BBC Review Of The Grand Tour Is "Strangely" Negative
While generally reviews for The Grand Tour came in positively or just a little disappointed, strangely the BBC’s Arts Editor Will Gompertz is not impressed in the slightest.
While generally reviews for The Grand Tour came in positively or just a little disappointed, strangely the BBC’s Arts Editor Will Gompertz is not impressed in the slightest.
"... so over-the-top and opulent you'd think that the Prince Regent was behind the camera..."
Gompertz didn’t stop there criticising the big introduction. He didn’t appreciate the trio taking to the stage “in the manner of rock stars on tour”:
"A huge crowd of cheering fans has amassed at their feet. There is no irony. It feels uncomfortably hubristic."
He then goes on to criticise the “filmic” nature of the show, claiming that “”the scale of the production, the quality of the cameras, the epic sweeping shots” gave it a cinematic film aimed more at people watching it on home TV or “or a mobile phone, which is how I imagine a lot of people will view it”.
I would suggest he got a better TV because in 4k it looked amazing - much better than than the latest season of say… Top Gear.
However, my favourite things he comes out with are:
"They go to Portugal to race three fast cars around a racetrack, which petrolheads will no doubt enjoy, but their many fans who are more interested in horseplay than horsepower might find goes on a bit."
"Squint and you might have been watching a certain popular BBC motoring franchise, though you wonder what all the newbies attracted by the hype will have made of three middle-aged men chugging around a test circuit,"
Yep. He thinks they spent too much time on their car show concentrating on the three most lusted after hyper-cars in the world put together on what’s, only just arguably, the most beautiful race track on the planet.
The kicker to all this is Clarkson being Clarkson and retweeting someone from Twitter asking Gompertz:
While not all reviews were enthusiastic it seems that most were still positive and overall happy with what was presented.
It did play almost like a pilot which is effectively, if not technically, what it was and that’s fine by me. We can see the boys are back and they obviously aim to misbehave.
That’s a good thing.
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for the most part, for me, the grand tour felt boring. anybody else?
I thought it was alright.
The intro with red, blue and white Mustangs and the fighter-jets overhead was a bit “on the nose” about them being an american production now, and their test-driver “the american” is a bit of “trying too hard”.
Uh… what colors are the British flag?
The American was also a complete miss for me. It’s a really tired stereotype even for them.
His point about the intro is correct. It was a bit “awkward” with that on-stage introduction, but everything leading up to that point and then everything after it was great. Things could be better, but that’s always the case with anything. As it stands, this single episode was worth the year and a half wait more than what Top Gear’s whole latest season was worth it’s 6 month wait.
BBC is like the Ex who broke up with you but then realized it was a mistake and now just talks bad about you while secretly wanting you back
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If there’s any consolation to the BBC, I do somewhat agree with the reviewer that the Hypercar Trinity segments were a little stretched (I was getting a tad bored until they started the drag races), but everything else is, to be nice, merely a complete and utter misunderstanding of what The Grand Tour is supposed to be (I wonder why…).
that person who wrote the reviews need a punch…..from clarkson
Will Gompertz, a man who thinks this hairstyle looks good, thinks the Grand Tour isn’t good. No comment…..
BBC Production office: ‘’alright guys, the Grand Tour just uploaded his first video, let’s find ALL and ONLY the negative things about it…’’
seems like a great idea!
At least Will could locate the question mark on his keyboard!
ouch. the salt is stinging my eyes