Take it for whatever it is or isn't worth to you: To MY mind I would have been a smug, condescending prick if I'd said something similar to what you believe I ought to have said. Especially since you have zeroed in on what are my second and third comments ever made on this site. What you would have liked me to say…

Perhaps you're right. I only knew/worked with him for a period of 5 or 6 months. Your own experience may have been far more extensive.

Totally agree that was most un-Lou like. They got Andy right. Why couldn't they do the same for the other Factory folk?

I'm willing to admit that, having tuned in partway through the episode, I at first had the weird feeling it was a very different dead guy. I thought that for reasons known only to themselves the writers had Richie carousing around with the ghost of Brian Jones. With, for another reason known only to the writers, a…