Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode!
WOW. Shit is really popping off and I am so damn excited about all of the badass women in this book. The battles are being fought by women, the attack plans and machinery are formulated by women, and even the fearsome strategist from the enemy's side is a woman! It's just wonderful.
I'm really interested in what happens when they try this same approach again now that the enemy are ready for them. Also, feel bad for the dragons.
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Thank you very much to Alison for commissioning this episode!
I feel like I really should have seen it coming that trying to avoid the future would be the very thing that causes it to happen, but I was still taken by surprise by the twist in this episode. Things are really getting heartbreaking around here.
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Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode!
These are some damn good chapters, y'all. I'm really interested in what Clariel is going to think of meeting an Abhorsen, because we as readers have known so many by this point but Clariel has never met any. Also, she VERY nearly leaves an injured and vulnerable Balatiel all by himself. I'm not super impressed but I'm glad she stayed.
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Thank you to Michael for commissioning this episode!
I'm really compelled by some of the implications of this episode. There's the concept of someone being able to escape being taken over if they're far away enough from technology, though of course we see how hard ACTUALLY getting away from tech turns out to be. Then, there's the fact that they can bypass brain areas with coding, which is a pretty big deal.
But then it's real sad. And I hate it.
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Thank you so much. toMelanie for commissioning this episode!
This episode is a wild ride from start to finish, and it ends on such a cliffhanger that I truly feel sorry for the poor schmucks who had to wait months for the next episode. I can't believe it, and I do NOT know what to make of the appearance of another Stan!
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Thank you so much to Nikolai for commissioning this episode!
This one was a fascinating look at the state of Winden right before everything goes so badly left. It certainly answers some questions I had, with some REALLY surprising answers. And it cements how shitty Ulrich is, making me slightly more sympathetic to Hannah, although not completely.
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Thank you very much to Rachel for commissioning this episode!
This episode is rather bittersweet, because Veronica makes her mark as a journalist for the school paper (which is an actual paying gig in this era, apparently!), but she does so at the expense of some potential friendships with people she at first dismisses completely. Turns out Veronica is guilty of judging a book by its cover. GIRL, SAME.
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Thank you very much to Nicole for this commission! What a weird episode this is, too!
I'm very much here for the way in which this episode emphasizes side character plots and challenges us to think of them as MAIN characters. We are asked, in a way, why we see Quentin as the "main" character, and then we get to see what's going on with a bunch of the women in the story. I liked it!
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Thank you so much to Megan for commissioning this episode, and for her patience when my internet went out (YET AGAIN) and I had to finish my recording off the air.
This episode was so damn painful to watch. Poor Paula, and then Poor Rebecca. I hate seeing two people I really like fight, especially when they each have some really good points and valid reasons for feeling the way they do about one another.
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Thank you very much to Lara for commissioning this episode!
God this episode stressed me out so bad. I know that's pretty much the entire intention but it was way too damn effective. I'm just glad that Carolyn is keeping the gang together. Kind of.
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