Big boys’ fantasies and the land of make-believe
I am more than a little underwhelmed about the fuss surrounding the identification of the Stig. I’m quite cross that the BBC seem to have wasted some of the licence fee pursuing this through the courts, but I can’t really see the fundamental problem.
Now I admit that I don’t watch either Top Gear or Dr. Who. In fact I actively avoid them, which isn’t easy when everyone else in my house loves them, except the dog. But surely knowing who plays the Stig is the same as knowing the name of the actor that plays the Doctor. Both of them play made-up characters. Neither of them are real, for goodness sake, any more than the soap actors who are attacked in the street because they play a wife-beater or a gay man.
If the success of the Stig and by extension Top Gear really depends on not knowing the identity of the C list racing driver who wears the white racing suit, then Clarkson and co might as well give up now. If only…
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02 September 2010, 1:43 pm
You beat me to this one. I’ve been moaning about this for days. I am really annoyed that my licence fee is being used to fight legal battles like this.
02 September 2010, 1:45 pm
I should have said I’m a huge fan of Top Gear too and my love of the show has nothing to do with the identity of the Stig.