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nthfinity · 09-22-2006, 03:07 PM

So you prefer fakes?
And besides, what's the point of having car guys as hosts if they dont drive? Then any stupid chick with big boobs who knows shit about cars and driving can do it, and soeone else drives.
No, the point of these shows is that the presenters are the heropes, the drivers.

TBH, that isn't the point.... the point is that stunts like this shouldn't even be on the show... we want to see fast cars beaten to hell, and timed around the airfield test track by the stig.

FoxFour · 09-22-2006, 05:05 PM

Just got back from work and I was thinking about how he was doing for a good part of the work day.

Toronto · 09-22-2006, 05:14 PM

it is starting to sound like everything is going to be ok

jakaracman · 09-22-2006, 05:59 PM

[quote="nthfinity"]

we want to see fast cars beaten to hell, and timed around the airfield test track by the stig.

Me too ... But since you cant fill an hour with only that (as it would become boooring very quickly), you have to think of somethig spectacular.
Besides: I think you (and others) complain because it was a straight-line affair. So do I. But i like bobsled vs. rallycar or speedboat vs. bobcat (ups, another one Hamster crashes

) and so on features ...

jakaracman · 09-22-2006, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Toronto

it is starting to sound like everything is going to be ok

Piked that up on another forum:

To bring this back on topic, Richard's actually managed to have a short conversation with James May (his co-host). So it seems he's aware of who people are, and can make reasonably rational conversation. Can't be a bad sign. Let's just hope he continues to improve, but that kind of progress within 48 hours sounds encouraging to me.

Daggernite · 09-22-2006, 07:54 PM

Well im relieved that things are starting to look up for Hammond. He had me worried for a momment there.

antonioledesma · 09-22-2006, 09:49 PM

Daaamn... came back to JW after a while... and now this very bad news....

it seems he will recover completely, but he must be taken with proper care......

hope he recovers 100% and still haunt us at brainiac

Mattk · 09-23-2006, 03:35 AM

...the point is that stunts like this shouldn't even be on the show... we want to see fast cars beaten to hell, and timed around the airfield test track by the stig.

Of course, that is a big part of the show, but doing that for a whole hour week after week, year after year, is going to get a bit dull. Top Gear is a good mix of serious car testing, as well as some light-hearted stuff, and the occasional crazy stunts.

nthfinity · 09-23-2006, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Mattk

...the point is that stunts like this shouldn't even be on the show... we want to see fast cars beaten to hell, and timed around the airfield test track by the stig.

Of course, that is a big part of the show, but doing that for a whole hour week after week, year after year, is going to get a bit dull. Top Gear is a good mix of serious car testing, as well as some light-hearted stuff, and the occasional crazy stunts.

TBH, the stunts are the most annoying part of the show; and really take away from its quality.

fsandys · 09-23-2006, 05:11 AM

Latest BBC News report says that now JC sees Hammond's recovery, he is battling to ensure he has a TG program to come back too!!

(Kinda good news)

Is it really true that this is proabably the fastest car crash ever? as stated in the news report??

jakaracman · 09-23-2006, 08:59 AM

Bit of good news:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006440306,00.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

Unfortunately the last sentnce ("BBC bosses have postponed a new series of Best of Top Gear while Richard remains in hospital. It was due to air on October 1.") is not so good, but as long we get Hamster back and TG stays ...

Fleischmann · 09-23-2006, 09:00 AM

JC's article in The Sun:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006440317,00.html

“You’ve been in a car accident,” I said. “Was I driving like a tw*t?” he asked, before getting out of bed and walking, shakily, to the lavatory.

LotusGT1 · 09-23-2006, 09:09 AM

^JC's article is brilliant.

jakaracman · 09-23-2006, 10:37 AM

And for all those thinking that the producers were forcing JC&co to do crazy stunts (and if Hammond was "frced" to do this one):

From JC's The Sun article:

The idea to drive a jet car actually came from Hammond. He skedaddled into the office one day and, bubbling with his trademark enthusiasm, said: “Hey, why don’t we go somewhere and drive really fast? I don’t mean supercar fast. I mean REALLY fast.”

We all liked the idea. But what we liked even more was the idea of James May being given the assignment.

James is known to his fans as Captain Slow. He thinks dawdling is reckless and practises the art of what he calls “Christian Motoring”. Mostly, this involves letting people out of side turnings and generally being Edwardian.
Putting him, and that ’70s barnet, in a 370mph jet car was a bit like putting just Jane Austen at the helm of a space shuttle.

Immediately, James discovered a prior engagement and said he couldn’t go. I, meanwhile, decided that I spent most of my thirties upside down in jet fighters and helicopter gunships, vomiting, and that these days I was far too fat.

That left Hammond, who was bouncing around like the donkey in Shrek shouting, “Pick me. Pick me”.

And so we did.

Today, people who have absolutely no idea at all of how television works, (Yes, columnist Neil Lyndon — that’s you, you sanctimonious, rent-a-soundbite little t**d) are saying that our producers push us to do more and more dangerous stunts in a bid for ratings.

Rubbish. Our producers spend their whole lives filling in health and safety forms and asking “are you sure?”

It’s the presenters who come up with the hare-brained ideas and trans-continental races . . . not the backroom boys or the suits.

ANd the part about future of TG:

Somehow I doubt it though. The campaign to have us taken off the air — sparked curiously, by the BBC’s own news website — will now be ramped up, fuelled by the environmentalists and spearheaded by muddle-headed road safety campaigners.

Richard is winning his fight. And now mine begins. To make sure that he has a show to come back to.

Maybe we should start a e-mail campaign for TG here at JW?

[email protected]

LotusGT1 · 09-23-2006, 10:55 AM

Online petition perhaps?