I fear I might have been wrong last week. Watching top Gear last night felt like watching a cheap imitation, like someone trying to impersonate someone else but failing miserably. Evans et al just don’t have that spark, the [i]je nu se qua[/i], that clarkson and co had, and the more they try to recapture it, the more it feels like imitation. It just isn’t the same. I thought I’d give them a chance – after all, people may have said similar things when Gene Roddenberry created star trek TNG – but, after last night, I can’t see it getting any better no matter how many chances you give it. Top Gear was Jeremy Clarkson; the show without him just seems pointless, a cheap imitation, and I don’t think I’ll watch it any more.