{"id":92787,"date":"2009-12-21T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/21\/not-digging-i-top-gear-i-this-season-read-this\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T23:58:00","slug":"not-digging-top-gear-this-season-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92787","title":{"rendered":"Not digging <i>Top Gear<\/i> this season? Read this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/uk\/\" rel=\"tag\">UK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/celebrities\/\" rel=\"tag\">Celebrities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/humor\/\" rel=\"tag\">Humor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transmission.blogs.topgear.com\/2009\/12\/20\/series-14-where-were-at\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/topgear_630.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Season 14 of <em>Top Gear<\/em> is nearly finished, and some fans are singing<em> &#8220;The Thrill is Gone&#8221;<\/em> where before the tune had been <em>&#8220;You Are the Sunshine of My Life.&#8221;<\/em> The creators have heard the complaints and producer Andy Wilman doesn&#8217;t disagree that something is different this time around.<\/p>\n<p>While Wilman&#8217;s not in league with Internet whiners lamenting about how the show feels overly scripted, he does acknowledge the complaints while stating unequivocally &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean we&#8217;re going to do anything about them.&#8221; The overly-scripted feel isn&#8217;t on-purpose, says Wilman, and while he does acknowledge that things have changed, there have been flashes of the simple formula that&#8217;s gotten TG to its current stature of greatness. The refusal to submit to any Internet pressure isn&#8217;t arrogance, says Wilman, &#8220;we&#8217;re not wedding DJs taking requests.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like everything, Wilman posits, then the creators of what many call the best car show ever haven&#8217;t stopped trying. It may not all work all the time, but they&#8217;re not going to give up trying things, right up to the end. When does it end? It&#8217;s been rumored that this is the final season. Of course, it was rumored that Season 13 was the end, too. &#8220;This incarnation of <em>Top Gear<\/em> is nearer the end than the beginning,&#8221; says the producer, but clearly the team isn&#8217;t ready to hang it up just yet. <\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/transmission.blogs.topgear.com\/2009\/12\/20\/series-14-where-were-at\/\">TopGear.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/21\/not-digging-i-top-gear-i-this-season-read-this\/\">Not digging <i>Top Gear<\/i> this season? Read this.<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:58:00 EST.  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