Last night saw the end of the local production of Top Gear. I've been a fan of the British show for some years now and was one of the 4000 or so people who submitted a DVD audition for the new local show.
Since it began i've only missed one episode in the entire run. Most people hate it. I like it. I'll admit that it was slow to start, but it got better as the show progressed. Shows like this need time to settle in (does anyone remember the first two seasons of Top Gear with black Stig? I thought not) but most people expected TG:A to be great straight away. Then again, the most numerous arguments levelled against TG:A were:
1. They're trying too hard to be like the English show.
2. They're not enough like the English show.
You're never going to escape logic like that. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. One of the stupidest pieces of criticism I heard was on a message board when the black Ferrari crashed into the stobie pole up at Walkerville, and one poster wondered if it was being driven by the guys from TG:A, because "they can't drive either". I guess he'd never heard of Charlie Cox's touring car career, or Steve Pizzati's job as a high-speed driving instructor...
That sort of unenlightened, boorish, ill-thought-out, knee-jerk criticism has been about the norm. Hopefully, SBS don't bother listening to it.
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