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I don't think there is a SIARPC in this episode, or news, I think its just the footage and them doing the links in an empty studio/hangar....
 
MUSC4EVER
I don't think there is a SIARPC in this episode, or news, I think its just the footage and them doing the links in an empty studio/hangar....
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He means when the new new TG starts
 
God, this is gonna be weird. :(
 
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He means when the new new TG starts
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No I meant the upcoming episode. :)

If I remember correctly they did have Garry Lineker (I think it was him) as the SIARPC, all filmed asides from the interview.
 
It was Gary Lineker...
 
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It was Gary Lineker...
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All I could remember he was a footballer... that's when I stopped caring. :lol:

It'll be interesting to see what they do with that footage, though.
 
I feel sort of sad. Just their closing japes at each other but no laughter or third argument from Clarkson, and then no music. Kind of hits home just how much the three work as a package really...
 
This is really depressing. I've been watching this since I was 10!
 
We need to rebrand Jezza and import him in ... like they do with tax evading banks and the like. Cleremy Jarkson...

last episode was fun, they should make more.
 
I hate the fact that we will forever be robbed a proper finale episode for those 3. Imagine what we could have had if all this had ended amicably rather than just having a normal show which kinda ended in the middle of nowhere. I would have loved a retrospective of the last 13 years where they reminisced about stuff and maybe attempted to tie up some loose ends that they never completed.

It was quite poignant when Hammond said the final goodbye in that sombre tone.
 
Robin.
I hate the fact that we will forever be robbed a proper finale episode for those 3.
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The perfect end would've been the three way battle between the 918, the P1 and LaFerrari, in my mind at least. The pinnacle of automotive engineering is also the subject of the end of an era for these three. Shame really.
 
INEEDNAWZZZ
The perfect end would've been the three way battle between the 918, the P1 and LaFerrari, in my mind at least.
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Why would they waste that on free-to-air television from a channel the lead presenter has already been sacked from?

Going off the most recent story as I linked above, two syllables: Netflix. £££
 
PeterJB
This is really depressing. I've been watching this since I was 10!
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I was five when it was repackaged in 2002. I watched it evolve, and I loved the programme for so long. But in recent years I felt it fading away, and watched more out of habit than anything.

Yet I really got back into it in the last two series, particularly the one we'll never see the true end of.

I was very sad after watching the sombre closing link - In a sense, it feels like something I've always had around has been taken away.

I truly wish it ended on something that felt right, like that beautiful film with the V12 Vantage in 2009 or so.
 
Hilarious this whole season has been, shame it had to end this way. So funny seeing Jeremy's two wheel drive Frontera parking up in front of all those expensive cars :lol:.
 
The classic car film was one of their better from recent years, although it lagged behind Ukraine and the first half of the Patagonia special by a fair margin. The SUV film started out poorly but picked up towards the end.
 
Slight observation: I can't help noticing the beat in the narration as Jeremy jokingly says 'I don't want to work on Top Gear anymore'. Given that the segments were probably edited and finished months ago, it seems a tad eerie. Maybe looking into it too much.

I know I've posted several times already, but I'll give my proper thoughts on it. Both segments were some of the better ones in recent years. The cheap SUV one stands out as one of the first few times I've genuinely cried with laughter at a TG segment in a long time. Also couldn't help but notice the lake they tested their outdoor lifestyle boats was the same one from the amphibious car challenge; most likely for a better shooting location but works for nostalgia's sake, especially in these situations.

On the whole though, as a final episode, it felt flat. But then again, what could they do? The only other thing they could've done was show an unseen power test or something, which would be been irrelevant. I already mentioned that the ending was somewhat glum, but the whole atmosphere of the studio links was the same. They injected some humour with the very literal elephant in the room and some normal features like the prop cars but... let's be honest it felt dead. Then again, I think that was a strange symbolic decision.
 
I found it weird that most of the episode felt like a reference to other episodes.

I forget some of it now, but one stood out in particular - Castle Combe with three cheap cars. A lap-time challenge, Hammond develops a mis-fire, and then we go to a dyno to see how many horses remain in their engines.

I found Clarkson's speech on having to build things and then tear them apart very eerie. I also felt very weird about the elephant in the room joke in Clarkson's narration at the start of the first film, as it tied in too well with the supposedly unrelated studio links, and the same elephant gag - in fact, Clarkson saying that wouldn't have made sense without the elephant in the hangar...
 
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Yeah, the elephant in the room reference caught me as well, although from memory, a line similar to that appeared towards the beginning of the Patagonia special as well, so it could be a mere coincidence.

To be honest, I always anticipated series 22 to be the last series (with the three of them anyway) based purely on the content within it. The Patagonia special was just crammed full of tiny little nods here and there, the St. Petersburg race, the ambulance challenge, along with the two film shown tonight all feel like the more classic TG challenges only with a bigger budget - mainly because that's what they are. But as you mentioned, they still manage to somehow slyly call back to some older episodes, and I can't help feel there was some intentional merit behind that.
 
That ending, it wasn't necessarily sad, but how it just ended without making a fuss about it, really hits you in the feels. The elephant in the room was a nice touch, apparently it's called Jeremy. The SUV film really stood out for me, didn't really catch much of the Classic Car film so I'll post my final thoughts on the show as a whole once I watch the encore tonight.
 
One funny moment, wedged inside 72 minutes of utter horse knob. The studio pieces were as tedious as they were contrived as they were unnecessary and I'm glad it's dead now.
 
Hammond and May seemed to be doing it 'just because'. Any sort of feelings we are getting from it is purely down to nostalgia I'd say. The studio segments were monotone and boring as hell.
 
Is it just me, or does Clarkson seem frustrated? He was fine in the ambulance challenge, but ever since, he's clearly had enough. I know he usually comes around in the end, but in the cheap classic car challenge he just came across as not wanting to be there and cranky about it.
 
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Is it just me, or does Clarkson seem frustrated? He was fine in the ambulance challenge, but ever since, he's clearly had enough. I know he usually comes around in the end, but in the cheap classic car challenge he just came across as not wanting to be there and cranky about it.
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I found it especially odd considering this is 'All-British' Clarkson we are talking about and he seemed like really didn't give a crap about classic car culture.
 
I grossly overestimated the cost of those SUVs. It's been so long since we had a proper CCC that I forgot you could pick up (barely) road-legal examples of those three for around a couple hundred quid these days.

The classic car challenge felt neither engaging or stupid. Or memorable, for that matter. All I recall is what I already knew based off of those promo shots taken last year: The Pug is a friggin' beaut.

So, not the most befitting end the outgoing series deserved even with a decent final segment. Although they weren't given much to work with, I still feel it was right to air what might have been otherwise consigned to the archives. In a perfect world, the V12 Vantage "review" definitely would have been a perfect end. Great moments have been few and often far between since that point, however.

Shame it had to go out with a silent whimper of a credit roll after a few drawn-out seasons and abrupt cut-off point rather than a wonderfully cinematic goodbye back when it was somewhat more respectable. It's simply been long overdue.
 
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