Originally Posted by
Saracen
Horses for courses, I guess. I've not seen a whole episode but I have seen clips and there's just something about him, on this show, that ... grates. Not on the scale that Chris Evans did, but still, enough to put me off.
Another part of it is probably that I'm losing interest in cars. I think it's because, well, several things. I don't really get a kick from driving, any more. Maybe it's that cars are getting boring. Maybe it's that roads are too congested. Maybe I'm getting old, but cars are now really a method of getting from A to B, and while I used to enjoy the process itself, now it's a chore to endure, the price of getting from A to B. Roll on the invention of a Trekian point-to-point teleporter, 'cos I'll be at the head of the queue.
So, I don't really watch car shows for the cars. I watched for the .... ummm ..... "horsing" about between rhe three of them.
It's a bit like watching an Abba (*) tribute band ... they might be very good musicians, and perfectly listenable, but Abba, they ain't.
(*) For Abba, substitute a band you like. I could have used the Beatles, Queen, whatever. The point is that a remake rarely lives up to the original.