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Top Gear! Bolivia Special. REACTION!

This was a very entertaining and stressful video to react to.  THANK YOU CHRIS!

Top Gear!  Bolivia Special.  REACTION!

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A valid point, but not an opinion held by all, or even most. (About The Grand Tour, I mean. The BBC continuation of Top Gear after C, H & M left was, indispensably horseshit

Jack Nicholas

Totally agree with u mate it’s not all scripted they do take advantages of things for the episodes, as proven in GT when didn’t have a script at all but wasn’t structured lol 😂

Chris Fulcher

The amount of bitching about scripting or them having off-camera support is ridiculous. Even with that level of preparedness, accidents happen. They are genuinely in risky situations, even if they do have emergency response readily available, and risk mitigation elements in place. The special where May cracks his head open is evidence of that. Similarly they have all the emergency response during the regular series, but it didn't stop Hammond ending up in a coma. They had many injuries and serious accidents over the course of the shows run, and every time there would have been massive risk assessments up front, emergency personnel on hand, and so on. And it's not scripted in the traditional sense. The director and producers will have a plan on where they're going to go, what they'll do when they get there, and the way they'll go to get there, but a lot of what happens in-between is natural. That's the same for An Idiot Abroad too, or any other show of this nature. Of course there are planned out stunts and stuff too, but it's for entertainment purposes, though sometimes they are a little heavy handed. Like in this one when Hammond jumps out his car only for it to slide down the dune. It's just too convenient. That said, I doubt it was planned from that far in advance. More than likely they realised after the car got so broken up it would be unable to do the descent safely with him in it, but it would be good to give it a climactic send off.

Relyx

I f*cking love Top Gear ⚙️…the proper one of course, before the BBC killed it and then Amazon pissed on its grave with their terrible attempt to recreate it. Let’s be honest, it’s true.

Riki Andrews

Of course Idiot Abroad was scripted, only Karl might not have known the script himself too much but of course it was scripted. TV shows like this aren’t just whipped together like a student film on whim - and neither is Idiot Abroad.

Sam Dilks

You’re surprised a tv show filmed in the rainforest has a film crew, a director and a sound guy? How would we see and hear it without that? As for the other stuff, well yes that’s a) for insurances, b) you honestly think a multi million pound globally loved show would go through the jungle like that without experts to make sure they don’t die? Because it has all that doesn’t mean it’s not entertaining, funny chemistry between the 3 chaps and enlightening anyway

Sam Dilks

African special is by far the best one IMO

Adam

Top gear is one of the greatest show. As unlike many shows although it’s scripted they are doing what you are seeing

Adam

Yes to Burma it's brilliant

Andy Farmer

Yeah but for being scripted it should be better than unscripted shows but it isn’t.

Josh B

I see a couple of Botswana special shouts, which are good shouts, but it say the Burma special would be the best choice next

Lee Organ

Exactly this

Lee Organ

I’d recommend watching the Botswana special too.

TravellingBlade

Pretty sure they get asked after every special if it's scripted and they made fun of that question in the grand tour. The director explained in an interview, obviously they need something to direct the conversation at certain points otherwise they'd have to wade through several days of in car footage each and find the good bits to strip down to 1 hour. Although if you watch them on individual projects you can tell their interactions with each other are not scripted. They do run into unpredictable issues where they've been rushed to hospital, or they get kicked out of a country.

Brendan

I'd see a Doctor after that.

Daniel Heywood

I'd wear a Bee Keeper Outfit, problem solved.

Daniel Heywood

The Botswana special is better than both you've watched so far

Yaapsdad

Clarkson trolling my region

John smith

good shout Chris - any top gear special is gold

Craig McCulloch

'We are officially the highest motorists in the world......apart from George Michael, obviously'

Steve Read

All the Top Gear specials are staged/scripted. Huge film crew and support vehicles in tow always. Doesn't mean the show isn't entertaining.

James

I'm sorry but when I watch these kind of shows I can not pretend there isn't a film crew, sound man, lighting, chefs, doctor, paramedics, bathroom facilities, mechanics, Amazonian biologist, botanist, toxicologist and maybe even a director

John Allen

More top gear, great news

Mr Matthews

f**k that

Chay Davenport

It wasn’t even that good if it wasn’t scripted.

Josh B

Brilliant! We want more top gear 😂👍

Rob Green

I always thought it was overrated even if it wasn’t staged but it is. Idiot Abroad is much funnier and that’s just Karl on his own and it’s not scripted. Don’t know why it was so successful.

Josh B

i hadnt seen this one, very enjoyable

ezza

Great reaction, KB. Just an assumption, I think you're dropping some hints that you're not quite as into Top Gear as some of us, by saying that you don't really want to do them on a regular basis? Much as I love the person who suggesting this episode, I think it's better for you and for us that you get on stuff that you're genuinely into.

Jay

Theres an English movie called "starred up" watch the trailer please and consider doing a reaction to it 😁

Sorry not sorry

Yep, alot of it is predetermined for the cameras.

Jay

It's all staged and scripted.

Steve Read

Not staged mate

Chris Fulcher

Aren't all the stunts and challenges for these top gear shows staged?

Ewan

Absolutely love that your watching these.

BazMan01

Love that’s you have done another one of the top gear specials. Top bloke

Will

Thanks for doing another one mate, hope everyone likes the one chose for king boomer to check out

Chris Fulcher

I’m so happy you’re doing more of these! The specials really aren’t car shows, it’s more of an adventure show with 3 great blokes

Toby Lewis


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