shows, it is scripted in part. They do have people researching and suggesting the way the program should go.
It has got a little puerile and they do seem to have run out of good ideas. Maybe it is time for a break... Still, opium for the masses.. |
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"just seen top gear and it seems to have been freightning for them. i mean, how hard can it be. am just off to send an email to buenos aires. asking if they still think the falkland isles are still argentine.
Only problem is...Britain had settled the Falklands before Argentina was invented!"
Ha and they dispute Chile's ownership of the Islands at the bottom of errrrr Chile, seems to be a recurring theme with these Argie Bargies.
Yes I am sure the trouble was staged at the end of the show, not by Top Gear but by the Argentine Govt to suit their own political ends |
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i wouldn't have been upset if they'd been overcome by the mob .... it may have propmted me to watch the last bit of the programme, but i still think i'd prefer to rub my face with a brick than do that to be honest |
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By *onitoMan
over a year ago
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"Clarkson is normally a very astute writer, his whole media image of "power" and the "Buffonery" is completely staged to appeal to the average petrol head, it used to be written with clever wit and novel ideas but alas as with most shows I think it's run its course.
The staging of the events in the shows has gone overboard in the last few years in the attempt to keep out bettering the previous stunts, this is usually the first sign that the writing has failed, even the laughing looks staged now.
I actually think there would be more genuine interest in returning top gear to it's roots but probably with James may as the only presenter, as he appeals to the Haynes manual car appreciation types (me)."
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Oh for gods sake its just a tv programme, if you really believe that was all manufactured or set up etc then write in and complain or turn of your tv and go outside and doing something less boring instead ! "
How on earth are we supposed to know if its worth watching if we don't watch it?  |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
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"just seen top gear and it seems to have been freightning for them. i mean, how hard can it be. am just off to send an email to buenos aires. asking if they still think the falkland isles are still argentine.
Only problem is...Britain had settled the Falklands before Argentina was invented!"
Hate to point out that Argentina was a country before anyone had even landed on the Falklands |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Argentina did exist in the North, but not in the Southern part and Argentina certainly didn't have control of the Falklands in that time,
As ever and was alluded to by James May - they majority of Argentinians are decent and couldn't give a shit but for some it's all they know.
If they hadn't invaded and used continued diplomacy the'd probably have them now like Hong Kong.
The Junta were responsible for lots of 'disappeared' who were simply thrown out the back of a transport aircraft over the South Atlantic - indeed the real winners if there is such a thing was Argentina themselves, free from dictatorship.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Actually the French were the first to have a colony on there a year before us and we were there for a year before we realised the French had already set up camp on the east.
But if I remember correctly our claim comes not from first landing(I think that would have been Portuguese maybe megellan?) or first colony but as the only remaining established colony (the French and the Spanish gave up).
South america has complex borders due to the land being "divied up" by the pope and the subsequent fall of the Spanish empire the guianas is probably the archetypal of land borders the region was taken over by the British Dutch Spanish Portuguese and French and on that note the French are the only people that still hold it as an overseas territory (French Guiana) Suriname Guyana being the British and Dutch I think Venezuela adopted the Spanish section and not sure who took the Portuguese bit? But it shows that south america and central america has always been "turbulent" due to the whole conquistador era and the rise and fall of the various empires afterwards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well they're ours now and probably will be for a long time. I'm sure most didn't want a war, but they sure got one and came out last (by a terrifyingly small margin if you read Sandy Woodward's 100 days.)
So tough.
Some still think the Belgrano incident to be some sort of war crime - even the Captain himself admitted he was on the way to attack the Task Force from the South with an Aircraft carrier to the North.
Unfortunately for him The Conqueror was one the case (well under him by less than 50') |
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By *onitoMan
over a year ago
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"Send them to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and I may watch.
They did that a few years ago, didn't have any problems there."
Send them now but I bet they would be to scared lol |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Well they're ours now and probably will be for a long time. I'm sure most didn't want a war, but they sure got one and came out last (by a terrifyingly small margin if you read Sandy Woodward's 100 days.)
So tough.
Some still think the Belgrano incident to be some sort of war crime - even the Captain himself admitted he was on the way to attack the Task Force from the South with an Aircraft carrier to the North.
Unfortunately for him The Conqueror was one the case (well under him by less than 50')"
Thoroughly agree. The issue is not who had the Falklands first. The vast majority of the present population want to be British. So that should be the decider. I never understood how people considered the sinking of the Belgrano as a war crime. |
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