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Edge of Balance Premonition & Vol 4 Review CCXXXXII · 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, play and with me of
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Speaker 2: course every single week.
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Speaker 3: Katie, you know I'm doing pretty good. I'm not saying
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Speaker 3: why just yet. I'm doing pretty good.
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Speaker 2: I was literally about to say it. That's why I hesitated,
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Speaker 2: and then I was like, wait, I'm not gonna say it. Also,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that we can't say this
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Speaker 2: episode because like the books that we are reviewing today
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Speaker 2: actually have a lot to do with the their book
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Speaker 2: that we're currently reading. And so I was thinking about it.
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Speaker 3: We tried to get these in but andor and or
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Speaker 3: releasing three episodes a week just through everything off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but but yeah, Uh, Katie has finished Trials of
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Speaker 2: the Jedi. I will be finished by Friday, and then
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Speaker 2: I will have another read by the time we are recording.
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Speaker 3: So, so, guys, if Clay wants to take his headphones
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Speaker 3: off for this, I don't know. I'm not you can't
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Speaker 3: say anything you can at this moment. But if he
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Speaker 3: did want his vision of the book clouded at this point, Okay,
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Speaker 3: so he is going to take his headphones off, So guys,
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Speaker 3: I posted an Instagram story on this Basically I cried
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Speaker 3: so much, but I also loved it. I loved being
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Speaker 3: tortured like this. There's heartbreaking moments, but it was the
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Speaker 3: end of the Higher Republic as we know it, so
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Speaker 3: it just completely makes sense. That is all I'm going
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Speaker 3: to say for the moment, because I don't want to
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Speaker 3: get in trouble, but like, not that I would get
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Speaker 3: in trouble. I don't know. I but like, I just don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to say anything that I'll regret that
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Speaker 3: might lean spoiler ish.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so our email leaned very heavy into hey, no
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Speaker 2: spoiler talk until this date. And I have seen other
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Speaker 2: people posting non spoiler stuff and they're like, hey, we
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Speaker 2: can't say anything until the release date. So I'm really
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Speaker 2: glad everyone is being really cool about this and just
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Speaker 2: being like, hey, no spoilers now.
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Speaker 3: I have seen so Buddies review and I bookmarked it
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Speaker 3: because it was posted on the book the Star Wars Books.
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Speaker 3: Read it and somebody posted this, and we're like, why
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Speaker 3: would you talk about this. I hadn't read it, but
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Speaker 3: I went back and read it after I finished yesterday
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Speaker 3: and they revealed who died.
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Speaker 2: Wow, it's just like that's that's messed up.
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Speaker 3: The whole place. Like, yes, we think that's.
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Speaker 2: Not a spoiler. Guys, were exactly we we knew, and
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Speaker 2: we we knew. Let's just say, you know, in our predictions, Hey,
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Speaker 2: Charles Soul said that, like some shit's gonna happen, so
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Speaker 2: we assume people are gonna die, So that's not a spoiler.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you were looking for reviews on how
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Speaker 3: this goes, be careful what you wish for. This book, guys,
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Speaker 3: is out seventeenth, so just under two weeks now, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's a ride. I hope you're prepared for it.
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Speaker 2: All right, So before we accidentally say anything else, let's
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Speaker 2: moving on and jump into it. I was looking at
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Speaker 2: some of our news talk since the last time that
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Speaker 2: we were, of course live. I think there's.
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Speaker 3: Really not news that we would typically talk about. Like
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Speaker 3: the only thing potentially is that Dark Horse is releasing
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Speaker 3: the sequel trilogy graphic novel collection. Guys, if you got
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Speaker 3: stuff from IBW, this is not new material. This is
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Speaker 3: what IBW published as their graphic novel for the sequel trilogy.
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Speaker 3: It's just collected into one giant omnibus basically, but this
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Speaker 3: guy's is a Star Wars NewsNet exclusive, and it looks
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Speaker 3: like this will be dropping November twelfth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will say this, the art for the
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Speaker 2: cover for this collection looks amazing. I really like the
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Speaker 2: cover art for it personally, so this might be something
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Speaker 2: that I pick up literally just to display on my bookshelf.
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Speaker 2: I actually have not read the actual I don't really
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Speaker 2: pick up the comic book adaptations, so that's just me personally.
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Speaker 3: I have been picking up the Marvel stuff, a lot
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Speaker 3: of the IDW stuff kind of regret picking up it's
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Speaker 3: they're all different sizes, And as somebody who like would
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Speaker 3: like to read everything one day, that's a lofty goal,
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Speaker 3: but that is a goal that I have. But as
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Speaker 3: somebody who has collected most of the comic book things
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Speaker 3: purely for hey, let's complete my collection kind of thing,
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Speaker 3: they don't look too hot on a bookshelf to say
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Speaker 3: the least. And maybe dark Horse is going to change that.
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Speaker 3: But also I bought the IGW stuff already, so like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's my opinion on the IDW stuff. If I hadn't
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Speaker 3: bought those, I would probably pick this up because it's
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Speaker 3: a collection. So but it is also it's related to
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Speaker 3: the to the prequel trilogy, the one they did last year,
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Speaker 3: So I would imagine we're going to get an original
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Speaker 3: trilogy collection as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very true.
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Speaker 3: And I'm double checking on Star Wars NewsNet guys, but
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Speaker 3: there's really nothing.
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Speaker 2: So yep, very very slow, non existent news week for
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Speaker 2: sure in Star Wars. So let's jump into Remonition and
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Speaker 2: Volume four due to the timeline and technically released, we
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Speaker 2: are going to talk about them in that order. We're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about Premonition because it released first and
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Speaker 2: it is technically first in the timeline, and then we
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Speaker 2: will talk about Volume four and Katie. First things first,
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Speaker 2: about this book, Remonition. You read it way in advance
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Speaker 2: before me, because I literally I literally read this this
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Speaker 2: morning at six am. You had told me that this
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Speaker 2: is your favorite.
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Speaker 3: It's one hundred percent my favorite, y'all. This story is
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Speaker 3: by Daniel jose Older and the art is by Hating,
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Speaker 3: which is different from uh, the other Edge of Balance
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Speaker 3: books because like Edge Balance Volume four, the stories by
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Speaker 3: Shima Shinya and Daniel jose Older, and then the art
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Speaker 3: is by Mizuki Saka Kipara. Yes, and I'm butchering these guys.
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Speaker 2: And I will also say Reminition is literally top tier
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Speaker 2: Star Wars for it being a book about the real
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Speaker 2: enemy of Star Wars, that being Yoda. This book was amazing,
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Speaker 2: Like it the tone, the writing style, like it all
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Speaker 2: felt like this could have been an actual novel release. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's how intense this was.
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Speaker 3: Daniel jose Older is an art test, and it makes
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Speaker 3: me wonder, not that I'm all like I want new
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Speaker 3: people to come to Star Wars, but I wonder potentially
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Speaker 3: if the collaboration for the edge of Balanced Numerology ones
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Speaker 3: with Shima potentially held some of the story back, because
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Speaker 3: that's been our biggest critique of one, two and three
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Speaker 3: was hey, like this isn't like the best storytelling, but
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Speaker 3: this is like killer, this.
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Speaker 2: Was top tier. I've really really dug this, guys. This
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Speaker 2: literally takes place immediately after volume three, and funny enough,
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Speaker 2: Volume four happens at the same time as Premonition. Because
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Speaker 2: how you see the certain characters that are in both
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Speaker 2: of them, you can kind of piece together the fact
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Speaker 2: that volume four actually happens at the same time as
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Speaker 2: volume as Premonition.
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Speaker 3: But there's a segue in Premonition where Yoda sends the
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Speaker 3: younglings off, and that's where volume four picks up.
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Speaker 2: Yep, but yeah, Yoda is Yoda and the younglings the
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Speaker 2: younglings being uh oh, shoot, I know. He says their
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Speaker 2: name very quickly in the Uh it's Nima, and oh
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Speaker 2: she has an apostrophe name. What is it? Like it?
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Speaker 3: I'm googling.
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Speaker 2: Shoot. He calls them young wings way too many times.
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Speaker 3: Oh wait, is it on the artwork in the back
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Speaker 3: of the book.
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Speaker 2: It might actually be. So it's Nima and Vivi Nia.
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Speaker 2: Vivnia and Nima are the two young ones. They're being
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Speaker 2: chased by nameless at the beginning of the book. I
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Speaker 2: really like the visuals of the nameless effect in this book.
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Speaker 2: Compared to literally everything visual that we've seen, comics and everything,
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Speaker 2: I like it here most this has a little bit
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Speaker 2: more of a like horror esque thing. Uh So I
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Speaker 2: I really dig that like horror look, yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I don't consider this spoilery, but so I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: go ahead and say this. It's older and Soul were
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Speaker 3: able to mirror what they got out of each other.
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Speaker 3: So the nameless effects in Trials of the Jedi sound
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Speaker 3: because it's reading sound very much like this. In premonition,
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Speaker 3: very drawn out, very fuzzy and stuff. It's it's really
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Speaker 3: a good connection.
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Speaker 4: All right, y'all, we're gonna hit our first ad break
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Speaker 4: and we will be right back in three two one.
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Speaker 2: I really dug it. But when the one cool thing
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Speaker 2: that I will say about Yoda, because I don't say
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Speaker 2: really cool things about Yoda very often, is the fact that,
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Speaker 2: like this story played upon the fact that like we
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Speaker 2: always see and hear like Jedi having visions and we
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Speaker 2: haven't really gotten them a whole lot. The only really
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Speaker 2: person in the High Republic that we've received it from
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Speaker 2: is Vernestra. This time we're actually getting it from Yoda.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 2: Yoda's getting like these visuals of like this family and
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Speaker 2: he's not really sure what's going on. He's like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: there's a servant somewhere else, I need to go help them,
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Speaker 2: and he that's where he leaves the young lings to
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Speaker 2: take care of themselves, and then he gets on a
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Speaker 2: ship and flies off to what he thought was some
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Speaker 2: sort of abandoned satellite.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually like a Nihill hideout where Nive Drindo
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Speaker 3: is basically setting up different experiments basically, and he's got
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Speaker 3: this family that he I think one of the kids
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Speaker 3: is for sensitive, so he's trying to get them to
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Speaker 3: booll in. So I think this is like taking place
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Speaker 3: potentially at the same time as like tippest Breaker, but
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of connection there, and so Nive Drindo
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Speaker 3: basically ends up being the bad guy along with Marchian Row.
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Speaker 3: Marchion Row makes another appearance in this which kind of
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Speaker 3: connects it and precedent because well President has Marchian Roe.
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Speaker 3: Yes it does, so it kind of connects the two
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Speaker 3: is like being like siblings almost, and so Marchion Rowe
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Speaker 3: ends up being like a catalyst sort of thing here
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Speaker 3: and the Leveler. We get to see the Leveler because
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Speaker 3: remember the Leveler is the beast that was carried over
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Speaker 3: from Phase two of the Higher Republic, so he is
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Speaker 3: like the oldest of the nameless that Marchion Roe has.
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Speaker 3: And Yoda ends up communicating with the Leveler, and this
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Speaker 3: is the catalyst that we were waiting for for Trials
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Speaker 3: of the Jedi. Basically is like, Okay, what is Trials
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Speaker 3: of the Jedi going to actually be? This tells us
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Speaker 3: right here.
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Speaker 2: I really dig this for one I dig it because
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Speaker 2: Yoda at first when noticing he's getting these like flashes again,
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Speaker 2: which he thinks are like visions of like his past
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Speaker 2: or whatever, because of course the nameless is like missing
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Speaker 2: with his mind. And then while he actually has some
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Speaker 2: time to get away from the nameless and think about it,
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Speaker 2: he sees another one and he's like, wait a second,
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Speaker 2: I've never seen these people actually die. This isn't my past,
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Speaker 2: it's your past. Because I believe the one to actually
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Speaker 2: get him to realize this was the fact that he
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Speaker 2: saw and it actually broke my heart a little bit
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Speaker 2: because we haven't talked about him since literally the first
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Speaker 2: book of uh the freaking face. Oh shoot, what's his name?
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Speaker 3: Is it as?
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Speaker 2: No? Not as it is this one? No, no, no, I'm talking.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking Lily's padawan. Uh keV moo. Oh yes, he
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Speaker 2: sees keV Moo and he's like, and that makes him realize,
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Speaker 2: oh wait a second, like this.
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Speaker 3: All the people the leveler are killing basically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh when this when he finally communicates with
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Speaker 2: him and he finally realizes, oh wait, it's been in
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Speaker 2: front of me this entire time. It's empathy. It's it's
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Speaker 2: the great power that Buriaga used in Temptation of the Force, right,
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Speaker 2: so he has that in mind, and that's when he's
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Speaker 2: trying to communicate with the Leveler. I love the giant
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Speaker 2: splash page of Yoda on Planet X realizing, oh, this
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Speaker 2: is all you want, Like you are in as much
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Speaker 2: pain as everybody that you hurt, Like I understand now,
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Speaker 2: I really dug this like this and and unfortunately, like
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Speaker 2: this is the kind of stuff that I actually wanted
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Speaker 2: tep Tep to do, m because there was so much
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Speaker 2: teasing of like tep Tep trying to get in the
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Speaker 2: head of a nameless Yeah, and they never did anything
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Speaker 2: with it. This was the kind of stuff that I
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Speaker 2: was hoping tep Tep was going to be able to do.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, at least at least we got it right.
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Speaker 2: We got some sort of realization of like, oh, this
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Speaker 2: is what needs to move the Jedi to go on
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Speaker 2: to doing this, Which is why in uh oh gosh,
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Speaker 2: I guess the timeline is a little wonky, because it's
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Speaker 2: really wonky because there's other what was the other? Uh
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Speaker 2: uh uh? Tiers of the Nameless and Valiant val both
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Speaker 2: mentioned the capturing of Nameless Yep as.
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Speaker 3: Well as into the lights.
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Speaker 2: Into the Light Yeah, uh, but Tippest Breaker also did so.
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Speaker 3: Starting Breaker.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So like all of that and and plus this,
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Speaker 2: like I wonder if this then happens before Tempest Breaker.
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Speaker 3: This is like the weird part where I wish the
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Speaker 3: authors or the story group would specify. I think it
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Speaker 3: would help a lot of things, because I also feel
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Speaker 3: like the vision that Yoda has. If this happened before
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Speaker 3: Tempest Breaker, then why did we spend so long with
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Speaker 3: not necessarily a valiantvout Because a valiant vowve doesn't connect
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Speaker 3: to anything like we've already discussed. Really yeah yeah, but
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Speaker 3: like Into the Light, could we not have maybe seen
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Speaker 3: that a bit differently? I'm wondering if, well, I can't
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Speaker 3: say that, I can't say that.
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Speaker 2: Do you think I'll say this because of Into the
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Speaker 2: Light plays a really big part with fit same thing
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Speaker 2: for Temptation of the Force. Do you think that it
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Speaker 2: is possible that the blight was one too many things
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Speaker 2: for this overall story of the High Republic. Now I
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Speaker 2: need you to answer this question without thinking of trials.
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Speaker 2: I know it's super hard because you've already literally finished
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Speaker 2: the book.
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Speaker 3: I would say yes, I would say they needed to
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Speaker 3: pick between the storm Wall and the Blight, And now
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that necessarily means because I think
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Speaker 3: both are relevant, is a greater purpose to everybody coming together?
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Speaker 3: We are all the Republic. Yeah, But I have to
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Speaker 3: wonder if maybe the store Wall, because the storm Wall
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Speaker 3: takes up so much time as they try to go
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Speaker 3: around it and stuff, so I have to wonder if
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Speaker 3: maybe it was just like maybe it was like a
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Speaker 3: like you couldn't actually go through it at all, and
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Speaker 3: it was like actually a shield like ships just bounced
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Speaker 3: off of it. Do you see what I'm saying, Like,
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Speaker 3: if maybe they didn't have to spend time trying to
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Speaker 3: go into the storm wall, if maybe they still could
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Speaker 3: have had both. Yeah, because we spend a lot of
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Speaker 3: time going, oh, I need a path engine, Oh I
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Speaker 3: like how many paths can we try to actually get
22:46
Speaker 3: in the storm wall and hack the code? Like it
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Speaker 3: just feels like a lot of wasted time. Even though
22:52
Speaker 3: I do enjoy those things about Star Wars, I think
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Speaker 3: they didn't they've been off one they could.
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Speaker 2: I feel like they may have focused on trying to
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Speaker 2: relate it back to like the beginnings of Phase one
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Speaker 2: with the whole disaster anyway type of thing. So I
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Speaker 2: get that, I really do so, uh Yoda, you know, overall,
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Speaker 2: after that interaction with the leveler, Yoda actually ends up
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Speaker 2: helping or saving the family that was there.
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Speaker 3: And Marcia Road gets so pissed off. They yeah, the
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Speaker 3: leveler will not respond to his command basically to take
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Speaker 3: out Yoda. What did you think about that?
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Speaker 2: I thought that was very interesting because again Yoda does
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Speaker 2: say in here like oh, like you don't want to
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Speaker 2: do any of this, like you're heard just like everybody else's.
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Speaker 2: I get that. So for that to happen, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 2: there's a chink in Marcion's armor, like there's something there
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Speaker 2: that they can attack at that point. So I really
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Speaker 2: dug that. I really do hope that we get to
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Speaker 2: see more of that, and I know it'll be like,
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Speaker 2: of course, like there's not there's not much left. It's
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Speaker 2: literally trials that the Jedi is the only thing.
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Speaker 3: And inclusion Zone and fear of the Jedi.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I yeah, that's that's right.
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Speaker 3: Well, I guess inclusion Zone has technically already come out,
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Speaker 3: but like we're riding on the trade.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know. I I just I really
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Speaker 2: did that because again we've had these moments of uh
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Speaker 2: like Marcion is like the ultimate villain, He's unbeatable, and
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Speaker 2: I don't really like.
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Speaker 3: That in.
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Speaker 2: Uh in villains, I think it's very uh what's the
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Speaker 2: word I'm looking for? Uh Like, it doesn't make things
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Speaker 2: fun when hero When when heroes win, you're like, yes,
25:48
Speaker 2: but when villains are winning all the time, it's like
25:52
Speaker 2: god damn, like you're you're already kicking us while we're down, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: why keep doing this?
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Speaker 3: That's why he didn't like thrown gap.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I can't say anything. I can't say anything in
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Speaker 5: regards to that.
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Speaker 3: So with that, I'm sorry, guys, this is a really
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Speaker 3: boring view and I should have known better. The finished trial.
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Speaker 3: Please don't chase the show. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Let's move on to volume four.
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Speaker 3: Volume Volume Volume four, the story is by she mentioned
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Speaker 3: you and Daniel Hills the Older and the art is
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Speaker 3: by Zuki Sakakibara. And this is the final battle on
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Speaker 3: Banshee and I kind of dug this one, if not
27:13
Speaker 3: simply because it is done, but also there's some nice
27:20
Speaker 3: Phase two connections in this.
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Speaker 2: There was I dug that as well, because.
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Speaker 3: Bullan is in this one like there's bullin right there.
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Speaker 2: Mm hm. But again talking that we have been with
27:39
Speaker 2: phase three, you have to read everything, even for these
27:48
Speaker 2: everything which I don't as i'd like, I really don't
27:52
Speaker 2: agree with, like manga is super niche the facts that
27:59
Speaker 2: you have to go to the uh the IDW Star
28:09
Speaker 2: Wars High Republic Adventures Horse sorry yes dark Horse uh
28:17
Speaker 2: uh Star Wars Adventures story to understand where at least
28:24
Speaker 2: two of these characters like just showed up out of
28:27
Speaker 2: nowhere with like that's a little annoying.
28:31
Speaker 3: It's super frustrating, And I don't necessarily mind crossovers, but
28:37
Speaker 3: I feel like sav just makes so many appearances across
28:42
Speaker 3: other places that you're like, okay, well where else where
28:47
Speaker 3: else are we going kind of thing like, and it
28:51
Speaker 3: feels just like there's too much going on other places
28:55
Speaker 3: for it to fully make sense why Decks and SA
29:00
Speaker 3: and everybody else are here with what's going on in
29:05
Speaker 3: the Higher Public Adventures. Because if this wasn't Higher Republic
29:10
Speaker 3: I probably would have never picked this up. Now, I
29:12
Speaker 3: am planning on picking up the sequel trilogy one, if
29:16
Speaker 3: only because it doesn't connect to anything else. I think
29:19
Speaker 3: I want to give manga a second chance in Star
29:22
Speaker 3: Wars where I don't need to depend on any other
29:25
Speaker 3: source material.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna go into our second ad break and we'll
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Speaker 4: be right back.
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Speaker 2: And of course there's you get the chance of looking
29:36
Speaker 2: at a different creative team as well, So yeah, there's that.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, this one thing, I was a little confused
29:47
Speaker 2: by these characters here we just said their names, Nima
29:53
Speaker 2: and Vivniah. In the beginning of this book, they talk
30:00
Speaker 2: about how, oh we can help, we can fight, we
30:04
Speaker 2: can do all this. They very they very like there's
30:08
Speaker 2: a small moment in even premonition where they're like, oh,
30:11
Speaker 2: we can do it, we can help. I was like, Okay,
30:16
Speaker 2: this is why they're on the cover of the book.
30:18
Speaker 2: This is gonna be their mission. Guys. Guess what, they
30:21
Speaker 2: don't have shit to do for the entire freaking book.
30:26
Speaker 2: So it's like, why why do this when you have
30:32
Speaker 2: nothing for these characters. I was really disappointed by that.
30:41
Speaker 3: Because, like, you look at the first one, and obviously
30:44
Speaker 3: Lily is the star of this series, so putting her
30:48
Speaker 3: on the first one completely makes sense. The padawan Kieran,
30:56
Speaker 3: like he is here, he has a little more stuff
31:01
Speaker 3: to do, simply because he's a padawan versus a young one.
31:05
Speaker 3: But then we all know how this one goes. He
31:07
Speaker 3: dies at the end of it, and then you have
31:10
Speaker 3: Arcoff and Arkoff does make more of an appearance in this,
31:14
Speaker 3: but he still plays a relatively side character to Lily,
31:20
Speaker 3: and thankfully it's not titled Edge of Balanced Arkoff, like
31:25
Speaker 3: that would piss me off even more. But I do
31:28
Speaker 3: think if you're gonna put a character on the cover,
31:31
Speaker 3: they need to.
31:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the story, and.
31:40
Speaker 3: Especially it's like negligible for every other cover that we've
31:44
Speaker 3: gotten in here, but it's really bad for four.
31:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, like because not only are they on the cover,
31:52
Speaker 2: you literally start the book with them with this whole
31:58
Speaker 2: thing about oh, us help, and then they're like, oh,
32:04
Speaker 2: you can help by staying right here, and then you
32:07
Speaker 2: literally don't see them again until the very end with Aslin,
32:14
Speaker 2: and I will say this, like, the the best thing
32:17
Speaker 2: that they had in this book was the fact that
32:23
Speaker 2: the two young lings literally treated Aslan as like a
32:29
Speaker 2: normal person rather than like somebody who strayed away from
32:34
Speaker 2: the light. That was nice. I really dug that because
32:39
Speaker 2: then there was like this sweet moment where Aslin, even
32:42
Speaker 2: at the very end was like, no, you won't put
32:45
Speaker 2: a hand on these young lings and all of that,
32:51
Speaker 2: but that was like the most they did, literally, and
32:54
Speaker 2: I it just kind of made me a little sad.
32:59
Speaker 2: But there was nice moments.
33:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's good fights.
33:05
Speaker 2: A bunch of things like uh, Lily's dialogue really felt
33:13
Speaker 2: like Saturday Morning cartoonish, Like, Oh, I've been so scared
33:20
Speaker 2: and I don't know how to deal with this. But
33:23
Speaker 2: through this entire time, we've learned to, you know, embrace
33:28
Speaker 2: that fear and work together. And I'm just like saying
33:32
Speaker 2: a damn thing. For literally four volumes, I don't need
33:36
Speaker 2: the same message in every book.
33:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, it it's just super tough, especially because I feel
33:47
Speaker 3: like it's one thing when it's the all ages comic,
33:51
Speaker 3: but manga, I feel like, is like that young adults
33:56
Speaker 3: area of comics. Yeah, maybe it's like the Marvel comics
34:02
Speaker 3: or whatever, but like I feel like manga should be
34:06
Speaker 3: able to handle itself a little bit more than like
34:11
Speaker 3: than what this does, because this feels like the same
34:13
Speaker 3: lesson over and over again. Like you said, it's just
34:16
Speaker 3: like not feeling it again. I am excited for the
34:21
Speaker 3: sequel trilogy one just to kind of see how it
34:24
Speaker 3: does with a different creative team, like you said, like
34:26
Speaker 3: we've said, and how it feels without other Yeah, and
34:36
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily like connections aren't bad, y'all. But when
34:40
Speaker 3: you're publishing so many things at once and your timeline
34:45
Speaker 3: is not clear, things get convoluted and that doesn't help
34:51
Speaker 3: edge of balance volume for any.
34:54
Speaker 2: Here's something that I don't think a lot of people
34:56
Speaker 2: will know, and it may be a surprise to you know,
35:03
Speaker 2: someone who is strictly a Star Wars fan who will
35:06
Speaker 2: go out and buy every single piece of media to
35:10
Speaker 2: follow the story. There is literally somebody out there who
35:15
Speaker 2: just reads manga, likes Star Wars and notices, hey, there's
35:22
Speaker 2: these manga that have like all this this is all
35:26
Speaker 2: one title. I want to sit here and read it.
35:30
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
35:32
Speaker 2: You were going to get somewhat of a story, because yes,
35:37
Speaker 2: we do follow the exact same characters, but there is
35:42
Speaker 2: such a time jump between every single volume you are
35:46
Speaker 2: not gonna know what the hell is going on.
35:50
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And especially yeah, I am gonna say this
35:54
Speaker 3: because this is on Wikipedia, guys, but Lily does make
35:58
Speaker 3: an appearance in Trials of the Jedi. It's not a
36:00
Speaker 3: big one. But from where she is in the end
36:05
Speaker 3: of volume four, I don't understand why she left other
36:09
Speaker 3: than the Jedi Temple calling her back to course on, Like,
36:14
Speaker 3: there's a lot there that it's like, it feels disjointed.
36:19
Speaker 2: So I feel like they meant for Lily to be
36:25
Speaker 2: a very a much bigger character for them, and unfortunately
36:31
Speaker 2: these four to five volumes, because we did have precedent
36:37
Speaker 2: also that, uh, we just didn't have enough time with her.
36:45
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you wanted Lily to be a
36:48
Speaker 2: standout character, because again, we are wanting to have more
36:53
Speaker 2: inclusion in this High Republic initiative, and I know you're like, oh,
37:00
Speaker 2: she's supposed to be the Asian character of this universe,
37:06
Speaker 2: so of course she needs to be in the traditional manga.
37:12
Speaker 2: That's not how that works, guys, Yep. If you want
37:16
Speaker 2: her to be more inclusive, you need to literally have
37:23
Speaker 2: her be more included in other face.
37:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I feel like that's potentially what they tried
37:29
Speaker 3: to do with Trials, and it just when your main
37:35
Speaker 3: is in this manga, it still needs to feel connected
37:38
Speaker 3: to the inclusions that you're trying to make in other spots.
37:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, but uh, I think that's it for me.
37:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know this is short, guys. I'm sorry. I
37:51
Speaker 3: was really trying to avoid spoilers, especially with Premonition.
37:57
Speaker 2: Guys. I promise you Trials of the Jedi will be
38:02
Speaker 2: the most spoiler book that we review on this podcast,
38:11
Speaker 2: so that way Katie can let everything out. Okay, I promise, guys,
38:21
Speaker 2: I promise. But with that you guys can always find
38:27
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38:38
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38:46
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38:51
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38:54
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39:01
Speaker 2: I am currently reading a book called Unsold, which is like, apparently, uh, the.
39:13
Speaker 3: Can Adrian tell you to read that one.
39:15
Speaker 2: No. Uh. My best friend from back home told me, hey,
39:21
Speaker 2: here's my log into audible literally read this entire series,
39:26
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, so I'm literally reading Unsold
39:31
Speaker 2: right now. I am reading uh Star Wars Bloodlines right now.
39:37
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to talk about Bloodlines. You're going to
39:40
Speaker 3: read blood Lines.
39:42
Speaker 2: I am reading, of course, trials are the Jedi. I
39:47
Speaker 2: am literally going to start this weekend a book called
39:54
Speaker 2: The Book of Doors, And because I literally I just
40:00
Speaker 2: got it from Libby, I am gonna read The Blade
40:06
Speaker 2: Itself by Joe Joe Apercombi. So I have a lot
40:12
Speaker 2: of books to read in the month of June, and
40:15
Speaker 2: hopefully I can get through all of them. Uh So, yeah,
40:19
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stuff for me to keep my
40:22
Speaker 2: nose in.
40:24
Speaker 6: I don't know why you're keeping stuff straight, because I
40:26
Speaker 6: know I do this sometimes, but at least I have
40:29
Speaker 6: like different areas because you're reading two Star Wars books,
40:34
Speaker 6: Like I'll read a romance, a fantasy, a Star Wars.
40:38
Speaker 2: The really nice thing is the fact that I'm reading
40:41
Speaker 2: two Star Wars novels in two completely different areas of
40:44
Speaker 2: the timeline. If I was reading two different Star Wars
40:48
Speaker 2: books with the exact same characters, uh huh, I purposely
40:52
Speaker 2: chose Okay, I'm gonna read something with completely different characters.
41:00
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's how I'm keeping everything straight. But it's
41:05
Speaker 2: gonna be fun. Uh. I got finished last month with
41:10
Speaker 2: six books, so my goal is six books again this month.
41:15
Speaker 2: If not seven, you know, I'm just constantly trying to,
41:18
Speaker 2: you know, break my own record. But yeah, also Ranger
41:24
Speaker 2: Alliance of course a part of the GUA as well.
41:29
Speaker 2: Some big things happen in the last episode of Goes
41:32
Speaker 2: to Yugur number one, Jake and I talk all about it,
41:35
Speaker 2: So go check out that episode, Katie. What about you, y'all?
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