Dartz Wrote:Quote:To: nene@jmc.fen
From jet.Jaguar@grunthal.fen
Sunj: RE: Top Gear
Thanks for that, that truly made my day. Especially after the last few weeks. Was annoyed that I missed this when it originally broadcast. Had other more serious things to worry about at the time. I didn't even get a chance to watch them film.... half the Gruppe was following them down Marinaris to make sure nothing 'untoward' happened to them. There was an incident there a couple of months back that still has everyone spooked.
-Jet
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Quote:To: jet.Jaguar@grunthal.fen--
From: nene@jmc.fen
Subj: RE: Top Gear
And we were glad for the overwatch out there. Having it in the belt itself was also useful. We had the potential for more close calls, but having a couple of the Gruppe, and a couple of Roughriders, keeping the area clear, kept it down to just what wound up in the broadcast... well, OK, two of the three. Poor Richard had to change his shorts after we were done that day, and his swearing right afterwards couldn't have been bleeped out and actually been humorous.
Seriously, getting the video file finally, after the two months of hard work getting the whole thing set up and done, was well worth every bit of sweat we put into it.
The BBC crew they had really is top notch, and was more than willing to put up with us rank amateurs. We learned an incredible amount that's going to be applied to the next one of these jobs. And it was a very nice change of pace from the shipping company routine.
If you'd managed to witness some of the filming... it's incredible the amount of stuff that's staged, and the amount of stuff that actually isn't. It's certainly not the proportions you'd expect watching from the outside, I have to say.
I'm sending you some video segments I was able to shoot with my camera phone. They may prove enlightening.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor