[tv trailer] Top Gear - Nepal Christmas Special 2019

[Arthur]

On today at 9.00 p.m.

 

 

Edited December 29, 2019 by Arthur

[mikeprice]

Watched it this morning

 

it was OK - but not wonderful

 

lots of bit to camera that seemed unnatural

very suspicious about getting city cars with UK reg

so 2 of them get French city cars (if you can call a R4 a city car)

and Flintof turns up with a Nepalese version of a Land Rover (OK a rubbish one but anyway)

 

and then they go over dodgy roads that only the big tank can manage - without it and its ground clearance they would have been sunk

 

suspicious that the tank was put in to make the challenge possible

[hardtailstar]

Just watched it and it just seemed like a lot was missing.

[admars]

and then they go over dodgy roads that only the big tank can manage - without it and its ground clearance they would have been sunk

m don't

are you suggesting it was a setup? have you never seen a Top Gear special before? You know there's a few other vehicles with them for provisions, cameras, first aid etc? they didn't really need to buy chicken and "elbow pads".

 

I loved it, thought it was brilliant, and showed the new guys can do what the old guys used to do.

 

Loved the camera work as well amazing looking place.

[MatthewL]

I started watching it and turned it off last night, gone down hill totally now.

[mikeprice]

m don't

are you suggesting it was a setup? have you never seen a Top Gear special before? You know there's a few other vehicles with them for provisions, cameras, first aid etc? they didn't really need to buy chicken and "elbow pads".

 

I loved it, thought it was brilliant, and showed the new guys can do what the old guys used to do.

 

Loved the camera work as well amazing looking place.

 

camera work - agreed - wonderful

 

chicken and elbow pads - fine - no problem

 

and - Yup - the old ones were also silly - and it was always obvious that they had proper support stuff with them - including loads of spares and mechanics

 

so I expect to suspend some logic and just go with it

 

but this seemed to push reality too far

if they had just had 3 similar cars - fairly modern and European based it would have been fine

maybe have a Subaru or something

 

but an old R4 seemed a stretch - why not just have a 2cv as well (actually a 2CV might have done quite well - used to have one and it could go over anything!)

and the Nepalese thing was just off - I mean, if they all had the same brief and picked their cars using that - why would he choose that - why not pick an actual Land Rover

 

just seemed a push too far

 

 

probably just me