Well, well, well...the penny has finally dropped.
http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2011/07/15/jeremy-and-andy-wilman-discuss-sundays-new-show/
Over the last few seasons, I thought that Clarkson, Hammond and May had turned into a bunch of feckless, bumbling idiots, but in actual fact, it turns out that they're just gearing to show to entertain children. Y'know, the 'petrolhead' demographic...
Well played Mr Wilman. I look forward to the Top Gear magazine adding in a much needed 'coloring-in' section
You obviously
didn't listen to what they were saying then. They were talking about ONE upcoming episode, not the last few seasons.
Look, it seems most of you have missed the point entirely. The fact is they KNOW how to make a great car show (yes, this season has started well), but INSTEAD they choose to make a show primarly to entertain their children - and will admit as much.
Again, you are wrong. Sorry.
Degrading Top Gear to entertain 12 year old girls is like buying a muscle car and then painting a rainbow and a pink unicorn on the side so your daughter likes it - yes, the car is cool and yet also kinda ruined.
So you have been to the Carbage thread!
Oh god, just listen to yourself, "appeal to the child in all of us", no wonder you can't comprehend what i'm trying to say.
I'm not trying to "bitch about one segment", i'm merely saying that I understand now why Top Gear has gone from being a show about three guys who have a passion for cars, to a sitcom about three bumbling halfwits who traipse about the place setting things on fire.
Then stop bitching about the ONE segment then.
I disagree entirely with ANYONE who says they weren't being serious. If it was some ruse, they'd be winking at the camera, but no, instead Clarkson casually reveals the two fundimental flaws that have been dogging this show for the last few seasons - "we have to make the show for everybody" and "it's for my 12 year old daughter"..
Well, sorry. Believe it or not, there are other people out there with different opinions. If you cant handle that, I suggest you log off now.
Yeah, good one. Here's one for you, how about you learn to read? My original comment was about the "last few seasons".
But you keep harking back to
ONE line that concerns just
ONE upcoming episode. Or maybe two.
And what a surprise, someone else who can't read. .
What a surprise. Someone who has their panties in a bunch about one thing that was said and is now having a snit fit because not everyone agrees with him.
No wonder the degradation of Top Gear is beyond your interpretation, you can't even detect humor.
No wonder your funny meter is so broken you can no longer detect humor. Shame really...
What would be the point in seeking an internship? .
And that noise is the sound of the joke whizzing over your head.
Good. Because as i've mentioned more than a few times now, I was never talking about Season 17.
Then why bring up a line that was talking about an upcoming episode in Season 17?
My point is, once again, that a car show isn't meant to appeal to such a young audience and that when a producer AND presenter confidently state that their children will enjoy these episodes, I just know that we're in for more of the same garbage that we've come to loath the past few seasons.
You're right, It shouldn't. And it doesn't. Please keep up here fella...
Oh look. Another person who can't use words, so posts nothing but retarded pictures. What is it with you little kids and your stupid images?
Again, you've missed the funny. Too bad.
Come on MWF, be serious. I haven't "flamed just about everyone else who has posted in this thread". The only people on here who get 'both barrels' from me are the ones who show complete disdain by adding nothing to the discussion except their obnoxious internet memes. .
No one here or
anywhere for that matter should get "both barrels" from you because they disagree with you.
This is the internet. People here
will have different ideas, ideals, morals, beliefs and other assorted values than you. I can't even
begin to list the threads where Ive gotten into debates with people here, where it was blatantly obvious that we both had vastly different views on the subject. Almost to the point where I wanted to strangle them.
But I don't flame anyone, nor would I
ever "neg-rep" anyone just because they didn't agree with me.
Get used to it. Or go home. And take your crayons with you.