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[06x01] Sept 13th, 2024 - One For The Road
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I haven't reviewed at episode in a long time, and I've been missing from this forum for years. But watching the ending of the show, that I'd sit down and watch on BBC 2 at 8PM on Sundays. To that final show on Amazon, is an absolute credit. Most of all, I wish that Viper007Bond (Alex) could have seen it.
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It was a good and suitable last special in an other very beautiful country. It got a bit emotional at the end.
For years it was a weekly routine that tourned into a something special 1-3 a year.
PS: Viper007Bond watched it from heaven.
For years it was a weekly routine that tourned into a something special 1-3 a year.
PS: Viper007Bond watched it from heaven.
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God damn. What a trip it has been. Brought me here and towards many great people. Been watching them since 2008, reading these forums since 2010 and somehow "only" joining quite late in 2012.
Just watched the last 20 minutes with my wife again and I'm not sure if I will ever be able to watch it without choking up.
It felt very honest, this last episode. Lol at the Oceangate jokes. Lol at the Britishness. Salute to them being so honest with themselves. And I loved seeing them reunited with their old cars. Great episode in my eyes. I know some TGT episodes have been quite shit, but I'm trying not to see them too anal, and if you do so it's really great television.
Also fuck Amazon Prime for making you watch ads every odd 20 minutes or so while you still pay for it lol
Just watched the last 20 minutes with my wife again and I'm not sure if I will ever be able to watch it without choking up.
It felt very honest, this last episode. Lol at the Oceangate jokes. Lol at the Britishness. Salute to them being so honest with themselves. And I loved seeing them reunited with their old cars. Great episode in my eyes. I know some TGT episodes have been quite shit, but I'm trying not to see them too anal, and if you do so it's really great television.
Also fuck Amazon Prime for making you watch ads every odd 20 minutes or so while you still pay for it lol
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This was a very good sendoff for the trio. As much as they have been a part of everyone´s lives here for the past 22 years, it was time to stop. As sad as it is. The last episode was very much a rollercoaster of emotions capturing why we´ve all watching for over two decades.
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That was a really great episode. Somehow it didn't hit me as hard as Funeral For A Ford, but I suppose we all knew this one was coming.
Also slightly irked that Botswana has been retconned as the first special when it was really Florida, but I guess that would have made a less impressive callback.
Loved the queue the music mockery scene.
Loved the flashback with TG Botswana footage.
Farewell to the trio. It's been a ride.
Also slightly irked that Botswana has been retconned as the first special when it was really Florida, but I guess that would have made a less impressive callback.
Loved the queue the music mockery scene.
Loved the flashback with TG Botswana footage.
Farewell to the trio. It's been a ride.
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Really enjoyed that. I had second thoughts about watching it when I saw how long it was but I'm glad I did. A great way to end. I would've been irritated by some of the comedy/drama moments but let them slide this time around. I was impressed that the Stag didn't go wrong.
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Watched with the wife last night. Bittersweet episode but really enjoyed it, very heartfelt and a nice goodbye from the trio that we've followed for what, twenty years now? We've come a long way from Jabbasworld rips downloaded from Limewire. Lotta great memories.
I seem to recall Wilman saying that Botswana was the first Special that was shot with the intention it would be a Special. US was just supposed to be part of a regular episode like other Cheap Car Challenges but ballooned into an entire thing - so the team don't consider it to be a Special per se but it did inspire them to do the "actual" Specials.
I seem to recall Wilman saying that Botswana was the first Special that was shot with the intention it would be a Special. US was just supposed to be part of a regular episode like other Cheap Car Challenges but ballooned into an entire thing - so the team don't consider it to be a Special per se but it did inspire them to do the "actual" Specials.
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killpanda
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I definitely wasn’t at the edge of tears for the last 30 minutes.
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I joined these forums 20 years ago as an outlet for my love of this trio. This trio (along with this site) represent a very special place in my heart 
Absolutely loved this episode - and this coming from someone who never quite warmed to The Grand Tour era, after Top Gear ended.
Hats off to the producers, that final segment was an epic & fitting send off for Jeremy, James & Richard.
It'll be hard for another tv show to capture what it is about cars that make us feel all warm & fuzzy inside. Agree with Jeremy - "electric cars are just shit"
Hope Viper007Bond enjoyed watching that one from the clouds above. This site has been a great place for so many of us to share a mutual passion...
Absolutely loved this episode - and this coming from someone who never quite warmed to The Grand Tour era, after Top Gear ended.
Hats off to the producers, that final segment was an epic & fitting send off for Jeremy, James & Richard.
It'll be hard for another tv show to capture what it is about cars that make us feel all warm & fuzzy inside. Agree with Jeremy - "electric cars are just shit"
Hope Viper007Bond enjoyed watching that one from the clouds above. This site has been a great place for so many of us to share a mutual passion...
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Thanks to the trio. What a ride it has been. And this community wouldn’t exist without them.
I’ve never seen a single ad on Prime ever?
I’ve never seen a single ad on Prime ever?
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As some oldies, I too had a need to write something down. I have to commend them for using footage of botswana special spearingly, just for the end. They land it perfectly, with cars they are closely related. Watching May drive the stag, gave me flashback to one of his early review of similiary coloured smaller Triumph TR6. Hammond with his love of working mans hero Fords and Jeremys love of eccentric italian Lancias. Lots of refences, but were put in gently. As is my way, I have to nitpick, the starting "problems"with the train track conversion, derailments felt forced.
With BBC TG probably on a multiyear hiatus or even worse this pretty much is the end of the original format run. I would like to thank Viper for starting the forums and finding a person, VUK, to record and upload original TV rips, before the scene picked it up automatically. In the 2000's while suffering from (I believe) undiagnosed depression those were the highlights of my week and kept me moving forward.
While big specials and adventures weren't my first choice, their first smaller adventures and challenges were. Thankfully most automotive youtube took and use them as their backbone. The "100$ mancherster challenge" and "the best road in europe" are still the early benchmarks which are hard to hit for most of them. Not for the lack of trying, more the lack of funds, talent and time.
With BBC TG probably on a multiyear hiatus or even worse this pretty much is the end of the original format run. I would like to thank Viper for starting the forums and finding a person, VUK, to record and upload original TV rips, before the scene picked it up automatically. In the 2000's while suffering from (I believe) undiagnosed depression those were the highlights of my week and kept me moving forward.
While big specials and adventures weren't my first choice, their first smaller adventures and challenges were. Thankfully most automotive youtube took and use them as their backbone. The "100$ mancherster challenge" and "the best road in europe" are still the early benchmarks which are hard to hit for most of them. Not for the lack of trying, more the lack of funds, talent and time.
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More than what was needed. Gracious for all that we have forever.
I look forward to more James May cooking and traveling. I'm sure we will see them all in future media.
I look forward to more James May cooking and traveling. I'm sure we will see them all in future media.
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I wonder if it's different from country to country.
Currently tens of thousands of Germans try to sue Amazon for it.
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Hope they win. Ads on a paid subscription is a reason to go back to piracy.
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I can spot the fraction of a second of interruption when it tries to load an ad but can't, then carries on merrily with playback.
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We made it 25 minutes before bollocks comedy featuring a pointless beetle
"So was that Rimac"
We didn't need the boats or train stuff. They could have saved that 20 minutes to them talking bollocks around the fire at the end and reminiscing.
But, I loved the ending.
"So was that Rimac"
We didn't need the boats or train stuff. They could have saved that 20 minutes to them talking bollocks around the fire at the end and reminiscing.
But, I loved the ending.
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After long having given up on TGT due to it being just bad, I actually watched this one after several people on here recommended it. And I thank you for that, because this episode was in fact good. A nice closing chapter.
The scenery porn was once again off the scale gorgeous, and the banter between the trio was nicely paced and felt natural. I could have done without the Beetle stunt, that was just stupid. Especially the drawn-out gag to set it up. And it must have been a pain in the ass to clean up that mess (they did clean it up, right? Right...? *insert meme*).
Sadly years of declining quality in TG/TGT have ruined me, so I suspect poor scripting and going for cheap gags behind the contrived coincidences and every little thing going wrong - like their harebrained driving leading to cars breaking. At one point it looked like Hammond deliberately swerved into the biggest rock on the road to provoke damage to his car's underbody (or exhaust, in fact). But, this time being the very last time, I didn't mind so much and could enjoy the show.
At the end I was impressed by just how large of a crew they have with them on these adventures.
It was a wild ride. 22 years for them. I guess about 16 or so for me. It was a good time, and the best thing is, the friendships gained by the connection through this forum don't end with the show.
*group hug*
The scenery porn was once again off the scale gorgeous, and the banter between the trio was nicely paced and felt natural. I could have done without the Beetle stunt, that was just stupid. Especially the drawn-out gag to set it up. And it must have been a pain in the ass to clean up that mess (they did clean it up, right? Right...? *insert meme*).
Sadly years of declining quality in TG/TGT have ruined me, so I suspect poor scripting and going for cheap gags behind the contrived coincidences and every little thing going wrong - like their harebrained driving leading to cars breaking. At one point it looked like Hammond deliberately swerved into the biggest rock on the road to provoke damage to his car's underbody (or exhaust, in fact). But, this time being the very last time, I didn't mind so much and could enjoy the show.
At the end I was impressed by just how large of a crew they have with them on these adventures.
It was a wild ride. 22 years for them. I guess about 16 or so for me. It was a good time, and the best thing is, the friendships gained by the connection through this forum don't end with the show.
*group hug*