[Polar Challenge Special] July 25th, 2007

[vikiradTG2007]

Originally Posted by Susie

The dash looks like it had a few too many lemons sliced on it.

That's how Team G&T got their name. "Surviving only on gin!!!!"

[Banii]

Btw, back in March, when i flew Sydney-Singapore with Quantas, they showed Top Gear: The Polar Challenge

[efoolution]

Originally Posted by Banii

Btw, back in March, when i flew Sydney-Singapore with Quantas, they showed Top Gear: The Polar Challenge

... and when they came to the crashed plane- bit, panic broke loose?

[ChrisSRT4]

Still is one of my favorite episodes!

[Autobahn]

Originally Posted by ahpadt

Just discovered this:

A man going cross-country skiing - WTF!

Looks like their escort on the Snowmobile. He's visible in quite a number of shots iirc.

Originally Posted by Banii

Btw, back in March, when i flew Sydney-Singapore with Quantas, they showed Top Gear: The Polar Challenge

[offtopic]It's QANTAS, regards, a plane nut )

[ionlygreat]

Originally Posted by Banii

Btw, back in March, when i flew Sydney-Singapore with Quantas, they showed Top Gear: The Polar Challenge

wow really? Guess I'll be taking Qantas more often then in the future

[liquide]

well if you're flying british airways, there's a fair chance they got one or two top gear eps on tap. i've done a bit of flying with them last year (tokyo london, london new york, and quite a bit in between) and it seems on most of the long haul fligts they had top gear. their movie choices is also pretty decent and rather up to speed, so ya, ba rocks. and same can be said for quantas. to best airlines in the world

oh and the polar one.. that was one truly awesome show. i just can't think of something to top it besides driving on the moon - which, despite jeremy claiming, didn't happen last season

[Viper007Bond]

Talk about the 1080p rip moved to here -> http://forums.finalgear.com/finalgea...10/#post758183

[Maarre]

this episode is airing right now here in Sweden :')

Yay for that!

[Buba]

Anybody else noticed a DC of that ep floating around on hdbits? Its 15 mins longer than the one that aired...

[controlspecimen]

Hammond was saying on Moyle's show that he and his team were running from polar bears for much of their trip but it was never mentioned in the film--maybe that's in the director's cut?

[janstett]

Originally Posted by Buba

Anybody else noticed a DC of that ep floating around on hdbits? Its 15 mins longer than the one that aired...

I just got the Blu-Ray and I haven't watched it while paying attention (yet), but it is a Director's Cut and it has scenes that didn't air on TV.

[iam-nobody]

Its been a while since I've seen the longer version but i think when they are stuck in the second bolder field you see a bit more of that than what you did in the BBC version.

[TopGearNorthAmerica]

IIRC, the extended version had the two J's discovering an abandoned military base, plus more work in the boulder field.

[iam-nobody]

I remember the military plane in both versions but i do not remember seeing a base.

[rickeo]

I got the DC version on HDBits, and was wondering if anyone had more info about the random house Richard and Matty stayed at?

[melbournian]

I finally saw this tonight, it aired on the BBC Knowledge channel which launched today on Foxtel. Looked pretty brutal, but I think I would have preferred going in the car, even with the hours of manual labour still nowhere near as tough as running/skiing/riding a dogsled. When James was slicing the lemon in the car I was just waiting for Jeremy to hit a big bump and for James to slice the top of his thumb off (I work in hospitality and freak out when anyone tries to slice fruit that way - I know three people who have lost fingertips doing it, and that's standing still).

[The Fishman]

Originally Posted by melbournian

I finally saw this tonight, it aired on the BBC Knowledge channel which launched today on Foxtel. Looked pretty brutal, but I think I would have preferred going in the car, even with the hours of manual labour still nowhere near as tough as running/skiing/riding a dogsled. When James was slicing the lemon in the car I was just waiting for Jeremy to hit a big bump and for James to slice the top of his thumb off (I work in hospitality and freak out when anyone tries to slice fruit that way - I know three people who have lost fingertips doing it, and that's standing still).

I saw this version as well on Foxtel, I enjoyed the version I downloaded from here. It is more intense when there isn't any commercials in it.

[Stang70Fastback]

Originally Posted by raintz99

So I had a chat with this guy and this is what he told to me about this journey (some facts are already known):
* Hammond actually left Resolute one day before cars but they caught him in next after afternoon (after cars left Resolute).
* Hammond and dogs managed to cover only about half of the distance, then they filmed for few days and went back.

While I know that Top Gear is edited somewhat and not everything is as it happened, I much confess I was very disappointed reading this. It makes it sound like the whole thing was COMPLETELY fake. Why, if Hammond left a day before, didn't they just SHOW that?! And if he only got halfway, I don't want them to pretend that he did go all the way. It kind of makes me mad that it was THAT badly altered for the TV...

That said, I really enjoyed watching this a while back... I just happened to discover this now and it's kind of disheartening.

[ABxCD]

did THEY ever say hammond made it? i remember something like "hammond never made it to the pole" but don't really know whether it was said in the show or written in one of the weblogs...

but i'm pretty sure they never said in the show that hammond made it to the pole...