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That was... not the best episode of NCIS: Hawaii I have ever seen. And as for NCIS: Mars, don't you even dare! Although I guess there have been enough of these shows now that a sci-fi one wouldn't be that much of a stretch. Hell, this one was practically sci-fi with the MacGuffin of the "micro-nuclear reactor" that fits in the pocket of someone's tac team vest. I'm pretty sure we're still at the stage where a "micro" nuclear reactor is about the size of a school bus and six times as heavy. Is that a real Space Force uniform? Do they really have to walk around like that and expect to be taken seriously? (I just Googled it and yeah, wow those are actually real and people have to wear them) There was one plot point I actually did like and that was how about ten actual seconds elapsed between "who could the real culprit have been" and the team figuring out that it was the super obvious one and only choice of the security dude. Sometimes they can spend up to three-quarters of an episode before they figure out that someone who is eager to help isn't really on their side. But in this episode right after they said out loud that they needed to figure out who it could have been, Ernie popped up with the answer. Nice. I also love Ernie's friendships. He has an adorable relationship with Lucy, a great vibe with Cmdr. Chase and he can be vulnerable around Tennant. I wonder if we will see the astronaut lady again. She should be on vacation now that the Mars habitat has been blown to bits.

Some interesting twists in this episode. I guess Crowley isn't Peter Weller after all? It would be weird for him to just be Chief Henchman but I appreciate that Real Crowley is smart enough to send someone to get beat up in his place. I also have to take a moment to appreciate the man-in-the-middle play here. Crowley figured out that Weir and his old buddy had been using the same code since they were kids. He then figures out the channel they were using to communicate and uses it to mess with Weir. I just noticed this show is totally shot in Vancouver. During the Weir-Faux Crowley confrontation there is a very clear shot of a Telus building and the random gift basket that shows up has a bottle of Peller Estates wine in it which is a BC wine. The show has done a pretty good job at being ambiguous but Hailey has to be a player, right? If she's an innocent civilian caught up in all of this she is being way too level-headed about everything. Plus she just casually walked up to an FBI agent and gave her the biggest break in the case ever. After she did that, she just saunters back to the group like nothing happened. She also ninja'd herself a new pair of pants too. I think she's from some Other Government Agency but I guess she could be from the corporate world. Jo, the tenacious FBI agent does not seem like the type who is going to sell out even if she knows the bad guys will kill her for doing the right thing. But I love that when her boss says "what can I give you to make this go away?" she takes him up on it. Might as well get your old job back while you can. There's no way she didn't make a copy of that data. The only thing that took me out of the show for a second was when they called out Weir for not liking guns. But this is because I have watched all of 24 so I have seen Kiefer Sutherland gun down hordes of bad guys and it would not have surprised me to see him doing it here. But it wasn't until they called it out that I realized he hasn't actually been involved in much if any gunplay so far.

Jersey too! The toxic waste dump was "down the Turnpike" in Jersey (because of course it was) and Dante the Bagdeless Wonder Cop had no issues trampling on the local jurisdiction. Although I did laugh at Lolo calling Dante "5-0" as the Hawaii 5-0 Task Force's jurisdiction was a bubble that followed them around wherever they happened to be if they were outside of Hawaii. They were state cops, under the mandate of the Governor of Hawaii... until and unless they needed to go shoot people in Colombia or Mexico or North Korea. From time to time they'd go stateside and shoot some people there too. Offhand, I recall Chicago, LA and some remote part of Montana getting a taste of that 5-0 justice. I'm sure there were more. Also I know the team was pressed for time and all but it is particularly brave of them to randomly pop barrels of Jersey's finest toxic waste open in the hopes that a person will pop out. No protective gear at all! I'm not sure what the best way would be to approach a situation like this but they did it in the same episode where Robyn was lecturing at length about the importance of situational awareness. There is some discussion to be had here as to what kind of legal theory applies to Robyn shooting this guy and the police taking no issue with it. Yes, he was an asshole and he deserved it. Yes, she was defending two people who were in imminent danger from this dude. Yes, the dude injured or killed that cop downstairs (and this makes me wonder if they cut a scene where he took the cop's gun) and so Robyn was at least theoretically in hot pursuit of a murdering murderer who was on his way to do more murder. But I have a feeling the police would take somewhat of a dim view on her shooting the guy dead nonetheless. I thought Dante's gun was going to show up at the end in the hands of someone who would gun Lolo down and make it look like Dante did it. Ohhh, I have an idea! Make it that kid who was "helping"! The one Dee likes. Turns out he's actually the brains of the operation and he's been fooling everybody this whole time! And he just tricked a cop into murdering a rival and that's when the dirty cops show up to put the squeeze on Dante. Because otherwise I feel like "low-level piece of shit drug dealer learns how to fly but not how to land" would not cause Dante's new Captain to give him the whole "you're too close to this!" speech. Instead, the cops would laugh, slap Dante on the back and change the subject to something like "I can't believe you went to Jersey... on purpose!"

Okay, I have to admit it. I'm impressed. I always enjoy Reddington heist episodes more than any other kind of episodes on this show and this was a good one. I loved Wujing getting taken out so offhandedly. I had to rewind just to make sure it was actually him getting casually dispatched. No big showdown, just a bullet in the dome from offscreen. Nicely done, Red. Flipping the mercenary team was a great trick too. "I see you need work. I have work, let's go." Pure boss move, we haven't seen one of those from Reddington for a while. And finally, Red hangs a lampshade (and kitchen sink) on the Post Office being the least-secure facility in the history of black sites. It was well past time to leave that building behind. And Red also has a bunch of cameras installed so he'll be able to tell if the Task Force decides to play nice while simultaneously trying to take him down. My only nitpick is that they do explicitly say that there are some guards still standing by at the real Post Office during Red's heist although I can handwave that easily enough by saying since Red basically has the run of the place he was able to get past or distract them with ease. Hmmm, Red said getting older is a drag. Redarina, is that you? No sign or mention of the various discarded animals of this show however this episode does give us the comforting notion that they might be living in perfect replicas of their former homes.

So the Borg Queen is all by herself eating through her drones to sustain herself. Okay, I guess that explains why the Borg didn't just attack Earth with a bunch of ships. But when Jack plugs in, he hears the Collective and describes all these voices and all this harmony and etc etc. Umm, where is this Collective he is hearing? Is it all the young kids attacking Earth? Because they just became Borg so they shouldn't be quite so harmonious yet. Picard was able to fight through the Borg programming a bit in BoBW and you'd think the various ensigns who were on the verge of blowing up the Earth might have also felt the same. Also, this new Collective wasn't really all that large. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of ships. So we have a situation where the Borg are both vast enough to be awe-inspiring (to Jack; I wasn't impressed) but small enough to be defeated by a handful of people and a hug. Speaking of hugs, they did most of the work this season. The Borg's nefarious plot? Picard stops it by hugging Jack. Seven's career in Starfleet? Saved by Shaw's final sentimental message. Data gives Lore a hug to bring him over and last but not least, Vadic is defeated by the cold embrace of vacuum. Even Worf hugged a bunch of people. Also, what is going on with the Borg tech? The new Borg have black veins but no tech implants. When the Borg get blown up this stuff just... goes away. Jack had some stuff bolted onto him but his modifications didn't look anywhere near as harsh as what happened to Picard. Resistance is futile, you will be mildly inconvenienced. Speaking of being mildly inconvenienced, why aren't all starships built out of the same stuff Spacedock is made out of? What a boss-level station that is, just taking a pounding forever and turning Starfleet into star dust. They could have done a nice stinger here with Seven. The bridge crew on the new Enterprise-G is awaiting her version of "I want the ship to go... now" and instead they get "surprise, MFs!" and she assimilates the entire bridge crew. I'm glad they didn't go that way but I'm sure they were tempted. I hope Picard and Crusher didn't get married because that would be really rude to Laris. She encourages Picard to get out there and deal with his restlessness and he comes back with a wife and child? Well, maybe that's not out of bounds to Romulans, who knows? So what exactly is a synth anyhow? Data talks about being human but he can still do android stuff like flying the ship through a Borg cube. Picard is a synth but can still be assimilated by the Borg. It's almost like the writers didn't put very much thought into the whole thing! While it was neat to see John DeLancie as Q one last time, I kind of wish it had been Q's son or daughter or Wesley Crusher or someone/something else. And I wish Guinan had actually appeared in the episode instead of just being mentioned.

I noticed one of them went yeeting off the ledge when R5 took off, I'm pretty sure he can count that as a kill. Axe Woves may not understand flanking (as also demonstrated in the space battle as well where his tactics were very... linear) but he sure understands fuel efficiency! I hope he teaches the other Mandos how to install the range extender on their jetpacks. Minor Andor spoiler: I wish they had addressed the helmets issue a bit. I don't need them to spend a whole episode on fundie Mando creed and how it impacts the newcomers but I'd like to hear something about it. Hey Mandos, since we've got the living waters right here and we're using them as our water supply, go ahead and take your helmets off. This is (technically) the way.

Count me among those who don't think Moff Gideon is dead yet. His "you killed all my beautiful clones!" speech suggests me that he is lying and at least one was being made off-site. Some Imperial rescue squad is going to pick up the burnt toast that remains of Moff Gideon Actual and they'll use Space Voodoo to transfer his mind into the force-sensitive clone. The VFX work in this episode was amazing. This is a TV show with movie-quality effects. The score was pretty good here too. It doesn't jump out at me quite like Andor's score does but I do notice it from time to time. The title seemed a little more intense than usual. The Mandalorian Adoption Agency has quite flexible rules. Seems to be "if you can keep it alive, it's yours". Meanwhile, sorry Ragnar, you don't get to be an apprentice for staying home babysitting. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop at the end but I guess we'll set the next bad guys up in the first episode of next season. And we're back to adventure of the week!

I thought it was kind of funny when Harry and Mel starting getting suspicious about the "stolen" necklace. Do you two know which show you are on? We are never going to have an episode where a pro-immigrant politician is murdered by the immigrants she was sheltering because they wanted to steal jewelry. Also had to laugh when Dee said she couldn't imagine being separated from her family. So that means she's going to get kidnapped next week, right? Did Aunt Vi bribe a cop in front of a roomful of other cops? She gets style points for that. And Dante is definitely right to be suspicious of that phone call he got from some "Detective". We all know Dante is the one and only Detective in all of New York! I'm glad the team has started identifying themselves as Police-adjacent. Seems to be fewer questions that way. Robyn's leather jacket had a really weird style to it. She had the jacket zipped up over a flap. Normally most jackets have the flap over the zipper. And the flap had a button on it but it was on the wrong side. I guess it gives you the option of zipping the jacket or buttoning it but not both. Weird.

I'm enjoying this show although I wish the team had survived. Still, I like the mood of this show. It's similar to 24 but less broody and intense. I must wonder if the commando squad chasing them around wasn't actually working for Peter Weller but rather was just people pissed off about losing that really expensive bottle of scotch. People have killed each other for far less. Did the characters throw the baby out with the bathwater here? They do realize the scotch itself isn't the problem, right? They've used it for multiple things so far and most of the team has benefited from it. Pour it into a to-go cup! Great to see Peter Weller as the villain. He was so good as a villain Star Trek used him in two different roles.

It's a shame we haven't seen them yet. If you want to assimilate the Federation try attacking with one of your bigass ships! Or you know, maybe even two or three!

I'm not sure if it has been called out yet but I'm watching reviews of the episode and I can't help but notice one of Axe's crew is one hell of painter. I'm also pretty sure the feast consisted of one of the space chickens Bo-Katan captured in a previous episode. Maybe that's why the fundie Mandos weren't disappointed about skipping dinner, they've been eating those things for weeks now. Edit: I also noticed that when Axe's group says they are "flanking" they move about three feet to the left. And what do Axe and Paz fight about later? His poor understanding of flanking.

So now that we know what is behind the red door, what was the point of Jack again? Seems to me like this Borg plan didn't require assistance from him at all (beyond proof of concept that Borg DNA could be passed along). And why didn't the Borg call Jack Vox Machina? Come on team, it was right there! In any case, despite calling Jack their voice, they just speak to themselves anyhow and if anyone inherited the job of Borg bingo caller, it seems to be Sidney LaForge. I didn't like how the red door issue was handled with Deanna running way and Picard trying to lock Jack in his room. Why not be matter of fact about it? "Huh, that's weird. I see a Borg Cube, any idea what that could mean?" It would have been way more TNG-like if they had worked together on puzzling it out instead of getting hung up on "sorry kid, these are the rules". Tell me what you can do, TNG crew, not what you can't. Sucks that Captain Shaw died because Starfleet doesn't have doors. For that matter weren't we setting up forcefields in the bare-ass hallways not too long ago? And hasn't Starfleet had that ability for a long time? Did the Changelings burn out all the forcefield emitters? I liked Shaw finally giving Seven of Nine her propers but I was also reminded of the Mirror Universe episode of Enterprise where Archer snarks at Forrest, "bridge is yoooours, Captain!"

So many great Grogu moments this episode. I loved that he was sitting in Bo-Katan's lap and I also loved him doing the annoying toddler thing of repeating himself over and over. I hope he realizes he will not be a bad baby if he does the squeezie on Moff Gideon's windpipe, especially if he uses IG-12 to help. Hey Bo-Katan, when the villain is monologuing I know it is considered polite to wait but you really don't have to. You can start cutting through walls with your Dark Saber whenever you please rather than waiting. Hey Mandalorians, having someone carrying a Squad Automatic Weapon sure came in clutch here! Maybe bring two next time? Props to Paz Vizsla for going out like a BOSS. This is the Way! Weird for Gideon to fight the Mandalorians with his own versions of them though. I was not in martial arts for very long when I was a kid but I vividly remember the advice to not use boxing against a boxer and so on. The Imperial Mandos will have some weakness like their jetpacks freezing up once they get to a certain height or something. As unusual as the stunt casting last week was, who had Skinny Pete as a Mandalorian on their bingo card for this week? Mixed Mandalorian socials must be so awkward. Aside from having two different sets of rules for Space Chess, there's also the thing where the liberal Mandos get to eat food while the fundie Mandos get to sit there watching. Maybe they all drink smoothies or something. It would be a shame if Paz Vizsla died because he didn't get a proper breakfast.

I really like the team dynamic in this episode although I wish they had at least mentioned Lucy. But it was great to see everyone rallying for Tennant with even Cmdr. Chase and Boom Boom showing up to help even though they weren't actually asked. I also liked that this was an episode with a nice, tight timeline. The whole situation unfolds over a short time period and unlike Hawaii 5-0 we don't spend half the episode with the team having no idea what is going on. Instead, the helicopter is about five minutes late and they are starting to investigate already. It was great that Ernie went to sit with Alex. How often do we see situations in these kinds of shows where the children are instant orphans when the parents are in trouble? I liked that we had a character think of the impact this would have on Tennant's kids and actually being proactive in addressing it. Now, I feel as though the real Navy would have real people who do this as an actual job rather than seconding this duty to the IT guy (who can second his duties to the Bomb Disposal guy) but that's nitpicking. I still appreciate that we saw the effort.

So some sad sack of a dude shows up at Ressler's NA meeting just in time to be sponsored by him? Obvious plant is obvious, no? They keep mentioning security measures for the Post Office but by now you would think they'd understand that the security must also follow the Task Force members around too because every single one of them has been compromised repeatedly. Well, except Siya, who also falls into the "obvious plant is obvious" category. A bunch of people died on the ferry... that sunk beside the dock? I guess due to budgetary constraints we are left to imagine the disaster since we couldn't actually see it. Maybe the ferries in New York are different but I recently traveled on the Queen of Oak Bay which is still in service and basically just had to be repainted in a few spots after trashing Horseshoe Bay. You're going to have to do better than that convincing me that a ferry is that vulnerable. Although having said that, the Queen of Oak Bay crashed for lack of a cotter pin. Weird that the Post Office has its own lab but no staff for it. Weirdly... convenient. But I like Herbie and I don't get why the Task Force feels so put out by having to babysit him for a few hours. He's certainly not the most obnoxious character they've had in there by a long shot. Damn, they really have forgotten Liz.

When Jack said he was afraid of what was behind the door, I replied "Nah dude, we've been dragging ass on this mystery for so long it can't possibly be anything scary." That was bizarre. There is no shortage of phasers around. Maybe Worf told her to get some aggression out? I am confused by the distribution of Starfleet leather jackets. Jack had one even though he's not Starfleet at all. Seven put one on at some point and I assumed it was because she is rebellious (like the TNG crew in Insurrection who did the same). And now at the end of this episode, the entire TNG crew has decided to start wearing them. Geordi even has the Commodore version. I guess they've been cooped up for a while and probably needed a change of clothes. Is it cold on the ship? Beverly has been wearing a coat all season and they did open the ship's front door so maybe that's it. Maybe the Titan is a ship where if you want to turn up the lights you have to turn down the heat? I'm a little sad that they had Vadic promise to "execute" but not follow that up with "every MF last one of you" although I thought "fucking solids!" was hilarious. Speaking of Tarantino Trek, didn't he talk about wanting to do a scene where someone is yeeted through the bridge window and leaves a trail of guts behind? Vadic's demise pretty much checks that off.

Losing Vesco was much sadder than losing Liz. I will actually miss Vesco and I wish he had been crafty enough to escape Wujing's clutches one last time. But I think it is a bold choice to kill him off and it will move the story forward. Wujing went through all the trouble to get Dr. Perillos that beautiful long black leather skirt and for some reason she traded it for boring pants after their first meeting. Don't you want to torture in style? Why is it so hard to figure out where the Task Force is located? Numerous bad guys have already raided the place. And now, since Wujing knows Cooper is in charge, there is also the option of just following him to work. I still don't know what to make of Siya but I still think she's up to something. Ressler is blathering at her like he's got everything figured out and she's looking at the torture chair wondering if she can sneak it out of there for herself. Well, if Reddington can set up a field hospital in minutes in a feed store, logistics can't be that difficult.

Well, nice to see Tuvok again, even if it's a fake version of him. Apparently he is a Captain now. This episode reminded me a lot of 24 and not in a good way. Intricate commando-squad tactics that the baddies immediately flip. Everyone talking in riddles to extend the mystery to the next episode. An unstoppable countdown clock to a doomsday device (Lore) and another unstoppable countdown clock to the arbitrary dumb event that everyone is still going to attend despite the terrorist threat. Moles and traitors everywhere. The villains have now taken over and our heroes are going to have to pull some desperate moves at the last minute. We even had a scene with a call being traced. And this does all center around a character named Jack who is not quite right in the head and who kills almost everyone he sees.

I am hoping beyond hope here that the writers know full well we are going to figure out the traitor plots the moment they appear and so in the case of Vesco they will subvert our expectations by just flipping the plot every other episode. So I would like to see it unfold like so: Wujing tells Vesco about the Task Force. Vesco isn't stupid and kinda already knew this so he pretends to be on Wujing's side. Wujing isn't stupid so he knows Vesco is playing him but he actually wants this to happen. Vesco anticipates that Wujing will eventually betray him but he's working this into his plans. Wujing knows Vesco knows so he's coming up with counter-plans. All parties will admit at some point that they were not fooled for a second. Now since this does rely on dual instances of Blacklist characters not being stupid, I don't have too much hope but this is what I would like to see nonetheless.

So since there is a Nobody in this movie, is that a confirmation that John Wick and Nobody share a cinematic universe? Although the movie Nobody gave me the impression that Bob Odenkirk's character worked for one of the alphabet soup agencies whereas the Wick-verse doesn't seem to have any kind of governments or police forces at all beyond the High Table. Speaking of which, a long gunfight happens right in the middle of Paris and not a single cop shows up. Not even to direct traffic. Maybe they all moonlight as assassins? I also found it strange that a building the size of the Continental spontaneously explodes and when we cut back to it later, there is some police tape on the front door but that's it. And no cops attending for the big brawl at the club in Berlin even though after a while the civilians decided to flee from all the murders going on. There are definitely cops in this universe. John talked to one in the first movie. Although that cop did have the memorable bit where he sees carnage in the background, asks John if he is working again and promptly leaves. The same must go for airport security as well since John has no trouble going all over the world. I have heard there is going to be a Continental TV series and I was expecting some setup for it which I guess we got via the explosive renovation. Winston negotiates for the Continental to be rebuilt and it looks like the response was "okay, but only on a TV budget". So Winston seems to be John Wick's dad? Interesting. Now I'm curious to go back and watch the other movies to see if their scenes play any differently with that in mind. I don't think John is actually dead (although he certainly should be after getting hit by about a dozen cars, nevermind all the other stuff he sometimes literally went through) but rather I think the persona of John Wick the assassin is what has been buried. There's probably a big-ass cache of guns under that tombstone. After all, for all the variously-titled functionaries we have seen, we've never actually seen any of the 12 members of the High Table itself. So I'm going to predict that John Wick V will be along the lines of John getting torn away from his happy civilian life and deciding the only way to end this once and for all (since the world never seems to run out of mooks) is for him to kill every single member of the High Table. And since that sounds like it could be a lot of movie with a lot of cool set pieces I'm going to go one further and predict the movie will be split in two. They used a gore discretion shot here which I really appreciate. We certainly hear the sound of what is going on but the camera angle is from far away and does not go back in for a close up. In fact, the whole movie seemed fairly discreet on gore overall. I remember the first three movies being more... splattery. And while there were still a few kills in this movie that made the whole audience wince, I didn't think any of them were super brutal. For all the swords and hatchets getting flung around, it is remarkable how little blood is spilled. I guess this is a compromise that must be made when the hero character kills about 900 people in two and a half hours. That reminds me, the movie cheated on the weapons a bit. When the bad guys are getting ready for the big Paris battle we see a lot of dudes grabbing assault rifles and the like but only one shotgun shows up and everyone else is packing pistols. If I am remembering my Tom Clancy novels correctly, Kevlar is only good up to a certain caliber but John seems to have some new space-aged stuff that can't be pierced by anything. Either way, there's no real downside to at least trying long guns on him. Donnie Yen's character is also the only one around who has heard of grenades and he only throws one. A couple of claymore mines in the bushes on that long staircase and he'd be John Borscht. Despite all this nitpicking, it was a very entertaining movie and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen.

I love the idea that Chateau Picard is the Two Buck Chuck of the 25th century. Picard may be good at any number of things but it seems wine-making is not one of them. Having said that, I still bought the t-shirt:

Minor spoiler for Tales of the Jedi:

I think it is that Star Wars thing where they take a word that exists today with a perfectly good meaning and they give it another similar but not quite the same meaning. Like parsec. Or jizz.

Daystrom Station is weird. Is it a research lab or a museum? Why are these important pieces of secret technology on display with convenient signs posted so the enemies know what to steal? Why guards that come and go on a schedule? Why use some Frankenstein version of Data for defense? Why did Moriarty miss when he was shooting at them and why were the guards so disorganized? The place got broken into recently! I know Data can be literal sometimes but instead of saying JEAN LUC PICARD over and over again, why does he not say YOUR CORPSE instead? And if you can make some special sauce of Picard's remains, why would you leave James T. Kirk behind? Genesis 2.0 seems like it would be a more effective weapon than a portal device too. I guess the Bounty's cloaking device works for the same reason characters in Wonder Woman 1984 were able to steal a fully fueled jet from a museum. I wish someone would have mentioned the idea of taking the Defiant or one of the other ships and then Geordi could have said no, we took the [TECH] out because of course we did but a Bird of Prey's cloaking device doesn't have any parts on it we can do that with so we left it intact because we did [TECH] to the ship and we don't care if someone cloaks it while it's sitting in the dock. If/when that happens we just chuck bottles of Chateau Picard at it until we can see it again. The cloak on the Defiant is a newer model and it's also already compatible with Starfleet systems so I am left to believe Jack stole the Klingon one for the cool factor and/or to impress Worf. Star Trek is becoming a little more like Star Wars in this regard. It doesn't really matter which ship you are on. As long as it has power it can do whatever you need it to do. So is that it for Moriarty then? I thought he was actually going to have a role to play. As in, Lore would be behind all the shenanigans and when the crew ran out of ideas someone would suggest busting Moriarty out since he defeated Data back in the day.

I also got a laugh out of that. No wonder the space gator pops up from time to time to chew on a Mando or two with all that racket going on. And they didn't do themselves any favors feeding it a giant space chicken either. Yes that will keep it busy for a while but now it is going to become accustomed to that kind of food and since you're the source... As fun as it would have been to have a scene where the Armorer announces that they will be having fried chicken for dinner for the next two months, there is still the logistical issue of how to cook it. And knowing this bunch there probably is a specific code about not getting space chicken grease on the forge. I also have to call out the Mandalorians for the ridiculousness of the helmet rule. Don't take off your helmet except every day three times a day when you eat. And here's a foundling who can train without a helmet on because he's too young to say the creed. So... looks like we're already a little flexible when it comes to helmets, no? I got a kick out of Paz Vizsla climbing a sheer cliff while carrying his giant gun. You already know you can't use it so why haul it up the mountain with you? But being overburdened with gear you don't need in every situation is their thing so This is the Way I guess.