No, seriously, best show on television.

I'd always enjoyed the BBC show Top Gear whenever I caught it on TV, so I started watching it from the start a few weeks ago (thank you Netflix) and can now confidently say it is my favorite show on Television.

And I'm not even a car guy. I can (and do) appreciate the beauty and awesomeness in automobiles, but that's about as far as I take it.

It's the fact that it is so, so, SO wildly entertaining that makes it good. The car review bits are brutally honest, often hilarious and have great production value.

The celery bit fucking KILLED me. So random:



What REALLY makes it entertaining is the challenge/competition/race bits that they have.

Some of the things I've seen have made me laugh so hard I was on the verge of throwing up because my stomach hurt so bad.

And when it's not hilarious it is, again, just so addictive and entertaining that I can't quite explain it.

Take this bit for instance where the three try to turn a van into a convertible (some of the best bits are missing from this clip, but it's still awesome):


There's also an episode where Jeremy races the other two from Italy to England, him in a Bugatti Veyron, and the other two in a plane/train which was incredible



But so far my favorite has probably been the American road trip episode where the three go to America and instead of renting cars are given $1000 to each buy a vehicle and drive from Miami to New Orleans and are given a series of challenges along the way, one of which results in some intense and hilarious moments from rednecks while driving through Alabama that involves the cast and crew almost getting beat to death for the slogans they've written on each others cars (in an attempt to see who can get the other person either killed or arrested the quickest. haha)

It was probably the most entertaining hour of TV I've seen in years.

So far I'm still watching episodes that are 5-6 years old since I'm watching from the start, but the newer ones I've seen on TV (turning cars into trains because trains are awful, for example) are just as good.

So yeah. I could go on about hilarious moments and post a million videos that nobody will ever watch or care about, but the bottom line is that I highly recommend you watch this show even if you don't give a shit about cars and especially if you enjoy British style humor, cause it is here in spades.

some Zelda shit.

I got nothin.

I don't really care that it is a new year. I usually do the best of post out of sheer boredom and to be slightly silly about everything, but I couldn't be bothered this year.

There were a lot of games and movies and all that jazz that really blew me away.

I FINALLY finished Zelda: Skyward Sword (too me a lot longer than expected because of my gaming habits these days) and it is indeed a masterpiece. Probably my game of the year if I had to pick one...because, well...Zelda.

It got me to thinking about how funny it is that Zelda games (and a lot of first party Nintendo games in fact) are so outdated in a lot of ways. You know, no voice acting, tons of non-skippable text to read, some overbearing (in the start) hand holding segments and various other things...and yet, none of that matters. In fact, it's sort of...welcoming. It just feels right.

I swear that there's more life and emotion in some of these characters that comes out through brilliant writing than some games with full voice acting and lengthy cut-scenes. It's a true testament to the writers and the quality they bring. Even smaller characters and how everyone has this little quirk or phrase that is often funny. I love it.

But it makes me wonder what the next game in the series will be like, if we see it on the WiiU in glorious HD, will they take that next step and deliver a cinematic voice acty experience like everyone expects from every other game?

I'm all for changes to long running franchises. I'd also be fine if they stuck to the same formula forever, because it really is magical.

No game this year made me feel so happy just experiencing it.

The motion controls were pretty much flawless (no going back, for me) and it felt much bigger and more substantial than the previous 3D games. I also enjoyed that they actually set up the other games in the series with a lot of small details, and some huge ones near the end. I can't recall any other Zelda game doing that much timeline sorting. Really cool stuff.

It is experiences like Skyward Sword that keep me a Nintendo fan, even when it's hard to defend the company sometimes.

They'll always have that touch when it comes to these games. Always.