the new era of top gear is shite

It baffles me that anyone would even consider that the new era of ‘top gear’ competes or even as far as betters the old era.

Person baffled others have different subjective opinion of subjective topic.

More at eleven.

surely the facts speak for themselves.

What facts?

Entertainment is inherently subjective.

If we are talking figures then the old era comes out on top, as soon as Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond left the show views dropped to an all time low with the second episode only accumulating 2.8 million viewers and the 5th having just 1.6 million

Viewership doesn't prove a show is good or bad. Millions of people watch X Factor but I find the show to be awful.

On the flip side, almost no one watched Arrested Development when it was on TV and yet now critics regard it as one of the best comedies of all time.

the classic trio of Jeremy, James and Richard, they were good friends and knew how to have banter making it a hilarious watch, the new ones however seem to have just been forced together and they don't have their own unique dynamic, in fact it just makes for an awkward set up.

And here you're just missing the facts.

Clarkson, Hammond and May were not friends before the show. Clarkson and May were both automotive journalists but didn't really know each other and certainly weren't friends. And Hammond hadn't met either of them before the show. And the early few seasons had plenty of awkward moments. They literally replaced one of the original hosts! May was not on the show at first.

So yeah, it absolutely took a few seasons for the first 3 to build up some chemistry. Same is true for the new iterations. It takes time to build up chemistry. If you bothered to watch the LeBlanc seasons, which I suspect you haven't, you'd see them build up chemistry over the seasons and by their third season, Matt, Rory and Chris had real chemistry together. And the ratings were solid and growing. The only reason the LeBlanc iteration ended is because he disliked being away from his family for so long. It wasn't canceled.

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