:56, my fastest time yet.

Connections Puzzle #729

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4:11. Good one.

Ha! Gym mat! I can feel the toughness and taste the salt; that is a grim picture you paint.

My wife and I never really went to steakhouses that often, but now that we can cook a better steak than anyone else, it's once in a blue moon that we go out for one. Marcel in Atlanta is the only place we go for steak and it's an incredible experience. I just want to put that out there so that people know it can be done right, just rarely is.

I envy you, but only because you have so much fresh Trek to watch.

Connections Puzzle #701

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Love Pylon

3:15. Love the 1st clue!

Connections Puzzle #693

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5:07 - another good one!

Saw is great, Whitaker really brings so much to the character, but our 1st experience with Saw is in the Clone Wars. From there to here, I think THIS is what Star Wars does well.

In TCW, he's a war hawk that has a differing view of rebellion from his sister. We get a few episodes to work through a pretty basic "rules of war" exploration when it comes to insurgency. And that's it...

Until Rebels and Rogue One, where we see his development from his roots as an insurgent into a real terrorist leader. Now he's scary, and has a much more hard line, much less nuanced view on the Empire.

This is what I really like about Star Wars, the character development, lore, and interconnectivity. Andor is giving us the middle between "argue with your sister" and "muddle a man's brain using an alien because you're paranoid." These people feel real, and they always have. That is when Star Wars is best. Take a throwaway character, give him a backstory and give him 100 lines of dialogue in a video game. Retcon an extra into a standalone series. It's cool, but moreso, it's so fun!

Noted, thanks.