Despite my (highly qualified) HEC commitments, I love reading people like Ken Aizawa (and Fred Adams) and others such as Rob Rupert who are really HEC’s best fiends. Yes, I said fiends (a nudge and a wink to Herzog’s superb documentary). These three are meticulous and fair critics, meticulous without ever resorting to point-scoring or being trivial. HEC in all its variants (to a greater or lesser degree) must be taken seriously and we are lucky to have critics such as Aizawa, Adams and Rupert as HEC’s best fiends.