wikkedsnaab
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- Joined
- Oct 10, 2006
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- Tasmania, Australia.
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- Mercedes Benz 190D 2.5, Honda VFR800Fi
Well, it was slightly better than last week, but still very tatty.
All the track stuff is quite frankly a waste of my time and everyone else's. Introduce it properly and for Pete's sake get your cameras sorted. My father-in-law takes better videos with his Digital8, and he invented ShakiCam...
The GT40 was nicely shot but the script was as bad as Cox's ability to deliver it convincingly. Sounded like a yobbo reading out poetry whilst racked on blow. A few details... like why this particular car had 800 ponies rather than the standard 550... or why the car's doors cut into the roof as they do, wouldn't have gone astray. Despite all their anti-anorakism TGUK manage to get across useful facts like power, torque, weight, 0-60 times and top speed without it coming across like they're reading off the spec sheet. TGA need to learn to do this.
News was rushed. Star-in-a-shitty-car was worse than last week. Steve Bisley sounded unwell. Cox is a terrible interviewer.
Gold mining utes was actually pretty reasonable. After initially cringing the moment Pizzati opened his mouth at the start of the show he was actually watchable/listenable in the segment and indeed OK in the Smart Hearse segment later on. Cox was still unbearable and OTT, Warren is consistently funny and likeable. The concept was certainly unique and very Australian, and while they managed to get some interesting facts across about gold mining they again failed miserably with the cars themselves. There were so many dead sections where the guys could have offered some info about their utes, but no.... the Nissan was 4WD, expensive and had a stupid tray, the Falcon has 2 doors and is 'Australian' and the Proton is cheap, small and FWD. Thanks guys. No idea how much they cost, power, etc.
The concept did fall apart at the end. Christ knows how they did the math to figure out who won, and the whole draw thing was stupid too... the whole point of a challenge is that someone should win. Even if you have to rig it. Also, it would have been nice to mention just how much the big truck's cost as part of the equation.
Ford vs Holden. Should mention first I don't buy into this knuckle-dragging bogan bullshit. Which is fortunate, because if I did, I would have been bloody disappointed. No useful info (again), very limited 'tests', and a lot of fairly pointless "warming of the tyres"... that joke was funny the first time only. Worst of all, it was a total cop out, the whole "they both win". Have some balls, pick a winner and stand by it. Half the appeal of TGUK is that they'll slate a car mercilessly and stand by their decision even in the face of popular opinion. They should have just said that despite the turbo lag the Falcon was the better car... or that even though the Ford was faster they preferred the Holden... and just revelled in the ensuring riot.
The Smart Hearse was quite amusing. Shame it was utterly pointless. Please do not waste Warren's talents on things that make absolutely no sense in the future, SBS. He's your trump card, play him wisely.
I'm not sure if Cox has it within him to be a decent presenter. Maybe if he calms down, keeps his hands in his pockets and learns to talk to the camera in an amusing but natural way, rather than reel off a script like he's on a Kid's TV show, he'll turn out ok. Otherwise, I think the Jason Dawe comparisons are fair; well, to be fair Jason wasn't that bad, he was just boring and fat. Might be time to start hunting for Australia's version of a long haired Bachelor with a Bentley T2...
All the track stuff is quite frankly a waste of my time and everyone else's. Introduce it properly and for Pete's sake get your cameras sorted. My father-in-law takes better videos with his Digital8, and he invented ShakiCam...
The GT40 was nicely shot but the script was as bad as Cox's ability to deliver it convincingly. Sounded like a yobbo reading out poetry whilst racked on blow. A few details... like why this particular car had 800 ponies rather than the standard 550... or why the car's doors cut into the roof as they do, wouldn't have gone astray. Despite all their anti-anorakism TGUK manage to get across useful facts like power, torque, weight, 0-60 times and top speed without it coming across like they're reading off the spec sheet. TGA need to learn to do this.
News was rushed. Star-in-a-shitty-car was worse than last week. Steve Bisley sounded unwell. Cox is a terrible interviewer.
Gold mining utes was actually pretty reasonable. After initially cringing the moment Pizzati opened his mouth at the start of the show he was actually watchable/listenable in the segment and indeed OK in the Smart Hearse segment later on. Cox was still unbearable and OTT, Warren is consistently funny and likeable. The concept was certainly unique and very Australian, and while they managed to get some interesting facts across about gold mining they again failed miserably with the cars themselves. There were so many dead sections where the guys could have offered some info about their utes, but no.... the Nissan was 4WD, expensive and had a stupid tray, the Falcon has 2 doors and is 'Australian' and the Proton is cheap, small and FWD. Thanks guys. No idea how much they cost, power, etc.
The concept did fall apart at the end. Christ knows how they did the math to figure out who won, and the whole draw thing was stupid too... the whole point of a challenge is that someone should win. Even if you have to rig it. Also, it would have been nice to mention just how much the big truck's cost as part of the equation.
Ford vs Holden. Should mention first I don't buy into this knuckle-dragging bogan bullshit. Which is fortunate, because if I did, I would have been bloody disappointed. No useful info (again), very limited 'tests', and a lot of fairly pointless "warming of the tyres"... that joke was funny the first time only. Worst of all, it was a total cop out, the whole "they both win". Have some balls, pick a winner and stand by it. Half the appeal of TGUK is that they'll slate a car mercilessly and stand by their decision even in the face of popular opinion. They should have just said that despite the turbo lag the Falcon was the better car... or that even though the Ford was faster they preferred the Holden... and just revelled in the ensuring riot.
The Smart Hearse was quite amusing. Shame it was utterly pointless. Please do not waste Warren's talents on things that make absolutely no sense in the future, SBS. He's your trump card, play him wisely.
I'm not sure if Cox has it within him to be a decent presenter. Maybe if he calms down, keeps his hands in his pockets and learns to talk to the camera in an amusing but natural way, rather than reel off a script like he's on a Kid's TV show, he'll turn out ok. Otherwise, I think the Jason Dawe comparisons are fair; well, to be fair Jason wasn't that bad, he was just boring and fat. Might be time to start hunting for Australia's version of a long haired Bachelor with a Bentley T2...