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Star Wars Acolyte Wayseeker Review CCXXXV · Star Wars Alliance

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Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always.
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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Star Wars Alliance.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I'm your host, Clay, and with me for
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Speaker 2: this fine Friday night, an unusual time for us to
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Speaker 2: usually record, of course, is Katie, Katie, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good. Looking at all of the Star
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Speaker 3: Wars news coming to light this past the past day,
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Speaker 3: past two days.
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Speaker 2: I know it's weird. Okay, So here's here's the thing
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Speaker 2: that's a little weird for me. Okay, it's technically I
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Speaker 2: think they're a day ahead of us, right, I think
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Speaker 2: there is ahead of us.
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Speaker 3: So I woke up and all of the Star Wars
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Speaker 3: news from Friday has already happened, so like tonight and
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Speaker 3: or Ahsoka.
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Speaker 2: But that's what I mean, Like it's it like has
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Speaker 2: it's really funny. I think of Anakin's quote at this time,
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Speaker 2: this is where the fun begins. It's like it's only starting,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like we've already been hit with some
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Speaker 2: pretty big ones.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we'll Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we will actually be talking about that. We will
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Speaker 2: be recording on Sunday. By the time you were listening
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Speaker 2: to this review, you could actually listen to that because
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Speaker 2: we will be dropping that episode on Monday. I do
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Speaker 2: believe to get most of everybody's reactions and our reactions,
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Speaker 2: of course, to all of the latest and greatest news
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Speaker 2: from Star Wars celebration. But we're here four Star Wars,
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Speaker 2: The High Republic Acala Way Seeker like it? Like it?
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Speaker 2: So is the Higher Republic really a part of the title.
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Speaker 3: I don't think the High Republic is part of Okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we could really just cut it down to.
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Speaker 3: The Way Seeker.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, of course this is a Justina Ireland novel. Uh,
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Speaker 2: we will be talking about it in its entirety now.
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Speaker 2: Of course, we are doing this review based on.
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Speaker 3: The advanced reader's copy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, advanced reader's copy and the oh crap, the word
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Speaker 2: escape my mind? What's the word that I'm looking for?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 3: The uh context.
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Speaker 2: We could do the reviews early because of this embargo embargo. Yes,
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Speaker 2: the embargo has been lifted due to the fact that
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Speaker 2: there is quite possibly still haven't seen any online. Uh,
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Speaker 2: but there's possibly copies of this novel out during celebration.
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Speaker 3: Which I mean the embargo is typically two weeks anyways
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Speaker 3: from publication. This novel publicizes on May sixth, so it's
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Speaker 3: about two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just about. So we will be talking about it
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Speaker 2: in its entirety, barring some spoilers, of course, because that's
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Speaker 2: what we usually do. We don't spoil everything for you guys.
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Speaker 2: We want you guys to experience it for yourself, have
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Speaker 2: your own opinions and whatnot. I will say this this
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Speaker 2: book may be a little different for people because it
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Speaker 2: has two different types of writing styles within one. It
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Speaker 2: has two different perspectives, and not the way that you
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Speaker 2: would think because when we say perspectives, usually when we're
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Speaker 2: talking about Star Wars books, we're actually talking about characters
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Speaker 2: third person point of view. In this novel, in particular,
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Speaker 2: we are talking about third third person point of view
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Speaker 2: and first person point of.
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Speaker 3: View, which throws the book off a lot. Let's go
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Speaker 3: ahead and talk about that. So this book is written
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Speaker 3: first person perspective excuse me for Vernestra, which is the
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Speaker 3: title character, and then there are some villain perspective chapters,
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Speaker 3: and mainly the other chapters are written third person from
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Speaker 3: a Dari's perspective, but even the villain perspectives are third
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Speaker 3: person as well, so it's kind of like Vernestra is
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Speaker 3: writing all of this down as it's been told to
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Speaker 3: her kind of thing, which is really weird. It's a
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Speaker 3: tough shift from reading ver That'stro's point of view chapters
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Speaker 3: to Dara's point of view chapters, because you have to
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Speaker 3: flip your mindset around tore.
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Speaker 2: In, especially when you are very quickly trying to read
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Speaker 2: this like we had to do. And I was gonna say,
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say this. Granted we had these books,
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Speaker 2: or we had this book for quite some time, our
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Speaker 2: schedules were a bit swamped, and so we weren't really
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Speaker 2: able to throw it into our schedule to actually read
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Speaker 2: until just here recently. With the idea of these different perspectives,
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Speaker 2: I like, it's it's a double edged sword, because here's
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Speaker 2: the thing. When I am looking at the entirety of
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Speaker 2: the High Republic, a part of and he says, man,
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Speaker 2: we didn't really get a whole lot of her nest drop,
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Speaker 2: So getting her perspective on a book I think is
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Speaker 2: really nice. I think that's really fun. But the really
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Speaker 2: annoying thing is we're not yet done with The High
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Speaker 2: Republic correct, and there is some lingering things here that
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Speaker 2: kind of leave you like, what the hell, what's going
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Speaker 2: on here? What is that reference to? What is that
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Speaker 2: reference to? What is going on with this story here?
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Speaker 2: And I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it almost makes me wonder if Disney was like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we want these out to celebrate the year anniversary of
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Speaker 3: the Acolyte, even though we know the High Republic's not
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Speaker 3: going to be done. One of the things that has
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Speaker 3: come out with celebration in the publishing panel yesterday, like
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Speaker 3: the final piece of Star Wars media is a comic
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Speaker 3: coming out July thirtieth by Cabin Scott, and that's like
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Speaker 3: the final piece, uh to everything. So it's like it
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Speaker 3: feels like it had to be out for the Acolytes
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Speaker 3: one year anniversary in the release date because I almost
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Speaker 3: would have rather swapped and gotten Adam's book here at
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Speaker 3: this date and had Aclte Way Seeker come out in
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Speaker 3: November after all the Higher Republic stuff has come out,
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Speaker 3: because you're right, I mean, we have Taie, we have
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Speaker 3: mentions of Kiev, we have mentions of Emory, like all
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Speaker 3: these things, and it's not really a transitional This book
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Speaker 3: is not a transitional piece from Vernestra in the High
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Speaker 3: Republic to the Vernestra we get in the Acolyte.
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Speaker 2: Especially as of right now, because we can only assume
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Speaker 2: that Vernestra's going to be in Trials of the Jedi.
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Speaker 2: That's what we can assume currently as it stands. The
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Speaker 2: last place we saw Ernestra was in Temptations of the Force.
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Speaker 3: She was also into the Light.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, she was into the Light, but
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Speaker 2: like in a very full capacity though, like she was
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Speaker 2: only I almost want to say, she might have just
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Speaker 2: been mentioned if not like have a small like chapter,
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Speaker 2: like maybe less than one chapter of one book, probably
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Speaker 2: talking to Wreath, so like in a full capacity type
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Speaker 2: of storytelling. Temptations of the Force was really the last
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Speaker 2: place that we saw Vernestra. So when you go from
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Speaker 2: there to Act Light, you have to you have leaps
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Speaker 2: and bounds. There is literal decades that have passed. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: between these two times, which is not.
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Speaker 3: A bad thing per se, because that gives you some
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Speaker 3: flexibility and how the character is it gets you, gives
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Speaker 3: you an easier time to get Vernestra to the Accolte.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it does. But my problem with it, and I
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Speaker 2: say problem and it sounds very harsh, I think that
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Speaker 2: it's just a small frustration to know that again, the
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Speaker 2: High Republic isn't finished. And the way that Justina wrote
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Speaker 2: some of these story points was, Hey, this is something
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Speaker 2: that you should know, but you really won't know. And
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Speaker 2: I'm like, like, I want more of that, but i
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Speaker 2: just know that I'm not gonna get it. Like That's
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Speaker 2: what I think. Kind of irks me.
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Speaker 3: Are you talking about like where Tye leaves the order
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Speaker 3: a second time?
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Speaker 2: Yes, and like the frustration between the two of them, like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it leaves you wondering, oh, what happened? But for me,
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Speaker 2: it's like, God, damn it, I want to know what happened,
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Speaker 2: because again, we just recently reviewed that comic with Tye
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Speaker 2: and we know that she the next time we are
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Speaker 2: going to see her again is going to be Trials.
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Speaker 3: All right, y'all, We're going to hit our first ad
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Speaker 3: break and we will be right back in three two one.
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Speaker 2: Seeing where she was in the uh oh, shoot, remind
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Speaker 2: me of the title monster Hunter, Yes, seeing her and
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Speaker 2: Monster Hunter.
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Speaker 3: Monster of Temple Peak.
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Speaker 2: Yes, No, that's the first one. This one is Oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, I'm looking. I think I still have it
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Speaker 2: on my phone. Actually it is Saber for Higher Saber
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Speaker 2: for Higher seeing her in Saber for Higher, knowing what
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Speaker 2: Trials of the Jedi is kind of gonna be about,
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Speaker 2: and then knowing that she has left the Order, Like,
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Speaker 2: does this mean we know what to anticipate in trials?
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Speaker 3: Not really, because it's not clear when she leaves the
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Speaker 3: Jedi Order the second time. Correct, Yeah, and we know
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Speaker 3: that when she does leave, she, like Ti Yorik, is
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Speaker 3: a way seeker, so she's definitely not going to be
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Speaker 3: a way seeker in Trials of the Jedi. So I
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Speaker 3: would say Tye leaves after the conclusion of everything.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so we have that, and so like I
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Speaker 2: have that small frustration there, but again the the small
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Speaker 2: lingering things of like we are starting to see even
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Speaker 2: I think in the last big role outside of Temptation
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Speaker 2: of the Forest, it was second book of Phase three.
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Speaker 3: It was the Light.
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Speaker 2: No no, uh, defy the Storm, Yes, and Defy the Storm.
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Speaker 2: We started to see Vernestra kind of breaking quote unquote
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Speaker 2: breaking the restraints that the Order kind of had on her.
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Speaker 2: She's you saw her finally being like, oh, I'm still
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Speaker 2: a Jedi, and I still am quote unquote obedient to
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Speaker 2: the Order, but I understand that we are in trying times,
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Speaker 2: and we are literally fighting to survive, so we may
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Speaker 2: have to do some questionable things, but I'm still gonna
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Speaker 2: do it as a Jedi. Yeah, and you get that
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Speaker 2: mentality here, but you're actually able to get You're able
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Speaker 2: to literally see inside Varnestra's head when she's making these decisions.
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Speaker 2: So I do enjoy that. I think that was clever
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Speaker 2: of them, knowing that we get to see that small
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Speaker 2: part of Vernestra in the High Republic, and we get
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Speaker 2: to see how she's evolved in that way as well.
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Speaker 2: The conflict of this story is that.
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Speaker 3: The Nullifiers which were mentioned in Rising Storm and I
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Speaker 3: believe Crash Point, yes, but those Nullifiers kind of disappeared
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Speaker 3: after the Battle of Valo, and then they've kind of
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Speaker 3: apparently made appearances over this time period. This is about
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Speaker 3: ten years before the prequel scenes in the Accolades, so
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Speaker 3: that's kind of where your time period is, guys. But
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Speaker 3: over the decades, the Nullafiers have come in and out,
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Speaker 3: but the Jedi Order has never been able to get
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Speaker 3: their hands on one. And so when Vernestra sees these
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Speaker 3: for the first time since Valo, she knows, Okay, hey,
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Speaker 3: something's got to give the main question I have here
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Speaker 3: for you, But before I ask that, I do want
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Speaker 3: to make sure. So the LGBTQ representation here we have
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Speaker 3: Vernestra is the asexual representation here, and then I believe
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Speaker 3: Ty is on the LGBTQ spectrum as well. I have
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Speaker 3: it here on I have her up on Wikipedia. Is
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Speaker 3: this gonna tell me? No? It's not so anyways, But
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Speaker 3: that is your representation for the representation, the representation for
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Speaker 3: the representation for the LGBTQ community here, and then we
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Speaker 3: don't know what and where in Dara is at on
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Speaker 3: the spectrum, but there is representation with Vernestra and Tie
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Speaker 3: in particular. So the question I have for you, Klay
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Speaker 3: is so this whole point, when we're talking about way Seekert,
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Speaker 3: we know that Hey and Dara is sent to get
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Speaker 3: Vernestra because there is a specific senator that wants to
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Speaker 3: turn himself in to Vernestra, and Vernestra only yes, and
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Speaker 3: ultimately we find out that senator is Senator Garne. We
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Speaker 3: don't know who the senator is. It's just somebody who
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Speaker 3: has come up over Vernostra's time period and everything. He
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Speaker 3: has sponsored a bill to basically commit the Jedi order
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Speaker 3: to the Republic and the Republic only it didn't get
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Speaker 3: much traction, but he was kind of the first one
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Speaker 3: to propose that bill, which turned a lot of people
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Speaker 3: against him. But apparently he also has illegal dealings, which
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Speaker 3: is where Vernestra comes in, because Garn is ready to
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Speaker 3: report what he's been doing, but he wants Vernestra to
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Speaker 3: come get him off fels It. I so Garn was
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Speaker 3: rescued by Vernestra when he was young. That's the only
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Speaker 3: connection they have. They don't have any other connection. And
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Speaker 3: it turns out that it was all a ployee to
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Speaker 3: get the Jedi that come.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this our villain Nielsen. He is the like I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna call him a mercenary slash pirate. Yes, he the
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Speaker 2: Nihiller also uh mentioned in this book. They are, And
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Speaker 2: I think that Vernestra kind of makes a somewhat comparison
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Speaker 2: and being and being in the way that's like, oh
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Speaker 2: he is no Nihill, but I could see him becoming
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Speaker 2: a problem blah blah blah. But yeah, you're you're right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So how did you feel about that connection and
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Speaker 3: being there but there being no specific reason because the
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Speaker 3: Jedi that he brings it was all like a ploy
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Speaker 3: to get some Jedi killed.
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Speaker 2: I why would he.
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Speaker 3: Like that's the only Jed that he cares about.
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Speaker 2: I Unfortunately, the real answer is, I think it's a
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Speaker 2: very easy plot point. Oh, this person is an older
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Speaker 2: uh senator or governor whatever, and who's gonna be there
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Speaker 2: long enough to be able to just like just place
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Speaker 2: Oh Vernestra, She's lived for generations, she's older. Like, you
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Speaker 2: could very well put one of the other council members
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Speaker 2: in that scenario, but then how would Vernestra get there?
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Speaker 2: You know, like, how would you throw Vernestra into that story?
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Speaker 2: So I think it's as easy as, oh, you know,
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Speaker 2: let's just make a small, you know, story point of like, oh,
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Speaker 2: they knew each other when she was younger, and you know, uh,
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Speaker 2: she saved his life. I you know, going back to
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Speaker 2: the idea because again small frustrations of you know, knowing
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Speaker 2: backstory but not knowing backstory and everything else. There is
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Speaker 2: a lot of mentions, like you had said, some direct
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Speaker 2: in some undirect indirect should I say I have So
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Speaker 2: I was able to read this on my kindle app
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Speaker 2: I have notations I highlighted, I notated. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you did at.
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Speaker 3: All somewhat I left it downstairs, but I'm going based
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Speaker 3: off memory because I read most of it today.
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Speaker 2: There is a line that says, ah, and who is
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Speaker 2: your friend from the Order? Not another of your Jedi
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Speaker 2: scientists looking for escape? Question mark? I have this highlighted.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: Who do you think it is? Jedi scientists looking to escape?
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Speaker 3: I don't really know, because I feel like all the
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Speaker 3: scientists that we have met with Bernestra were human, So
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Speaker 3: like Wreath was human, Comak human. You might could say,
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Speaker 3: I'm at Ao potentially.
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Speaker 2: Well, but they just don't know well that I don't
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Speaker 2: know if they said anything specific about alien, but they
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Speaker 2: said not another of your Jedi scientists. I think it
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Speaker 2: is We're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna go into our second ad break and we'll be
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Speaker 3: right back.
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Speaker 2: And in that case, why did he need to escape?
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Speaker 2: Like this is what I this is what I'm like
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Speaker 2: getting angry about, Like I would that story, like I
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Speaker 2: I was in and out of hype for this book,
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Speaker 2: Like there would be moments where I'm like, Oh, that's
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Speaker 2: so cool, that's so badass, and then there would just
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Speaker 2: be a lull. And it's these moments here because we've
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Speaker 2: been so enveloped into the high Republic. There's characters that
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Speaker 2: we would love to know the end of their story.
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Speaker 2: Justina is teasing the end of stories here, and I
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Speaker 2: found myself more wanting those stories than this story at times,
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Speaker 2: which is not one Justina's fault. I will say that
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Speaker 2: as well. But you're right, it is not publicize here.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, y'all. I'm super congested. Uh it's really throwing me
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Speaker 3: off as I'm speaking. I don't think it's Wreath, and
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why. So during the publishing panel yesterday,
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Speaker 3: they published the whole group of people and the front
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Speaker 3: and back cover of Trials of the Jedi, which features
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Speaker 3: the Luminous Nine as they're calling them, all decked out
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Speaker 3: and armor and everything, and Wreath is a part of
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Speaker 3: that mission.
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Speaker 2: Now, I will say I highlighted this portion of the
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Speaker 2: book prior through that panel, so you can't use that
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Speaker 2: against me, but I can.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people think the Luminous Nine is gonna
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Speaker 3: die everybody involved.
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Speaker 2: Oh you think everybody's gonna die. Oh.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if everybody's gonna die. But Wreath is
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Speaker 3: all that, And I would imagine that even going to
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Speaker 3: that planet could take a lot out of him to
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Speaker 3: where I don't think he would survive to get to
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Speaker 3: what did they call the planet? Ingay I a gay?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh, it's a it's a commune of people
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Speaker 2: called the Collective, which is basically a group of scientists
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Speaker 2: that didn't want to that wanted their own place to study.
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Speaker 3: Basically is what we're talking about. And it was started
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Speaker 3: by Avon Starros, who changed her name to Sunvale apparently
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Speaker 3: officially is what.
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Speaker 2: It looks like, ingay I n g a e Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're right.
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Speaker 5: Which I also found interesting because in the Santa Starros comic,
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Speaker 5: Avon is referred to as Avon stars Sars.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I highlighted Avon Sunvale and I did a smiling,
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Speaker 2: crying face because this is and I can talk about
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Speaker 2: it now because the book is out. Minor spoilers four
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Speaker 2: Into the Light. Avon is having this like push and
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Speaker 2: pull with her mother in that book, and so like
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Speaker 2: you see her like kind of deject her, but then
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Speaker 2: you see her like really like concerned for her and
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Speaker 2: things like that. And we all know Avon's mother super toxic.
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Speaker 2: She's a horrible human being. She doesn't deserve the love
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Speaker 2: that Avon still has for her. I'm gonna just say
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Speaker 2: it out loud. I was holding that in for a
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Speaker 2: long time. I need to get that off my chest.
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Speaker 2: So when I see that she is referenced as Sunbail,
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Speaker 2: she is letting go of her past and she is
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Speaker 2: being her own individual person. And that kind of like
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Speaker 2: warned my soul a little bit. Yeah. Getting to also
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Speaker 2: see that is it her grandson or her son?
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Speaker 3: That not really clear?
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Speaker 2: Oh well, no, it says here one of those people
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Speaker 2: was Felix's mother, Avon Sunvail, So it is Felix Sunbail
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Speaker 2: is one of the scientists here on this planet, and
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Speaker 2: he calls Vernestra. I really did enjoy that. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: like that a.
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Speaker 3: Lot, and it showed how well Vernestra has grown over
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Speaker 3: the years to just be accepting of it and accept
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Speaker 3: it as a term of endearment that it is and
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Speaker 3: not like a downgrade on who she is. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But speaking of Avon, how did you feel about Jay
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Speaker 2: six being in this book?
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Speaker 3: It took me a hot minute to recognize who J
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Speaker 3: six was because originally I was thinking he was that
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Speaker 3: J six was Elsar's droid Okay, that came up in
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Speaker 3: The Falling Star and has kind of followed him through
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Speaker 3: phase three, so I had to like figure that out.
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Speaker 3: But I loved that connection, especially like her little Rose
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Speaker 3: Gold moment and she was like, man, why is people
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Speaker 3: shooting at me? Do you know how hard Rose Gold
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Speaker 3: played against to come Bart.
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Speaker 2: I love. I love the line that's like I am
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Speaker 2: always shiny like she. I love it. She is more prominent,
26:50
Speaker 2: I believe. Uh. I mean, well, the last place we
26:54
Speaker 2: saw J six was the storm when Vern almost got
27:02
Speaker 2: completely ripped to shreds by J six accidentally just opening
27:07
Speaker 2: a door and Jay six literally just started shooting her
27:12
Speaker 2: machine gun everywhere her blaster.
27:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured out who she was and it didn't
27:18
Speaker 3: take me super lit. It was like probably once they
27:24
Speaker 3: got to Chorus Land, I would say, is where I
27:27
Speaker 3: kind of figured it out. And I was like, okay,
27:29
Speaker 3: I have to go look up J six because I
27:31
Speaker 3: had to like put the droid's look in my head
27:34
Speaker 3: as well.
27:37
Speaker 2: Speaking of Chorus Hant, how did you feel about how
27:43
Speaker 2: this story starts. The story starts, we learn, well, you
27:49
Speaker 2: look at Alcolite the TV show, we see in Dara.
27:55
Speaker 2: We know that she is a Jedi master away seeker
28:00
Speaker 2: things like that. We learn who she is to start with,
28:06
Speaker 2: she's a very closed off book nerd always in the archives,
28:11
Speaker 2: very quiet. She has a pass and we'll get to
28:13
Speaker 2: that later if necessary.
28:16
Speaker 5: The past.
28:18
Speaker 3: I don't feel like there's enough of the past for
28:21
Speaker 3: Dara in this book.
28:24
Speaker 2: Like yes, correct, No, she went with she.
28:27
Speaker 3: Had a traumatic event happened to her because she did
28:31
Speaker 3: want to do missions and she did want to be
28:33
Speaker 3: outside the archives. But then she had a traumatic event
28:35
Speaker 3: happened where she got stuck in the minds and was
28:40
Speaker 3: down there for a week and was the only Jedi
28:43
Speaker 3: to get rescued out of that bunch.
28:45
Speaker 2: Yes, the only one to survive.
28:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, correct, And so that kind of sent her down
28:51
Speaker 3: into the archives and Yaddle has been trying to get
28:54
Speaker 3: her out other since. We also learned that she has
28:57
Speaker 3: a traumatic past with her master, because like even with
29:01
Speaker 3: her Jedi trials, and I think this is super important
29:03
Speaker 3: to her characterization in the book, so that's why I'm
29:07
Speaker 3: going into it. But like at her Jedi trials, like
29:11
Speaker 3: right before she gets knighted, her Master came up to
29:14
Speaker 3: her and flustered her for her robes being messy and
29:17
Speaker 3: not pressed neatly, instead of congratulating her on passing her
29:22
Speaker 3: trials and everything, and everything to her has just been like, oh,
29:27
Speaker 3: like I can't take praise, like it just means like
29:30
Speaker 3: I haven't done enough basically. Yeah, and I like where
29:37
Speaker 3: it went. I don't think it went far enough for
29:41
Speaker 3: it well.
29:41
Speaker 2: And also there's a small thing that I don't like
29:45
Speaker 2: about that is because of her traumatic experience, because we
29:51
Speaker 2: were introduced to her as this kind of like quiet individual,
29:56
Speaker 2: book nerd type of person, because she does talk a
29:59
Speaker 2: lot about, like, you know, reading up on these papers
30:02
Speaker 2: on Wreath, on Emory, like all of these individuals from
30:05
Speaker 2: the of course High Republic phases that we've been reading.
30:09
Speaker 2: There was one line at the very end I was like,
30:11
Speaker 2: this is a little bit of a contradiction, but it's
30:13
Speaker 2: so small I'm willing to bet most people will completely
30:17
Speaker 2: bypass it because they're just you know, trying to finish
30:20
Speaker 2: the book. There was a line in oh gosh, I
30:26
Speaker 2: think it's like chapter thirty. It's like very late in
30:29
Speaker 2: the book, where Indara tells Vernestra I've always thought it
30:37
Speaker 2: was better to ask for forgiveness than for permission, So
30:40
Speaker 2: I think we should go for the entire thirty pages
30:46
Speaker 2: or thirty chapters that is not her character.
30:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when she said.
30:52
Speaker 2: That, I was like, m do you really think that
30:56
Speaker 2: or are you just saying that to fit into this scenario.
31:01
Speaker 3: And it feels like they said they said this in
31:06
Speaker 3: regards to like, hey, like here's her growing, here's how
31:11
Speaker 3: Verdnestra has helped her over the novel.
31:14
Speaker 2: Okay, I could see that, but yeah.
31:16
Speaker 3: Also like it just didn't feel like they went far
31:22
Speaker 3: enough to like make that happen.
31:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think in retrospect, this book takes place
31:32
Speaker 2: what do you think, like a couple of weeks.
31:34
Speaker 3: And we're about to jump into our third ad y'all.
31:39
Speaker 3: We promise we'll be right back. We promise.
31:42
Speaker 2: Because there's there's a lot of traveling, yeah, to and
31:45
Speaker 2: from planets. There's we get the the the hyperspace visions again,
31:51
Speaker 2: that plays us somewhat of a big part of this novel.
31:54
Speaker 2: I found that really interesting to go a little bit
31:57
Speaker 2: deeper into that and how somehow the the visions have
32:02
Speaker 2: now manifested into Stellin I thought was a really interesting
32:07
Speaker 2: choice as well.
32:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think we kind of saw that coming
32:13
Speaker 3: in to five the Storm really because Mari Santeca was
32:17
Speaker 3: like prominent there. But then you also had Stellin in
32:21
Speaker 3: some of her visions, so I think it makes sense
32:26
Speaker 3: to have Stellen be there, especially since he's the more
32:29
Speaker 3: prominent character that she's attached to. I thought Imri might
32:34
Speaker 3: make an appearance, but I liked where Imri was put in,
32:39
Speaker 3: Like he turned into a philosopher for the Jedi Order.
32:42
Speaker 3: He didn't like leave the Jedi Order, but he lived
32:45
Speaker 3: as a philosopher, like his teachings live on in the
32:48
Speaker 3: Jedi Temple, which I thought was super cool.
32:51
Speaker 2: What did you think about in Dara's thoughts towards the
32:57
Speaker 2: idea of having these of both Stellin and Emery in
33:05
Speaker 2: Vernestra's ship, because she at one point tells Vernestra like,
33:10
Speaker 2: aren't these like attachments? Isn't this something that the Order really,
33:16
Speaker 2: you know, is against? And then Vernestra does say like, oh,
33:20
Speaker 2: I'm still a proper Jedi. These aren't attachments. These are
33:25
Speaker 2: more of just ways to go about life. Like she's
33:29
Speaker 2: not she's not attached, she's not holding on hoping for something.
33:34
Speaker 2: She's just like, hey, this is how I keep these
33:37
Speaker 2: people in my memory type of thing.
33:39
Speaker 3: Yeap, how do you feel? I really thought that was
33:43
Speaker 3: an important distinction between Dara and for Nostra, because we've
33:47
Speaker 3: seen how things have changed over the years for the
33:50
Speaker 3: Jedi Ordered, not like in moments, but we know where
33:55
Speaker 3: we are in the Higher Republic where Yoda was like,
33:58
Speaker 3: oh lzar avar you guys one o fuck I dig
34:01
Speaker 3: it kind of thing like to where we are in
34:05
Speaker 3: the prequels. I mean, but like literally that's basically what
34:08
Speaker 3: he said.
34:10
Speaker 2: You're not wrong, uh, but just wording it like that,
34:15
Speaker 2: it's it's just super hilarious. But what I was gonna
34:20
Speaker 2: get at is when we open this book, they've and
34:27
Speaker 2: when I say they, the Order and the Council has
34:32
Speaker 2: reached out to Vernestra like ten times, and Estra is
34:36
Speaker 2: just like, nah, not gonna answer you, or if I do,
34:41
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna act like I can't like oh hyperspace, sorry,
34:46
Speaker 2: I can't click.
34:47
Speaker 3: Like that basically is how Ernestra is. And it's so
34:51
Speaker 3: interesting to see because we had like or La Jarni,
34:54
Speaker 3: who was like, oh yeah, like I'm a way seeker,
34:56
Speaker 3: I don't have to listen to the council at all,
34:58
Speaker 3: like good luck contact me. So now we have a
35:01
Speaker 3: council who's like, yeah, no, I need you to come
35:05
Speaker 3: back like you had a nice vacation, but like really
35:08
Speaker 3: can you return?
35:11
Speaker 2: And that was the whole point of how in Dara
35:13
Speaker 2: even got into this entire mess is Yaddle was like, oh,
35:18
Speaker 2: let's get in Dara to go find Vernestra and everything's fine.
35:26
Speaker 2: I thought that was a little interesting again, just the
35:32
Speaker 2: evolution of Vernestra seeing where she was, seeing her kind
35:39
Speaker 2: of not necessarily devolve in the High Republic, but learn
35:45
Speaker 2: how to still be a Jedi but still kind of
35:48
Speaker 2: think for herself kind of thing to where we see
35:53
Speaker 2: her now in Wait Seeker. I thought that was a
35:55
Speaker 2: very interesting arc that we have now seen through Vernestra's life,
36:05
Speaker 2: trying to think if there's anything else here, what.
36:08
Speaker 3: Did you think of? And I don't really consider this
36:12
Speaker 3: ending a spoiler because we see where Bernestra is at
36:15
Speaker 3: in the act, I think, but basically so they get
36:21
Speaker 3: the Nola Fiers taken care of. They destroy the factory
36:24
Speaker 3: very like small conflict, like with big potential consequences if
36:29
Speaker 3: Nolar Fiers were to get out into the galaxy.
36:33
Speaker 2: I will say this very big let down as far
36:38
Speaker 2: as the villain ending. But but but continue.
36:46
Speaker 3: Well, no, let's go on that because the ending is
36:49
Speaker 3: like we could talk about that second so basically want
36:54
Speaker 3: to know. I don't want to say who was shooting everybody,
36:59
Speaker 3: but yeah, like it feels like there could be more
37:03
Speaker 3: consequences involved, but then everybody basically dies instead.
37:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very much a like, hey, here's the big
37:14
Speaker 2: villain and then like there was supposed to be the twist,
37:19
Speaker 2: but then the twist literally happened, like it like you
37:23
Speaker 2: see the twist and then like pages later, not chapters later,
37:29
Speaker 2: literally pages later, the conflict is just over. It yeah, done,
37:34
Speaker 2: and you're just like, uh, that was over very quickly, and.
37:41
Speaker 3: It because it feels like basically it Yeah, I'm trying
37:49
Speaker 3: to see if I could say this about spoilers, but
37:51
Speaker 3: it really did make me mad. Okay, I will say this.
37:57
Speaker 2: How about this? How about this, guys, fast forward five
38:02
Speaker 2: minutes from now so that way Katie can get this
38:04
Speaker 2: off her chest. Boss spoiler for the ending of this book. Okay,
38:09
Speaker 2: Katie go.
38:10
Speaker 3: Okay, So it felt very much like girl gave it.
38:16
Speaker 3: It's like one of those like girl gave idea and
38:20
Speaker 3: the boss takes it and runs with it. Like in turn,
38:23
Speaker 3: girl gives idea, Boss takes all the credit for it
38:26
Speaker 3: mm hmm. And so then the girl's like pissy when
38:31
Speaker 3: it all goes wrong, like you can't do anything right.
38:34
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a well, I was gonna say,
38:36
Speaker 2: it's a little bit of a stereotype there. This does
38:39
Speaker 2: happen in many high action movies, heist movies, Like this
38:44
Speaker 2: is something that is not new to the genre of
38:48
Speaker 2: action adventure whatnot, right, Yeah, So when this happened, when
38:53
Speaker 2: Nilsen is like, oh, I got you, and then the
38:56
Speaker 2: blaster just shoots him, I was like, oh shit, we're
39:00
Speaker 2: about to get the like the big twist. Cool. And
39:05
Speaker 2: then she's like, oh, he could never do anything right.
39:09
Speaker 2: She pulls the freaking gas like the poison grenade mm hmmm.
39:14
Speaker 2: Vanessa runs out and then it's over, like there was. Yeah,
39:17
Speaker 2: you don't even get any last words from that, like
39:21
Speaker 2: that right hand woman or like you literally don't get anything.
39:25
Speaker 2: It's just from Vernestra's perspective of her running out of
39:29
Speaker 2: the mind to try to beat the gas, and we
39:33
Speaker 2: just have to make the assumption that everybody just died.
39:37
Speaker 2: I don't think Vvernestra actually like attacked her or anything.
39:41
Speaker 2: I can't remember.
39:44
Speaker 3: I feel like Indara took her out with a rock.
39:48
Speaker 2: Yes, she did.
39:49
Speaker 3: She did.
39:49
Speaker 2: She did take her out with the.
39:51
Speaker 3: Rock because that was like what Indara was doing when
39:56
Speaker 3: the lights abers would go out. She would just pull
39:58
Speaker 3: up a rock and up.
40:01
Speaker 2: She did like kill somebody doing that though, Yeah, and
40:04
Speaker 2: so she didn't feel good about it.
40:06
Speaker 3: But yeah, who is I think it's Grissalda. Griselda's the
40:11
Speaker 3: Pantoran woman who is like really mad at Nelson and everything,
40:16
Speaker 3: and so she and uh the scientist who was from Ingay, Florina.
40:25
Speaker 3: I think they both Florinda. Yes, they both end up
40:31
Speaker 3: on trial for the Republican They're like, oh yeah, Vernesa's like,
40:34
Speaker 3: oh yeah, they're gonna get what they deserve, Like this
40:36
Speaker 3: is what like it's not the Jedi's job to prosecute
40:41
Speaker 3: these people, like it's the Republic's job. And that I
40:44
Speaker 3: think kind of gets her to the ending point. And
40:50
Speaker 3: I know they had to get Bernestra to that office,
40:54
Speaker 3: I know they did, but I also felt like it
40:58
Speaker 3: seemed rushed. I know this was a transitional novel at
41:02
Speaker 3: the end of the day, and that's what had to happen. Yeah,
41:06
Speaker 3: it just felt a little weird and this should be
41:09
Speaker 3: our final ad break. So y'all, thanks for bearing with us.
41:13
Speaker 3: We appreciate y'all. We'll be right back.
41:16
Speaker 2: And I was upset at the ending. I can bypass
41:23
Speaker 2: that knowing that, like, like you said, this is just like, hey,
41:29
Speaker 2: we need to show these stories to get these characters
41:34
Speaker 2: where they need to be by the time Acolyte Timeline
41:39
Speaker 2: is there, right, so, I know everybody was hoping that
41:45
Speaker 2: we would see, you know, more of Vernestra and her
41:50
Speaker 2: padawan that we of course see in Accolade and everything else.
41:55
Speaker 2: It's it's nice.
41:55
Speaker 3: He's mentioned, not by name, but he's mentioned.
42:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is mentioned, very very small mention.
42:06
Speaker 3: You're going to have to go back and edit. How
42:08
Speaker 3: long you tell them to skip forward?
42:11
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no it was it was at thirty seven,
42:13
Speaker 2: thirty eight one. We're still we're still in the five minutes.
42:18
Speaker 2: We're good.
42:20
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, I can't appreciate where they where. They
42:30
Speaker 3: mentioned Kime here, but then don't mention Kime here. I
42:34
Speaker 3: would like to see that though, if we're not going
42:38
Speaker 3: to get it on screen, I would like a novel, please,
42:42
Speaker 3: and thank you.
42:47
Speaker 2: I don't want to say one thing before before uh
42:50
Speaker 2: talking about mentions and everything else. We forgot to mention
42:54
Speaker 2: this character from the High Republic. I won't say who
42:58
Speaker 2: it is because this one actually had me a little
43:01
Speaker 2: bit of a jaw drop moment. Uh, there is a
43:05
Speaker 2: bounty hunter that is here in this book.
43:12
Speaker 3: I figured that was coming.
43:14
Speaker 2: I had an inkling because I had I had the
43:18
Speaker 2: inkling because they refused to say the name when he
43:23
Speaker 2: asked for it. He's like, oh, and what's your name again?
43:27
Speaker 2: And she didn't even she like totally changed the subject
43:30
Speaker 2: or something. I can't remember what her exact words were,
43:32
Speaker 2: and I was like, it couldn't be. I was like,
43:35
Speaker 2: there's no way, there's no no.
43:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally saw it coming. So okay with the ending,
43:46
Speaker 3: I like that. Protesstra is also very much like she
43:51
Speaker 3: wants to be able to teach the Jedi like Igdara,
43:54
Speaker 3: about more of the world and that it's okay to
43:57
Speaker 3: go outside the bounds of the Jedi Temple and that
44:02
Speaker 3: being your own life is important. And I really actually
44:05
Speaker 3: like that. Dara's like, Hey, I would like your blessing
44:10
Speaker 3: to the Council to go be a way seeker. And
44:16
Speaker 3: I don't think she did that very long, but it
44:21
Speaker 3: makes sense. I think for Dara to be a way
44:24
Speaker 3: seeker after this, I find it interesting that Vernestra wanted
44:33
Speaker 3: to be the intermediary between the Senate and the High
44:38
Speaker 3: Council for the Jedi. What did you think about that?
44:41
Speaker 3: I mean, we figured it based on the Acolyte that
44:44
Speaker 3: she was like some sort of ambassador because she was
44:47
Speaker 3: taking all of this and communicating with the Senators and whatnot.
44:52
Speaker 3: But what did you think about that decision for her?
44:54
Speaker 4: At the end of this, I thought, it's well, again,
45:02
Speaker 4: I think it's a nice bow to get these characters
45:06
Speaker 4: where they need to be.
45:07
Speaker 2: For the Acolyte, For Vernestra herself, I think that it
45:15
Speaker 2: is a nice like we have seen her through so much,
45:22
Speaker 2: right through the very beginning of the High Republic, through
45:29
Speaker 2: the Rising Storm, her the fall of Stellin, all of
45:35
Speaker 2: these different things. Even though it was a happy moment,
45:38
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a sad moment with Emory,
45:40
Speaker 2: Like we've seen all of these moments, and really she
45:47
Speaker 2: has had nothing but quote unquote losses when we are
45:53
Speaker 2: what when we are reading Vernestra, there's never really a
45:56
Speaker 2: win here. Again, just I again, I love Star Wars
46:04
Speaker 2: for this exact reason, and I'm at best even said
46:10
Speaker 2: it at celebration today, and I'm gonna say it again
46:14
Speaker 2: even though I've already said it in the end of
46:16
Speaker 2: the Light review. The main point of Star Wars, the
46:25
Speaker 2: one thing that every Star Wars story should get you
46:28
Speaker 2: back to, is hope.
46:31
Speaker 3: Yep.
46:32
Speaker 2: So with Vernestra taking this position, there is a glimmer
46:40
Speaker 2: of hope, especially with what her last words were, and
46:46
Speaker 2: it specifically says because at this point it is in
46:49
Speaker 2: the perspective of Indara. She says, I have no idea
46:55
Speaker 2: if she was talking to me or if she was
46:58
Speaker 2: saying it in general, for you know, every Jedi after her,
47:08
Speaker 2: you can always be the light. So we see this
47:10
Speaker 2: glimmer of hope from Vernestra again. You see her in
47:15
Speaker 2: the Acolyte. She's probably not had a lot of wins
47:20
Speaker 2: in that position. It's probably very frustrating. Politics, as we know,
47:25
Speaker 2: can be very frustrating, very stressful. And I'm willing to
47:30
Speaker 2: bet guys that if the Acolyte would have continued, we
47:34
Speaker 2: would have seen more hope. I'm just gonna say it, Okay,
47:37
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say it. We probably would have seen
47:39
Speaker 2: Vernestra in lighter days. There would have been darker days.
47:42
Speaker 2: For sure, we probably would have seen a lot of
47:44
Speaker 2: those darker days, but there would have been some light
47:46
Speaker 2: days too. So I do think that that is the
47:51
Speaker 2: reason why that this moment is in that book is
47:55
Speaker 2: to again circle back to the main point of Star Wars,
47:59
Speaker 2: of Hey, there needs to be a glimmer of hope.
48:02
Speaker 2: Here's that glimmer of hope, not only for in Dear
48:05
Speaker 2: but also for Venestra.
48:08
Speaker 3: Absolutely, like you, like everybody needs that hope. And it's
48:13
Speaker 3: not just something that needs to exist in Star Wars,
48:15
Speaker 3: but like romance, like mystery, like whatever it may be,
48:20
Speaker 3: there needs to be a hope filled end in some
48:24
Speaker 3: way shape or for me, it could be miniscule, but
48:26
Speaker 3: it could also be very big. And so getting that
48:30
Speaker 3: little bit, especially that well done Padawan at the end
48:33
Speaker 3: of this, because we know after this Vernestra really does
48:36
Speaker 3: not make a trip outside of Corosson, So does she
48:40
Speaker 3: continue to have visions in this twenty six year period
48:45
Speaker 3: between now and Accolyte, Like that's what kind of intrigues me,
48:53
Speaker 3: and hopefully, who knows, we may see her in Tessa
48:57
Speaker 3: Gratton's Crystal Crown in July.
49:03
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that is true, But I think that is
49:11
Speaker 6: it without going into even more detail over this book.
49:16
Speaker 2: Like you always say, we want you guys to experience
49:20
Speaker 2: these books on your own. We did have a little
49:25
Speaker 2: fun with spoiling some stuff there. Like I said, with
49:29
Speaker 2: this podcast being just under an hour, I say just
49:37
Speaker 2: under an hour, it's probably gonna be like fifty three
49:39
Speaker 2: minutes or so between the minutes of like thirty seven
49:44
Speaker 2: and forty two. There's some spoiler talk there, so you know,
49:49
Speaker 2: you already know, you've already gotten to this point. You
49:51
Speaker 2: already know. But we want you guys to enjoy these books.
49:55
Speaker 2: And it's okay if you don't enjoy them. Even though
50:00
Speaker 2: and Katie didn't enjoy all of it, we were still
50:03
Speaker 2: able to see moments that we did enjoy, and I
50:06
Speaker 2: think that's really important when you have these types of books.
50:10
Speaker 3: I'm all about having that little bit of faith exactly.
50:13
Speaker 2: It's all about hope and I am you know we
50:19
Speaker 2: I will always finish a book for our reviews. I
50:22
Speaker 2: will never dnf a book. But that does not mean
50:25
Speaker 2: that I'm telling you, hey, you have to finish this book.
50:30
Speaker 2: So if you are, I will say this. If you're
50:35
Speaker 2: always hesitant on whether you want to read a book,
50:38
Speaker 2: or not always try it digitally first.
50:43
Speaker 3: And this should be our final ad break. So y'all,
50:47
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50:50
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50:52
Speaker 2: Or an audiobook so that way you know you're not
50:56
Speaker 2: spending too much money that of like a hardcover or
50:59
Speaker 2: a trade paperback.
51:01
Speaker 3: So I did forget this. Okay, what do you think
51:06
Speaker 3: about just Eva's last book for Star Wars besides Valiant
51:12
Speaker 3: val this is her second to last book.
51:17
Speaker 2: Oh, this is her second to last book. I think
51:25
Speaker 2: this is gonna be a little harsh, and I'm sorry,
51:27
Speaker 2: just you know, after this book, I really need Valiant
51:32
Speaker 2: Vow to hit like I really needed to hit home
51:38
Speaker 2: this I told you in the very beginning when I
51:42
Speaker 2: first started reading. I started reading it before you. It
51:46
Speaker 2: had a little bit of a struggling start. I think
51:51
Speaker 2: that there, like I said, there are moments that really
51:54
Speaker 2: get me excited and flustered. And it's more so again
51:59
Speaker 2: because of the history that I have with these characters.
52:03
Speaker 2: And like you said, that doesn't look too good when
52:08
Speaker 2: you're excited more about what could have been rather than
52:12
Speaker 2: what is what you're actually reading right now. So I
52:17
Speaker 2: still have faith that High Republic is going to end
52:22
Speaker 2: on a very good note in the sense of like
52:26
Speaker 2: it's successful, not necessarily like, hey, it's gonna be all
52:31
Speaker 2: rainbows and sunshine at the end of Trials of Jedi,
52:33
Speaker 2: because I don't think that's gonna be that way whatsoever.
52:38
Speaker 2: But with Justina in particular, I remember, like guys, in
52:47
Speaker 2: the hospital after amber Lyn was born, I was literally
52:54
Speaker 2: trying to stay awake while reading the advanced reader copy
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Speaker 2: Path of Deceit like I was there, like, and I
53:05
Speaker 2: remember Justina liking the post. I was like, you know,
53:07
Speaker 2: even after my daughter is born, I still find time
53:11
Speaker 2: too to put Star Wars into my life. I think
53:15
Speaker 2: she has done really cool things for the High Republic.
53:19
Speaker 2: Everybody has a miss sometimes and it's totally fine.
53:22
Speaker 3: Yeah you can't. Everything can't be a plus exactly. Okay, Yes,
53:30
Speaker 3: I still really enjoyed the just okay, I still really
53:33
Speaker 3: enjoyed this book. I think it makes sense that this
53:36
Speaker 3: was an adult book versus a young adult book. I know,
53:40
Speaker 3: maybe this was also Justina's first step into adult I
53:43
Speaker 3: can't remember she's written. She's not written any adult Star Wars.
53:46
Speaker 3: She's mainly stuck to young adult in middle grade. I
53:51
Speaker 3: still think this was a decent book. I had a
53:54
Speaker 3: lot of fun with it. I do hope value val hits.
53:57
Speaker 3: I know Ibery is back. I'm so excited I did.
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Speaker 6: So.
54:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clay, tell us where they can find you.
54:04
Speaker 2: Of course, you can always find me at Fanboy, play
54:07
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky, on Instagram, on threads, and I'm starting
54:12
Speaker 2: to make contact on TikTok, so go check me out there.
54:16
Speaker 2: I am again on this really big book novel kick
54:22
Speaker 2: So if you want to follow me doing that, follow
54:25
Speaker 2: me on Instagram and TikTok. Blue Sky is where I'm
54:28
Speaker 2: going to be talking more about my job in the
54:32
Speaker 2: realm of comic books. We just made our catalog live
54:37
Speaker 2: over at Lunardistribution dot com. There is a catalog there.
54:43
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's has solicitations for This is the
54:50
Speaker 2: catalog for May. Books are going to be coming out
54:53
Speaker 2: in July. We have the publisher Typan Comics. So if
54:58
Speaker 2: you're interested in Star Wars Insider, it is published by
55:02
Speaker 2: Titan Comics, So go look at our catalog, see where
55:06
Speaker 2: you can order it from, and of course always talk
55:08
Speaker 2: to your local comic bookshop to do so. Katie, what
55:12
Speaker 2: about you, y'all?
55:14
Speaker 3: You can find me on the social media platforms. It's
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55:45
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