Go back to previous page
Forum URL: http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi
Forum Name: Source Material
Topic ID: 209
#0, For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-10-17 at 05:13 PM
Stop DOING that.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


#1, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-12-17 at 04:50 PM
In response to message #0
Hammond has posted a video containing a few remarks to Drivetribe, where you will also find links to written takes by Clarkson and May on the accident.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


#2, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by MoonEyes on Jun-15-17 at 07:20 AM
In response to message #1
And now, what with the fact that Hammond is going to be in better shape after than he was before(May's words), I can't help but think....you know, you just fubared an electrical one-of-a-kind concept car. Who's going to PAY for it, and HOW MUCH?

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"


#3, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-15-17 at 10:53 AM
In response to message #2
LAST EDITED ON Jun-15-17 AT 10:54 AM (EDT)
 
Well, keep in mind he was filming for The Grand Tour, not just messing around for his own amusement. The production has insurance, and I would guess lots of it, for precisely such developments.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


#4, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Pasha on Jun-15-17 at 04:09 PM
In response to message #3
>Well, keep in mind he was filming for The Grand Tour, not just
>messing around for his own amusement. The production has insurance,
>and I would guess lots of it, for precisely such developments.

Or a very carefully worded contract.

--
-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."


#5, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by MoonEyes on Jun-16-17 at 01:36 PM
In response to message #3
Oh, I don't doubt it...but at the same time, I don't think Amazon REALLY considered that they'd be liable to replace a probably VERY fucking expensive car among the first things they did. I mean, the Beeb did that with the Koenigsegg that ate the wall of tires, but, well, it's the Beeb, it's a very high-income show, and it was well into the run of the show.

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"


#6, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-16-17 at 01:39 PM
In response to message #5
>Oh, I don't doubt it...but at the same time, I don't think Amazon
>REALLY considered that they'd be liable to replace a probably VERY
>fucking expensive car among the first things they did. I mean, the
>Beeb did that with the Koenigsegg that ate the wall of tires, but,
>well, it's the Beeb, it's a very high-income show, and it was well
>into the run of the show.

Amazon is very high on my list of organizations whose finances do not worry me. :)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


#8, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by MoonEyes on Jun-16-17 at 02:14 PM
In response to message #6
It isn't the finances of Amazon that worries me. It's the, "You know, you cost us X in the very first series of this, and we're NEVER getting it back at this rate...we're pulling the plug." or something like.

And as a complete aside, re the earlier part about insurance...I wonder what the Hamster's like...

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"


#9, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Berk on Jun-16-17 at 02:22 PM
In response to message #8
I have this mental image of his proof of insurance being a photocopy of a startled woodchuck at this point.

#7, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Pasha on Jun-16-17 at 01:44 PM
In response to message #5
>Oh, I don't doubt it...but at the same time, I don't think Amazon
>REALLY considered that they'd be liable to replace a probably VERY
>fucking expensive car among the first things they did. I mean, the
>Beeb did that with the Koenigsegg that ate the wall of tires, but,
>well, it's the Beeb, it's a very high-income show, and it was well
>into the run of the show.

...this is a company that just dropped $13.7B on some grocery stores. I think they can spare an expensive car.

--
-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."


#10, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Star Ranger4 on Jun-17-17 at 01:44 PM
In response to message #7
>...this is a company that just dropped $13.7B on some grocery stores.
>I think they can spare an expensive car.
>

Considering how much product that comes into this house after passing through their hands???

Probably out of petty cash!


#11, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Kendra Kirai on Jun-17-17 at 08:51 PM
In response to message #10
The question, I think, isn't whether or not AMAZON can afford it, but if the SHOW can. One may run the other, but they *are* still distinct things. The show gets a budget. If they go over that budget, the parent company is likely to start looking a mite closer at the bottom line.

That car might be coming out of their operating budget. At the least their insurance premiums almost *certainly* are.


#12, RE: For Christ's sake, Hammond
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-17-17 at 09:02 PM
In response to message #11
>The question, I think, isn't whether or not AMAZON can afford it, but
>if the SHOW can. One may run the other, but they *are* still distinct
>things. The show gets a budget. If they go over that budget, the
>parent company is likely to start looking a mite closer at the bottom
>line.

Wilman's been doing this for a long time. I'm willing to assume he runs a production wherein these matters are taken into account in the planning stages. Hence all those "the unique way the BBC is funded" jokes back in the Top Gear days...

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.