Top Gear

I hate to say it but this is more of a serious blog ,and believe me, I hate to do this, but this has been on my mind for all of about 4 hours. I just viewed the season finale of Top Gear, which is an awesome British show all about cars. I know the car stuff might send a groan over the audience of a whopping 7 followers, but I promise if you watch other stuff from the show it will be hilarious. The reason I brought this up was because of the final segment they had for the season finale. If you've seen any other things from this show, you'll know that everything is done all in good fun, but this is just oddly serious for them and it's confuzing me. The clip features the lovely Aston Martin V12 Vantage and if you really focus on the beauty of the car and the sound it makes, you might understand the whole "sadness" thing Jermey [Clarkson] (one of the hosts) is getting at. Just the way he says goodnight is chilling but yet comforting at the sametime.




Also, I wanted to say that whoever directed this was a genious. I absolutely love how they are showing all these pictures of old and new supercars, muscle cars, and a bunch of other greats embeded in nature. Also the disolves between the Aston and the nature scenes with the engine roaring everyonce in a while just kind of show, I think, that as we are trying to fix what our love of gas has done to nature over the years, the car is not really an art anymore. In the confusion, everything is just blending together even though cars might be close to nature already. Its just a challenge to get it to be more kind to nature, and the beauty of it all (the artistry, the engine, the power, the excitement, the speed) seems to be suffering. Soon it will all be forgotten as our obsession changes from speed to environmentally friendly. In a way, it's good that we are concerned about the future of life and the planet, but I can't help feeling more of a sadness for the brilliant minds that designed and brought these cars to life. Their work might mean nothing to us anymore in a few years time. Either way, the directior for this show deserves an award. Thanks for reading my drawn out presentation of exactly what my mind is thinking about.