It?s hard coming back down from last week ... but this one was good. Not excellent, but good. The Ferrari review didn?t really do it for me though. Mainly because I disagree with Clarkson on the looks of the car and he kept repeating how good it looked and I kept repeating to the screen "you are wrong sunshine". And his criticism of the controls just made him look an old man complaining because he?s old and unflexible. And making someone elses car dirty then even got me a bit angry ... Asbo-Clarkson at work there ... it would have been funny if he?d just misadjusted the airvents ...
and this from the man that says "flatulence, it?s not funny" - when clearly it is.
The News were good. Being a internet-nerd I knew the t-shirt pics ... but not bad at all.
The classic brit-sportscar bit ... mixed feelings. I like the tone they did it in. I liked that tone the whole series and I hope to see more of this in Series 16. This "take this serious and you are a fool" tone. A lot of the not so good stuff in some of the last series was due to the tone of the segments being to serious and not having this
about them. But the segment didn?t win me over totally. Especially the end (wich a lot of you seemed to love) didn?t do it for me. With all the
going on the whole time basically saying that these cars are all rubbish and the british car industry deserved what it had coming ... that emotional U-turn at the end just didn?t work. Fond Memories ... yes. But that was more glorification. I think a lot of people regard the continued Alfa-love of the boys the same way and just don?t get it. I get Alfas ... I don?t get small british sportscars ... and this bit didn?t win me over.
SIARPC ... a downer again. I like Jeff Goldblum the Actor ... I don?t like the Studioguest Jeff Goldblum so much...
Gave the episode a 7/10
Looking back at Series 15 as a whole, I think it?s been an improvement to S13, 12 and 14. Like I said, I like the unseriousness a lot of stuff got done with. I also like the way they didn?t edit everything out that wasn?t perfect. That all gave the Parts where the Boys are doing trips together (and some news bits) a much better feel than in the last series. They?ve given the show a bit of the "unplanned" feeling back that I missed so painfully for so long. It might sound paradox, but IMO the show is now better again because it?s not so "well made and planned" anymore (or at least it doesn?t come across that way).
Some seriously good episodes in the series. I consider 15x03 and 15x05 perhaps the best regular episodes since S12 with full points at 10/10. And then we got a 9/10, 8/10 and 7/10 IMO in the rest of the series, 15x04 being the only episode this series that I (probably) won?t rewatch (that much). So all in all and all things considered ... a very good series of TopGear. Well done and a thank you for all this superb entertainment to the crew and the presenters!