let the wizards rest
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CR2 Quick Reacts - EP140
I feel like it does not need to be said at this point but just in case:
SPOILER WARNING, OBVIOUSLY.
Episode Digest:
Well, what can I say.
There’s one episode left, and I think it’s an epilogue, so I feel like I ought to get my feelings out now.
This whole time, I’ve been watching, going ‘this ending is coming too fast. There are so many things still left undone. Still so many stories untold. So much to do.’
But now that I’m here, and I’m seeing them coming back to that first time they all became a family, bound by the grief that Molly’s death wrought upon them.... and I’m seeing them all heal and come back together under the banner of their family.... it feels..... like the only ending that matters.
I know it isn’t. And I know it really isn’t even an ending - not for Fjord, who still has to find Vandrin and go to Darktow... Not for Jester, who still has her own stories to tell, her own plots, her family to heal. Not for Caleb, who still has to avenge his family, and take care of Trent. Not for Essek, who will wander forever and try to not get caught. Not for Yasha and Beau, who are together now, and who both have their own stories to tell, missions to finish. Not for Veth, (well, maybe a little for Veth, she deserves retirement).
But this is AN ending. And fucking hell, it’s a beautiful one. In the Astral Sea, where anything is possible, this ragtag team of Questionably Moral characters came together and wishes for one selfless thing - to protect the world, and bring back their friend, who they couldn’t save. And they did. They fucking did.
And no one will know about it. And no one may believe them.
But they did it. They fucking won.
What a good story.
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CR2 Quick Reacts - Ep97
Episode Digest:
There is... a lot to talk about here. I don’t think it’s fair of me to go talking about it until I know more about Essek and his motivations, but... hm.
Questions I have:
Did he come up with the plan to steal the beacons, or did the Cerberus Assembly reach out to him somehow and offer to research them for him?
What are his motivations for studying the beacons? Is he doing it for selfish purposes, like seeking prolonged life, or is he straight up trying to understand them better in a way that his religious job won’t allow?
Did he realize that stealing beacons would lead to years of outward wars?
The tensions have been high for ages, even before the beacons were in the picture, so there is the concept of it being ‘just another thing to bicker about’.
But no, he’s smart enough to know cause and effect. And he, effectively, heightened tensions between two military nations who were more than willing to send people to war over a holy d12.
I think Caleb really got it right when he said that the difference between them is razor thin, but they are also extremely opposed. Essek seeks knowledge for himself first, and his sin is essentially ignoring the fallout of thousands of lives for the sake of gain. He’s going ‘this is important to me, and to hell with those who get hurt in the process’. And in a way, Caleb is the same...
Except he’s not. Caleb’s search for knowledge always hinged on protecting things he loved, or thought he loved. He went to school and was brainwashed to love the Empire above all else. He turned away from that through his ability to care for others - pure unconditional love alone - that broke the chains holding him. And then he went on an insane goose chase to gain ultimate power - not for personal gain, but to undo the wrongs that were, arguably, the fault of others, those in power.
And yes, they’re both willing to make atrocious sacrifices to get what they want. They’ve gone beyond caring about ramifications - until they realize that those ramifications might include the few people they dared to come to love.
That’s life, though, ain’t it. That’s how you learn the consequences of your actions.
I kind of really respect Matt in that regard. He created Essek to be quite likeable, but not pitiable. He’s not some hurt, traumatized child driven to madness. He’s a lonely prodigy that’s probably a result of his upbringing - cold, calculating, focused obsessively on the research. And he’s got a century of experience behind him, he has no excuse. He’s strictly selfish because of himself - and Matthew let him be that - and Essek is all the more interesting for it.
I’m curious to see where they go from here.
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And as for Veth........ don’t worry. Fanart is coming.
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CR2 Quick Reacts - EP 135
Episode Digest:
I need. At least 30 more episodes of Aeor.
I know I will never get it. But I need it. I need intrigue, I need mystery, I need rummaging around old, thousand-year-old libraries and discovering mysteries long untold. I need. I NEED. I need to know this idea that they had about the gods. I need to know why and what they were experimenting with. I need to know EVERYTHING.
Jester being understandably upset any time someone spends too much time on something is a good prompting point, and yet I feel like they still don’t know enough. What are they going towards? What could stop it? They’re just running blindly into B9, but that doesn’t mean they’ll know what to do once they get there.
Also, love Essek trying to be all preachy about Keeping On Task and immediately succumbing to his own weaknesses 10 seconds later, that’s a mood. I enjoy the fact that he seems to be mostly keeping close to Caleb, but I wish he would interact with the rest of them more. I feel like he and Yasha would get along? There are so many opportunities for shenanigans here, and yet they don’t really have the TIME. They need time to sit down and talk, but there is none. It’s all running, running, running.
Thank goodness for their absolute inability to stop joking about everything and anything. It’s a small blessing when it comes to tense situations like these. I don’t think I could sit through 4 hours of Aeor: Doom n Gloom.
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