Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
I'm really flummoxed by the way this fight goes down. There's not the big climax that I expected, and instead of really being in the middle of things from the perspective of someone actually fighting, we instead look on from the sidelines while Tessia stays out of the way and Hanara pees his pants. Weird choices.
Then there is the seemingly impulsive decision that the Kyralian magicians make when they finally defeat the Sachakans. I guess a victory that didn't kill a single magician would lead to you getting cocky, but invading Sachaka is a really...serious move.
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Thank you again to Kyle for commissioning this episode!
These chapters, we're finally getting a little more to the heart of the issues that Zomi is here to talk about. She decides to show up looking shabby to really point out that she's poor, unlike every other yahoo in the audience hall. She really makes a big show of letting everyone know that she's only here because she fed the judges' opinions back to them, and it's pretty incredible. And oh yeah, there's a riot happening.
Then there's the flashback to the moment when Luan makes Zomi her first brace, and when they discover the lava flowers. It's a really sweet series of scenes, and I'm not pleased by the plumes of smoke we see coming from the area where the little town used to be. Booooooooooooooo
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Enormous thanks to Jill for commissioning this episode.
I'm absolutely floored by the events of this episode. I had no idea that Ulrich could get arrested. I assumed that he would attempt his little child-murder, and then dance his way back into 2019, and then we'd have to deal with him realizing that Helge is still alive and the fallout from that. Instead we're getting this bonkers replay of him being thrown in prison by Egon yet again, and it's so bizarre.
There is just so much going on, and I'm very interested in what the fuck Claudia's deal is because she looks bonkers and she's out here making moves that I don't understand. WHAT IS SHE UP TO.
Thank you all so much for listening, and I can't wait to see you in a week with the voyeur episode!

Thank you to Kyle for accepting this make-up episode after one of the others got all garbled and messed up.
I'm absolutely on tenterhooks because I still don't know what Zomi's thesis is, and I'm sitting here watching a bunch of rich goons parading around in front of the Emperor talking about how important it is that the rich get to stay rich. Thank god for fucking Jia telling these assholes to go screw. I'm not a huge fan of Gin's involvement in all this, though.
Meanwhile we're watching the past Zomi getting taught some things about a new place they've landed in their balloon. I'm a big fan of the logograms and the way that they work, and I want to see more of them.
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Thank you to Karyn for commissioning this episode!
Wow. So this one was pretty fucking intense, huh? Being abducted is one of my worst fears, and I'm sure a lot of women can understand that fear. But in this case, the gang is experiencing something much worse than a run-of-the-mill abduction and hostage situation. They've been snapped up by a professional, and are being kept in a facility that seems top notch. I do not like this one bit.
In the end, McClaren manages to find them but it's unclear to me if that was permitted by the captor or truly a stroke of luck. I mean, their location seems to have been transmitted to him directly but that wasn't necessarily done by the kidnapper.
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First of all, huge thanks to Michael for commissioning this episode.
I AM NOT READY FOR THIS SHOW. Like, as a whole, in general, I am growing more and more aware of how deeply unprepared I am for these writers and their bonkers ideas.
There is a ton going on in this episode, but the main event for me at least is that fucking Ulrich is out here going back in time and then jumping to some HUGE conclusions about Helge and his involvement in the murders of not only his brother and son, but also two other bodies that show up at a construction site. Poor Helge has already been pissed on today, and then the very man who saves him from the bullies tries to bash his head in. What???
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Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
Y'all, I am so sad that there's only one left after this. Shit, what am I supposed to do?!
This episode, there's a new student named Mae from a strange and distant land (Ireland also lmao), and all the girls in school are trying to be her friend. She's fully aware that being Asian is the big draw, and intends to make the most of it, finally settling for our crew because Claire is gay and she was eager to add a gay friend to her OWN circle.
When the school formal gets rolling, Claire discovers that her new friend is a maniac and they all try to stop Mae from taking drastic measures against Jenny. It does not work.
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Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode!
The last episode of coverage was when the book really seemed to get cooking, and we can see the influence of some of those revelations in these chapters. It turns out that the almighty prophecy may not be anything like what everyone has believed. Far from originating hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, it apparently was made much more recently and essentially fabricated from nothing in order to encourage the diminishing population.
There's a lot more happening here, mostly having to do with the knife that Nona found lodged in the headboard of her bed YEARS ago (because we've jumped forward in time quite a bit), and finally Nona is realizing that Arabella wasn't the one that came after her. Not only that, but we find out that Sister Thorn from the opening sequence is a future Arabella. WHOA.

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Thank you so much to Megan for commissioning this episode!
This must have been an episode that a million of you (and by that I mean the four people who listen to these episodes) have been waiting on me to get to since Day 1.
In this episode, two different romances come to a boil in very different ways. First of all, there's OF COURSE the whole thing between Rebecca and Josh, in which she almost wins a court case and still managed to impress him despite losing in the end. He kisses her and I have no idea what that means for him and Valencia.
Meanwhile, Greg is watching the case unfold from the bar, and Heather can see that he's totally in love with Rebecca. He goes running to LA to declare his love, and comes into the courthouse just in time to spot Josh and Rebecca kissing. Oops.
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Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
I loved this episode so fucking much. Oh my god. We start out at a wedding, and there's a confrontation between Mary, Sarah, and their Auntie Bridie that ends in Bridie keeling over dead in the middle of a damn group dance.
We move on from there to the funeral, in which the girls (and James) desperately try to collect all of the pot scones that Michelle rashly brought in before a bunch of old folks chow down on them. This leads to a horrible bathroom scene that I know in my rational mind was just scones and water, but which my lizard brain tells me was...much worse.
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