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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.

Doutor Who classico em preto e branco, tem umas imagens mais doidas possiveis. (1° Doutor, Arco Marco Polo, Esqueci o episódio.)

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Esse jogo aqui é velho, mas ainda é muito maravilhoso de jogar

Um Recorde pessoal que fiz no CTR japonês. Esse jogo é meu favorito de todos!

Resenha/Observação/Opnião: #1

As Novas Aventuras do Oitavo Doutor - Series 4 - Episódio 1 - Orbis

#Spoilers para o audio.

Opção estranha para eu começar minhas resenhas, mas como é o audio mais recente do oitavo doutor que escutei, se torna o melhor candidato para iniciar.

Resenha: Orbis é um início de temporada emocionante que te agarra pelos sentimentos e pelo cliffhanger na parte final do episódio anterior, The Vengeance of Morbius.

O episódio incorpora a clássica bizarrice de Doutor Who no seu principal cenário: Um Oitavo Doutor sem memoria, vivendo a 600 anos em um planeta de águas-vivas inteligentes, que estavam em conflito contra moluscos hermafroditas malignos querendo roubar o planeta.

O forte do episódio é o conflito do Doutor ter esquecido da Lucie e toda a carga emocional dela tendo passado meses acreditando em sua morte junto a Morbius. Sendo a parte onde a Lucie expressa todas as coisas que fizeram no passado, ela desabando tentando fazer o doutor lembrar, e o Doutor continuando a esquecer, foi uma cena que me pegou no coração. O trabalho da atriz da Lucie, Sheridan Smith, neste audio, pra mim foi sensacional.

E continuando, trocando o tom, e agora mais reduzido, o enredo da companheira água-viva do Doutor foi interessante, e ela acreditando que os moluscos iriam poupar ela depois de conquistar o planeta, resultando nela traindo o doutor foi triste? Pelo menos em relação a reação do doutor e a súbita mas não inesperada morte dela, após ter matado um dos moluscos.

O retorno da Headhunter, e o enredo dela tentar roubar a TARDIS foi divertido e me deixou curioso para saber quem é seu novo empregado. E o jeito que o doutor sem memoria lidou com ela, deu um pouco de agonia.

Os Moluscos foram... Interessantes? O enredo de tentarem roubar o planeta foi basico, e a idéia de serem hermafroditas me pareceu que foi levada a ser mais cômica e (Preciso melhorar meu inglês e memoria um pouco mais, então não sei se estou certo) não me pareceu muito desenvolvida.

O Plot Twist do manipulador estelar ser a lua do planeta, e a referencia do "That's No Moon" de Star Wars foi genial.

Mas terminando, o final do episódio foi meio amargo. O planeta morreu com todo mundo lá, o Doutor querendo morrer junto, e toda justificativa pra isso não me pareceu certa, ou pelo menos bem construida. O Doutor acabou sendo muito egoísta, e mesmo lembrando da Lucie no fim, salvando o universo e voltando pra TARDIS, ele ainda tava querendo morrer lá.

Penso que faltou melhor mostrar o lado do Doutor na história, pelo menos para simpatizar um pouco com ele ali.

Houve algumas cenas com as águas-vivas no começo, mas senti que foram tão breves, e os personagens não muito memoráveis que não acrescentarão muito além de apresentar o problema dos moluscos.

Finalizando: Nota 8/10

Episódio excelente no foco principal, na parte da relação entre os dois e em seu objetivo de voltar a estaca zero. Também gostei do retrato altruista do Doutor de salvar as águas-vivas, e do lado egoista mais evidente do Doutor querer morrer ali. Criticas e sugestão: O Doutor estava errado em parte de querer morrer ali, mas faltou espaço para compreender ele. 600 anos é um número grande, mas precisa ser demonstrado pra realmente perceber a escala, e se utilizassem um passado dele chegando ali, e mostrando as Águas-vivas em cenas menos expositivas teria ajudado muito o episódio. E talvez desenvolver melhor os moluscos? Esse ultimo não tenho muito ideia.

Fim do review. Talvez eu poste mais depois, mas quem sabe.

Edit: refleti um pouco sobre meu post e decidi marcar uns pontos da qual sinto eu faltaram:

1 - Verifiquei e vou até ajustar no meu resumo que a agua viva não era uma agente secreta e sim que foi enganada pelos moluscos. (Fico envergonhado de ter pensado nisso.)

2 - Troquei algumas coisas em relação as águas-vivas em como minha visão foi mudando, e adicionei algo que precisava no final, em principal o egoísmo do doutor.

3 - Troquei a nota de 7,5/10 pra 8/10, pois não achei que minha nota justificava a qualidade do episódio. E provável pessoa ou pessoas solitaria que tiver lendo, seje livre para discordar de mim.

4 - Finalizando: Pensei em adicionar mais sobre a Headhunter, mas não me vem muito a cabeça além do que escrevi. E em relação ao edit, peço perdão ao textão e essas adições. O próximo review que eu fizer, vou conferir melhor e organizar melhor. E é isso. Agradeço ler até aqui.

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

Lendo: Star Wars: A Alta República: Na Escuridão, da autora Claudia Gray.

O post é mais uma nota do que resenha, ja que ainda não terminei, então indo lá:

Comecei o livro a uns dias atrás, e esse é o meu segundo livro da Alta República fase 1.

Estou gostando bastante da história, e com o conhecimento prévio do livro anterior, eu to BEM curioso para saber o que vai acontecer com o padawan Reath no final do desastre do Hiperespaço.

Também to intrigado com a Affie e plot dela com a guilda.

Amo o Geodo.

Curioso com a missão passada da Orla com o Cohmac. Quero saber os paralelos nas quais ficam se referindo.

Coisas que me incomodaram, e umas dificuldades minhas com o texto tem:

A descrição de objetos externos e de certas cenas que rolaram. Não sei se sou eu (Mas acho que pode ser), mas a descrição da estação espacial passou voando na minha. Eu só entendi como se parecia quando achei ela sem querer numa HQ da alta republica que tinha.

O uso de parenteses da autora. Pra mim ta sendo uma faca de dois gumes. Ou ela da uma informaçâo interessante, ou revela algo que poderia ficar ambiguo até sabermos depois.

E de incomodo e critica foi só isso até agora. E no momento não subtraem nada da obra para mim.

Trocando de ponto, eu acabei me auto spoilando sem querer quando fui rever minhas HQ's da fase 1. Então provavelmente leia elas após esse livro, pra uma experência melhor. (Tenho todas menos a Adventures.) E foi justo nessas HQ's, que achei a representação da Estação. Também me supreendi com o cameo da Orla nelas, que nem sabia quando as li anteriormente.

É isso. Ainda não terminei pra dar um julgamento completo, mas ta sendo uma boa leitura.

GEODO.

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