No lies this time just go here http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-39-the-scholar
That's just like, your opinion man.
I’m only about 45 minutes in, but they were wrong.
How backstory isn’t merely sad. It’s TERRIFYING.
Just got through it.
Wow, there's a lot of stuff there. Not necessarily story revelations (though there are some) but a lot of filling in gaps.
Dude. Not cool, dude. Very un-Dude.
But, in all seriousness...poor dude. :(
Meh.
A chance to try something else with all the life experiences you've already gained? Losing your place is the world is bad, but I'd take that over death.
I have to say, this was incredibly sad.
Not in the way of crying or depression, just a very melancholy tale of a man who lost everything, and continued doing what he had always done while the world went on without him.
Does anyone else though feel like that bit about Alaska is important? That feels important to me. Cause, wasn't Dawn also born in Alaska?
Edit: Canada, right, still "The Far North" and Churchill, Manitoba on the opposite end of that section of land.
I still would prefer Christopher and Adam do an overview where they go over what they feel are major plot points and then go to questions. The episode seems so disjointed due to that.
They said this episode was going to be happy! D: THEY LIED! They were all, "An episode where a hero dies! We'll say it's happy! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!"
I mean, come on, they never lie. :V
#NothingCanStopTheSchmude
#LetChristopherParty
Sad as it was, I feel like they were pretty thorough with this one, and now I'm super-excited for Guise's episode. I mean, it all comes down to the question of, Scholar made this excellent heroic sacrifice (better than dying in a hospital of a brain tumor or running until all your bones break <.<), but what Guise worth the sacrifice?
The Scholar seemed to think so.
I still would prefer Christopher and Adam do an overview where they go over what they feel are major plot points and then go to questions. The episode seems so disjointed due to that.
Not to worry! This will not be the standard format going forward. Just trying out something different because of the questions we got and the (un)naturally disjointed nature of The Scholar's story.
Thanks. I still enjoy listening but the story overview is the part I like the most. Questions fill in gaps is how I see it.
I don’t need to follow that link to know that it goes to the Dover Boys clip.
I’LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
The more they tell us stuff about Biomancer in the Letters Page eps, the more I end up really, really, really wanting a Biomancer LP episode. I'M JUST SAYING, GENTLEMEN.
Ahem.
As for Scholar's backstory being sad/horrifying, I think it honestly depends on what sort of life you've led and thus are looking at it from. If you're someone whose life is one of infamy or misery or ostracization or mistakes or so on, you'd obviously relish the idea of getting to start over with a clean slate. But if you're like Scholar and you actually were pretty darn happy with the life you had built up, you're going to feel a lot more miserable about the whole matter.
Plus it's gotta be seriously crazy-inducing when it first happens, going around frantically trying to get everyone you know to actually remember you and not being able to accomplish it.
In general, yeah, this was kind of a sad episode, for a character who didn't deserve sadness. Poor Scholar. :( Really it seems like every mortal person except Argent who has any encounter with the Void comes out of it severely worse for wear in the end.
P.S. I admit I laughed quite a bit at the whole "I'm going to go lay in my backyard in the grass in the dark and just wait for it to end" exchange at the start of the ep because I am a terrible human being with a really morbid sense of humor I'm sorry.
I'm going to second that call for the Biomancer episode, and add in a call for a Zhu Long ep.
These two are major villainous players that are (presumably) still existant in a post-OblivAeon Sentinels scenario. They may not have any particularly large storylines, a la Blade, Dawn, or Voss, but their hands seem to be in everything...and I want to hear the whole story!
I would be surprised if there wasn't a Biomancer episode. Zhu Long would be a good candidate for an extra one, though!
More like because it was hilarious! 
Christopher and Adam have a 'good cop, bad cop' thing going on, except it's more like "bad cop, worse cop", and it's hard to say who's who at any given time. ;D
@PlatinumWarlock: Yeah, not only is Biomancer delightfully creepy to hear about in his own right, but it increasingly seems like he's had his creepy fingers in pretty much everything in the timespan that mortals in the Sentinelsverse would care about on top of it. It makes me incredibly curious.
Also, I dunno, I find a certain morbid hilarity in how Biomancer just accidentally created a powerful hero by being really careless about where he tosses his failed experiments, and then getting really pissed off and envious that Scholar actually fixed that failed experiment. It's like some kind of really bizarre laser guided karma.
@TakeWalker: It was the whole "...I meant for the party to end" but Christopher had actually been totally willing to just roll with the dark interpretation anyway that made me giggle. And yeah, they both have pretty dark senses of humor which I 100% approve of.
Two things I found strange this episode :
1) C & A calling the university the scholar went to old , being founded in the nineteenth century makes a university young really
2) The Scholar selling tinctures , which are alcoholic extracts , wouldn't he as a science minded pharmacist use more advanced techniques to distinguish himself from snake oil salesmen
Not all tinctures are necessarily heavily alcoholic and considering the timeframe I don’t believe it would be that uncommon to sell tinctures. Lastly, they just really like saying tinctures.
Your probably right about the timeframe - I don't know enough about the history of pharmacology to know what exactly they used.
Tincture is a fun word to say though it's quite an old timey word even though it has a definite meaning in modern day chemistry
I went to a high school in the US that has existed in some form since 1850, so yeah, I admit that something still existing since the 1830s is still impressive but not that unusual for me.
Also I forgot to give props for another episode giving us Adam's lovely old timey radio announcer voice.