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Jun. 25th, 2008 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
was_tansu_now_badhedgehogI have been watching, for a laugh, some episodes of Old Top Gear, from back in the early 1990s. And oh my, what a laugh.
Things that have struck me, some funny, others, that overused word "poignant":
1. The journalistic values! The reports on "issues" are like old Watchdog. Here's something to be REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT and we met the relevant authority spokesperson in a back alley behind a jobcentre (no, really).
2. The journalistic values! The reviews include a whole bunch of stuff which seems to be read out straight from the manufacturers marketing material.
3. The clothes. 1980s man jumpers. Tony Mason's funny little hat. Jeremy Clarkson in a long duster style coat.
4. quite lengthy rally coverage - I had forgotten that this used to be on Top Gear, I remember watching it on the BBC but not that it was part of the actual Top Gear programme.
4a. Young promising rally drivers who since became world champion and then died tragically young. I nearly wept to see a 20 year old Richard Burns (1971-2005). Death stalks us everyfuckingwhere.
5. Occasional and sometimes inappropriate Day Today style excessively fancy cuts.
Things that have struck me, some funny, others, that overused word "poignant":
1. The journalistic values! The reports on "issues" are like old Watchdog. Here's something to be REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT and we met the relevant authority spokesperson in a back alley behind a jobcentre (no, really).
2. The journalistic values! The reviews include a whole bunch of stuff which seems to be read out straight from the manufacturers marketing material.
3. The clothes. 1980s man jumpers. Tony Mason's funny little hat. Jeremy Clarkson in a long duster style coat.
4. quite lengthy rally coverage - I had forgotten that this used to be on Top Gear, I remember watching it on the BBC but not that it was part of the actual Top Gear programme.
4a. Young promising rally drivers who since became world champion and then died tragically young. I nearly wept to see a 20 year old Richard Burns (1971-2005). Death stalks us everyfuckingwhere.
5. Occasional and sometimes inappropriate Day Today style excessively fancy cuts.
