oh damn, how have I missed this? I went back the 6 or so pages that had all the stuff about the Mexico affair... fun times.
Fact is, I haven't even watched the entire episode, I have just watched the Mexico-bashing segment. I can understand all the grief and all the uprage that Mexicans have taken because moooooooooooooooooooost mexicans have NEVER EVER heard about Top Gear until all this blew wide open. People do not know they joke about basically enything in basically every episode, and all that.
And they are right, the people. From what I've read here, I'm not the only one who thinks that this is getting pretty out of hand for the TG crew. And I don't mean it because I'm mexican and I'm gonna start crying about our culture and all that. I can tell all of you that there is also constant racial jokes in mexican TV and in our culture in general, so I'm not gonna go that route because it is absolutely impossible to deffend. I mean it in lieu of the show.
I remember when Top Gear was actually intresting to watch, heck, there was a time when you could even (risks attached) take the guys seriously. But recently -about the time when Top Gear took the world by surprise and from one day to the other you could find 6 people registered in forums as "The Stigsomenumber"- Top Gear has been but pure crap. Of course it is still incredibly well produced, and there is the entire cool car thing and stuff, but May, Clarkson and Hammond are really stupid lately. They're just like three clowns in cars now. I can't say I like to watch Top Gear as a result of all this, when I actually liked it very much in the past.
Now, if the people in Mexico wants to start an outrage with torchs and... what are those fork-like things that are used to pick the haye called? Well, those, they can go ahead. I really found the joke normal of the late Top Gear (tasteless, overly agressive, absurd, ignorant, and wayy too much) and as such, took the "joke" as something that I could expect of such a lately even maybe bad show. I found it pretty amusing and actually laughed real hard when they called the Mastretta "Tortilla"... and to think that a lot of people said that they made fun of the car, but I could not see ANYWHERE that they laughed at the car (with the Tortilla exception, which was pretty good actually, it would be awesome if a car was called tortilla) they laughed at mexicans and all that, but you have to take stuff from where it comes.
Problem is, people don't know from where it comes. To the vast majority of mexicans like the banned guy in the previous pages, it is just plain wrong. Heck, to everyone it SHOULD be just plain wrong, including the BBC and even the three hosts, but that is just the way things are.
As for me, I'll maybe keep on watching TG, I don't know. Lately it hasn't even been funny anymore. I may go back to my old downl... er... "alternate means" of older seasons and laugh my ass away, then just see the segments of car testing and maybe a couple of challenges of the newest seasons, but that would be about it.
but really, you wouldn't believe how big this has been in here lately. You wouldn't.