Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The Grand Tour - An Exquisite and Lavish Vroooommmmmmmm - Part 1

"Sugar. Spice and Everything Nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls. But, Professor Utonium accidentally adds an extra ingredient to the concoction - Chemical X. Thus, the Powerpuff Girls were born. Using the ultra superpowers, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup have dedicated their lives to fighting crimes and the forces of evil".


If my memory hasn't decayed like an Radioactive Isotope, this is the introduction for The Powerpuff Girls that was aired on Cartoon Network in the late 90s.

What does the 3 action heros, okay heroines!, has got to do with the famous and popular trio from the much vaunted and immortalized The Top Gear (TTG)? Let's speed ahead along the Eboladrome, Okay the blog!, sans the timing and publishing the results on the lap board!


Amazon's staggering deep pockets has ensured that Clarkson, May and Hammond returns in their new avatars as none other than Clarkson, May and Hammond - Yeah! Basically themselves! - but captured rather brilliantly in the Ultra HD format unlike their quondam selves when they were a part of the BBC's acclaimed show. The Grand Tour kicks off, Okay geared into motion!, from what seems like their former employee's address and accelerates at breakneck speed into the desert along with a sea of carcade that would have definitely left the producers of Mad Max:Fury Road to be mad and furious with themselves for not giving the gobsmacked spectacle that Amazon literally wowed the audience on the small screen.


You need to watch the intro to FEEL the Magnificence in its full Splendor

BBC brought in together the Three Musketeers in the early 2000's much the same way as Prof. Utonium who decided to create his own little girls with his special ingredients and vault-safe formula. Largely thanks to the chemistry of the three men in front of the camera and behind the wheels, the show shot to instant fame dom which was sustained to close than a decade to such magnitudes that success was wheeling behind the series than otherwise.


But, a certain "Chemical X" during their engagement with the BBC had resulted in their unfortunate departure from the original recipe into a much renewed, immensely visual rich and more fun than a barrel of a monkeys experience in every episode that their new Mototainment show - The Grand Tour (GT) - is like TTG fully on Nitro Booster!


For starters who are totally new to GT like a small child to alphabets, the show revolves around  the triumvirate giving their expert verdicts by testing and riding the relatively upmarket to-be-on-road to on-road beauties-on-wheels that will definitely be the object of envy of every fashion contestant! On top of that, you have segments like Conversation Street and Celebrity Brain Crash which is more of a upgraded and entertaining rehash from their earlier rendezvous with BBC.


And as ever, you have the most exotic locales, crazy themes to complete like the eco-friendly car episode and the ever verbal friendly tug of war between Tom, Jerry and Spike (TJS) that had splendidly set the tone right from the first episode to its triumphing fruition with just one episode left in the bag, I mean the studio tent! And of course - I referred TJS to Hammond, Clarkson and May but who is what - That I leave it to you!


Like Bubbles, May is sweet, soft-spoken, la las at will like a masterly musician and the go-to man when it comes to being risk-free that he would stand first for the safest person badge of honor award! It was indeed a pleasant surprise when, in the previous episode, his Bentley screeched like a squealing mouse under a tyre! Akin to Buttercup, Hammond is a truckload of flamboyance with abundance of wry humor under his hood. How Blossom manoeuvres her troops to save the city, Clarkson marshals his car soldiers to uncharted territories on the orders of the mayor (Read:The Producer).


If you have watched The Powerpuff Girls, you will know why I mentioned the mayor reference. So, the threesome, No! NOT THAT!!, perfectly compliments each other with their strengths and lifts the show high above the ground like a Jack! Don't ask where Rose is! Abysmally Pathetic Joke!!

This should probably be your reaction right now after reading that PJ!
Jokes apart. What is actually missing in the razor sharp to and fro banter amongst the hosts is the presence of a sultry and sensual blonde wearing a red dress with a bright carmine lipstick who would have provided an ideal partner to Hammond's audacious ideas and energetic rhythmic honks during his drive through the road tunnels.


Since such a woman is not present in the show, 'on that terrible disappointment', stay tune for the final and concluding part.

                                                               
                                                            X---To be concluded---X
   

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