I for one do not expect anything to happen. Same suit, helmet, just another man. I really think S16 is just gonn start normally, no blowing up the Stig.
Do remember, changing him to a new color is impossible, since the white suit&helmet arrangement is now deep seeded.
THANK YOU! I've been saying this in other threads. Lawd, have mercy.
As unpleasant and upsetting as this whole episode has been, I'm sure they will have plenty of fun with with it in S16... I'd like to see Rubens Barachello implicated in his demise somehow!
I'm predicting it now: First proper Stigtro of the series will involve Rubens Barrichello being responsible for White Stig MkI's demise.
You are perfectly entitled to that opinion. However, unlike yourself, I as a television owning resident of the UK contribute directly, through a monthly mandate drawn on my current account, to the Top Gear production budget.
This is the part where I join in on the chorus of FOR FUCK'S SAKE! The license fee arguement is bullshit. You're not the only ones who pay to see the show! Not to mention the license fee, as mentioned, goes to stuff other than TG.
Top Gear airs in the US on BBC America, available via cable or satellite, which -- ZOMG! -- you have to pay for! Most of the episodes BBCA has aired over the two years they've had the rights to air it here are also on iTunes...which you have to pay for. I also imagine all the episodes any of us have downloaded from here or other sites -- regardless of location -- would be worth a pretty penny, given all the BBC Two (S4+) and BBC HD rips (Polar Special, S14+) have the original music and the eps on iTunes/BBCA/BBC Canada/BBC Prime/BBC World/SBS/Channel Nine/Dave don't.
If this is really about Wilman's bruised ego attempting to prevent losing artistic control over a fairy story
A "fairy story" which he and Jeremy created when they brought the show back in its current format, which they own jointly with BBC Worldwide.
then I'd be justifiably offended that my money had been spent for that purpose. However I'd have let it pass as an amusing folly if he'd just kept his gob shut and I'd never seen that side of him.
How do you think he feels every other time his "baby" is attacked -- either by the ecomentalists, or all the speed-hating daft sods who wanted the show cancelled after The Crash in 2006, or the other daft sods who get a hard-on sending complaints in every other time Jeremy opens his mouth? Also remember Andy's the one who has to weed through all the complaints they receive. IMO, it has to be the worst part of his job, and I bet there've been times he's lost his temper (albeit not as openly as now, but then, the Stig fiasco is much more public than almost everything else).
As far as I'm concerned, as the executive producer of the show, and one of the ones responsible for this format, he had every right to be pissed off and had every right to blog about it on the website. Up until then, we heard only one side: HarperCollins' side. There was nothing from the TG side, and that was a side I think, at the very least, the fans of TG deserved to hear/read.
Anyhoo, the courts have since found against Wilman and the BBC, so that tells us something about the veracity of Wilman's statements....
It doesn't tell us anything except the BBC's appeal was denied for whatever reason -- a reason none of us will likely ever know.
If complaints by tens of payers matter more than tens of millions of payers not complaining then it wouldn't really be democracy now, would it?
Pwned.
