They are, you feel, sort of softball in comparison with the early stuff.

I think it's a sophisticated version of the earlier stuff.

The earliest stuff there I can recognize, remember it well.

Yes, a great game and never mind the early stuff.

I mean, that's much better than some of the earlier stuff you wrote.

This part was even more puzzling than the earlier stuff.

The other two, at least the first, does not advance on earlier stuff.

"What we were showing last year was really early stuff," he explained.

Probably did when he wrote the early stuff, but F&Z came out much later.

He was the only one there for all the early stuff.