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just watched top gear USA, and it was rubbish
mr Kreuzfeld wrote
at 9:14 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
it truely was rubbish, it was tame american people trying to fit into a british style program. when the british does a british style program, it works because of how they speak and what kinds of things they say. but when you have really just tame none engading american programleaders, who lack british spunk, and are not trying to have amerian psass, then it just becomes all wrong. they tried to copy it seems, but they where not the original cast, so an exact compy was never going to work anyways.


I sometimes wonder why americans copy TV shows and movies from the world, intstead of just using the original. and sometimes, there is a foregin language, so when you copy "kingdom hospital" (danish Riget), "Pathfinder" (sami Ofelas) and other productions like those, I understand, because noone is going to watch it anyways in the US if one don't try. but copying one of the most successfull TV shows in the history of television, that are already in english, that seems a little uneccesary. (I say most successfull because if you take the genre into account, then a show about cars being this successfull is a bigger leap than a comedy show like full house getting ahead of most other shows)

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superxchloe wrote
at 9:18 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
i didn't read the post, but top gear usa sucks.
Gurgi wrote
at 10:16 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
what's top gear

also tl'dr
mr Kreuzfeld wrote
at 10:25 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
Evil Empire wrote
at 10:28 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
Yes top gear sucks but so does your take on the US.
mr Kreuzfeld wrote
at 10:45 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
yodel, just like you do not try to understand what I am saying and just go about insulting instead. if they had made a real american show, based on american TV style, then that would have been a show I might watch and like, what I do not like tho is weak copies that don't work because the original is based on the culture of the country it comes from, and that part, or charm usually gets lost in translation. now the US has its own brand of culture that really works, and when europeans try to copy that style it becomes bad. so most european companies has the sense not to do it, also the marked is already open for american movies/TV so any copy would be a direct competitor to the original.
MadHat_Sam wrote
at 10:47 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
American entertainment companies are about profit, not about creativity. Easier to copy something else that was successful, American Idol, then try to come up with something original.

Also Top Gear USA sucks giant fucking donkey dick. The basic premise of honest car reviews, in the opinions of the hosts obviously, would never fly on American TV where we need corporate sponsors to support shows.
mr Kreuzfeld wrote
at 10:53 PM, Sunday July 3, 2011 EDT
top gear is not really honest car reviews, it is about charismatic personalities doing insane tests of the most extreme cars in the world.

they where the first people to drive a car to the north pole.
deadcode wrote
at 12:20 AM, Monday July 4, 2011 EDT
Yeah I agree that the USA version of Top Gear sucks and that no one watches it.

But I disagree with the premise that Americans "copied" the british show. It is BBC that is behind the USA version as well.
Boner Oiler wrote
at 2:58 AM, Monday July 4, 2011 EDT
/agree with mrk
MadHat_Sam wrote
at 3:03 AM, Monday July 4, 2011 EDT
10% Of the time they are doing some crazy test or event, 90% of the time they are just doing a normal test drive of the car, it just looks crazy because it is always raining, silly UK weather.

The show simply cannot survive or thrive with a USA centric model, just on a simple prima facie basis the idea of individualism of the hosts from any bias but there own will never be possible in the US.
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