What to Brits call it when a show comes to an end?
I ask, because here we call it a "season." When 24 goes off the air for a few months, the last episode before the break is called a "Season Finale." When a show like Cheers comes to an end, it's called the "Series Finale."
Whenever I hear Top Gear say "It's the last show of the series" it always makes me nervous.
In Brit-speak, "series" = "season". So consider this the season finale. (They'll be back in November sometime.)
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As I was reading through the thread a bit and reading some of the bits of doom being sprouted, I had a brainwave (which Streak ended up hitting on as well, I see).
The Anyway Policy
I think the lot of you know what I mean by that. For those who don't, a brief explanation.
For the last several years, our boys have had a long-standing agreement that, should one of them die at any time, the surviving two presenters would carry on. First, they would make mention of the death (they'd have to); but the next word out of their mouths has to be "Anyway!". And they would move on. (Of course, this almost happened three years ago. Plus, if you've been paying attention, the boys have demonstrated the Anyway Policy quite a bit both last series and this one.)
The Aston film--which did leave me a bit heavy and stunned, I must say--is the death announcement (not to mention, IMO, an uber-bombshell of an ending to any season/series of the show). The intro to 14x01 is going to be their "Anyway!" moment. Then they'll go back to the cocking about and whathaveyou that we've become accustomed to. (And, yes, I do think the Aston V12 will have a go around the track.)
to both Wyvern and Scorch.
In other news...
I loved the Bathurst and Ute review. Someone mentioned that the latter looks like an El Camino. It does! It totally does!
The Scirocco advert stuff was a bit drawn out, I think, though it did have its moments. (James in specs!)
The Cool Wall segment reminded me a bit of the one from 9x04--particularly when Jeremy took a chainsaw to it after Richard tried to put the Ducatti motorcycle on it. Or even 11x02's, to a lesser degree (Jeremy ripping Richard's microphone off). Methinks our Hamster tried to dish out some sweet revenge...but then ended up failing. Typical TG.
(I have to agree that his Radio Lancashire pic counts as Seriously Uncool, though. Maybe even beyond that...like Fiat Panda-esque.)
Leno... Yep. Should've been longer. Hope there'll be some uncut bits online.
As for all the rest of the stuff...hello?! Can you say "holdovers"? Chances are, you'll see them next season/series!
PS: My rating would be 8.5/10; but I've rounded it up to 9.