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Not intended to be clickbait, just some thoughts to hopefully tide most of you over until the next big video (Hamster: The Richard Hammond Story) which I've been working on for far longer than I ever would have liked to. Again, no-one's fault but mine.
Gearknob's two cents on the immediate future of Top Gear, or its lack thereof. Rather timely given recent news of Grand Tour's end as well (though whether it'll actually mark the end of the show is another story entirely).
Not really much of anything if I'm honest - what I say isn't functionally different from what other people have been saying these past couple weeks. Mostly some further takes I didn't get to say or felt I didn't clarify as well as I could have in the original 2 hour long video, as well as providing a response to Richard Porter's snide comments. The internet has sadly made many people, even those worthy of respect, far too comfortable with saying things they likely wouldn't in real life, as Mike Tyson less eloquently put it. Not that I'd ever want go to that extreme, but I feel his rude remarks were chiefly embarrassing over anything else and may have demotivated me in the short term, but in the long term, I honestly don't give a damn.
If he feels he can gatekeep people like me out of enjoying the show he helped to create because I wasn't on the floor of the individual meetings at BBC's Media Village and may not know the "real" story behind the show that wasn't published in any publicly-accessible pieces of media, I'd say he's more than welcome to. One bad apple does not spoil my overall view of Top Gear as a collective whole, nor will it ever. If he turns the whole production team against me, I'll know exactly what happened and would just be proof I've further got under his skin, even though that would never be my outright intention. Ultimately, the ball's in his court.
Note that this video was initially written in October, and then subsequently rewritten as the past few weeks' of headlines came out in between various other recording and writing sessions. I also attended the NEC Classic Car Show in Birmingham, which knackered me for about a week or so after its occurrence.
You can support me here:
Also follow me on Twitter at @GearknobAlex, where I'll post at least once every few days in the run-up to the release of my Richard Hammond documentary, set to be out by year's end and the chief reason why this video wasn't out sooner. A basic workprint will be out on Patreon in time for Christmas at least, whether it's finished or not.
Gearknob's two cents on the immediate future of Top Gear, or its lack thereof. Rather timely given recent news of Grand Tour's end as well (though whether it'll actually mark the end of the show is another story entirely).
Not really much of anything if I'm honest - what I say isn't functionally different from what other people have been saying these past couple weeks. Mostly some further takes I didn't get to say or felt I didn't clarify as well as I could have in the original 2 hour long video, as well as providing a response to Richard Porter's snide comments. The internet has sadly made many people, even those worthy of respect, far too comfortable with saying things they likely wouldn't in real life, as Mike Tyson less eloquently put it. Not that I'd ever want go to that extreme, but I feel his rude remarks were chiefly embarrassing over anything else and may have demotivated me in the short term, but in the long term, I honestly don't give a damn.
If he feels he can gatekeep people like me out of enjoying the show he helped to create because I wasn't on the floor of the individual meetings at BBC's Media Village and may not know the "real" story behind the show that wasn't published in any publicly-accessible pieces of media, I'd say he's more than welcome to. One bad apple does not spoil my overall view of Top Gear as a collective whole, nor will it ever. If he turns the whole production team against me, I'll know exactly what happened and would just be proof I've further got under his skin, even though that would never be my outright intention. Ultimately, the ball's in his court.
Note that this video was initially written in October, and then subsequently rewritten as the past few weeks' of headlines came out in between various other recording and writing sessions. I also attended the NEC Classic Car Show in Birmingham, which knackered me for about a week or so after its occurrence.
You can support me here:
Also follow me on Twitter at @GearknobAlex, where I'll post at least once every few days in the run-up to the release of my Richard Hammond documentary, set to be out by year's end and the chief reason why this video wasn't out sooner. A basic workprint will be out on Patreon in time for Christmas at least, whether it's finished or not.
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