[01x04] October 20th, 2008

[Clown]

I couldn't be bothered to write a full review, but I will say:
1) Charlie Cox is still annoying as all hell. He ruins the whole thing. I cannot stand him.
2) Drop the Australiana, its condesending, and its not funny.

[watto]

Originally Posted by Clown

2) Drop the Australiana, its condesending, and its not funny.

What, you mean stop speaking like Australians??

[bolly]

Originally Posted by Clown

I couldn't be bothered to write a full review, but I will say:
1) Charlie Cox is still annoying as all hell. He ruins the whole thing. I cannot stand him.
2) Drop the Australiana, its condesending, and its not funny.

+1. What the man said!

[Clown]

Originally Posted by watto

What, you mean stop speaking like Australians?? There's nothing condescending about how they're talking, that's just us and our language.

How many times in an average day to you hear the term "drongo"?

[watto]

^Every now and then. I don't think it matters if they use some slang, we all do at some stage.

[bolly]

Originally Posted by watto

What, you mean stop speaking like Australians??

There's a big difference between talking like Australians and talking like Ocker stereotypes from the bush in the 1950's. Nobody I know speaks the way Charlie Cox talks. And thank God for that!

And yes. I live in Australia and was born in Australia. But I REALLY hate us all being portrayed as a bunch of bogan hics.


P.S. If it was clever, I could enjoy it. But it's not. It's just rubbish... and not "ambitious but rubbish."

[WellsieTRD]

Originally Posted by watto

What, you mean stop speaking like Australians??

+1. Australiana stays, but toned down a bit

[GerFix]

Originally Posted by Clown

How many times in an average day to you hear the term "drongo"?

Not often enough

[melbournian]

Originally Posted by Clown

How many times in an average day to you hear the term "drongo"?

I work in a restaurant where the average age of the clientele is about 407, and hear it all the time even I pick up that slang. It's terrible (or rather, it's bloody awful mate!). TGA sounds positively modern by comparison.

[Clown]

Load up episode [10x08], jump to 6:00 minutes, and there you have it - Charlie Cox!

[Icedvovo]

Originally Posted by tuesday

The camera work for the track sessions is coming along nicely. We got a decent picture of how things shape up on the track during the Holden lap. Very good camera work there.

WHAT!!!

Were we watching the same show!? This is how the TGA 'team' captured the only interesting part of the lap, where Stig apparently 'has a lot on'.

Sorry, but the track work is still total shit!

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by drnick

Did anyone spot me in the Final Gear shirt?

Originally Posted by GerFix

Yup, spotted you a couple of times . Also saw tone76 (quite clearly) behind Charlie's head in the last scene (just after he'd recieved his chook) and after freeze framing for about 15 minutes around the same scene, I think I saw my ugly boat race for one frame .

So what's the best frame capture of it? I'll post it on the front page.

[jonimatix]

I think it was a failure as it was worse than the previous episode... i hope next week's will be entertaining!

[rockfred]

so let's see, 4 people gave a 1 to this episode, and 2 gave it a 2. Also I've been seen all sorts of complaints from the camera angles in the track(granted) to the way they speak. I have only one question: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? This is a brand new show, just because it's been done in Britain for the last 10 years doesn't mean the Aussies will get it right from the start. They're still learning how to make the bleeming thing and you seem to be expecting TGUK level of quality. Not even the brits have been able to do this recently(let's face it, last season wasn't one of the best, not even close). I even heard someone saying "drop the australiana". This is Top Gear AUSTRALIA, what did you expect? I've never seen anyone complaining that TGUK is too british. The show is good, not great but good. And to me, it's a good way to wait for the next british series.

[tone76]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

So what's the best frame capture of it? I'll post it on the front page.

I think drnick posted his a little earlier. I'm much harder to spot.

In hindsight, I should have worn a red and white striped shirt with matching red and white striped hat and made a bit of a game of this for my friends to play ... I've already got the 'Where's Wally?' (a.k.a. 'Where's Waldo?') glasses, I might as well finish off the ensemble. Maybe next time I go to TGA ...

Originally Posted by Clown

How many times in an average day to you hear the term "drongo"?

It depends on how many drongos are around at the time.

[colddayin-hell]

Originally Posted by tone76

It depends on how many drongos are around at the time.

Bahaha, gold!

[Icedvovo]

Originally Posted by rockfred

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? This is a brand new show... SNIP... They're still learning how to make the bleeming thing and you seem to be expecting TGUK level of quality.

They didn't start from zero. TopGear is a well-established franchise and these are supposed industry professionals. Aside from the presenters, there's no reason it shouldn't be damn-near perfect from day one.

The film production process at this level is pretty well-defined and as such can be duplicated like you would a KFC recipe. They've basically undercooked it in critical areas such as story development (which isn't budget dependent), simply because they didn't follow the recipe given to them.

And this is why everyone here marks them so harshly.

[GerFix]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

So what's the best frame capture of it? I'll post it on the front page.

drnick's capture (post #77 here) is as good a view of his FinalGear t-shirt as you will get from the episode ................. as for my 0.04 seconds of fame .... I'm directly under the "G" on the banner behind ..... eyes closed (as usual)

[Fleetfoot]

Originally Posted by Icedvovo

They didn't start from zero. TopGear is a well-established franchise and these are supposed industry professionals. Aside from the presenters, there's no reason it shouldn't be damn-near perfect from day one.

The film production process at this level is pretty well-defined and as such can be duplicated like you would a KFC recipe. They've basically undercooked it in critical areas such as story development (which isn't budget dependent), simply because they didn't follow the recipe given to them.

And this is why everyone here marks them so harshly.

Exactly. The recipe is there, watch the episodes that made TGuk "take off" and pick out the bits that made it take off and while you don't need to duplicate it at LEAST work on the smugness and all that over the top trying to prove we're Australians because although some Australians think that's a good thing it makes most of us who've been and lived overseas cringe as the stereotype Aussie is a totaly brain-dead moron full of himself and the world revolves around HIM while in fact we're the ass end of the world and we can't even produce a decent car.

(yeah, about that Holden, some simple monster yank engine that the Stig can't keep on track cause it's a wallowy big low tech tank and Steve can't do a donut in it while Jeremy the non Pro can pull them off in any car any time..)

[drnick]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

So what's the best frame capture of it? I'll post it on the front page.

the one i posted earlier in the thread is probably the best...

if you wanna spool thru, pretty much from charlie's intro to the SIABSC onwards. there might be a better one that what i got somewhere in there

its a bit tuff to make out the shirt due to the low light, and i dont know photoshop well enough to go tweaking brightness settings and what not