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Rambles in Star Wars History: The extreme shenanigans that changed an Empire

Bioware games can absolutely fascinate me, in part because of their worldbuilding, and in part because of where the worldbuilding ends. I mean, I did a whole long series of posts on the grammar of Qunlat and I have at least a dozen essays worth of material of exegetical analysis of religion in Dragon Age kicking around in my brain, which I keep threatening to actually manifest.

But since I'm here with my worldbuilding hat on, I'm going to ramble about Star Wars: The Old Republic, focusing on some of the sometimes-hilarious drama that's implied by the plot, and the implications for how these shenanigans remade a major galactic society in the process. Involved will be a man who faked his death to get out of going to meetings, a wine uncle who might become emperor, a living scowl with dangerous shoulders, and other assorted animals.

Expect a lot of bonus rambles in the image alt-texts, which is where I store commentary and jokes that I can't fit into the flow of the main post.

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Before I dig into the topic at hand, I have to set the scene for those who don't know the game, or have forgotten in the fourteen years since the game launched.

Spoilers in the post below for Act 3 of the Sith Warrior and Inquisitor storylines, Act 1 of the Jedi Knight and Imperial Agent storylines, the post-Act 3 Battle of Ilum flashpoint, and for various expansions including Rise of the Emperor, Knights of the Fallen Empire, Onslaught, and Legacy of the Sith. Assume that all reference links to Wookieepedia contain major spoilers.

SWTOR is an MMO set 3600 years before the Skywalkers crashed through the ceiling tiles of the galaxy, though it's not to say anything was less chaotic back then, just different chaos.

(Pictured: Anakin Skywalker, circa 32 BBY-4 ABY)

In this time, the titular Old Republic is opposed by a Sith Empire, which is precisely as functional as one might expect. After a decades-long conflict that ended with a Sith victory but left both sides exhausted, a state of cold war began. The Jedi, their Grand Temple destroyed, left Republic space to settle on an ancestral world. The Republic, battered and reeling, tried to recover its stride through use of its superior size and resources, and producing a truly unhinged number of superweapons.

The Sith Empire, in some ways, tried to pretend everything was fine for quite a while. They had successfully forced the Republic into a favorable treaty to end the war. They'd gained territory, they had a lot of work to do there.

…But as things started to look more and more like war again, they were left with the uncomfortable realization that they had sorta kinda killed most of the Sith in the last war, and Imperial citizens in good standing weren't producing enough Force-sensitive kids fast enough to rebuild the losses. Might've had something to do with most of them being dead.

The Empire, of course, is an absolute clusterfuck of a society. Slaves toil to maintain its power. Children of a slave and a citizen will be citizens themselves—unless they're "aliens", a category that includes everyone that isn't a human or a Sith pureblood, the original Sith species.

Being a citizen isn't great either: The Force-blind face mandatory conscription into the military, and can never rise to the highest echelons of society. Above them, the Sith act as a semi-hereditary aristocracy of evil space-wizards that serve an immortal, eldritch Emperor, their living god who has also kiiiind of gone AWOL for reasons only a few of them understand. He's torn between doing his job or staring at a living paperweight, and the paperweight has been winning. He also recently got trapped by an evil hole in the ground, it's complicated.

With the Emperor incommunicado, the duties of the state fall to the Dark Council, a ruling body of up to twelve Dark Lords of the Sith. Each have their own sphere of governmental influence, which are, one can only assume, very dark as well.

Presumably, the Dark Council had something to do with the inevitable yet still surprising solution to their space wizard deficit: over a thousand years of laws were suddenly overturned. Slaves, aliens, and prisoners were not only permitted to become Sith, it was now mandatory that they report for induction into training programs if they possessed any hint of Force-sensitivity.

This is how one of the eight protagonists of the MMO gets their start: if you play the Sith Inquisitor plotline, you begin as a former slave who has survived basic training and made it to the Sith Academy, where your teacher dearly wants to kill you. Your first mission: survive school.

I'm sure this is very relatable to quite a lot of you.

Now that I've got my PhD with only a few gray hairs, I'm looking back at this premise and thinking: This would completely upend the social framework of the Empire. You'd have every established Sith Lord in the Empire scrambling to kill these threats to their power, or harness them against their enemies, or both.

This is actually canon, but canon never touches on the broader, systemic implications of what the new Sith would do, and who they were before—Sure, the overseers of the training programs seem to be doing their damnedest to kill and undermine the newbies while maintaining plausible deniability, but enough of them survive to reshape the Empire. We know that. You play as one of them.

How in the fuck did the Dark Council ever manage to get this policy implemented in the first place? Obviously they did somehow, but the specifics are never mentioned.

But the specifics have the possibility to be hilarious.

The Dark Council itself is composed of Sith who either killed their way to the top, or inherited their seat from their Sith master—who they probably murdered. Turnover on most Council seats is incredibly high. The Spheres of Ancient Knowledge, Technology, and Military Offense each have three different Councilors within a single year, for example.

This also means that whoever ends up in charge of a Sphere might be entirely unsuited for it. Who heads up the Sphere of Expansion and Diplomacy? The least diplomatic guy on the Council, naturally. He goes by Darth Ravage, which fits in well enough with the three different Darths whose names mean 'death' (Thanaton, Mortis, and Rictus). The player can even end up as Darth Nox--'Darth Night'. You get the title by killing one of the Darth Deaths.

So, which of these barely-domesticated evil goths probably voted to allow 'inferior' beings to become Sith, overturning a fundamental tenet of imperial sith philosophy? Probably not the guy in charge of Sith Philosophy! We never see him, but he seems to have been a traditionalist. On the other hand, Darth "Murder has no rules" Ravage might not be huge on tradition, so we can mark him down as a "maybe". But he doesn't seem to be an instigator for something like this.

But on the subject of instigators: Darth Jadus.

Darth Jadus is an experience. While many of the other Council members make it quite clear they're angry enough to chew on the furniture, Jadus unnerves all of them by being utterly calm and composed, as long as you don't count how intensely fervent and irrational he sounds when he starts talking about the Dark Side. He's unhinged in a distressingly hinged-seeming way.

Heading up the Sphere of Intelligence, Jadus is a noted iconoclast on the Dark Council, using his authority to open Imperial Intelligence positions to aliens. He chooses slaves and Force-blind citizens to be his advisors and agents, ignoring the traditional power structures of the Sith. He prefers his literal cult following of fanatical adherents instead, who see him as a visionary savior, a terrifying inevitability, or both.

This means he seems to have basically no interest in elevating other Sith. In fact, he hates the way the rest of them run the Empire. Making more of them might potentially be against his interests.

Or at least it would be, if he didn't have some long-running secret plans that he wants to keep the other Dark Council members from catching wind of. Advocating for slaves, aliens and convicts to become Sith would superficially fall in line with his philosophy, and just raising the idea in public could cause such social chaos that his true plans would benefit from it. Jadus is also the most genre-savvy sith in the entire game: he seems to almost be aware at points that he's neither the protagonist nor main antagonist, and thus his evil plans involve not messing with either of them. When he jostles up against the main plot and realizes he has no plausible means to derail it, he responds by leaving the plot entirely.

Given the tactical chaos and uncomfortably fourth wall-touching strategies Jadus makes use of, let's mark him down as a "yes".

But Jadus is an unpopular one on the Council. He's creepy. Sith HATE feeling creeped out. That's supposed to happen to other people, dammit, not them! And with his disinterest in politics and his deep interest in foisting his manifesto on everyone, he's not the most effective Dark Councilor.

He might be able to pull in a few—Darth Decimus, head of Military Strategy, seems to have been quite willing to exploit any advantage he might be able to squeeze out of a situation. Fun side note, his voice actor also played the First Order officer who was just so done with Hux at the beginning of The Last Jedi.

[Video Description: A compilation of Mark Lewis Jones as Captain Moden Canady from The Last Jedi, with the video quality partially encrunchified by YouTube. This includes all of his shots from the film, from arrival of the Seige Dreadnought Fulminatrix, to the extremely annoyed look he gives the fireball that kills him. Sound supervisor Matt Wood was apparently pretty sure "FIRE ON THE BASE!" was going to be used as an EDM drop, and I can confirm, I've heard it out in the wild.]

Who else have we got rattling around in this Council, who might have extremely ridiculous reasons to vote yes? Well, we have Darth Vengean, head of Military Offense, was all about the Offense. Who needs defense? That nerd Darth Marr? HA! No, Vengean wanted to restart the war with the Republic. More bodies for the war machine would probably be fine with him.

Speaking of that nerd Darth Marr, Darth Marr.

Apparently he designed this armor himself. Solid effort, my man.

Marr is in his sixties by the time the game happens. He's one of the longest-surviving Dark Councilors, and he sounds so tired of his coworkers in every scene he's in. Heading up the Defense of the Empire, Marr also is the de facto leader of the Dark Council, by dint of being the only adult in the room.

Much like Jadus, he distances himself from the backstabbery and rivalries among the Council members. Unlike Jadus, he 100% means it, and has been focused on not making the Empire explode. He eventually ends up as the unofficial leader of the Empire until he gets one-shotted so hard it makes his ghost chill out a bit. He keeps the spikes, though.

So, if there's anyone on the Council who might vote for this on purely practical grounds, and has the power to push others into agreeing with him, because so help him if they don't stop holding duels in the conference room he's going to turn this Empire around—

Nobody listens to him on that, by the way. Both the Sith main plots involve duels in the conference room.

In fact, one of those duels is egged on by our last suspect. Marr might be a contender for longest-running Dark Councilor, but there is another candidate: Darth Vowrawn, who seems to be having a much better time being on the Council than Marr. I suspect the only reason why he doesn't have a bucket of popcorn with him in the Council chambers is because somebody made a rule that he had to stop doing that.

Vowrawn is a surprisingly cheerful old bastard who seems to have turned his hobby into his job. He shows up 'fashionably late' to someone else's attempted coup, after lamenting he can't sell tickets to the clusterfuck that's about to commence. In the expansions to the game, he can outmaneuver and outlive all of the competition and end up becoming the Emperor, at the age of 87.

Vowrawn is also indifferent to against the Empire's policies--he supports the ascension of a Zabrak to the Dark Council, and takes one as an apprentice as well. Beyond that, Vowrawn would have to support this move, because he's instrumental in any large project like this, both politically and practically. While the others I've mentioned all have roles explicitly to do with the aggressive expansion or protection of the Empire, Vowrawn heads the Sphere of Production and Logistics. In essence, he's the one who can decide whether all these other bozos get to eat or not.

If Vowrawn didn't accept this change, then it would have failed. So, he's a definite "yes" by default.

Speaking of bastards who are still active well into their eighties, we have one last major figure who isn't on the Council that likely advocated for this: Darth Malgus.

[Video Description: The "Deceived" trailer, set ten years before the game. God, I love this thing. This was the first trailer I saw for the game, and it got me, it really did. The Sith are just as ridiculous as they should be, combined with choreography that feels a lot more crunchy than lightsaber combat had been before, with distinct combat styles for the two main fighters. It's quick, it's impactful, and it's got a memorable conclusion. Love it.]

Malgus is as anti-racist and anti-classist as Jadus is, but without the insane transcendental Dark Side philosophy. Instead, he has an insane philosophy of bettering the Empire through eternal war, which he believes everyone should have an equal ability to participate in. He is what would happen if a Warhammer 40k character had an inside voice.

[Video Description: The "Disorder" cinematic trailer, set before the Legacy of the Sith expansion. Malgus is 75 here. Man's held together by spite and screws and whatever nutrients you can absorb by being thrown through walls. He's fully given up on the Sith Order at this point and is trying to do his own thing, and he makes it look rad. The choreography has only gotten better, goddamn. Why did it take me three goddamn years to watch this. IT'S REALLY GOOD.]

Malgus is a big deal in the military, with a lot of support from both the Force-blind soldiers and earning the loyalty of a surprising cross-section of Sith. We know this, because he nearly hijacks the Empire at one point in the early expansions. He'd be into this idea, and he probably advocated for it. While he'd have the most direct interaction with the military-related Councilors we already have in the "yes" column, he also has a history of annoying the bejeezus out of other Sith on "his" turf, so who knows! He may have been more persuasive to the others we haven't dug into.

And we can't really dig into all of them at the depth we have with some. Despite how bogglingly huge SWTOR is and the two thousand four hundred and ninety-five named characters and "Additional Voices" credits in IMDb, we never meet some of the Dark Councilors. If you don't play all the eight main storylines, you won't see all of them in the game. I'll admit, I've never seen Darth Hadra, because I've never gotten that far in a Republic-aligned storyline! The Sith you encounter in their stories can often be more one-note, because they're purely there as antagonists rather than people you are legally required to hang out with, and thus have more opportunity to pester mercilessly.

[Video Description: A clip from my own Warrior run-through, featuring my big lad Rejalgar, his coolest friend Vette, and his boss, Darth Baras, who is presently having a screaming tantrum, which Rejalgar makes worse with the most delightfully straight-faced "Is there a problem here?". The Warrior plotline lets you play things sincerely evil, sincerely noble, or sincerely hilarious. Do you want to see Jedi bluescreen when a Sith just straight-up refuses to be violent? Do you want to sidestep a boss fight by offering a family a government pension, something your boss commends as being very devious and evil? Do you want to break up a fight between gangs by threatening to eat them? Come play the Sith Warrior storyline, and be the chaos you want to see in the galaxy!]

[Video Description, from a clip I uploaded to YT specifically for this post after I found out you can only upload one video per tumblr post wtf: A clip from my Inquisitor run-through, featuring my extremely shirtless lad, Sericus, playing coy and a little airheaded when called up by his Sith master, Darth Zash. Back in the day, Purebloods weren't supposed to be played as canon for this storyline, but there were tweaks later made to dialog that provided a canon explanation for how someone with visible Sith ancestry could end up in this situation. The storyline, however, unfortunately does not fully account for a character whose ideal job description is 'villain's beautiful and deceptively intelligent consort, the true power behind the throne'. It assumes you're playing a character who wants to go conquer and/or do mad wizard-science. Bonus points for eventually letting you marry your eight foot tall razor-faced cannibal thrall though, that's very fun.]

Why don't we see all of the Dark Council? Well, because they're ultimately not important to the story as a group. Events keep you locked tightly under the purview of just one or two of them on the Sith side of things, before the post-game and expansion plots launch you into the experience of being a major player in Imperial affairs, and Imperial affairs launch themselves at you in return.

Everyone realizes the Emperor wants to eat them. Then he dies, except he doesn't. Malgus takes over the Empire for a few weeks. Marr takes over, but half the Council is dead and the rest are still in orientation and are probably also dead, because their would-be successors assassinated them. The Emperor, only mildly inconvenienced by also being dead, eats a planet. Then things go completely off the deep end, and the Dark Council is no longer your concern at all.

It's economical storytelling to not belabor the rest of the Councilors, and playing through as an ex-slave Inquisitor, you continue to face enough challenges directly linked to your background that the resistance feels systemic, even if you don't actually see all that many others who are facing the same issues.

But I think there's a lot of potential for some really wild storytelling in there. Your character receives some level of basic training before they reach the Sith Academy, along with a whole batch of ex-slaves. What did that entail? How was it organized? What happens when folks from abolitionist movements start being trained as sith, gaining all the attendant legal authority over the life and death of others?

And what about the prisoners who were released for training? While one canon option is to play a character who was facing immediate execution for participation in violent anti-Imperial resistance, at least a fair chunk of Force-sensitive prisoners were probably serving longer sentences. What happens when prison gangs start gaining a foothold in the Sith Academy, where they're too dysfunctional to even form Mean Girl cliques? What happens when some of their members become full Sith? How many of them might have Hutt backing, or even funding from the Republic Secret Intelligence Service?

These are the sorts of things the Sith themselves are terrified of. This earns a very sarcastic thoughts and prayers to them, of course. Yet it truly is wild to think about the decision-making process that went into this massive societal shift that the game treats as simply a piece of inciting incident for two plotlines out of eight: Twelve unhinged people sat down in some extremely high-backed chairs one day and voted to give everyone equal access to lightning.

I love Star Wars, it's just the funniest shit imaginable sometimes.

When i listened to Zagreus, i only grasped only a quarter or less of what i heard. Partially because my english needs some improvement, but certainly because of the intensive lore stuff.

But after reading the post, my mind broke in half after realizing how little of Doctor Who EU i knew (mostly the Rassilon and Time Lord stuff). Now i wanna read the books to check where the sick crazy stuff happens.

The bad part is that i live in Brazil, so there are no physical books unless i'm filthy rich. At least i found digital versions (with some bad paragraphs).

Started and still struggling to read past the start of the Eighth Doctors.

And i continue my streak of 2AM ramblings and opinions.

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Quando escutei Zagreus, eu só compreendi um quarto do que estava acontecendo na bagaça. Parcialmente porque meu inglês necessita de melhora, mas certamente pelo quanto ele é pesado na Lore.

Mas depois que li o post, minha mente partiu no meio ao perceber o quão pouco sei do Universo Expandido de DW(majoritariamente sobre Rassilon e os Senhores do Tempo). Agora quero ler os livros só pra saber as coisas doidas e loucas que rolam por lá.

A parte ruim é que moro no Brasil, e conseguir os livros físicos é impossível a não ser que eu seja ricaço. Pelo menos tenho as versões digitais (com uns parágrafos mal feitos).

Comecei e ainda tenho dificuldades em passar do começo de Os Oito Doutores.

E continuo com minha série de divagações e opiniões das duas da manhã.

An overview of expanded universe concepts referenced in Zagreus

The audio story Zagreus, as Big Finish's fiftieth main range story and their story for the fortieth anniversary of Doctor Who has a lot of continuity nods. What makes it special (and fun for me) is how many of those continuity nods are to other places in the expanded universe. I think this is really cool, and have tracked down a lot of information as to how moments in Zagreus relate to other parts of the EU.

A lot of this comes down to the stories co-authors: Garry Russell and Alan Barns. Both had been heavily involved in Big Finish to date, and both had experience writing whorniverse works outside of it as well. Russell had been a writer for both Virgin Books and BBC Books, and Barns had just finished being head writer for the Doctor Who Magazine comic a few years prior.

Since we're all listening to Zagreus, I decided it would be fun to compile a list of continuity moments that I could present to you all. Some of these are deliberate shout outs. Others might not be. I'm going to be focusing on Expanded Universe references here, as I'm assuming a general familiarity with classic who (and, honestly, the classic who references aren't the fun ones). In any case, listen to Zagreus and then enjoy this.

Part One - Wonderland

1) Okay, first of all. The Zagreus poem didn't actually originate in Zagreus or Neverland. The Sixth Doctor happily sings the first verse in Project: Twilight, which was a Big Finish audio story released almost a year before Neverland (and over two years before Zagreus).

2) The other thing to talk about up-front is that everyone is played by companion actors. Everyone who had played a companion for Big Finish thusfar appears as a different role here. Also, Anneke Wills, who had yet to reprise her role as Polly on Big Finish, plays a role here. In addition to the tv companions, this includes:

Caroline Morris, who played Fifth Doctor companion Erimem

Maggie Stables, who played Sixth Doctor companion Evelyn Smythe

Robert Jezek, who played Sixth Doctor companion Frobisher the shapeshifting penguin (he's originally from the Doctor Who Magazine comics)

Lisa Bowerman, who played Seventh Doctor companion Bernice Summerfield (she is originally from the Virgin New Adventures books)

Stephen Fewell, who played Bernice's husband Jason Kane (he is originally from the Virgin New Adventures books)

Conrad Westmaas, who would play Eighth Doctor companion C'rizz starting two stories later in The Creed of the Kromon (which was already in production when Zagreus was recorded)

aaaaaaaaaand the odd one out is Stephen Perring, who played a one-off villain in a recent Eighth Doctor audio and would play a recurring Eighth Doctor villain starting in The Creed of the Kromon

3) Charley Pollard met the Brigadier before in the Big Finish audio story Minuet in Hell. Not much to report on this one, but that's why she recognizes him.

4) That mysterious voice Zagreus hears early on in the story is John Pertwee, from recordings made before his death. Pertwee had agreed to take part in a fan film called Devious (set between The War Games and Spearhead From Space), and Pertwee's lines from it were repurposed here with his family's permission. (This is probably why the audio quality with him is as bad as it is). The fan film itself would lay dormant until 2018, when parts of it began releasing onto YouTube. You can see all currently released parts here.

5) At one point, the Doctor references checking up on the Oracle on KS-159. KS-159 is the formal name for the asteroid that houses the Braxiatel Collection, and the Oracle is a future-predicting... thing that exists on the Collection. This is established in the Virgin Book Tears of the Oracle and Big Finish book Life During Wartime, both part of the Bernice Summerfield Series.

6) Shortly afterwords, the Doctor mentions that someone once blamed him for the death of JFK. This might be a reference to the Virgin Book Who Killed Kennedy, where the Master tries to prevent the assassination in order to destabilize Earth's history. This one might also be a coincidence.

7) At one point we get the following exchange:

The Doctor: I can see things, in my mind's eye. I can see me. Thousands of mes, doing different things in different places but all at once. Alternative realities, or maybe this is an alternative, and one of those others is real. You're part of me, can't you see what I'm seeing? Zagreus: Always. The Doctor: Look there. I see myself on the planet Oblivion, facing a race called the Horde. And there, look! A tiny reality where Gallifrey isn't a planet but a timeless diamond drifting through the stars. I can see a universe where the Time Lords have terrible mind powers and another where they have ceased to exist - time wound backwards to eliminate their every trace. A planet, Earth, where the Nestenes very nearly destroyed everything and another Earth upon which I have plucked out one of my own hearts. But which is real and which are the alternatives? Zagreus: There is no alternative. The Doctor: You mean no one knows which reality is the real one? Zagreus: They are all real and primary to their inhabitants. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. Who is there to care? They all exist. Occasionally sharing moments and eras, the rest of the time, self-contained and unaware. But all are destined to end together, and soon. The Doctor: I'm scared. Zagreus: Good. You should be.

So the gist of this exchange is, honestly, why I made the post. Pretty much every alternate universe the Doctor sees is a different Expanded Universe project done during the wilderness era. In order:

The Doctor faced off the Horde on Oblivion in the Doctor Who Magazine comic titled, well, Oblivion

The "timeless diamond" thing is (I think) a reference to the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures books - specifically, that description is reminiscent of Timeless and Sometime Never...

The universe where Time Lords have terrible mind powers is probably intended to be the webcast Death Comes to Time (which is kinda notable as it was published after the tv movie but features the Seventh Doctor permadying), but it could theoretically also reference the Doctor Who Magazine comic Star Death

The universe where the Time Lords have been wound out of time would probably be the BBC Eighth Doctor books again - this (possibly) happens about halfway through the series.

Earth being almost destroyed by Nestenes is, I think, a reference to Auton Trilogy - three hour-long home video releases produced by BBV.

The Doctor plucking out one of his hearts is definitely the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures - this is a somewhat inaccurate recounting of events that happened in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.

So the general thrust of this exchange is to separate the different ongoing Doctor Who projects into distinct, equally valid alternate realities that had an overlap in the form of the tv era. I'm sure the impetus behind this was to avoid having the BBC books, DWM comics, Big Finish, or anyone else let continuity get in the way of taking the Eighth Doctor in whatever direction they wanted.

8) While looking for Charley, Zagreus says, "Yssgaorth curse you girl!" Yssgaorth is the name that the Virgin book The Pit and Faction Paradox book The Book of the War gave to the Great Vampires whom the Time Lords had a massive war with in their early history. A little bit more on that later.

9) While in the Schrodinger's Cat-Box, the Doctor lights an everlasting match. These were presented as an invention of the Doctor's in the first ever novelization, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (it's novelizing The Daleks), and have sporadically appeared in random places in the Expanded Universe ever since.

10) At one point, Dr. Stone tells that Captain McDonnell that he should do something, "For King and Country!" That exact phrase is commonly used by The Forge, a creation of Big Finish that had prominently appeared thusfar in the audios Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus. Think Torchwood, but with less governmental oversight and being run by a vampire. The implication is that both Dr. Stone and Captain McDonnell work for The Forge, with Project: Dionysus being one of their projects. That phrase is the only strong clue, but Dr. Stone's behavior does generally line up with what we've seen elsewhere from the Forge.

Part 2 - Heartland

11) Ouida speculates that Rassilon was behind Omega's death. The concept that Rassilon was in some way behind Omega's death was kicked around a bit and given a lot more prominence in the audio story Omega.

All that being said, the Doctor Who Magazine comic Star Death shows the actual event and has Rassilon be innocent in the event, with Omega's ship being sabotaged by an enemy from Gallifrey's future. Star Death is not being intentionally referenced here but I still wanted to bring that up for sake of thoroughness

12) Cassandra referring to science being against the ways of her Sisterhood and the references to Rassilon outlawing the Sisterhood's religion draws pretty heavily on the plot thread running through the Virgin Books (most prominently Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, Christmas on a Rational Planet and Lungbarrow) which established that Rassilon fought a magic vs science war against a woman named Pythia and her forces. Rassilon won the war and established science as the dominant force in the universe. Pythia killed herself and her followers left (or were exiled, depending on who you ask) Gallifrey to become the Sisterhood of Karn as seen in The Brain of Morbius. According to Gary Russell, in earlier drafts the Great Mother was intended to be Pythia, but they changed it in order to not tie themselves too far into the Virgin continuity.

13) The concept of a Commitee of Three being an investigative group of Time Lords comes from the Virgin book Blood Harvest. This notably implies that Tepesh, Ouida, and Aratra were either vampires under deep cover for them to have been granted such an important position or (what I consider more likely) they were targeted and turned after having gotten that role.

14) While the concept of Rassilon leading a war against the vampires was established on tv, it had been expanded on by both the Virgin Books, BBC Books, and Faction Paradox (Time's Crucible, The Pit, Goth Opera, Damaged Goods, Interference, and The Book of the War), giving a good deal more scope and backdrop to Tepesh's interactions with Rassilon and the Time Lord/vampire war that Tepesh and the Great Mother allude to.

That being said, Tepesh's account as the Vampires being essentially Rassilon's victims after Rassilon had fought the sisterhood and established time travel does contradict with pretty much everything above (the general timeline is that the Time Lords accidentally unleashed the vampires into the universe with their time travel experiments, before the "death" of Omega or the war against Pythia). I personally suspect that Tepesh's bloodline was from a vampiric colony founded in the universe by the vampire lords and then abandoned, which Rassilon hunted down later. (Perhaps the colony founded by the vampire deserters from the Doctor Who Magazine comic Monstrous Beauty?)

15) The concept of the Time Lord's symbiotic nuclei (aka the Rassilon Imprimatur) first came up in the tv story The Two Doctors, but basically no information was actually given about it there. It being tied to regeneration comes from the Virgin Book Love and War. The concept that Rassilon engineered regeneration popped had popped up before in a few Virgin books, including The Cystal Bucephalus (where it was attributed to the Time Lords having triple-helix DNA, which Rassilon engineered) and Lungbarrow (where it was stated that only Time Lords that were Loomed could regenerate).

Speaking of which, the books Goth Opera (Virgin) and The Book of the War (Faction Paradox) proposed as in-universe speculation that the powers of regeneration were stolen from the vampires. Interesting in light of Tepesh's claims, huh?

(oh and if you're wondering if/how this all works with the Timeless child stuff, I have good news for you. Check out my essay here that addresses that question).

16) Tepesh at one point mentions Rassilon letting "Omega and Vandekirian go to their deaths". Vandekirian was Omega's assistant aboard the starship Eurydice (and it was the Eurydice that fell into the newly created black hole) according to the Big Finish audio story Omega. In the speculations that Rassilon caused Omega's death, the story goes that he convinced Vandekirian to sabotage the Eurydice.

17) The concept of humans colonizing an abandoned/destroyed Gallifrey dates back to the Virgin book The Crystal Bucephalus. A later Faction Paradox story The Story So Far (available to read for free online here) would imply that Winkle's Wonderland was built on one of the many cloneworlds of Gallifrey created during the War in Heaven (Faction Paradox's equivalent to the Time War).

18) Romana mentions a vortisaur race in her fanfic - the Big Finish audio Storm Warning introduced vortisuars as a pterodactyl-like thing that live in the Time Vortex. She also mentions "Theta's" professor being named Luvis - Luvis was established as the name of the teacher of Omega in the audio story Omega. In-universe, this is probably a coincidence, but out of universe, given that Omega was only released a few months before Zagreus, I doubt it.

19) The Gallifreyan Watchtower (that's where Brax contacts Romana from) was established as a thing in the Doctor Who Magazine comic The Final Chapter. It's basically a central hub for Gallifrey's security systems.

20) Given how this is the Gallifrey Relisten, the appearance of Braxiatel probably doesn't come as a surprise, but for the time this was a deep a cut as any of the rest of the things I've gone on about here. First of all, this is actually the first appearance of Brax when he is actually on Gallifrey. The dude originated from the Virgin books: Theatre of War introduced him as the head of the Braxiatel Collection (an art and artifact collection) with The Empire of Glass establishing Braxiatel as something of a Gallifrey-sanctioned interventionist and the Doctor's brother. He appeared once more in Happy Endings in what amounts to a little bit more than a cameo. After that, he became a regular in the Bernice Summerfield series after Virgin lost the license to publish Doctor Who, and he was one of the few parts of the Virgin Bernice Summerfield series to follow the series when it switched to Big Finish. This, however, is his first appearance in a Doctor Who story proper since 1996. (And as an additional fun fact he wasn't even in the original plan; they were apparently hoping to have Matthew Waterhouse - who played Adric - play a "bored Castellan" here.)

21) Romana being Lord President of the Time Lords was a thing in the Big Finish audios The Apocalypse Element and Neverland, but it was set up properly in the Virgin Books. Blood Harvest was the book where Romana returned to Gallifrey from E-Space. In Goth Opera (Blood Harvest's immediate follow-up), Romana gets offered a seat on the High Council. The book Happy Endings shows she has ascended to presidency, and The Apocalypse Element picks up from there.

I will say Romana reminding K-9 of "the mirror that finally brought us back home" in the third act does contradict the Virgin Books' explanation for Romana's return. K-9 explicitly did not return with Romana in Blood Harvest however, so perhaps that was how he returned to Gallifrey (this, once again, is speculation).

Romana II's presidency had been explored more in-depth in the book Lungbarrow, but Lungbarrow featured Romana and Leela already knowing each other and being friends. If one is to assume Zagreus and Lungbarrow are in the same continuity, then Lungbarrow would have to take place after Zagreus (I have an upcoming post that'll dig into all of this a little more thoroughly).

Part 3 - Wasteland

22) I know we already saw this in Neverland, but I'm trying to be comprehensive here. Rassilon's mind existing as a guiding force for the Time Lords within the Matrix is a concept that originated from the Doctor Who Magazine comic story The Tides of Time (which, by the way, actually predates Rassilon's appearance onscreen in The Five Doctors). This was a concept that the DWM had revisited more recently with the story The Final Chapter, and I suspect Rassilon's appearance in Neverland stemmed from that.

Slight tangent, but The Final Chapter and Neverland were both written by Alan Barnes (who was one of Zagreus's cowriters) and he has stated that Neverland evolved out of concepts cut from The Final Chapter. If you are inclined to track down old Doctor Who Magazine comics online, I encourage you to check The Final Chapter out - it is a very different look at Gallifrey than Neverland and Zagreus, but it does share a lot of lifeblood with them.

Rassilon still existing in the Matrix also came up in the BBC books The Eight Doctors and Unnatural History, btw, although in their case it feels a lot more likely that they are drawing on The Five Doctors.

23) Romana has met the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors before in Goth Opera (Virgin book), The Apocalypse Element (Big Finish audio), and Blood Harvest (Virgin Book) respectively - hence, it makes sense for her to recognize Townsend, Tepesh, and Winkle on sight.

24) The Doctor referencing Polidori and Mary was part of a running reference to an unseen adventure with Mary Shelly Big Finish was doing with its Eighth Doctor audios ever since their first, Storm Warning. We would finally see that adventure proper when Big Finish released The Company of Friends in 2009.

25) Charley mentions that the Doctor has claimed to know Rasputin. The two of them met in the Third Doctor BBC book The Wages of Sin.

26) Charley mentions that the Doctor has escaped Colditz Castle - this is a reference to the Seventh Doctor Big Finish audio Colditz.

27) Romana recognizes the (image of the) Brigadier. This is because Romana, then in her first incarnation, met in the Brigadier in the BBC book Heart of TARDIS.

28) The concept that Rassilon created a "single, unchangeable history" (as stated by Winkle/the Doctor) through the Eye of Harmony was introduced in the Virgin book Christmas on a Rational Planet. This moment was shown in the Doctor Who Magazine comic The Final Chapter, and Faction Paradox's The Book of the War would name that moment the "Anchoring of the Thread."

29) The concept of a species opposed to the Time Lords who could create an alternate web of time - as Rassilon describes the Divergence - draws some pretty interesting parallels with the Enemy from the BBC books and Faction Paradox. The concept is that the Enemy are a mysterious (and still unnamed) force that in the future will challenge the Time Lords to an endless war over who gets to decide history. One of the few facts that has been explicitly stated about the Enemy (in Faction Paradox's The Book of the War) is that the Enemy has the power to create and maintain a web of time just like Gallifrey did.

30) Rassilon talks about breaking the laws of time in order to manipulate the Eighth Doctor - while it's brought to an extreme here, Rassilon did basically that in the BBC books The Eight Doctors and Unnatural History, which can totally be treated as him setting up for the events of Neverland in retrospect

31) When rattling off places on Earth the Doctor has been to, one of the places mentioned is the canals of Venice - the site of the Big Finish audio story The Stones of Venice, starring Eight and Charley.

32) The Doctor mentions people having seen a "Grey lady" in the Tardis engine rooms. The Grey Lady - who was very much another avatar of the Tardis - showed up in the Doctor Who Magazine comic story A Life of Matter and Death.

33) The Doctor openly states that he expects Romana to be dragged down by the presidency - specifically telling her to "enjoy her corruption." A more militaristic third incarnation of Romana was an antagonist to the Eighth Doctor in the BBC books The Shadows of Avalon and The Ancestor Cell (and, btw, if you take both the BBC books and Big Finish in the same continuity, it's very possible that the books take place before Zagreus for the Eighth Doctor, so he's seen the end results of Romana's corruption).

34) The bit at the end where the Doctor starts reading a book is a call-back to Storm Warning, Big Finish's first Eighth Doctor audio, which opened with him reading that same book but then getting interrupted by the plot.

35) And, finally, when this was being recorded, plans were already underway to continue Romana and Leela's story in a new audio series titled Gallifrey, which would end up being (in my opinion) the centerpiece of Big Finish's The Worlds of Doctor Who lines of stories. You might have heard of it.

BATI MEU RECORDE! To feliz!

Só descobri o botão de leia mais hoje. Minha miopia alta tá fera hein.

Ou não. Ta mais pra falta de atenção mesmo.

Notas de final de ano do que estou fazendo.

Primeiramente, boas festas e um bom final de ano! (Meio atrasado mas acho que tudo bem.)

E feliz natal totalmente atrasado!

Me veio na cabeça postar uma lista das coisas que li este ano, e acho que vou fazer isso logo logo.

Por enquanto vou deixar algumas coisas aqui do que li, assisti joguei ou ouvi nos últimos dias.

LIVROS: Terminei de ler o Hobbit semana passada e adorei! To até pensando em fazer uma resenha, mas está faltando eu assistir o 3° Filme (Nunca assisti os filmes antes e dormi vendo o primeiro senhor dos aneis) para eu saber o que escrever. Outra coisa é que depois de ter terminado, fiquei me sentido um idiota por ter reclamado dos parênteses no livro de star wars que estava lendo. Acho que eu só não estava muito acostumado nas ficções científicas que lia.

Falando no livro de star wars, ainda não terminei ele. Fiquei dividindo minha atenção com dois livros de história e no final terminei o Hobbit antes. Também tem um livro de Doctor Who maravilhoso que to no finalzinho! Esse está bem mais atrasado que o outro, ja que li uns 5 livros antes de finalizar. São 12 histórias, uma de cada doutor, faltando terminar o nono doutor até o décimo segundo. Todas muito boas. Alguma hora eu chego lá e termino ambos os livros.

E por fim na parte de livros, tem os dois de história que mencionei acima. O primeiro e da mitologia greco-romana e o segundo da história da China. Ambos muito bons e gigantes.

AUDIODRAMAS: Escutei pelo menos seis audios depois daquela minha review, todos bons, principalmente os do terceiro doutor. Pensei em continuar fazendo reviews deles, mas cada um tem pelo menos duas horas de duração. Mal faço resenha sobre o que leio, e geralmente acabo dando um monte de pitaco em vez de dizer o que gostei. Então to pensando em só escrever algo como: eu escutei audiodrama tal e gostei.

Mas mesmo assim duvido um pouco de mim na hora de anotar isso.

ASSISTI: O ultimo especial de natal de Doutor Who foi um MÁXIMO! To amando o aspecto good vibes do Ncuti e todos os episódios dele até agora! E uma opinião meio controversa: O Steven Moffat é um belo escritor mas um Showrunner bem mais ou menos. Entre ele e o atual RTD, foi só o Moffat que tinha extensos episódios que me davam sono. E na minha perspectiva, eu virei fã de DW assistindo a série pela primeira vez na ultima temporada do Moffat.

Não vou extender o resto se não acabo escrevendo um paredão de texto ainda maior. De séries e filmes meio que é isso. Tem uns animes que andei vendo, mas não ia saber nem como encaixar direito.

JOGOS: Entrei na fase do vicio de jogo de voo. Tenho um manche em casa e to só entre dois jogos. Ou no máximo sete, porque de vez enquando fico viciado em tekken velho, qualquer jogo de ritmo, jogos de grande estratégia, jogo de tiro ou o jogo maneiro que lembrei ou achei.

Dos de voo tem o Il-2 Sturmovik 1946 (Banner do perfil) ou o Star Wars X-Wing Alliance com mod. Geralmente vicio fácil quando bate a vontade e fico só atirando nos alvo. Levantando o problema de requerer habilidades de formação e estratégia, e eu só querendo fazer dog fight. No final eu mato muito e morro o dobro.

Por ultimo dessa parte, fiquei jogando arma 3, um simulador tático militar onde coloco uma porrada de mods, só brinco no editor de missão e tenho o mesmo problema do outro jogo.

MUSICA: Por fim e por ultimo, digo o que estou ouvindo de musica. Resumindo: Musica de natal, Tecno Dance nightcore, citypop, pop rock anos 80, umas músicas brasileiras de gêneros diversos e lentamente estou escutando e me abrindo pro K-Pop. Escutei uma vez Apt. da Rosé com o Bruno Mars na radio do carro e não parei mais de escutar.

E é isso. Boas festas e um bom fim de ano pra quem leu até aqui.

Bilingual post! English/PT-BR

Reading the book: The Eight Doctors (Terrance Dicks).

Lendo o livro: Os Oito Doutores.

Hearing a lot about the Doctor Who books lately gave me the willingness to finally read past the first chapter of the book, and now i think i'l start writing some bilingual posts on my thoughts about them!

It will be bilingual because, through my knowledge, Brazilian DW fans are very scarse on Tumblr, and it will also be a very good english training session.

Oh, and it's the first english book that i ever read!

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Recentemente escutei bastante sobre os livros de Doutor Who, e isso acabou me dando a motivação para finalmente passar do primeiro capitulo do livro, e agora eu acho que vou começar a escrever meus pensamentos sobre eles!

E bem, vai ser bilíngue, pois por meu conhecimento, os fans Brasileiros de DW são bem escassos aqui no Tumblr, e também acaba sendo um boa sessão de treino pro meu inglês.

Ah, e este é também o primeiro livro em inglês que leio!

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English Thoughts:

I didn't really like the plot of the Doctor losing his memory again and so soon after the movie. Felt a little repetitive, but at least is a good concept for a Doctor Who book.

Never did a ever expect that the Doctor would ever hold a bag full of crack. It is sincerely one of the best parts of the book. I just feel a little sorry for past me being unfocused when trying to read earlier.

Also, it's so interesting to look at how big the drug problem was in the 90s and how far my view of the event is. It feels like a footnote, but so many things were impacted by it. (The whole story of GTA: San Andreas is around the drug wars, and one of my biggest impressions of the thing. And having a DW story involving it feels awkwardly matching.)

Going past the whole drug part, i've liked Sam so far. I am looking forward to what will happen to her.

The Eighth Doctor encountering his former selves has been fun, but i'm getting some mixed feelings. I don't know how to express it, just some weird opinions of mine that i still can't define.

Then, i'm also very curious about Lord President Flavia and very intrigued by what the CIA is doing.

When i reached the Third Doctor part, i swear i could hear the characters' voices on my mind. I probably have some kind of favoritism for his era because of how great the whole combination of stuff was. And Delgado continues being the best master. His vingative wife aura is incredible.

I'm having a great read at the moment, and I'm very eager to finish the book soon. And i'm posting at late night again. I probably got a vice of doing this.

Now, I am ending the post with a last question for the people who read until here: I saw half a video on youtube about the 7th Doctor Lungbarrow, and i leaved right before he talked about the book. Should i read it before i continue into the rest of EDA's books? And if so, is any other reading necessary? Or watching his last series already enough?

I wanted to listen more of the 7th doctor main range audios, but felt a little lost with the context when i ended Shadow of the Scourge.

Pensamentos em Português:

Eu não gostei muito do enredo do Doutor perder a memória de novo e tão cedo após o filme. Me pareceu meio repetitivo, mas pelo menos é um bom conceito para um livro de Doctor Who.

Nunca que eu esperaria ver o Doutor acabar carregando uma sacola cheia de crack. E sinceramente é uma das melhores coisas do livro. Só sinto um pouco de dó sobre meu eu do passado, que estava desatento quando foi ler pela primeira vez e perdeu esse momento de ouro.

Também é interessante olhar o quão grande o problema das drogas era nos anos 90, e o quão longe minha visão dos eventos está. Parece uma nota de rodapé, mas teve tanta coisa afetada por isso. (A história do GTA: San Andreas involve a guerra das drogas e é minha maior impressão sobre a coisa. E é estranhamento compatível uma história de DW envolver esse tema.)

Deixando a parte das drogas de lado, estou gostado bastante da Sam. Estou curioso com o que acontece com ela depois.

O Doutor encontrando seus eus do passado está divertido, mas acabei com uns sentimentos misturados. Não sei muito como expressar, só umas opiniões estranhas que não sei definir.

Também estou curioso com a Lorde Presidente Flavia, e bastanre jntrigado com o que a CIA está fazendo.

Quando cheguei na parte do Terceiro Doutor pude jurar que comecei a escutar as vozes dos personagens na cabeça. Provavelmente tenho um favoritismo pela sua era, e também o quão espetacular toda combinação de coisas que tinha. E o Delgado continua sendo o melhor mestre. A aura de esposa traída e vingativa que ele tem é incrível.

Estou tendo uma boa leitura no momento, e bem ansioso pra terminar logo. E estou novamente postando na madruga. Provavelmente eu peguei vicio.

Agora, estou terminando o post com uma última pergunta para as pessoas que leram até aqui: Eu vi metade de um vídeo no YouTube sobre Lungbarrow do 7° Doutor, e saí logo antes de ele falar sobre o livro. Devo lê-lo antes de continuar com o resto do "EDA's"? Se sim, é necessária alguma outra leitura? Ou assistir à sua última temporada ja é suficiente?

Eu queria ouvir mais áudios da main range do 7º Doutor, mas me senti um pouco perdido com o contexto quando terminei Shadow of the Scourge.

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Criei uma playlist com 200 músicas e 6 horas e meia de duração contendo os gêneros Techno, Euro, Dance e Eletrônica.

Está ai pra quem gostar e é só botar no aleatório:

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🌌 Techno - Euro - Dance - Eletronica 🌌

Youtube Music:

YouTube Music

🌌 Techno - Euro - Dance - Eletronica 🌌

Muito provavelmente vou alterar e colocar mais músicas, mas já está muito boa desse jeito!

Retrospectiva Leituras 2024 Parte 3 de 3.

Voltei para terminar o post que ficou faltando, e também pedindo desculpas pela demora.

Majoritariamente a culpa foi da preguiça mesmo com minha pessoa deixando de lado o post, dizendo na cabeça que iria fazer mas não indo adiante. Mas também não foi o unico motivo pois uma leve parcela deveu-se deu ter minha faculdade de letras pra fazer. E eu acabei esperando chegar os últimos volumes de uma HQ de Star Wars que faltava. (Veja Imagens abaixo.) Mas eu digo e repito que foi preguiça mesmo.

Bom, desculpas a parte, vamos para as mini-resenhas!

O modelo sera o mesmo com três diferenças: Primeira é que não tera Status, pois eu li todas até o fim. A Segunda é que vou falar das histórias em geral da "run" das HQ's, em vez de ir volume por volume. E Terceira é que não citarei os autores, ja que um único volume tem ao menos três pessoas diferentes envolvidas, e eu não me vejo conseguindo citar 50 Volumes de uma vez.

HQ's Star Wars: Alta República: Fase 1 (2021).

Opinião: Foi a primeira HQ de verdade que comprei todos os volumes, e inicialmente eu a havia começado com opiniões mistas. Sua arte é maravilhosa, amei os personagens secundários e ela é bem elaborada com crossovers que só estou pegando depois. O problema é que não consegui gostar ou me identificar muito com a protagonista e achar os vilões "Nihil" interessantes. Minha opinião acabou melhorando ao longo do tempo, e lendo os livros aumenta bastante a graça e visualização do que ocorre nessa era, so que eu não consigo tirar essa primeira impressão que tive. Mas bom, felizmente os Volumes 6-7 foram tão legais que subiram minha visão geral. Nota: 3,5/5. Mestre Sskeer, o lagarto que perdeu o braço e mestre da Keeve Trennis foi meu jedi favorito delas.

HQ's Star Wars: Alta República: Fase 2 (2023).

Opinião: Achei superior a outra de inúmeras formas! Adorei a história que seguiu com a dupla Jedi justamente em Jedha, o planeta sagrado Jedi. O meu favorito foi a arte extremamente linda de toda a HQ, amei o uso de cores, o cenário e o planeta em si! Gostei também como ela interage com a Fase 1 da alta república e a apresentação dos temas da Fase 2 em relação as diferentes percepções da força.

E gostei de finalmente ver os "Guardiões dos Whill" em uma história. Sempre achei estranho ver um conceito importante e tão profundamente ligado com Star Wars original não sendo tão utilizado e ser até bem obscuro pro conhecimento geral da franquia. (Está até em alguns rascunhos originais do primeiro filme! Sendo um dos nomes: Jornal dos Whills, parte I.)

Nota: 4,5/5. Star Wars + Planeta Árido + Templo Antigo = Uma das minhas coisas favoritas.

HQ's Star Wars: (2021).

Opinião: Falta 1 ou 2 volumes para terminar a coleção mas ja tenho uma visão geral. Ela é divertida, com meus enredos favoritos sendo o do Luke aprendendo a ser jedi sozinho e da Leia tendo que liderar a rebelião e enfrentar uma adversaria no império. O fraco é o tanto de tempo que ela dura, junto aos diversos crossovers e o enredo de traição Lando. O ultima melhora um pouco depois, mas depende de como você enxerga o personagem do Lando. Em relação aos crossovers é difícil compreender como teria um conflito gigantesco, com droides ganhando consciência no meio do Episódio 5 e 6. É divertido mas bem desconexo com a franquia. Nota: 3,5/5.

HQ Yoda (2022).

Opinião: No Brasil são 2 volumes lindos onde um Yoda reflete sobre seus antigos erros como professor enquanto está em seu exílio em Dagobah. O enredo é fofo e reflexivo, capaz de talvez te ensinar alguma coisa e amei ver o Dookan mais novo. Dos que li é o que mais recomendo.

Nota: 5/5.

HQ's Star Wars: O Império (2024).

Opinião: 24 volumes do legends de Star Wars que se passam entre o episódio 3 e 4. Começa extremamente sombria e trágica e mantem o tom até entrar a esperança perto do fim. Meus favoritos inesperados foram as Histórias cômicas do Jabba que ocorreram pós metade da série. Me surpreenderam e me deram um riso muito bom.

O spotlight foi do Vader, ele estando presente em pelo menos 20 das 24. Mas mesmo com o spotlight ele é meio misto, com sua "sombreza" sendo Edgy demais ou maneiro/profundo. Sinceramente prefiro o Vader existencialista das HQ's recentes.

De destaque também tem a história do Bigs amigo do Luke e as aventuras do Boba Fett.

O que me deixou meio frustrado retrospectivamente foi o não aproveitamento das várias personagens femininas durante os volumes. Com raras exceções boa parte das personagens só se mantinham ali como interesses amorosos ou papeis como mãe.

Até a Leia teve uma história meio mista para mim, onde não gostei muito da moral e da Leia não fazendo muita coisa.

As três personagens femininas mais notáveis que infelizmente esqueci o nome que não seguiram esse papel foram:

Uma Jedi da Velha República acordada criogenicamente com um colar possuído por um sith antigo com uma praga devastadora de humanos. A mais interessante que infelizmente tem sua conclusão em outra série que não tenho.

Uma Jedi que junto de um outro mestre jedi, ajudou a proteger os Younglings de serem pegos pelo império e no final estabeleceu uma comunidade isolada para eles.

E uma Jedi Togruta na qual lutou e morreu com o Vader sabendo que ia ter esperança no fim.

Mas no geral em questão de enredo, estes 24 volumes foram excelentes.

Nota: 4,5/5. O Starkiller é edgy anos 2000 demais.

Doctor Who: Supremacia dos Cybermen (2019).

Opinião: Um crossover entre doutores muito bom! E extremamente boa a revelação de quem estava por trás dos Cybermen. Em destaque temos uma aparição de Silurianos clássicos! O redesign dos silurianos novos é legal, mas sinto muito falta do peixe de borracha telepata com três olhos que eles eram no Doutor Who clássico.

Nota 5/5. O melhor detalhe foi uma tirinha de estilos diferentes mostrando como cada Doutor foi pego pelos Cybermen!

Doctor Who: A dimensão Perdida (2019).

Opinião: Um crossover igualmente maravilhoso, até melhor pelas referências do Doctor Who Clássico e história envolvendo a velha Gallifrey e um Rassilon jovem. Amei quem era o "vilão" da história e todas as aparições envolvendo os antigos Doutores.

Recomendo Mil vezes para quem é fã de Doctor Who.

Nota: 5/5. O leve "Por Zagreus" lançado no meio da história como um "Por Deus" me deu uma bela risada e leve PTSD dos audios do 8° Doutor.

Godzilla: O Maior monstro da história. (2021).

Opinião: Minha HQ favorita de Godzilla até agora. Perfeita pra quem viu todos os filmes como eu ou quem gosta do lagartão. Ela é recheada dos kaijus da franquia e tem um drama humano até que emocional. Só acho que tenta ser mais adulta do que é, o que não caiu muito bem pra mim, mas mesmo assim foi bem feita.

Nota: 5/5. Rodan varreu a liberdade pelos ares infelizmente. A única coisa que a Mothra pede é paz e ninguém escuta a tadinha da mariposa. As fadinha foram até na ONU pra dizer isso.

Por fim, minha coleção de HQ's atual:

Outras Partes:

Parte 1

Parte 2

Por qual razão Doutor Who clássico tinha tara por Sacrifício e magia negra????

Escutei Wirnn Dawn do Oitavo Doutor!

Muito bom. Maravilhoso.

Literalmente Doutor Who + Starship Troopers + Sacrifício.

Ainda por cima os aliens insetos do audio tinham aparecido na série antes. Nem lembrava mas quando falaram no making off, lembrei do episódio excelente que apareceram antes.

E ainda mais! Tinha os atores da Sarah Jane Adventures dublando uns personagens. Esse ja virou um dos meus audios favoritos.

Ark in Space do 4° Doutor e a infecção de plástico bolha pintado de verde: