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Because I did, and I have to agree with the Grauniad: Top Gear: Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc launch new series – as it happened | Television & radio | The Guardian[^]
It wasn't very good.
It's a new series, with a completely new cast, so I expected the first episode to be a cracker - the best they could do to drag us all into the series. And it wasn't, it was a struggle to watch all the way through. I tried to like it. I really did. But not one giggle; not one smirk; definitely no laughs escaped me. It's like the crew of the Original Top Gear (when it was a car show) had tried to take it back instead of keeping it as a comedy show with cars. Sad.
Will I watch episode two? No, probably not...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haven't got it here yet, but will try to watch it when it does arrive.
They must be delivering it by boat 
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So, more or less like expected?
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Not really - I was expecting the first episode under "new management" to be "WOW! Gotta watch this!" purely to "drag viewers in" to watching the rest of the series. Top Gear is important to the BBC - it brings in a lot of money worldwide, it's the biggest selling program they have - so I'd have thought they would have pulled out all the stops.
Instead, it just came over as a "car show with sad jokes"
Even "star in a reasonably priced car" was damaged by adding a "rally section" that did little but spray mud all over the rest of the track...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, I remember they messed things up on the old show from time to time as well, like the trip to India, a big letdown. Should perhaps wait a couple of shows before pulling the trigger on your remote 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: like the trip to India, a big letdown
It was OK, not as good as some, but watchable.
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Seeing as getting a giggle and a smirk got them into trouble in the first place! A lot of places are just too PC for their own good. There is/was and Oz version, 5th Gear I think, that is a serious car show, dull as dishwater.
At some point they will realise that petrol heads generally have a rather low and crude sense of humour.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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From the clips I've seen Matt LeBlanc seems great and a natural, but Chris Evans seems horribly, even embarrassingly, miscast.
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Agreed, it may have been bearable without Evans being himself.
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I could barely understand what Le Blanc was saying he was mumbling so much.
It was as bad as I expected it to be. Overhyped, over scripted, and Evans desperately trying to make it funny. He isnt funny, and neither was Top Gear.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it was a struggle to watch all the way through
I didnt bother. It was crap, and Evans is an annoying jerk.
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So a combination of Windows 10 totally making my old i5 Lenovo V570 laptop a cool device to watch reboots of Windows 10 over and over and me desperately wanting to try out Parsey McParseface[^] I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 16.04LTS over Windows 10 and I am so happy!! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) I have a working laptop again and I don't have to reboot it constantly or watch the screen for something to move.
Syntaxnet is compiling as I am writing this so almost there.![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I'm also looking at getting out of MS dev after 20+ years and looking at *nix.
I've seriously had it with MS BS.
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23741 wrote: I'm also looking at getting out of MS dev after 20+ years and looking at *nix.
Well, all the cool AI stuff is out of windows. Microsoft has the cool API AI, but it just isn't easy to use out of a Windows environment and after using it in Windows 10 IoT it just wasn't happening for what I wanted, imo.
I still use desktops for Windows dev projects but Windows 10 was just not working on my laptop and I had enough.
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I've been running 10 for more than 6 months, and hardly ever need to reboot. Seriously, fewer than 5 times this year.
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I have to say now i have it looking the way i want it has been pretty stable.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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 Ditto
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quote: I've been running 10 for more than 6 months, and hardly ever need to reboot. Seriously, fewer than 5 times this year.
I've been running 7 for more than 6 years, and hardly ever need to reboot. Seriously, fewer than 5 times this year. Just MS updates.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, my experience of 7 was much the same. I was not sure about moving to 10 but since my wife's PC was on 8.1, 10 had to be an improvement. When I saw what it was like I saw no reason not to update my own, and still feel the same. I liked 7 a lot, but 10 is really not that bad in comparison.
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I can't wait for Star Trek: Ad Nauseam
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Star Trek: Ad Nauseam
There's an app for that (probably).
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Actually, I'll probably have to eat my words, because they've got a first-rate writer, for the next movie.
... Oh, what am I saying? No matter how good the writer, the morons in hollywood will manage to fark it up!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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