Top Gear just made me sad. - Already on the FP - my bad.

"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner) 02/04/2016 at 10:25 • Filed to: None

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Apparently Matt LeBlanc will be co-hosting Top Gear. I’ve seen a few of the best of races shows he hosts on top gear. Why do you do this BBC? Why? He is too stiff and his jokes fall flat. Did the writers all get canned too?

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dailydoseofmindlessness > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:35

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He’d be the ‘small American from across the pond’. ¯\_()_/¯

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:42

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New Top Gear needs at the minimum an orangutan and “someone quirky”. Chris Harris may have the quirky sufficiently covered, but the orangutan role (i.e. someone who does things ‘brash, stupid, and crazy’) isn’t really filled, and from what I’ve seen of Matt, he’s just kind of... there. Can he either adapt to an orangutan role or counterpoint one? I just don’t know.

Dusty Ventures > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:45

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If your objection is based on him being too stiff while hosting a “best of” show then clearly you've never seen any of the original trio hosting one of the Top Gear clip shows

CaptDale - is secretly British > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:47

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Eh, I am not opposed, at least he won’t puke when driving with Sabine....

Future next gen S2000 owner > Dusty Ventures 02/04/2016 at 10:49

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Maybe it will be better with other hosts to play off of.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:50

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That may be the case, but lets wait until we see the first episode... even then, let's wait until the first series is over with before we rip into it.

Future next gen S2000 owner > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/04/2016 at 10:50

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I think he could fill the orangutan role but it may take a while to develop that persona.

-this space for rent- > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:53

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BBC figured American is close enough to orangutan.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 10:54

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The trouble is, you can’t fake orangutan easily. It’s better to relax into orangutan than try to force it, and I worry that he’d think immediately that he needed to orang it up and... really not get the tone right.

Alfalfa > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/04/2016 at 11:00

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That’s true, they’d probably be better off with someone who played somewhat of a dimwit for ten years on a popular TV show.

Tripper > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 11:03

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Personally I cant see the new top gear as anything but a flop regardless of the cast.

450X_FTW > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 11:21

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My dream, James, Jeremy, and Richard take over Top Gear USA replacing all 3 of the hosts.

450X_FTW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/04/2016 at 11:22

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TG UK had the trifecta of an orangutan (Jeremy), sensible intelligence (James), and comedy sidekick (Richard)

Future next gen S2000 owner > 450X_FTW 02/04/2016 at 11:38

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I like our goofy knock-offs.

Agrajag > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/04/2016 at 11:43

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So your saying he may not be a Great ape?

CALUSA > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 11:50

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He might remind me a bit of Hammond.... Wonder if European people really like him.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Agrajag 02/04/2016 at 11:53

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Yes. That is what I’m saying. Unrelated, I CADed up what could serve as four primary shape blanks for The Great Cast Zinc Project, so I may make those blanks out of something to get the measurements right, machine them further with a die grinder, and then either separate the chunks to cast as four pieces to solder together or make a three to four-piece mold with seamlines divided by cardstock for the plaster of paris pour.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Alfalfa 02/04/2016 at 11:57

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What you did there,

I see it.

Agrajag > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/04/2016 at 12:38

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Awesome! I tried keeping ease of mold-making in mind when doing the drawings. I figured, and it looks like you had the same ideas, that the body and neck/head, legs and wings, base, could all be individual pieces done as two-piece molds.

Love the project name.

Garrett Davis > CALUSA 02/04/2016 at 14:59

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He’s had a successful show on BBC for 5 years now, so I’d say probably yes.

CALUSA > Garrett Davis 02/04/2016 at 15:01

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BBC UK or America?

Garrett Davis > CALUSA 02/04/2016 at 15:03

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UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodes_…

CALUSA > Garrett Davis 02/04/2016 at 15:08

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Hmm, never heard of that show tbh! But it should help him.

Garrett Davis > CALUSA 02/04/2016 at 15:10

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I don’t think it’s ever been syndicated here, but it’s pretty big in the UK apparently.

Jayvincent > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/04/2016 at 20:07

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Clearly it’s a ploy to try and draw American audiences away from that Amazon car show the BBC has been hearing about...

Future next gen S2000 owner > Jayvincent 02/05/2016 at 10:04

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If that was the case, they need to broadcast it in the US but I think Top Gear USA precludes doing that.