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On the down-side however I do still feel the War King, his Ambassador and the Great Houses as a whole are portrayed as much more ineffectual and less credible a power than from what tBoTW and the novels had led me to believe. Those built up the Great Houses as nearly godlike in many ways and with power to influence and fight militarily across the entire universe. Here they just seem much more of a throw-back to their Evil Renegade TV series origins.

I'd been interested to see how the building confrontation between the War King and Lolita would pan out and was a little disappointed to see a re-run of what'd happened with the quite similar Morlock, with both fatalistically capitulating to Lolita. Hoping there will be a reason explained for this and that one or both of them has a hidden plan, what do people think?

The War King certainly knows what Lolita is - a half-breed timeship - so why should he be at all surprised about her ability to 'swallow' him? The only reason it could have been surprising in the case of the Eleven-day-Empire was the scale of what it was she was swallowing. Or was that bit just there to introduce new / remind old listeners about Lolita's having done it - might it become important in the next (and final?) two episodes?

When the paranoidly defensive Great Houses come under attack from an obvious way through their defenses, my first thought was disbelief that they would have been so stupid as to design their defences to let Justine plus anyone else through rather than just Justine. Thinking about it though it was the War King's own idea to bring Justine in - did he plan for and help it happen for some reason? Are his real motives other than to do with the survival of the Houses in this War after all?

The traditional Great House military and chancellery guard would obviously have struggled against a Mal-akh invasion force, but shouldn't a War era sized force filled with Regen-Inf soldiers and modern weaponry/tactics be able to defeat them fairly easily? Incidentally did anyone notice Miles switched to reptilian Mal'akh here and make the connection with his Bernice Summerfield audio The Adolescence of Time?

Will Lolita and/or Justine cause the fall of the Great Houses and it not be the enemy after all? Has the real 'enemy' been Lolita all along? What exactly about her is so powerful? Why did the Houses create her if she could be that dangerous to them? Or is the idea (which I'd not previously given too much weight to) in Toy Story - that the Timeships were really the first and most important thing and that they created the Houses as an after thought - actually the case?

I know things changed with the switch of companies and Magic Bullet have done a lot of new and interesting things well, but I do miss Mary Culver/Compassion's presence and influence. I loved her popping up and the manner of it, but she just seems to have been forgotten about sadly. As, seemingly, has the whole plot about Lolita's spreading herself into bodies of power around the cosmos ...although actually thinking about it maybe it hasn't - maybe the case of Eliza brings this back in a new way?

What is the plan for the series do we know? I believe we are to expect two more but will these complete the series or might it continue and be ongoing? My hope is definitely that it will continue to be ongoing, but at least if not then that the end will be planned for and that we'll get an epic finale.