I think Rey had every intention of blazing a new trail with Kylo until he expressed the desire to RULE over everyone as equals. Rey’s past won’t allow that, so she pulls away knowing that Kylo is lost now.

Yeah. There’s definitely a side of me that wanted her to join up with Kylo, but he was pretty clear that joining up with him meant starting a two-person galactic dictatorship. Not exactly “breaking the wheel.”

Yes. That’s one of my big hopes for the next movie, that Rey will build a new Jedi order that doesn’t make the same stupid mistakes as the last one. Like maybe ripping tiny children away from their families and turning them into magic space monks with no bonds to other humans is a bad idea.

I also loved the jab at the Jedi Order of the prequels when Luke points out how they were over romanticized and more or less brought about the rise of Palpatine and the Empire through their own ineptitude.

Here’s Richard talking about it (should cue up at the point). Jonathon Ross “read about it somewhere” and Richard talks about it. Interesting side point— apparently Richard has no memory of having done this interview. They discussed it when he appeared almost exactly a year after his accident.

Notice that Hammond is sitting the whole time they are in the chess museum. And the shot of him charging the car was the same, and they even reused the shots of them taking the highway same highway emergency path. My guess is the original day at the car museum was the only day Hammond was supposed to have “scheduled”…

Instead of 1 slow lap by a SIARPC we have to watch 2.

Yeah those laps looked slow as fuck.

See I know you’re lying

I believe the explanation is that they were irreparably damaged in the fire?

Did you forget the car burned to a crisp and maybe for the sake of Richard Hammond, they didn’t put in-car footage in on purpose?

Former driver here. I’ve driven through the mountains of TN and all over eastern KY in 24ft box trucks, never had a brake issue. Downshift and pulse brake. I did a lot of residential deliveries, contracting for a local freight transporter. I was off the highways and byways and on the where-the-hell-are-we-ways. If I…

Rofl. This is right up there with having to pay for the ambulance ride after recovering from a stroke.

I’ve never seen a truck hit it or a sign of one having hit it, but every time we drive past, I tell my kids we’re going to try it out and see what happens.

I was just thinking that ramp was ridiculously long for how steep it looks but I’ll be damned, he nearly made it to the top.

Never understood why people just won’t use the correct gear and pulse brake. I see trucks riding their brakes all the time like it’s their first time to go down a hill. I mean there are signs all over letting you know. I came down a plateau today with 14,000 lbs of batteries in a box truck and never had to touch the…

Here’s a good one from today on the same exact ramp

If you use it, you also get to pay the cost of restoring it, get a ticket for losing control of your truck, and if your truck is company-owned, you’ll most likely get fired, again for losing control of your truck. If you don’t use it, you and numerous others just might die as your rig hurtles to the inevitable plunge…

In CO, we’ve got one that goes nearly straight up! Judging by the video, there isn’t much control when you hit the gravel, making it butt clinching. Of course your truck is already out of control so you might already be in code brown.

This is at the base of the Grapevine on I-5 headed North towards Bakersfield. This is a long, steep hill. Been driving that route for decades and at night you can see the trucks brakes glowing red and there’s always a stench of burning brakes in the air.