The fans don't mind the show being planned ahead and scripted, but please, just leave some space for natural and organic converstaions and moments, like during the golden age of Top Gear. It was frustrating to watch how they beliberately keeps ridiculing the fans criticism of overscripting. The entire film of the episode is purposely made horrible to make some sort of point to the fans that the show needs a plan and a script. World Renowned GM Garry Kasparov and GM Maurice Ashley - GM Kasparov speaks on the Grand Chess Tour Vision and the Grand Chess Tour Players - GCT Official U.S. Unfortunately they seem to have misunderstood the critique compeltely, and just been offended by it. In episode 204 "unscripted", they adress the critique of being too scripted. In season 2, they have worked really hard on adressing and improving from the critique they got on season 1.
People have been mentioning this since the start of the first season with the horrible "Operation Desert Stumble" episode. The Grand Tour on the other hand, often lacks this room for genuine moments, where overly scripted and predictable jokes has taken its place. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bring the traveling Grand Tour tent to The Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg in South Africa. With Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Mike Skinner.
The ranking process was hardly what I consider to be scientific, but I did take into account things such as viewership, the amount of people I see talking about these episodes online, and of course. Top Gear was scripted but it always left room for what felt like moments of genuine laughter and bizarre moments that can't be, or to the very least, never felt, scripted. Operation Desert Stumble: Directed by Kit Lynch Robinson, Phil Churchward. Bonus: Season 2 of The Grand Tour, episode 1 If you’re curious, yes these are listed in a specific order, with the all time best at the top. What made Top Gear such a great show was the chemistry between the three presenters.