Trollbooth
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Here it is.
You find a band. Maybe you hear it at a local pub? You buy their CD for a fiver and maybe a t-shirt. After a few years they get a real record company to publish their music and they find some moderate success. You think of them as "my band". They gradually get more and more popular. Gigs become concerts. A few dozen in the audience becomes a few hundred becomes a few thousand. No longer the unpolished, local, "homemade" feel. Now they're polished. Mass merchandise. Everything's scripted, everything's a show, everything's mechanical now. They're no longer "my band".
That's what, I think, has happened for a lot of people with Top Gear. It's no longer mum's homemade pie, it's a Tesco's Own Brand Pie(tm).
You find a band. Maybe you hear it at a local pub? You buy their CD for a fiver and maybe a t-shirt. After a few years they get a real record company to publish their music and they find some moderate success. You think of them as "my band". They gradually get more and more popular. Gigs become concerts. A few dozen in the audience becomes a few hundred becomes a few thousand. No longer the unpolished, local, "homemade" feel. Now they're polished. Mass merchandise. Everything's scripted, everything's a show, everything's mechanical now. They're no longer "my band".
That's what, I think, has happened for a lot of people with Top Gear. It's no longer mum's homemade pie, it's a Tesco's Own Brand Pie(tm).