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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 265
Message ID: 36
#36, RE: Bonus Story: Road Film (With Fighting)
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-17-09 at 04:54 PM
In response to message #35
>That makes more sense. I'm not familiar with the programme, and the
>movie segment went out of its way to point out that the UF version is
>not staged.

The road films and reviews and whatnot generally aren't, but almost any segment featuring the Stig is going to be at least a little tongue-in-cheek. Mind you, I want to convey the impression that the UF version of the Stig is an ambiguous sort of creature - that he may not be entirely, or even partly, human, that he doesn't interact with people in the normal way. We saw that in The Sandero Affair and Guns 4 Hire.

But then again, it's also entirely possible that the Stig in the Close Encounters scene is an actor in a Stig costume put there for comedic purposes, not the "real" Stig (who would presumably have been as indifferent to the mothership tones as he is to any other human overture). If the "real" Stig is really so incommunicative, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to have him train the celebrity guests anyway, when you think about it. But that's the beauty of the Stig - you can just never tell. Top Gear's policy toward the Stig is just to present him and let the viewer decide. :)

As an aside, my first choice for the SIARPC guest in this segment was Kara Zor-El, until I realized that the timing of the Tau Ceti counteroffensive and Last Transport doesn't quite work out so that it makes sense for her to be a) at large and b) famous enough to get on TV so soon after the Tau Ceti thing. One of the jokes I had planned was that she was going to get entirely too ambitious and end up destroying the Reasonably Priced Car in a manner reminiscent of this (comedically staged) crash in one of Clarkson's solo videos. This notion survived, as the work of a different guest, in Jeremy's recounting of why the second-to-last corner on the Top Gear test track is called Atomic Corner.

(We also considered Cassie Cain, if only because the scene in which she and the Stig sat in the Reasonably Priced Car being silent at each other was, in its way, as amusing to consider as the Close Encounters joke. :)

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