Warning! This review on Listeners chapters eight, nine and ten contain spoilers. If you haven't seen the episodes yet, I recommend you go check them out and then come back to read the review.

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Episode 8: Track 8 The real me

We start episode 8 of Listeners with Echo and Mu leaving the country of Gnome ready to go to Londium when out of nowhere appeared a guy named Tommy who kneels and calls her Princess assuring him to take her with Jimi. Arriving at Londium they explain to Mu what they think happened to Jimi and they ask him to agree to participate in a play that aims to be a tribute to Jimi but also an attempt to recover it through a portal through which Jimi is believed to be. she got lost at the Fest, Mu agrees so a week before Christmas she and Echo lived in the tower, she attended rehearsals for the play and he was in charge of maintaining other Equipment.

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On the day of the play Mu gives his Core Part to Echo and they are left to talk once it is over, not knowing that Tommy's real goal was not to get Jimi back but to return Mu to a new version of him and use it for his purposes. .

Episode 9: Track 9 FREEDOM

We begin this episode with one more memory of the Fest in which we perceive a little better what happened between Jimi and the Earless that was presented on the portal, it is revealed that all the time they knew that the country would be ruined and that they were actually using Jimi as a sacrifice in the operation to eliminate the Earless. Tommy is currently in Brighton Beach where they will perform their own version of Project Freedom and will kick off their plan for the London Invasion.

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When Echo seems ready to leave the city when he meets Nir, while Mu is alone and more lost than ever since she realizes that despite what everyone tells her she has no memories of anything, besides being under the symptoms of Purple Haze or Teen Spirit and the constant manipulation of Tommy. Echo tries to prevent the confrontation between Mu and Nir but fails to avoid it, Mu no longer seems to be herself to the point of treating Echo as if it were nothing and tries to attack Echo but Nir protects him. Echo survives thanks to Marshall throwing it through a garbage chute and managing to survive.

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Episode 10: Track 10 Cross Road Blues

We started the episode with a memory of Jimi saying goodbye to Robert about to leave the town of Clarksdale. Echo is found in a garbage can by a girl who takes him home to a town called Clarksdale where he looks after him until he wakes up and invites him to stay as long as he wants. Janis asks Echo if he is ready to part with Mu and after the refusal takes Echo to the Crossroads where he will be tested by Origin.

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Echo passes the test becoming a player and is determined to find Mu. Robert and Janis disappear since they are actually saved memories of Origin, in addition to which it is clear that Jimi's true sister is Janis and both are originally from the Blues folks who were against fighting the Earless when they cut them in half. Jimi was an ordinary boy who came out of there to change the world a bit.

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Innocence and lies

As we suspected from the previous episodes Mu really had no idea what was going on in any sense, so far everyone has just been on the surface of everything that is really going on. For now we will go point by point to better appreciate and savor everything that is finally being revealed. We will start by saying that any doubts we had about whether Mu was aware of what was happening at the time Ritchie and Lyde were killed is that no, she did not know what was happening or what she was doing, it is clear that they are using it and that she is more lost than ever.

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Both Mu and Echo have no idea what is happening, from the start they completely manipulated Mu and we must admit that they did it very easily, so it seemed that she was willing to believe everything without asking and the distance that Echo and she did not help. In nothing. It is also worth taking into account that they are both very young and that the experience they have between them dealing with the cruelty of the world is very little, which is why they are very susceptible to believing in the good intentions of the others for little. realistic they are.

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The chimera

The entire play is an event to cover up what is really going on. Tommy uses the concept of love to justify the loss of freedom and betrayal to those who should protect. The promise was that by the end of the play Jimi would be back but Tommy just wanted to take advantage of Mu having no idea who and taking advantage of it take the opportunity to make her believe that he is someone she is not and use her to his liking to bring the chaos.

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The effects of drugs, lies and manipulation by Tommy led Mu to give in completely to all the requests that he made, at first glance it seems that only Mu could not see Tommy's bad intentions but he understands a Little did they predispose to want to end this and to discover the truth about who she is and what happened to Jimi.

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Now that if in addition to that we add that she was drugged and cheated on everything that is happening we can understand that she only has a vague idea of ​​what is really happening. Tommy has not yet revealed what the true intention behind everything he is doing but at least we know that he does not mind murdering, lying or betraying anyone in exchange for achieving what he wants.

A little light in the dark

As it happens very often people are only used to what happens and do not wonder or know about the mysteries from which things originate, this is one reason why the nature of the players and the Earless actually It is still unknown to most people, which is why the test they did to Echo was so revealing because among all the things that they do not explain at least now there was something that could give us a little light on what is about to happen .

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Origin

A little history could help us explain what is about to happen with Mu and everything that is pending. The Crossroads is the place where everything in this world comes together and explains that since ancient times there is a connection between humans and Earless. In the center of everything is the father of the players and the source of all Equipment Origin,This empowered humans so they could pass on what was in their hearts and guide the Earless to find salvation.

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It is important to know this to be able to see why the way players relate to the Earless is so wrong and why it seems like a never ending fight. I consider that the first mistake is to see the Earless as monsters and not as the humans they once were, losing sight of the relationship and the connection between the two, canceling the possibility of doing what is due, but quite the contrary. They have only managed to get all the wildness out of the Earless and live in terror without addressing or solving the problem.

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I want to hear the song that only you can play

This last episode in particular has given many teachings especially to Echo who seems to have discovered in him the passion he needed to continue and fulfill a dream that he had not even been given permission to dream, he is now a player. This gave him the courage to go for Mu since now more than ever it is clear that what he feels for her is love, helping him pass the Origin test and giving an ordinary boy the opportunity to try to change the world.

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The new Jimi

If we had doubts about Mu's origins at this point we can rest easy since the simple story that she is Jimi's younger sister is already in the past now that we know that Jimi's sister is Janis and for reasons that we do not already know it's just a memory of Origin. And then who is Mu? At this time we can only speculate on her origins, at least we have no doubts that she is directly related to Jimi since she came from the other side of the portal on the day of the Fest. In other words, Mu is an Earless who became human thanks to Jimi's soul.

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It seems that things finally get interesting, after a long time details come to light that completely change what we expected from our characters and how we thought it would be. There are still too many doubts and too few answers that fully satisfy, but for now we will have to wait and thank that we finally reached the point where all the pieces must begin to come together. For this reason I can not leave without first mentioning the bands that were referred to in the aforementioned episodes that were The Who, AC / DC, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and their album Anthology, John Lennon "All you need is love ”And Robert Johnson, among other musical references.

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