Greenscout
Member
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2010
- Messages
- 17
The Tim Lovejoy Experiment did a huge amount of damage to Fifth Gear. Things have improved since but it has been a slow rise back to what it used to be.
Just for a laugh I dug up an old episode (07x04 to be exact) just to remind myself what it used to be like... back then it was still the 30 min format, no website crap just a fairly quick bit for the competition (they just offered a car, not a car, fuel, and a heap of other shit)... Tom was great, not sure what happened there but they never should have got rid of him... Tif hasn't changed much since but Jason was calmer and less OTT than he is these days... same with Vick, even her single squeal didn't give me the shits like it usually does. Overall the whole thing was more focused, better written and much nicer to watch.
It's kinda hard to summarise but back then FG was simple with substance.... these days it's trying to be flashier and generally failing miserably.
x10
Agreed, if they could somehow take the show back to how it was back then I reckon they're onto a sure fire winner