Let us return once more to a more civilized age Clone Wars podcast.

I'm Rob Zachning, joined by Ali Akampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.

The day before is always hard, Andrew tells us at one of the tensest moments in today's

episode, the Acts for Guests.

And if the accumulation of doubt, frustration, and fear that ties this week's plotlines

together before we'll be presumably a climactic raid on the Imperial payroll next week,

not much necessarily plot advancement happens in all of that, but in watching all these

like fears and suspicions work on these characters.

I mean, we see a lot of great character establishment and world building detail.

I would say the seeds of distrust and frustration are so most densely among the rebels themselves

who are concluding their preparations and who marched the operation, jumping off point

while Andor is tested by by scheme, proselytized by nerdy little nemmick.

He shows up, different members of the band during their final preparation, and I am pretty

sure he thinks about shooting his shot with Sinta.

Lieutenant Goren spends a sullen final day with his garrison of bored and lazy imperial

soldiers playing a role and letting himself be manipulated by his recalcitrant charges

in order to further his own secret designs against them.

Our various ISB officers continue marking time in bureaucratic territory while waiting

for their vague sense of threat to concretize.

Meanwhile down in the thickets of concrete and steel towers, Cyril Karn's salks, while

enduring the henpecking admonishments of his mother, when Motham's double life is revealed

or at least underlined to be something of a triple life where the secret dissident and

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