Top Gear 10: The Complete Season 10
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If you mean by Top Gear presenters calm down a bit and will start to age. Well youre wrong. Season 10 is one of the most ambitious, with some of the challenges that only a very brave or very stupid to take courage. For example, who in their right mind would try to drive through the Kalahari Desert in three 20 year old banger? Or try to cross the treacherous English Channel in amphibious fleet of cars which are less than the average church shipping? You guessed it Gears Top three intrepid presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Top Gear course, is something more than just three grown men who should know better larking about. Therell be serious journalism car there too with an exhaustive road tests the latest models, looks back over the history of motoring, man versus machine experiments and weekly power tests featuring the world most exotic super cars. And of course all the favorites tried to make the Top Gear of return for this welcome news, cool wall and Stig wholl be to introduce the rich and famous through their steps in the regular Star affordable car functions.
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on July 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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If you like British Humor do yourself a favor and stop reading this review and buy this dvd set. You could give “two flying farts” about cars and this would still be your favorite show on television (which in fact I actually hate cars). I only wish that they would go ahead and release the previous seasons on DVD because this show is genius, my personal favorite being the African Special which is on the first DVD. GO BUY IT NOW!
on July 5, 2009 at 7:55 am
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I’m no gearhead and haven’t an adventurous bone in my body so this show has completely passed me by. But like any really good project, it makes you care even if you don’t care. The show’s stars cruise through the Kalahari Desert and other exotic locales, test out new cars, host celebrities like Simon Cowell of American Idol and Helen Mirren (!) and it’s more entertaining than I ever expected.
on July 5, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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I’m not even going to bother extolling Top Gear’s virtues. It’s the best show on the air. Go watch it. However…
This DVD set is terrible.
First thing to notice is that the packaging is cheap, flimsy, and extremely minimal. The retention clips in mine were already broken in two places. Two of the DVDs overlap, like shingles, and scratches are inevitable. There is no insert, other than a BBC survey about the discs, which you might want to keep and use, though I suspect no one actually reads those things.
Second thing to notice is the quality of the video. It’s oversharpened, probably to try to cover up the blurriness. The blurriness is probably because the widescreen video appears merely to have been zoomed up from the central portion of the letterboxed BBC America/Canada airings. You end up with blurry, sharpened, aliased mud. It’s almost painful to see on anything other than a 23″ tube TV.
Third thing to notice is that, content-wise, these are apparently nothing more than the BBC America/Canada airings. Language is bleeped and the shows are cut down to make room for commercials. I could have made these discs, nearly verbatim, for pennies, by archiving the identical recordings off of my TiVo.
There’s more fiddly stuff, but isn’t that enough already? Unless you need an archive of what’s already been on the air, pretty much as-is, for $32+tax, don’t bother.
Do a better job next time, BBC. I won’t buy another set if you don’t. I’d even go so far as to say you should recall these discs and (re)do them properly.
on July 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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With an unlimited budget iconoclastic as their imagination, presenters and producers of Top Gear have created a brilliantly funny television show, which is equal parts smart, thoughtful, information and completely insane. Great TV for the unlikely, with the shrewd wit, unexpected production values and the kind of crazy mix of British and inner-directed masochism sociopathology makes one think that the authors are the intellectual heirs, in equal parts, from Evelyn Waugh, and Hunter S. Thompson. A torpedo cars rolled in the doors of journalism.
on July 6, 2009 at 2:09 am
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What to do when a combination of journalist, disc jockey and pianist? Top Gear! Best British comedy Televison hit the air waves since the 1970's hit "The Good Life." Top Gear is hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in one hour three mates can be hilarious, rollicking adventure through the world of cars. Within each episode there is the performance of the car works with the audio-visual driver of a comment by Celebrity car runs around the Top Gear track, performance car tests by the elusive, mystery man "The Stig", "Cool Wall", where Jeremy and Richard Rental rates depending on the category of "cool and uncool" based on performance / style of the car, and a challenge for the team to perform. The best feature of the show are the "road trips and the challenges of" the team were all over the world. Our particular favorite is the family of "Top Gear Cycling in Vietnam", which was the season finale for the season 2009.