It's Back! And Why the New Top Gear Doesn't Work
Well it's been offline for years, but here it is, it's back, My Life and the World blog! So anyway, I have a master's and intend to pursue a PhD. And now, the next topic of this post: Why the new Top Gear doesn't work... I was never a big fan of cars. When people were talking about some brand of car, I was getting bored. But I enjoyed Top Gear. Not because of the cars, but because of the chemistry of Clarkson, May, and Hammond. Top Gear wasn't a car show - it was an entertainment show combined with a talk show that just happened to have some stuff about cars. It was three grown men behaving like children in a seemingly natural way. At times, they went a bit too far, especially Clarkson, but they also showed genuine sympathy for each other when they realised one was in trouble. They may have interspersed that sympathy with insulting jokes and sarcastic comments, but it was there. A prime example was in Alabama, when rednecks threw rocks at the cars and James May nee