otispunkmeyer
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First of all, quality first post
Secondly, I agree. The show looks to be losing steam, but perhaps its not because they have run out of things to do, but because they are trying to appeal to more people. I thought Jezza was the type of person that would never let that happen to his show but perhaps I was wrong.
As for the scripted feeling the show has now, I couldn't agree more. In the earlier seasons they had me fooled with the in-studio bits. I would have never guessed they were scripted. Now it looks artificial.
I could watch any episode you give me from any other season a million times over and over. Yet as for this season, I don't have the urge to watch any of the episodes again. I thought I was alone for a while thinking this way, but if there's this many of us that feel this way.. we can't all be wrong, right?
for cock-in-hell's sake
can we please please please refrain from ye olde past time of bitching about what TG has supposedly become in threads discussing episodes, or infact any thread TG related (apart from a thread dedicated to free loaders bitching about a show never intended for their eyes. (because yes, it seems the most complaints come from those not in the UK))
it really is starting to get like a busted record, in alot of threads theres the usual set of people people posting the same annoying complaint over n over and a fair few people deciding to sign up specifically to get their complaint in too. dont get me wrong, but who really wants to waste their time reading that?
now if this site was like those "boycott bestbuy" websites, then that would be fine, its a place where everyone posts the same complaint about the same company over n over, thats what its all about. but FG isnt one of those sites.
if it continues i can see the TG portion of this forum becoming one big complaint and thus it'll become completely worthless.
the show has turned away from "just cars" to a more light hearted entertainment show involving cars. the viewing figures suggest that this is what the british fee paying viewers are after, and those are the only people the BBC will take into account. if those viewer numbers are increasing then the BBC/TG are obviously doing something right and theyre going to keep it that way, better viewing figures will ensure the shows future and funding. you can see it as a kind of vote, they're voting to keep TG like this because by tuning in they are telling the bbc thats what they wanna see.
any other viewer population simply isnt taken into account. the rest of the world could hate what TG has become but that wouldnt change a single thing because it wasnt designed for the rest of the world in the first place.
i think Viper should make a TG sub-forum dedicated to complaints about the show. that way the complainers get to post their disgruntled opinion over and over about the show, andy willman will have 1 concentrated place to look at all these complaints (and maybe choose to act on them) and all the other sub forums will be free from this broken "complaints in concert AA side 33RPM" and will be pleasant to read again. because it seems every other thread here theres someone mouthing off about how they hate what TG are doing and seriously its getting really old, really fast.
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