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The High Republic Young Adult Analysis and Ranking CCCII · 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 am your host, Clay. And with me, like,
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  Speaker 2: every single week is, of course, Katie. Katie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I know that's kind of a rhetorical question right now
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  Speaker 2: because of how crazy both of our days have been. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm under the weather. That's about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're here, of course. We were Star Wars on Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, we hardly have anything as far as news. There
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  Speaker 2: was one news topic that I brought up to Katie
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  Speaker 2: in the past week. That's kind of like a head scratcher,
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  Speaker 2: like what in the world type of thing. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's a quote from Dave Filoni that I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: bring up. And then after that, we are on to
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  Speaker 2: our main topic tonight, which is... The High Republic Young
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  Speaker 2: Adult Analysis and Ranking. This is, of course, a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a retrospective. We wanted an excuse to go back
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  Speaker 2: and read The High Republic. And we have found that
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  Speaker 2: excuse with being able to grab the individual reading levels
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  Speaker 2: of each of The High Republic. phases and well not
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  Speaker 2: each phase but each of the reading levels including the
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  Speaker 2: phases and seeing if there is a coherent story seeing
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  Speaker 2: if uh it breaks down once you you know need
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  Speaker 2: to read something outside of uh each uh retrospective uh
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  Speaker 2: reading level but uh that's what we're gonna overall do
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  Speaker 2: so With that, let's go ahead and jump into our
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  Speaker 2: first topic. The very first one I sent you, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: was this news about Filoni. Well, first, before we do that,
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  Speaker 2: we do have also New York Comic Con.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a panel for Lucasfilm Publishing, which will
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  Speaker 2: be October 9th. between 11 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. So
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  Speaker 2: a little update there. So we can expect some news
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to Lucasfilm Publishing. That's a small little
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  Speaker 2: tidbit there. But this is something that I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: bring up more so because there was a couple people
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  Speaker 2: that said, oh, this is Dave Filoni's answer for his
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  Speaker 2: strategy for the future of the franchise of Star Wars.
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  Speaker 2: And that really irks me because of his answer. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a strategy. I told you it's a blanket statement.
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  Speaker 2: And this is his exact wording. We have several different
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  Speaker 2: generations of Star Wars fans, right? There's original trilogy fans,
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  Speaker 2: prequel fans, sequel fans, Clone Wars fans, expanded universe fans.
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  Speaker 2: They all have different interests. And I always look at
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  Speaker 2: how we're going to serve all these different interests and
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  Speaker 2: most importantly how do we bring them all together because
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  Speaker 2: they have this common love of Star Wars that's not
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  Speaker 2: a strategy there is no strategy in that whatsoever there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing that tells me how they're going to do it
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  Speaker 2: that's what a strategy is This, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you want to say your response to me sending
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  Speaker 2: you that quote off the top of your dome.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, I'm going to go ahead and say a
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  Speaker 2: version of it for myself. Maybe, just maybe... Filoni as
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  Speaker 2: the president of, or co-president of Lucasfilm doesn't need to
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  Speaker 2: be in front of a camera anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we need to get, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot her name. I forgot her name.
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  Speaker 3: Brennan?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Brennan. We need Brennan to have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of media training. And have her take the lead.
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  Speaker 3: Lin-Wen Brennan.
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  Speaker 2: I got that right at least. Lin-Wen Brennan. She needs some,
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  Speaker 2: she needs just a little bit of media training and
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  Speaker 2: to take over as far as the face. Because my God,
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  Speaker 2: what a non-answer that was for, hey, what is your
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  Speaker 2: strategy for this? I can only imagine like the actual
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  Speaker 2: people asking that question and then him giving them that
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  Speaker 2: answer and then walking away. Like he didn't even answer
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  Speaker 2: my question. That was just, I would have thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: so that's the beginning of your answer. What's your actual answer?
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  Speaker 3: And that's not even like a start to an answer.
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  Speaker 3: That's not even like a media train, I'm not giving
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  Speaker 3: you an answer, but I'm giving you an answer kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing. That's not an answer to the question that
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  Speaker 3: she asked. Point blank. Your strategy should have been, okay,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we want to hit all sides of it or whatnot,
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  Speaker 3: like something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like even if you were to say like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we are planning on.
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  Speaker 2: We're planning on making everybody happy. That would be like
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  Speaker 2: a tease of an answer. Like, oh, what do you
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  Speaker 2: have for Legends? Like, oh, you have more stuff for
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  Speaker 2: Clone Wars? It would then get people talking. This, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you just pointed us all out. Cool. Now what?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know? It's pathetic. Yeah. It's rough. So... The next
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  Speaker 2: piece of news that I have is this most random one,
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  Speaker 2: which is Mall Shadow Lord is the most streamed animated
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  Speaker 2: series on Disney Plus in 2026.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when you first said this to me, I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: that's wild. When I go to look at it again,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what other high-profile animated series that they've
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  Speaker 3: had this year. Because what if came out at the
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  Speaker 3: end of last year?
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  Speaker 2: You have X-Men 97, Season 2.
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  Speaker 3: X-Men 97, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You have X-Men 97, you have... That was the other
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  Speaker 2: one I was thinking about. Um, actually... But, like... Live-streamed
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  Speaker 2: animated series... Now, you also have the idea of, like,
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  Speaker 2: other outside... Other IPs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, because I still think there's a huge popularity of, like,
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  Speaker 2: shows that were on.
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  Speaker 2: Shows that were on Disney Channel at one point and
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  Speaker 2: then moved on to streaming once they became, like, hard-focused
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  Speaker 2: on streaming. Those still have a huge fan base.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but I think this is, like, This said like
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  Speaker 3: new animated series, I thought. On the topic of Darth Maul,
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  Speaker 3: Angie23J2P is in the chat and said, do you both
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  Speaker 3: think that the Pink Twilight Devon will become Darth Talon
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  Speaker 3: in Maul Shadow Lord? We've talked about this previously. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think so. Just because of the way they're going
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  Speaker 3: about her origin story. and when they tended to reuse
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  Speaker 3: characters from Legends, they try to make it make sense
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  Speaker 3: within the timeline. And Darth Talon is Legacy Era, and
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  Speaker 3: not in the midst of the Skywalker saga. I think
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  Speaker 3: it would be interesting if they chose to change her
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  Speaker 3: story around, but that's what they've tried to do, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's your question. And one thing that I think...
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  Speaker 2: we've may have spoken about this, um, not in like
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  Speaker 2: a huge discussion, but I had asked like somewhat of
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  Speaker 2: a similar question of asking like, Hey, has there been
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  Speaker 2: any proof as of right now of a legacy character
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  Speaker 2: in legends turned into Canon with another name?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And there hasn't been a whole lot of that. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think she will become like a Sith
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  Speaker 2: of any type with a different name that resembles Dark Talon,
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  Speaker 2: you know? We We've had our discussion about how there
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  Speaker 2: could be them kind of toting the line in season
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  Speaker 2: two and kind of what that might look like. But
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see. It'll be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but I think the... animated series part, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was new to 2026. So X-Men 97 and Darth
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  Speaker 3: Maul would be like the top ones that I can
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  Speaker 3: think of that are on Disney Plus at this point.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing I would say is like, because of
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  Speaker 3: just the way that Marvel is choosing to go about
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  Speaker 3: doing the multiverse kind of situation, that X-Men 97 has
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  Speaker 3: been May have fallen off of some people's radar. Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching X-Men 97. But Matt is not watching X-Men 97.
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  Speaker 3: For instance. Because he's like well I don't know anything
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  Speaker 3: about these characters. It doesn't say it's connected. It says
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  Speaker 3: it's a sequel to this series. So ultimately. Do I care?
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  Speaker 3: About these characters. And like there's so much out there
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  Speaker 3: to watch right now. And when X-Men 97 was coming out.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of makes sense. But. And not to say
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  Speaker 3: that X-Men 97 hasn't been good. I actually have really
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed X-Men 97 compared to Darth Maul.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But you just have two different perspectives. Whereas some people
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  Speaker 3: are like, ooh, Darth Maul. And like, ooh, these characters
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  Speaker 3: don't exist. Like, in the main MCU. So I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to even see if there has been
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  Speaker 2: any larger, like... animated shows outside of the Marvel and
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars IP. And Amberlynn watches a lot of Disney +.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the only thing I can really think of that
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  Speaker 2: has popped up on Disney +, recently is this newer
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  Speaker 2: show called dragon strikers um a lot of these different
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  Speaker 2: shows that are like original for disney they usually don't
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  Speaker 2: really start to pick up traction until the entire season
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  Speaker 2: or series has yeah um you.
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  Speaker 3: Know you say dragon strikers this is totally random by
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  Speaker 3: the way um but it's related to animated series um
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  Speaker 3: you know what series i wish that it disney would
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  Speaker 3: choose to reboot and do it right with an animated
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  Speaker 3: series american dragon jing fong.
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  Speaker 2: It's been on a lot of people's lists actually i
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly where you were going with that um i've
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  Speaker 2: seen because there's like a there's a long list of
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  Speaker 2: shows that have yet to even pop up on disney
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  Speaker 2: plus yeah and uh along with that the conversation of
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  Speaker 2: like hey is there any chance these shows can get
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  Speaker 2: a reboot or like find a way back onto Disney's
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  Speaker 2: radar to be a Disney plus show?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And especially has been one that a lot of people have.
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  Speaker 3: Suggested, especially because you look at it with like the
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  Speaker 3: dragon romantic era that we're in. Like you could make
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  Speaker 3: that an adult animated show and probably get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, there's that. Like, I'm surprised that there has
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  Speaker 2: not been an attempt at another impossible animated series, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: There has also been... Excuse my daughter in the background, people.
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  Speaker 2: There has also been, like, people talking about... Just because
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  Speaker 2: of how Toy Story 5 has recently, like, made a
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  Speaker 2: lot of news. Buzz Lightyear used to have an animated series.
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  Speaker 2: It has not made... Disney Plus at all. Not even
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  Speaker 2: a single season of that show. So there's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff that has been on people's radar for like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Disney Plus, you have a huge audience that probably wants
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  Speaker 2: to see these things or even a renewal of these things.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think Jake Long could definitely make the
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  Speaker 2: cut for it. But yeah, the other animated series that
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  Speaker 2: just recently came around uh was uh and this is
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  Speaker 2: gonna sound silly but just because amber lynn watches it
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  Speaker 2: too uh there is a sequel series to sophia the
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  Speaker 2: first oh yeah and like that is being simulcast randomly
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  Speaker 2: like it's it's it's being aired on disney junior and
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  Speaker 2: also airing on disney plus.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting And, yeah, like, I'm very, like, confused as to, like,
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  Speaker 4: what Disney is really trying to do when it comes to, like,
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  Speaker 4: stuff that is outside.
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  Speaker 2: Of their normal, like, really big money makers, that being
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars and Marvel. So, like... Just when we saw
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  Speaker 2: that Maul randomly... was like oh this is the most
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  Speaker 2: streamed animated show i'm like okay but like was there
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  Speaker 2: nothing else like and and that's not like we've we've
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  Speaker 2: already harped on the show as much as we possibly
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  Speaker 2: can like we don't want to beat it into the
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  Speaker 2: ground but our thing was okay it was over and
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  Speaker 2: done with people very quickly moved on how is it
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  Speaker 2: that this isn't still talked about if it's the most
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  Speaker 2: streamed Like, it's not popular. I'm on the side of
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars Twitter, on Star Wars threads, on Star Wars Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: and people aren't still talking about it. But it's the
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  Speaker 2: most streamed ever? Now, maybe that's a sign of people
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  Speaker 2: getting really freaking tired of social media. But, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Getting tired of social media is a good point, because
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  Speaker 3: I know Twitter was a lot of people's go-to for
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  Speaker 3: TV discussions and everything and with Musk buying it like
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  Speaker 3: it dropped off ginormously so who knows um will be
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: interesting to see next year when we go into with
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  Speaker 3: like Vision season 4 how the 9th Jedi ended up
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  Speaker 3: on that list potentially um Vision season 4 and Maul
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  Speaker 3: season 2 if it like Hold steam. Who knows.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the other thing. I want to. I haven't even.
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  Speaker 2: I need to write it down. To see if I
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: can find any numbers. On the ninth Jedi. And see
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  Speaker 2: how many. Like how many. What is it? It's usually
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  Speaker 2: how many minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Of each show or whatever. So. Maybe that's something. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: That we can look into. For next week. Randomly got
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  Speaker 2: the hiccups all of a sudden. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: is there anything else that you have seen for news
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  Speaker 2: this week?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Life has been chaotic this week.
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  Speaker 3: So I apologize, guys. Typically I'm more on top of it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's pure chaos this week.
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  Speaker 2: No, that is totally understandable. So that would mean we
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  Speaker 2: can jump right into... Our main topic of the evening, which,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is the young adult novels of the High Republic.
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  Speaker 2: That being, I have an entire list right here.
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  Speaker 3: We have Path to Deceit, Path of Vengeance, Into the Dark. Oh, crap,
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  Speaker 3: I've got this. Hang on. Out of the Shadows.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: And then the third one. I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 3: cheat and look, except I'm not wearing my glasses. Midnight Horizons.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Defy the storm, tears of the nameless, into the light.
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  Speaker 2: And into the light. On the money. I was actually
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  Speaker 2: going to go in chronological order. I did go chronological order.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you did, you did, you did. No, the
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  Speaker 2: wiki even has it wrong. Hold on. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 2: trending pages and it has it in order of trending.
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  Speaker 2: That's weird.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Weird. Okay, so how do you want to go about this? Well,
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  Speaker 2: for one, Katie, I want to ask, with all eight books,
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  Speaker 2: a part of our analysis was, hey, is this... a
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  Speaker 2: coherent story from beginning to end? So I want to
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  Speaker 2: ask you that question. Was this a coherent story from
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  Speaker 2: beginning to end?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm actually going to take your question and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to bend it. I think Phase 2 nailed the
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  Speaker 3: cohesiveness the best.
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  Speaker 2: Right on the money for me too. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Like, they only had two books to deal with. So
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  Speaker 3: that lends itself to its favor. First of all. But
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  Speaker 3: Cabin Scott gives you the necessary details at the beginning
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: of Path of Vengeance that really kind of help you
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  Speaker 3: figure out what all has transpired. Because The Battle of
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  Speaker 3: Jedha and the comics really serve as the middle point
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  Speaker 3: of Phase 2. And so he has to summarize all
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  Speaker 3: of that information for you guys. So really, the first
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  Speaker 3: 10 chapters of Path of Vengeance is the comics. Basically,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like. So that's a detriment, but also it
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  Speaker 3: lends itself to the cohesiveness factor. Phase 3... probably handles
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  Speaker 3: it second best mainly because of two and three tears
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  Speaker 3: of the nameless and into the light um with a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of defy the storm because they're able to
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: carry wreath over but defy the storm is really vernestra's
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  Speaker 3: story and then tears the nameless and into the light
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  Speaker 3: are wreath's story and amadeus's story and that's what kind
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  Speaker 3: of gives it second best, in my opinion, because Phase 1,
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  Speaker 3: out of the shadows, always throws me off with Phase 1.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, where I get it... It is the story
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  Speaker 2: that genuinely feels like we took an enormous left turn.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Komak and Wreath are still there, but... but
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter because they come in like towards the
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: very end. And you can tell because Justina Ireland writing it,
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  Speaker 3: that wrote Nestor was the main character and that's completely fine.
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  Speaker 3: But again, we're approaching these discussion points from, is it
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  Speaker 3: a cohesive story all the way across? Because we're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be able to read phase one, phase two, phase three,
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  Speaker 3: and it all makes sense in the grand scheme of things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're looking at it, There's key information in
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  Speaker 3: phase one that's just missing. And I think they learned
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  Speaker 3: their lesson for phase two and tried to carry it
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  Speaker 3: over for phase three. But because you have three waves
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  Speaker 3: of the phase in phase three, it got a little
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  Speaker 3: more convoluted. But I do think that they really nailed
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  Speaker 3: it with Tears of the Nameless and End of the Life.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I was going to say one thing that I
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  Speaker 2: do feel like We kind of should have some points
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  Speaker 2: taken away from us is we forgot to mention Tales
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  Speaker 2: of Light and Life in our reading.
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  Speaker 3: So I wasn't necessarily counting that here because it's an
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  Speaker 3: anthology because I really did think about it. I really
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  Speaker 3: did think about it.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely didn't think about it until I finished reading
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  Speaker 2: Tears of the Nameless. And I was like, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: hold on. And that's when I was like, oh crap,
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  Speaker 2: there's like two stories in this book that could really
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  Speaker 2: help people kind of get some context.
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  Speaker 3: Right, but because it doesn't really belong to a phase
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  Speaker 3: and it's got a mix of all three phases... it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really say, okay, we've got an anthology in phase one.
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  Speaker 3: We've got an anthology in phase two. We've got an
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  Speaker 3: anthology in phase three. Some people don't like anthologies. And
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  Speaker 3: so if they're reading a young adult story, they're really like,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: most people are not going to go, okay, I need
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to go pick up this anthology as part of my journey.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: So that's because I thought about it like two weeks
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: ago when I was unpacking the shelves. Right. Cause like
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I just did all this kind of thing. And I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: was like, I'm not going to bring it up because
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Tales of Light and Life is kind of its own thing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have replications in all of the phases. And yes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: it does cross over all three phases. But at the
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: grand scheme of things, the average reader who reads a
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: young adult book is not going to pick up an anthology.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: And that's why I didn't bring it up because I
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: was like, we're reading this medium. Basically, I was like
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: reading a full young adult novel. It doesn't count here.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: So that was my reasoning for not.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Bringing it up. And like, I think this book in particular, like,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I think we might have a completely different thought process
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: when we start reading the adult novels because of the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: amount of information that Genuinely comes from the. Young adult novels.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I was kind of thinking. How like how fun.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: To read. About. Aslan. In. Path of deceit. And. To like.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Get like his story. And I say his story. It's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: really like. The small little spark that started the flame.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And that's what really leads into... That's what really makes
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the cohesiveness work for Phase 3 in particular. Because of
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: how that carries over. I do think the overall story
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: of the young adult books falls flat because of the blight.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Also because of the thorn seed in Into the Light.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I felt like that was just too much additional detail
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: for Claudia Gray and George Mann to really be able
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: to manage long term. And I know you say long term.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Long term is not really the word I was looking for.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: But it's just a lot of information to pack into
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: one book. You think about it. I listened to Into
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: the Light, guys. I listened to it at 3.5 speeds.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: which was just under three hours at 3.5.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: That's when they just start sounding like chipmunks. I've tested it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I've tested it. It's like, I, for me, I can
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: go 2.6 to three. Three is like a, Hey, I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: need to finish the last two hours really quickly.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Like, it's not a, hey, I'm going to read an
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: entire book at this speed. It's like, hey, I need
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to get finished with it already.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And it definitely is not how I would choose to
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: read it. I just had a migraine yesterday, so I couldn't.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Because originally I had it all planned out where I
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: was going to be able to listen to it at
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: two speed. But then I had a migraine yesterday and
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: it slowed me down.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And guys, like, you do not understand how much reading
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Katie and I do for this podcast. um it's put
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: my like regular reading backlog into chaos it's like okay
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I bought a new Brandon Sanderson book uh you know
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: back in like February I'm not gonna be able to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: read that until 2030 like I'm just like putting it
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: off to the side You.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Brought up these High Republic episodes so I don't want
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to hear it. Because I knew that I was pushing
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you with the reading content. And you could have brought
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: up a different topic.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Let's be real. It was genuinely something that I wanted
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: to do now that the High Republic was quote-unquote over.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And You know, who knows? Maybe we might get something
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that will, you know, reap some benefits at New York
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Comic Con, you know? Who knows?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: We were talking about this while we were texting about it. Like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: going back and reading these things gives us a lot
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: of these, like, aha moments. We're like, holy crap, hold
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: on a second. Like, for me, like, I had mentioned
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: this before, but, like, what I am really loving about
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the high Republic now going back is seeing how much
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: of like outside, like, like literally outer rim type of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: breadcrumbs that each writer kind of just like played with
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: just to say like, in case this really pops off,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: like maybe we can play along with here. Or do
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a little bit of this and do a little bit
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: of that. You know, um, like, uh, into the dark,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: we learn about the Sith and the Dren gear. Like
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that was a really big thing for me. Um, you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you texted me, what was it yesterday? Or I think
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: it was yesterday about defy the storm and the connections, uh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: to path of deceit. Like that kind of stuff is
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: really rewarding. on if you catch it like first time
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: reading but it's like holy crap hold on i like
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like because again we've we've always been a podcast that
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: is consuming every single corner of star wars we do
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: shows we've been doing movies we've been doing the books
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: i've been talking about video games Like, we have really
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: been doing everything. And sometimes the small details just, whoop,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: go past us. Going back and reading these things is
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: helpful because then we're like, holy crap, yeah, we missed, like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: maybe the small detail here that we never even talked
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: about the first time around. Yeah. Yeah, so it's been nice.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: It really is fun getting to see it because, like
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: you said, we... trying to read like the things in
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: advance and go like for reign of the empire book
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: two that's coming out we both read reign of the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: empire one to make sure that we were on top
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: of things but like for the high republic with how
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: many releases were coming out we weren't always able to
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: go back and say okay i'm gonna read the five
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: books that happened before defy the storm comes out kind
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: of see what happens um and so it was cool
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: to catch those um on the backend of this second read,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: or I think this was my third read for phase one,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: but then my second for the rest of them, probably
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: at least since we reviewed them.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Like my thing again, like reading freaking path
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of vengeance. I think I was just as giddy and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: excited to read this book again. You know, we, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: remember when we got this book announced, we spent like
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: 20 minutes literally just talking about the cover. Do you
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: remember that? We were like, what does it mean? Why
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: is this happening? What's that symbol over there? And those
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: emotions came back up. Learning about the path of the
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: open hand and path of the closed fist again, like
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: all of that stuff, like really, really fun to go
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: through those emotions again. So really fun. I do have
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to ask, were there any books second time around now
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that you felt like not so like, and, and this
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: is like, this is a loaded question because we're always
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: as positive as can be, but we do, you know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: we like to throw the honesty hammer down when we
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: need to. Were there any books that you felt like, Hey,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: we probably gave it a lot of praise earlier and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like that now. Or is there any
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: books that you read that were like, man, we didn't
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: really touch on this a whole lot, but now I
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: feel like this is a really good book to, You know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I really don't feel.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Like we actively hated anything. I say hate. Like you said,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: hate is a strong word with us. We don't really
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: ever hate anything.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Out of the Shadows definitely is probably my least favorite.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: But even reading it now, it's still a very good book.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: It just feels misplaced in the cohesiveness of the overall story.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And I do appreciate... that at least Tessa Gratton and
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Justina Ireland were then able to tie back in Jordana
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: and Sylvester in Defy the Storm.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Defy the Storm, though, feels more in place with the
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: other six books. Yeah. If we're not counting Out of
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: the Shadows.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Out of the Shadows feels like it's just its own thing.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: And that's not to say, again, I want to stress this.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: It is not a bad book. it just feels out
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: of scope with everything else. If you read the other
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: seven books, things flow a little bit more together with
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: how the store, the cohesiveness of the story.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: So I feel maybe, and tell me, tell me if
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: this makes sense. Maybe it's also the fact that Avon's
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: not in, but like Avon is in phase three. So
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: it just keeps the characterization going. I don't know because
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like with Vernestra I need to be able
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: to see Avon in the background and she's just not
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: there in Out of the Shadows for good reason but I.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Don't know yeah I will agree that Out of the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Shadows felt the most out there I.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Think we said that when we reviewed it is like
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: this doesn't feel like it flows properly into.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: The dark yeah uh i will say this one that
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: i have a little bit more appreciation for um i
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: was in the middle of moving and abby was in
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the middle of being pregnant um was midnight horizon yep
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: um wait hold on i'm trying to remember if that's
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: correct If she.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: No, because you strongly disliked Midnight Horizon, if I remember it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And actually, a lot of people disliked Midnight Horizon. But
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Midnight Horizon was one of my favorites out of Phase 1.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: So, Midnight Horizon came out in February. This was, like,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: in the beginning of Abby being pregnant.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: My life was chaotic at that point. And we had
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: actually reviewed the book... while I was staying at a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: friend's house, um, I was recording on my laptop. It
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: was like, it was hectic. So like this was a,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: this was on top of how crazy and, and, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: how fast we read books. This one felt like I
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: wasn't really able to sit with it when we first
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: read it this time around. I really appreciated this story.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Really fun. Um, gives more context to a lot of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the characters that are in it, specifically Komak and his story.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: So I really appreciated Midnight Horizon this time around. I
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: genuinely do love that story. And for me, I also
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: felt like I had read Defy the Storm. a little
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: too quickly and that reason being we.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Had this was in the middle of me moving to
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: indiana i think so yeah i had i had moved.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: When uh uh oh my gosh uh what's the adult
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: book that started the phase three.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Eye of darkness.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Eye of darkness We had just reviewed that one when
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: we had moved, when I had moved. And so, but
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: we had already gotten a copy of Defy the Storm.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: So again, my life was a little unstable. Reading through
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: this very quickly. This one, I remember both of us
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: texting each other. Hey, how far are you? Hey, how
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: far are you? We were really enjoying this one as
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: we were reading it and wanted to talk about it
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: as we were reading. reading it before we even got
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: on the podcast, this one, I got all of those
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: emotions again. Um, this one really kind of sets the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: tone for the like rest of the phase. So I
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: really enjoyed this one like a lot, a lot. Um, and,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: and going back, it's a great book.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And I love div a lump up. Uh, it's, a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: character in it. Like, it's super great. She's a super
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: great character. And I love the idea that the Shani
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: live for, like, thousands of years. Like, that's so intriguing
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: to me. And I know, like, when Vernestra came up as, like,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the acolyte, we were like, but does another character really
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: need to live that long? But, like, I think it's
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: a little bit different when it's, like, hundreds of years versus, like,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: thousands of years.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: In Into the Light, for instance, at the beginning when
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Master Adampo is killed when they're trying to evacuate a
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: planet from the Blight. And they go to the ceremony
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: because they weren't able to get her body back. Or
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: their body. I can't remember what they are. But Wreath
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: talks about how Master Yoda literally knows every single Jedi
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: in the Order because of how old he is. and
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: stuff and like that that just rings in your head
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: a little bit as like you go okay this character
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: has lived for almost a thousand years yeah they know
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: a ton of people yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: So now i have to ask katie Now that we
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: have these books now read, because, I mean, me and
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: you both sometimes read before we even record our initial reviews.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: We reread books. I think I have fairly read each
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: book now twice for sure. I may have read one
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: or two of them a third time. But now that
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: we have these books well-read... First, I want you to, well,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you already gave me that question. I was going to say, hey,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: give me a ranking per phase and then give me
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: a ranking per book. But you kind of told me
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: it sounds like your ranking per phase would be two, three, one.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I actually, so that's like my cohesiveness rankings. So in
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: terms of how I liked the books the best, it's
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: probably Phase 3, Phase 2, Phase 1. 3, 2, 1?
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's all super close. I talk about this
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: a lot, but it really kind of depends on the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: mood of what you're in. But I just think with
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Phase 3, the characters have grown so much, and I love...
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: I love Reed's relationship with Amadeus and how he recovers
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: his relationship with Comac. And it's like, okay, it's not
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: like great, but like we've recognized that we have trauma
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: here kind of thing and moved past it. And very
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: similar for Nestor with Emery in Defy the Storm is fantastic.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: And I love it. So I just love seeing that
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: part of the story. It's all super close. but that
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: would have to be my ranking. I think for phases.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Phases for me would probably be two, three, one. Um,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I was so hyped over phase two. I thought it
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: was so much fun. Um, I'm a big like theory
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: and conspiracy person when it comes to books, when it
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: comes to stories, um, I'm not a big conspiracy person
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: in real life, but when it comes to trying to
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: guess how a book is going to end or like, hey,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: how is the villain or the hero going to make
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: it out of this? I love thinking about that type
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: of stuff. And phase two had us itching our head
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the most because of all the twists and turns. And
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: for the young adult novels specifically, I really love that
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: for one, the young adult got to bookend phase two.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: We got to get a young adult at the very
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: beginning of phase two and the path of vengeance ended
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: phase two as well. Uh, so I really, really enjoyed that. Um,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: and then like with phase one, I think that a
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: lot of people we've, said it before that like phase one,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: they knew what they were doing, but they were still experimenting.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: They were still like introducing characters and seeing what concepts
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: worked and what stuck. And so like, it is the weakest,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: but it's not bad, you know? So, and that's why
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: it's at the bottom, honestly.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Okay. And that's what I think, too, is it's all
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: super close, but in how the storytellers were able to
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: grow the story that they were telling across three, sometimes
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: four different authors, it's really fantastic. And it just shows
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: how well they adapted to the different changes that had
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: to come up. It's just super, super well done. Yeah. So.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: With that being said, eight books, Katie. How are you
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: ranking them?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: So I think I would have to go Tears of
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the Nameless, Path of Vengeance, Defy the Storm, Midnight Horizon,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Into the Light, Into the dark. Path of deceit. Out
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: of the shadows.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: The two that I have. At the bottom. My opinion
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: on those two. Have stayed the same. Basically throughout the rereads.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Is.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Out of the shadows. Just struggles for me. As an
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: overall story. It's still a good book. But just with
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: having to. reconcile the fact that this is all supposed
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: to be one story it struggles the most path of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: deceit i struggled with the difference in how tessa gratton
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: and justina ireland chose to write their different chapters like
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: i felt like i and i don't know who wrote
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: what but i felt like have most chapters and marta's
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: chapters differed so strongly it didn't feel cohesive.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Enough We said the same thing when we first recorded
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: our review.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: It's still a very good book if you look at
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: it from a bird's eye view. But when you go
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: to look at the details, that's where I struggle with it.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Because I feel like even though you're technically writing the
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: villain's perspective and the hero's perspective, they still shouldn't somewhat
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: flow together and I just don't feel like they flow
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: together I feel like Defy the Storm feels like one
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: book and it feels like one author wrote it so
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I do feel like they learned and that's how Defy
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: the Storm gets so high on my list it's because
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: of that aspect but Path of Deceit is just where it.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Struggles I have Path of Deceit a little bit higher
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: than you but not by much my ranking would have
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: to go. And like, I put too much of like
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: my own feelings of like how I felt for the
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: whole story and not necessarily like looking into the writer
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: aspect of it, which I know I should as a reviewer. Um,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: But my ranking would have to be Path of Vengeance,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Tears of the Nameless, Defy the Storm, Midnight Horizon, Into
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: the Light, Path of Deceit, Into the Dark, Out of
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: the Shadows.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Our rankings really aren't that different.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: No, not too much. I do believe I had Midnight
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Horizon much lower the first time around. But going back
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: and being able to actually enjoy this time and really
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: absorb all of the aspects. Because one of the big
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: complaints that I had the first time reading it Actually,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: one of the first complaints that I had about Midnight
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Horizon was the non-linear storytelling. Everybody knows I do not
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: like non-linear storytelling. Now, this time around, knowing everybody's story,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: knowing how it all turns out, it actually flows better.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: with the nonlinear storytelling. So that's what really got it
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: up there for me. But yeah, yeah, that would be
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: my ranking for the young adult novels.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: So I think this is my last question. Cause we'll
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: be able to finish this when we do the adult conversation,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: which is scheduled guys that is currently scheduled for the
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: beginning of November.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: And Yes, that's what I was going to ask, yeah.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: And that may change, because I may need more time
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: to read, so I don't have to listen to the
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Phase three books on 3.5 speed. But so if you
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: had to pick one to recommend to somebody, would it
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: be the young adult or the middle grade one?
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: As of right now, it would be the young adult.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: And that's the same for me. And because most people
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: are going to pick up a young adult over a
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: middle grade book anyways, but because there's the middle grade,
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like you have to include the middle grade.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: It'll be an interesting conversation when it comes down to
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: young adult versus adult. But I think for getting an
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: overall synopsis of what the High Republic is and the
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: initiative that they wanted to write, the young adult, Right
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: now is the one to go to. If you're looking for.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: I want to read eight books. Which is still a lot.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: But I want to be able to understand the story.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: And that's the young adult right now.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: And the adult novels. There is eight in there as well.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: We are not including the audio dramas. Yes.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: We are not including the audio dramas. For those of
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: you who would like to prep for when we do
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: discuss it, those books are going to be Light of
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: the Jedi, The Rising Storm, Fallen Star, Convergence, Cataclysm, Eye
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: of Darkness, Temptation of the Force, and Trials of the Jedi. Now,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, Convergence and Cataclysm, I got
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: those correct, right? It's Convergence first and then Cataclysm?
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Again, don't have my glasses on, so I don't know why.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I'm turning around. But yeah, it's all of those in
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: that order.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, because I have my special editions up top, which
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: you can't see, and they're backwards. Because the girl cover
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: was first and then the boy cover was second.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So if you guys would like
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: to prep with us, those are the eight books to read.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, that is it, guys. So thank you
• 51:55
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• 52:02
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• 52:07
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• 52:10
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• 52:15
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• 52:24
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• 52:26
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• 52:28
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• 52:31
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• 52:36
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• 52:41
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• 52:44
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• 52:46
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• 52:49
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• 52:53
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• 53:03
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• 53:06
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• 53:13
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• 53:30
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• 53:32
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• 53:36
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