Pashley26 Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 (edited) Didn't have the brains to google "Holden Maloo" then, Volver' ? Edited August 2, 2009 by Pashley26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf the Yellow Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 mourning girl in black bikini.. haha it certainly puts a smile on my face.but seriously wtf was that ending about?steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Didn't have the brains to google "Holden Maloo" then, Volver' ? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 The end of Top Gear was a triumph! No crappy jokes or explosions, just awesome shots, a great edit, and Clarkson being serious for once. Spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 I liked the Aston, and thought it was a lot more of a serious side of TG. However, that VW bit and the Jay Leno part annoyed me. Otherwise it was an OK episode, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 I liked the Aston, and thought it was a lot more of a serious side of TG.How was it serious, it was total filler.The VW ads were pretty funny and Jay Leno is a dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 How was it serious.More sweeping shots, and it 'kind of' made a point towards the economy and how it 'maybe just maybe' could be one of the last few (hundred) juicy ass sports cars to sell in mass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 How was it serious, it was total fillerIt was a chance to enjoy the sight and sound of a stunningly well built car. One that as Clarkson quite rightly says 'will soon be consigned to the history books'.Why wouldn't any motorcar enthusiast enjoy watching five minutes of an Aston being driven round some stunning scenery?!That's what Top Gear does best, they know it because they ended the series with five minutes of it, to be honest I'd have prefered an hour of just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Why wouldn't any motorcar enthusiast enjoy watching five minutes of an Aston being driven round some stunning scenery?!The bit that annoyed me was they said it has a new v12 engine yet you didn't get to see how much of a difference it made, they could have at least put it round the track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 That would probably have undermined the ending fairly significantly. If you felt disappointed that they didn't put it round the track, it sounds like you probably missed the point of the ending they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-A Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Yeh that last 5 mins was the best bit of this series of top gear.to be honest I was pretty disappointed by it this season, and probs wont bother turning on the TV for next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 That would probably have undermined the ending fairly significantly. If you felt disappointed that they didn't put it round the track, it sounds like you probably missed the point of the ending they did.Exactly. That's not what it was about, if you wanted to see it on the track then the ending did pass you by completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinJI Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Yeh that last 5 mins was the best bit of this series of top gear.to be honest I was pretty disappointed by it this season, and probs wont bother turning on the TV for next season.Yeah, not really been a fan of this season either. There's been nothing to do with cars really on it to be honest, just clarkson going ohh.. shiny fast things. I loved the way in this episode he had a go at people with no interest in cars saying they're crap drivers then said he didn't know what fuel injection did, tit.Also what's happened to their challenge's? They used to have a point to them, and they'd then explore that point, ie the BL cars one, they were trying to prove the quality of the cars by testing their quality, and it was just as entertaining as these new crap chalenges they seem to have replaced it with, lets see if RWD cars are better by testing their... erm, reliability? ice driving? lap times with no practice driven by a tit? Sorry, what have any of those got to do with rear wheel drive?Meh, its entertaining, but they've gone too far that way, it used to be a car show, that was entertaining, now its no longer a car show, and not really any more entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 The ending was a filler. The TG editors are some of the best I've ever seen in any programme yet that ending was absolutely crap. It seemed as if they took 10 shots of that car and just repeated them over and over again with no idea of how to edit it and make it look good.The message Clarkson was trying to convey was silly and untrue. He's saying that now and in a few months he'll be shooting for the new series blasting a new Pagani/Lambo/Merc around the track being all excited about how amazing it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Zing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-A Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 The ending was a filler. The TG editors are some of the best I've ever seen in any programme yet that ending was absolutely crap. It seemed as if they took 10 shots of that car and just repeated them over and over again with no idea of how to edit it and make it look good.No.IMO the ending was no more filler than the rest of the show, cool wall not just filller? More importantly, most of the editing on top gear is heavily stylised. It has evolved across the 11 series to become the aggressive, jumpy, glitchy style we come to associate with top gear. That style of editing would be just plain wrong to convey the message that Clarkson was trying to put across with that piece. There were still some neat tricks in there, like the pans from road across the dashboard where the scenery kept changing mid pan, a nice way to show time/distance passing. One of the things about top gear is that to try and make the same old cars going round and round more interesting they spend lots of time in post trying out different things, like the shaky black and white stuff seen in series 10, or some of the day/night cuts they did on the z4 piece, they go out and try different things.What your saying is equivalent to saying that the editing in a children's film is crap because its not cut like a horror movie and colour graded in the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 That would probably have undermined the ending fairly significantly. If you felt disappointed that they didn't put it round the track, it sounds like you probably missed the point of the ending they did.I get why they did it, annoyed was too strong a word, to get annoyed by a tv programme would be pretty sad. But i mean that i would have liked to see the difference between that aston and the smaller engined one as i'm not going to get the chance in real life. I watch top gear to see cars i wouldn't normally see which is why i like it over programmes like used car roadshow. Maybe fifth gear will get it on their show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 The ending was a filler. The TG editors are some of the best I've ever seen in any programme yet that ending was absolutely crap. It seemed as if they took 10 shots of that car and just repeated them over and over again with no idea of how to edit it and make it look good.The message Clarkson was trying to convey was silly and untrue. He's saying that now and in a few months he'll be shooting for the new series blasting a new Pagani/Lambo/Merc around the track being all excited about how amazing it is.So let me get this straight....They get a very rare car from Aston, take it and Clarkson to remote parts of the country, shut off roads, organise a helicopter with a giro cam, employ some of the best freelance camera operators to shoot it, organise a heavy CSO sequence more than once which would include renting a studio to light the car and cloth, plus rigging a remote camera inside the car, pay some of the best freelance editors to cut it and mix down the sound with music, effects, and Clarksons VO, then pay more freelance editors to treat it and grade it and touch it up in post.......for four minutes of filler. Oh yea, the producers and director would sat around with Aston exec's saying....'Yea we don't know what to do with the end of Top Gear for the last show of the season, can we borrow your car, we'll spend a massive budget and put in a massive amount of organisation just to fill out the last four minutes.'LMFAO.Whether the message didn't work for you or you didn't like the edit is one thing, but to say it was just filler is laughable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtrials Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) Regardless of cost it was filler (Since when have Top Gear been afraid of spending shit loads of money on meaningless stuff anyway ). The super car isn't dead and won't be for a long time. It's like producing a memorial to the Queen and broadcasting it now... "I can't help but feel that these are her last few years..." Edited August 4, 2009 by adamtrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) Regardless of cost it was filler (Since when have Top Gear been afraid of spending shit loads of money on meaningless stuff anyway ). The super car isn't dead and won't be for a long time. It's like producing a memorial to the Queen and broadcasting it now... "I can't help but feel that these are her last few years..."I'm not sure if you guys know what filler is then. It's nothing like that at all, the Queen is a person, so it would be disrespectful to say that it would be her last few years. Though if she was ill and you were watching the BBC News then it would be the top story!This is Top Gear, globally the car industry is very unwell. Motorsport has taken a huge hit, teams pulling out etc... Factories closing down and running on skeleton staff numbers, car sales on the forecourt at a massive low. Companies will not put money into rare supercars right now.There's no doubt there will still be super cars made but what about all the ones that were going to be manufactured and now are not. Honda for instance have pulled there concept super cars for the forseable future. If there hadn't been the global economic problem then they wouldn't just be designing and building these cars they'd also still be in F1!Even the car used in the finale of TG isn't safe, I was chatting to the head designer of the DBS last month he said off the that Aston have of course been experiencing problems. This is from carkeys.co.uk...written just 6 months ago, since then I myself have been there to film on skeleton staff numbers...With sales falling due to the financial situation, Aston Martin has announced that it has begun consulting the unions about a range of cutbacks."Like other premium car brands, Aston Martin has been forced to take action to respond to the unprecedented downturn in the global economy," says company CEO Dr Ulrich Bez. "These are regrettable but necessary measures in the extraordinary market conditions we all now face."According to Aston Martin, the possibility of losing 300 permanent jobs and a further 300 temporary ones "cannot be ruled out".Aston Martin was sold by Ford to a consortium (including Prodrive boss David Richards and two Kuwaiti companies) for £479 million in early 2007. Ford retained a stake in the company from which it hoped to generate some additional income, though this is looking unlikely at the moment.and also, a little more recently...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventr...ire/8144379.stmDoes this seem like the optimum climate to be manufacturing gas guzzling super cars?!It's not about the few that will be built, its about the many more super cars drawn up that are now being scrapped. Edited August 4, 2009 by Decade Ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Maybe fifth gear will get it on their show.They had it a few weeks back, Tiff Needell ragged it round their far superior track, it sounded good, it looked good, and was what I wanted to see.The end of TG was pretty much "This car is nice. The economy is bad. kthnxbi." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 So let me get this straight....They get a very rare car from Aston, take it and Clarkson to remote parts of the country, shut off roads, organise a helicopter with a giro cam, employ some of the best freelance camera operators to shoot it, organise a heavy CSO sequence more than once which would include renting a studio to light the car and cloth, plus rigging a remote camera inside the car, pay some of the best freelance editors to cut it and mix down the sound with music, effects, and Clarksons VO, then pay more freelance editors to treat it and grade it and touch it up in post.......for four minutes of filler.Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Is Fifth Gear meant to be 30 minutes long? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decade Ago Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 YesI'm give up.Here's a Zonda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Is Fifth Gear meant to be 30 minutes long?I think it's meant to be about 5 minutes, and then they fill the rest with though annoying twunts talking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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