I still don’t think that Devil’s Chord would work as a season opener even if you include CoRR. That would make 2 magic episodes in a 3 episode Spann (Giggle to DC). I think that Devil’s Chord could work as a season 2 opener but I feel like it is too early.
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Is it indicative of anything that I actually forgot Rogue was in the season?!
I would put that in with the good episode, overall, although I didn’t find it quite as engaging (I think the romance aspect was overplayed to the detriment of the rest of the plot and characters).
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Have you read the Target Novel? It is like the episode but fixes the problems you have with it!
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I doubt I’ll read it any time soon - I have a funny relationship with the more recent novelisations. Part of me doesn’t really see the point and yet the other part of me fully understands the appeal.
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I think that they serve a point if they do something more with the story like Giggle, Rouge, and Day of the Doctor. But some are not necessary at all.
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Ooh, interesting!! Hope you don’t mind if I put up my thoughts:
- Space Babies
- Boom
- The Devil’s Chord
- 73 Yards
- Rogue
- Dot and Bubble
- Legend of Ruby Sunday
- Empire of Death
Not very different, but I genuinely think Space Babies works well as a series opener, and just moving Devil’s Chord slightly later makes it gel better with the rest of the season (and I think gives it a better contrast to Boom than in the original running order).
I like the idea of Rogue being earlier, and Dot and Bubble being the last story before the finale. But even this reshuffled order doesn’t work perfectly for me. I think it’s the impossibly short episode count that makes it hard to order comfortably. (8 episodes is simply not enough…)
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This is exactly how I would order them.
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Leaving Devil’s Chord for 3rd makes an even bigger gap between past focused stories (LotSD → DC), and I think there’s enough pseudo-science in TCoRR to be fine.
Plus it makes sense for Maestro to come shortly after her father’s defeat imo
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An old fan like you should appreciate tradition! The point is they are tradition! The Target novelisations are a fun, decades-old tradition by this point, so of course it should continue!
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I don’t see this as big of a problem as the magic in DC. It makes for a terrible first episode according to me.
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I dont know who any of those are. But I have mostly read Batman from DC.
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Zatanna, Doctor Fate and Constantine, all DC magic users 
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Finished The Mind of Evil. It saved itself by the end. A solid 4/5. Tonight I’ll be on The Claws of Axos.
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I want to see those caves too 
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Hey. Typing while walking is hard. Leave me alone. 
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His accent is annoying already. 
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Gotta love Constantine, Bisexual king
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