It was worth the wait. Watched it last evening after work.
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great show, loved every second of it, i dare say, better than Top Gear at its finest.
except that one top gear episode where he flips the robin reliant; that one i'm still laughing about.
i read the many reviews, and i kept seeing how everyone thought they had spend a ton of money on the opening sequence .. what?
it's a bunch of cars - most likely, all privately owned - driving in the desert. the ultralight heli they used to film this, if not even a drone, would not top a couple thousand bucks for the day. the live event was again probably organized *not* by amazon, but even if it was, they surely would have had sponsors helping them. Same goes for the race, the use of the track must have cost a boatload of money, but the cars were all on loan by ferrari / porsche / mclaren, who they lobbied more than a year ago to do this and they profit from the publicity stunt, more likely then not resulting in a net cost of zero for the operation.
i'm not counting crew and catering, licenses, and so on; not saying this show is made on glue, tape, spit and bits of bluetac, but jesus - you can tell from the studio furniture they used that the show spends his money wisely .. something the BBC is incapable of doing.
The reason they have the tent is so they don't get sued by BBC. A lot of things they are doing that are different from Top Gear are just so they won't get sued.I just finished watching it and I loved how they mocked top gear with their dying celebrities. I hope that amazon keeps them on for a long time. The tent approach means that their studio audience changes every show and will allow different people to feel more involved with the show. Since amazon is allowing it to be watched pretty much everywhere starting next month they'll have the draw they are looking for. The BBC should just go ahead and put top gear out to pasture.
“The Star is a Reasonably Priced car, the Cool Wall, the Stig – all that had been left behind … and replaced with other stuff,” he wrote in the Sunday Times magazine. “Would that be like the Rolling Stones suddenly appearing on stage in tweed suits and doing Abba songs?”
Filming in a static location would also present legal problems with the BBC, he claimed. So he and co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May are doing a studio recording at a different place each week from inside a huge tent, which will be packed up and relocated for each of the £4.5m episodes in the 12-show series.
I agree. I mean where is the part where Richard shows up with the bulldozer at Jeremy's house? To be frank, I just did not feel connected to the show. Whoever redneck they got for the the Stig replacement had the charm of a fat and ugly rattlesnake. Heck even the "eye candies" behind the presenters left lot to be desired. Using 40 minutes of filming on the $4M cars only robbed having any mere mortal enthusiast vehicles getting air time.Had a really hard time getting into the episode. Felt like the same old thing including the played out P1/LaFerrari/918 comparison that we've seen already on other shows.
I agree. I mean where is the part where Richard shows up with the bulldozer at Jeremy's house? To be frank, I just did not feel connected to the show. Whoever redneck they got for the the Stig replacement had the charm of a fat and ugly rattlesnake. Heck even the "eye candies" behind the presenters left lot to be desired. Using 40 minutes of filming on the $4M cars only robbed having any mere mortal enthusiast vehicles getting air time.
Yes the intro was quite good but how much of it was real and how much was it CGI? I would have expected crowd to have caps to stand in the blazing hot desert. Nobody was wearing any head gear. How is that possible? The audience would be standing there for hours without any protection?
Wow; you were there? It would have been some rush (!) man!! I take back my criticism. I am all jelly here
I watched the first episode last night. It looked awesome in 4K with HDR. Overall, I thought it was pretty great and look forward to future episodes.
How do you get 4k? I don't recall it streaming at that rate for me while other Amazon show do.