The Grand Tour

[Duck Vader]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjDjaZ5-Ie4

Love them or hate them, it is the end of an era.

[Duck Vader]

Actually ended in a nice way.

[DCIV]

I need to watch this. Just want to be able to sit and enjoy it. They are responsible for a lot of the car love I had before I knew about car meets and friends.


Coop

[alienviking]

Last episode was... ok. Frankly glad they are not stringing it out more.

[Duck Vader]

ya. Wasn't great. I mean they are old and can only do so much. But it was a nice way to end it I think. I liked the last 15 min or so when they did the call back to the first.

[Jeff V.]

I think it was Hammond who told some media outlet that Amazon is looking to recast the show and keep it going. I guess they didn't learn anything from the revolving door at the various Top Gear iterations.

[MumRa]

I need to watch this. Just want to be able to sit and enjoy it. They are responsible for a lot of the car love I had before I knew about car meets and friends.


Coop

So true. I can't think of a trio that has had a better dynamic over the years.

I think it was Hammond who told some media outlet that Amazon is looking to recast the show and keep it going. I guess they didn't learn anything from the revolving door at the various Top Gear iterations.

Indeed. "Hollywood" is creatively bankrupt. There isn't much of anything that has any sense of originality anymore.

That being said, I have enjoyed James May's "Oh Cook" and "Our Man In...". Pretty decent shows if you like cooking and travel stuff.

[aaronatstate]

Agreed it was OK as well. The last 15-20 min were the best part I think.

Of all the old Top Gear/Grand Tour the specials weren’t my favorite episodes anyway. I still watched them of course, but I always liked the other challenge type episodes more than the specials.

The specials were all basically the same thing. Go to a country, buy a cheap car, try to drive across said country on terrible roads, modify cars, cars breakdown and other hosts leave, make across in the end, but the cars are trashed.

[Jeff V.]

Indeed. "Hollywood" is creatively bankrupt. There isn't much of anything that has any sense of originality anymore.

I think the bigger problem is how much money they keep sinking into this shit. When you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on something, you need a guaranteed hit. These 9 figure budgets for TV shows just aren't sustainable. If they can get the budgets down, I think they can afford to take some more creative risks.

That being said, I have enjoyed James May's "Oh Cook" and "Our Man In...". Pretty decent shows if you like cooking and travel stuff.

I haven't watched Oh Cook, but I did like his Italy and Japan shows. The India show was ok, but it was too short. It doesn't help that I have zero interest in ever going there.

[Jeff V.]

We finally watched it last night. It was really good. I think they went out on a high note. It was good to see them just going through and having the experiences without the constant contrived challenges from "Mr. Wilman".

[aaronatstate]

I can’t believe how much they paid for each of their cars to have them be as unreliable as they were

[ChargerX3]

We started this, but then we got a wild idea to start the old LOST series. Might be a few weeks before we get back to finishing it.

[Jeff V.]

I started watching Lost about halfway through. Vira introduced me to it around the time I met her. Even I felt cheated by the ending and I didn't have as much time into it as most people.

[Chris GTO TT]

I tried watching it when it first started. It was so confusing to me, I quickly lost interest

Pun not intended but a happy coincidence

[ChargerX3]

Yea, lost is slow building. We are in season 5 of 6 right now and are experiencing the time jumps. I'm going to be happy to be done with it all. I feel sorry for those people who tuned into it for 6 years.