Buh-bye

[Jolly]

https://www.theautopian.com/top-gear-is-officially-off-the-air-indefinitely/

[George K]

The show was Clarkson, Hammond and May.

Without them, it's a bore.

And, somehow, the Grand Tour ain't what Top Gear used to be either.

[Doctor Phibes]

They also had to pay out 9 million pounds in compensation to Freddie Flintoff after his accident - both he and Hammond were lucky not to have been killed. There's got to be a point where people say 'this is stupid'.

I'd kind of lost interest in both shows before they transferred. The Clarkson etc. one had become almost like a parody of itself.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Buh-bye:

The Clarkson etc. one had become almost like a parody of itself.

[LuFins Dad]

I never really got turned on to them until Grand Tour. Maybe that’s why I seem to like it more than most? I’ve watched a few episodes of Top Gear, and liked it, but not quite as much… It could be a matter of nostalgia not being as good as it used to?

[George K]

Top Gear was at its best when it was about...cars. They had some goofy stuff, to be sure, but the reviews of the cars were great.

I never enjoyed the "adventures" quite as much. They always seemed contrived, in a Grand Tour kind of way. The crises were staged and designed to get a chuckle. Not a laugh, but a chuckle.

Don't give me a Brit version of "Oregon Trail." Show me some Aston Martins, Lambos and Mustangs.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Buh-bye:

Don't give me a Brit version of "Oregon Trail."

Awesome description.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Buh-bye:

Top Gear was at its best when it was about...cars. They had some goofy stuff, to be sure, but the reviews of the cars were great.

I thought the early series of the new show in the 2000's were a good mix. The original Top Gear in the 70's and 80's was all cars, nothing else, and it was pretty dull - not many laughs except of course for Clarkson's perm.

Then they got sillier and sillier as they made more and more money.