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Not a lot of new sound, there's a little rumors and things over here, we had some new comic on last weekend, so there's some cool new books and you'll announce me, we'll talk about that maybe next week when we'll get out to you back and we'll go where all this stuff that has happened this Saturday, I mean, sorry this summer, but for right now we are, let's go ahead, let's just do it and it's Star Wars the bad batch, sorry sanctuary, a bad bash novel that's going to be our non-spoiler review today. I thought about doing first spoiler review, but then remember that the book's not out, it comes out on next Tuesday, the August, what is August 5th is when the book comes out, we're very excited for it, so make sure that you get that book when it comes out, Lamar Giles does an excellent job with this book, so let's go ahead and do our non-spoiler review on sanctuary, so like I said Lamar Giles is the author of this book, Mark Thompson does the narration, that's a great job as always, special shout out again to Random House Worlds and Penguin Random House, Audios for sending us an advanced review copy, it's always nice to be able to get those ahead of time, to then be able to do these type of reviews, let you guys know what, all of that's on the book and again this is a note for myself to limit the amount of spoilers I put out there, hopefully I don't do any of that, again it'll be a non-spoiler review of sanctuary and if you're watching us, again life right now, thank you for being here, get in the chat if you have questions about the book and I'll try to stay non-spoiler as always and if there's any big spoiler, sorry you know I heard of that but the setting for this novel is basically towards detail and of season 2 of the Bad Batch after episode 13, Paboo, which is a great episode but not towards the end of the season when unfortunately we get the text sacrifice, we're not at that point, the whole gang is here except Rosser, we're not here left at the end of season 1, there are mentions of Rosser, so no problems there, Echos is not here either, again there's mentions and their absence is felt in the group and it's something that it's far of the story so my friend Brennan is here, how are you doing Brennan, hello there I've been re-watching the Bad Batch and I have forgotten how good of a show it is, Omega is one of my favorite Star Wars characters, again I understand Brennan, I'm not gonna say I'm right there with you because I had my issues as everyone that listens to my show or what's the show knows, I had my issues with season 1 of the Bad Batch, season 2 I started coming around and then season 3 is one of my favorite Star Wars animated, season series of all time, in other parts, so yeah and Omega again I started a group along with me and I'll talk about them in a minute, so I'm gonna say again and I said every time I talk about Sanctuary is what a wonderful surprise this book was for me, like I just mentioned I had my ups and downs with the Bad Batch in general, it ended on a very very high, so I was a little bit skeptical coming into this novel, I wasn't sure I was gonna feel about it, it's at that kind of middle to tell end of season 2 which I was starting to enjoy the show more at that point, I had some issues with concerns, I had some concerns going through because I had issues in the past with novels or books or stories that take like animated characters, animated TV shows and then translate those situations stories a book or novel where I felt they just feel too, this was an unused story, this was an unfinished art and I know I'm in the minority but some of the more popular books out there with Clone Wars characters, I don't know, they just feel like you go step by step like a TV show or a TV episode, so I was afraid it was just gonna read like a 30 minute episode kind of extended for 200 or 300 pages, that notion and that concern was erased like in the first two chapters of this book, it goes in a totally different direction, all these characters feel like the characters from the TV show, feels like situations they will get themselves involved in but it reads like a natural story, like a natural novel, like a actual book, it doesn't feel like a translation from a TV script to a novel, no it is a full script, I mean a full story, full art for all the characters, there are interesting things that happen every time, I was extremely surprised at how much I love this book so far, I'm not gonna say it's my favorite book of the year though coming out later by the end but so far it's the biggest surprise, like I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did, so if you're being kind of up and down, if you should get or not, if you love Star Wars novels, Star Wars book a lot of action, a lot of twists and turns you'll get here some great villains, I think that's what made that book for me, and of course if you like the bad batch characters and those type of stories that they tell then yes, of course get this book you're not gonna be disappointed, yeah so Brandon when they show hit, it really hits and that last season, a lot of episodes in season two also hit very hard, especially those last couple of episodes, but what was a great episode to have kind of at the end of season two because then it tells you the story that those characters are kind of fighting for, what they're fighting for when you get to season three, so Brandon is, I don't know, there are a lot of episodes, you can argue with Skip but there are so many that really knock out a part yeah 100 percent and sometimes those kind of episodes that you would skip are some of my favorites, like in season two that the racing episode that's kind of like the second or third I think of the season is one of my favorites, it's, it adds nothing but it's one of my favorites, all right anyway so yeah again the life was a surprise, love this book, really love this, so what's the story again, spoilers to a minimum, anything that's a spoiler that you guys might think I'm spoiling, it's very surface level, so don't feel like I'm really running the book for you guys and it's mostly gonna be kind of first couple of chapters, I listen to these stories, you know what this story is when we start, we're at an art auction, they're trying to liberate, like she would say, they're not stealing, they're trying to liberate some stolen artifacts, very important artifacts, historical artifacts, so they're trying to liberate those and there's other things that that group has in motion, all these is to try to get enough funds or supplies to rebuild Pabu, right after that episode in season two, the tango decimated by a tsunami, basically a big ocean wave came in a sea search and they're trying to rebuild the city, so they're trying to find the funds and the supplies to rebuild it, there's some cool kind of comedic bits Hunter is posing as a caterpillar during this auction because of his knife skills, so they put him in the kitchen, but his chef is a droid that doesn't appreciate his knife skills and keeps telling him how bad he is in doing a special garnish and hunters like do you like and cut your throat, even though you're a droid, cut your server or whatever in seven different manners and no one would say anything bad about it and you're here knocking me down because I can't call a vegetable or something like that, so some cool moments there to start, Riker is posing as a ballet to help with the getaway and to secure the axes, tech of course is monitoring the corn, corms and some special signal that they have going on, fiat omega work in the crowd or megas doing something stealing some credits, it's kind of boost their count before they leave, but as any bad bad mission, it doesn't go as planned, right, that's what we love about the bad bash, I have all these plans of how everything's gonna go by the book and by the numbers, I know it does and that's why we love to show so much, it's how they improvise, so of course things don't go the way that they think it will, so they're trying to salvage the mission on their way to to the meeting, to the contact that they have their stories for those stolen artifacts, three has a bright idea, hey let's pick up, let's have a quick side mission to get some extra credits because the real mission didn't work, let's go on a quick side mission to get some extra credits, sorry, I'm sorry, I can imagine for hunter this is the worst possible scenario, like something just happened, something went wrong because we weren't really prepared or even though we were prepared, things went wrong and now you want us to go 100% into a new mission that no one has been briefed on, we're unprepared, it's an unvetted mission, so he's going off the rails about we can't do this, this is why we fail and it's a simple thing, we're just gonna pick up some passengers and take them to my gate and that's it, it's on our way to where we're going anyways, so what's a big deal, for hunter this is a big deal but for the rest of the group they're on board because they do need the credits, I'm gonna leave it there and take for the story, that's the setup, that's the first couple of chapters, everything else if I go story wise it's gonna be a little bit more, solitary story, so let's talk a little bit about the character, so of course this is a book called the Bad Bash, the one that gets the most exposure, hunter and omega, but mainly hunter, you could almost say this is a hunter book, there is a lot with tech and fear we'll get into that, some great new characters, but of the group that we know the most, the Bad Bash of Clumfosh 99, hunter gets the most exposition the one that goes to the biggest arc, so all he knows basically is war and he knows that war is over, he's still acting like they're in a war like he needs to lead the group, like we're on a mission basically, I mean everything that they do for him it's on a mission, he's the leader, he needs to watch it once back, needs to make sure everything's planned, everything's vetted, there are multiple exit strategies in case anything goes wrong, that's on personality, even though they're not really officially a squad out there doing special missions for the republic or whatever it is now that the empire has taken over, the clones have been decommissioned and they're once after the Bad Bash, they're not really, you know shouldn't have that mentality that there's still this group going out there doing missions, but for hunter this is the way it's always lead the way it's been programmed so it still has that mentality and that causes a little bit of friction with the other members of the group, but it's not very leader, like all of them should have a voice in what is supposed on any decision that they have and it still acts like it should be at least the most important voice among all of them, so this gives us great moments, great conversations with omega, with record discussing what the future might look for each of them as individuals, not as the Bad Bash or a group, like all of them as individuals might have different interpretations of what they want the future to look like and that's where hunter is not what he was expecting, so that puts the character in a unusual situation and it gives us a little bit more to explore and for the author for Lamar Gals to explore the character a little bit more, not just this tracker out there that saves everyone when it's needed, it's a little bit different, which again as we know the story is going in season three, it's very important to start putting other pieces for that character and if you talk about hunter you're gonna talk about omega and Bren and you were 100% right but saying that well what's the exact guy you wanna put words in your head? Omega is one of your favorite characters, Omega is the best of us, she is what we want people to eat and she's the best thing to everyone, she would give someone out there her share of food, her share of the credits, if it will help them, even if that meant that she didn't have anything to eat, if she was cold and saw someone that was cold next year she would give her jacket, even that would make her even colder, she doesn't care, she's gonna do whatever she can to make sure that person next to her, gets to live a little bit better and that could be the good guys, the bad guys, strangers, people that might be double crossing them, it doesn't matter, she sees that good in everyone in every situation, that's where she's the best of us, that's what we want everyone to eat and it's especially by season three of the bad guys, we see this in everything that she does and we get a lot of that with her in this show, sorry on this book, there's a quick scene like I mentioned between her and hunter that prepares us for her actions by the end of season three of the bad guys and I don't wanna get too much into it because of spoilers of the book, although they're not really a lot of spoilers, it's again that conversation what the future means for everyone inside the group and hunter and her having that parent-daughter relationship gets explored here a lot, when as a dad of a teenage girl I can relate a hundred percent to hunter's point of view but also understand why Omega's coming from her side and from her and Lamar Gauss does a great job, he finds a clever way to use her time on Kamino, learning on the nalasae, all these scientists, scientific stuff, to then move that plot forward during a crucial part of the story in sanctuary, it's like you could go in and say how that heck does Omega know how to do this and they can't play, oh yeah, during her time on Kamino spending with nalasae and with the other scientists there, she learned about eggs, about these situations, oh it makes a hundred percent sense in not just we gotta make sure this character survives or this person gets to where they need to go, blah blah blah, no it makes sense that Omega's the one that's able to help in that situation, it feels natural, doesn't feel forced, I think again it makes sense for the characters that are involved in that scene, in that part of the story, maybe one second gets some water. Alright so Riker, I would say Riker is the, if a character didn't get too much of an Riker, too much of exposure to expand their quote-unquote character, it's Riker, but at the same time I think it fits to where the character was by season two and season three, season one had a little bit more to do especially when he gets the chip for all the statistics activated and the way he acts so it's Omega and then there's some other episodes after that about the thing that's going through, after that he's just a big blah blah blah on code that's there to blow stuff up and that's basically what he is in this book and that's not always wrong, I mean I love, I had a big smile on my face every time he got a chance to blow something up or the opportunity to blow something up came up, just as big as Riker had when he said oh can I blow this up or I'm ready to blow a hole in the wall, yeah that's perfect, that's why he's there and again it works for the character but if you're trying to see or hoping to see a different side of Riker, it might not be there, but again the level of the on-code, uncle, everyone wants to spend time with him and if you need someone to walk your back during a fight especially against, on some multiple odds he's the one to be there, like I said when I talk about Hunter, so there's again another interesting talk between Hunter and Riker about their future, what Hunter wants, what he thinks everyone would want in terms of rebuilding Pablo and setting him down there to watch what Riker's kind of thinking about, a little bit different but again gives those characters a little bit time to breathe and give them in that scene a little bit more into both of them and their mentality.
I had some very cool action scenes just by himself, with some of the new characters that are introduced very especially towards the end. So, take and free, yes we get a take and free ship, it's official, brown eyes, free is all in on flirting with brown eyes throughout the book, take is trying to figure out not what this means but how to interact with me in that flirtatious kind of romantic way, we know that take is all on the technical or computer side, so it's a little bit difficult for him to get the correct words out I guess if it's not computer related but free understand she knows that there are those feelings there and they do have the conversation, from the beginning she's always brown eyes, brown eyes, we're going to do this, we're going to do that and he's a little bit more reserved but it's there, so by the end where they cannot talk about it, it's like yeah yeah we know there's something there, they just have to figure out how to communicate I guess. I think it has also some funny scenes especially at those first chapters infiltrating the option, he has to wear a top seat and he's like I'm itchy, like of course you'll be each and complain like a five year old wearing some expensive or so like a bottom down shirt, kids would just oh I'm itchy, some confidence I'll get it off me, that's how tech feels, so it's a little bit of a funny moment for him there, uh free is always thinking about the next play, how to turn a misfortune into an opportunity, very opposite to Hunter, she doesn't need to have every step planned, she kind of goes with the flow and that kind of aggravates Hunter and on her end she gets aggravated when Hunter tries to have everything laser focused, so having those two go back and forth is very a very cool dynamic that we get through most of the book, towards the end we see that they start working and make it well together but yeah especially it's free lobbying, let's just go with the flow and we'll figure out along the way which is very different to the bad match and how they do so new characters, mainly in the other one I call heroes but they're not villains but let's just scroll down to new characters we get are so high and kuto extremely difficult to go too much in-depth into each of them without going into full-on spoilers, their story is very interesting, very important to the actual book, this is basically what the book is about, I mean again it's about getting resources for Pabuba, those two characters are very important to the whole story, those are the pair that three wants to pick up on their way to to meet their contact and take them to my detail, they have secrets, there's a bunch of different reveals and secrets that they have but every reveal delivers, sometimes we're reading a book, every time they try to pull their rock from them they're just going well it didn't make sense or it didn't need to happen, every reveal and every secrets that's brought up makes sense, blew my mind like oh okay now this gets more interesting and then something else up, oh now this is the end even more so again and this happens in the first half of the book, every time it gets more interesting, you get more investing to those characters than what everyone's going into, so I love what Lamar Deaudre with those characters, again with the story in Hall and Hall, introducing those two characters into a book that's about five, four plus three, five characters have we've grown through those three seasons of the Bad Bashing, introduced two key elements delivered, he delivered great with those two, who they are, what their background is, how integral they are to the story, again everything works, all right let's stop Veland and here's where I think Centrari separated cells from all their Star Wars books or animation to book translation like I mentioned before, we get Veland's or multi-dimensional, they have fully fledged backgrounds, the motivations are obvious, you don't need to wonder why does he, why is he involved in this, it doesn't make sense that they send this person, now they're not the run of the mill in competitive imperials that were used to in a lot of stories, they also have another set of cool reveals throughout the book that made the story just as cool as the hero story, so you're following the Bad Batch and so had in Cooten, the story and where they're going and on the other side you're following these two villains which are separate, they do get together at one point but for again that first half they're two separate villains with their own connection to the other characters but they're not always together just chasing them and trying to, oh I'm here, the bad guys are here, I'm gonna escape and now the bad guys are following us, it's not that type of book and that's why I love because you can almost do a whole bunch of those villains, it will be just as interesting, when I say that centrari doesn't feel like an episode of the bad guys or even like a two or three episode story is because this will be like a whole season I think, this book you can stretch out to a whole season with everything that's going on, that's why I feel there's a special story and a lot of it has to do with the villains, again a lot of spoilers with them so I'll keep that description in the light. So first off is Agent Central Crane, he's an ISB agent, he's not in it to move up the ranks of the Empire like we've seen basically every other ISB agent think about and or we love Didar, right?
But she just wants to climb the ladder and zero, wants to climb up the ladder. Central Crane doesn't really care about the ladder, at this point he has his own motivations for what he's doing, he doesn't want to be a moth or a captain or lieutenant or whatever the hierarchy is, he's smart, he's determined, he's training physical combat, he's hunting someone, is it free, is it the bad guys because they're row clones, is it one of the new characters, you don't know till it's revealed, you're like wait it's following me because of what just happened, it's following their clones because I mean the bad guys because they're clones and they're trying to get rid of them, does he have anything to do with the new characters, we don't know when it's revealed, what his motivation is for going after and hunting, that person or those people, you're like oh yeah this is great, this is awesome, I'm gonna keep learning more. And then the second one is Celia Moten, that wealthy construction mogul with bigger aspirations, she does have bigger aspirations, she likes to flaunt her world, her wealth, she uses her collection and her connection to people to hold power over others, she loves to throw names around of powerful imperials to try to get people to be afraid of her and what her connections and motivations are, if they do something against her she might grab the phone and call someone and then they come down on the other people so she's very determined to move up where she wants to get, but she's ruthless and you're afraid for everyone she's around and what she's doing, she has a complicated three farming ritual or just working in her garden, it's not the best, I love working in my yard and watering the plants and planting new little bushes in there, she's a little bit, a little bit weird, so I'll just leave it there. So when the story all comes together and when the story brings all of these characters together, it's very engaging, it's not sometimes you're reading a book and there's two separate storylines going and one works better than the other, here you're invested in both and when they come together then you're really okay, here we go, finally we're gonna see what's gonna happen, at times you might root for the villains or one of the villains where they're not really going at each other because there might be an opposite size but and there's a very cool, the only thing I'll say, very cool and impressive hallways seen towards the end of the book, I won't say anything else, we just have to wait.
But again, sanctuary, a bad bash novel is a book that I enjoy completely, I recommend this book to anyone that loves stop reading Star Wars novel, if you're kind of on the fence of Star Wars novel or a fan of the bad batch, I really recommend this book, I think I gave it a four out of five from my full review on the website, well yeah, four out of five, easy. I just started listening to the audiobooks, I haven't gone through all of it and see how everything else measures in terms of the special effects and the music and the voice acting, I mean, smart turns on space, it's gonna be great, but so far it's doing good. So yeah, that kind of does it for a review of Centrari and Bad Bash novel for today's show, again, 100% recommend this book for everyone out there, Star Wars, little rather, little rather fans, Bad Batch fans, fans of clones and any other Star Wars story out there, I do recommend this book a lot. So go ahead, get it when it comes out on Tuesday August 5th, you won't regret it.
So that's it for our show today, again, we're just gonna be a little short little, not deep, short episode today as we're giving up to come back full, you know, radio rebellion of Star Wars podcast, especially when Star Wars new story again, a little bit more frequent, especially with Mandadun and Grove coming out in less than a year. So I'm sure we're gonna start getting more stories and we're envision 6 and 3 comes out later this year and more books, I know yourself. So stay safe, guys, we'll be back soon. Can't wait to keep up with Star Wars, so thank you for everyone that joins today.
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