10.x (bonus) - "Assigned Female At Compilation"

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Jenny and Ted discuss Parasite 10.x (bonus).

Episode Notes:

A crack ship is born mid-summary
We count the ways we love Dragon
The way she is written clearly shows that Dragon is a full person
Dragon’s romantic prospects
We trust Dragon with power more than anyone we’ve met so far but leaders with good personalities do not necessarily create good legacies
Was Richter a Bad Dad or just your average God?
Is Dragon’s unfairly limited “body” the very thing that makes us see her as a person?
Dragon the teenager
We start into “should Dragon-like AI have rights” discourse but then steer ourselves back to Worm proper
Dragon’s techno-optimism and Ted’s need for speed limits
To be clear, all glory to God Empress Dragon
To show off her rapid intelligence, Dragon quickly skimmed all of Worm so far and basically only missed Coil
Is Dragon the reasonable hero friend Taylor deserves?
A digression about rooting against a Taylor glow-up in any adaptation
We were sorta surprised at how much we felt for Colin in captivity
Colin owns some of his flaws, but not the Skitter-related ones
How Dragon’s gender identity affects the way we view her and her relationships
Wait, is the Birdcage younger than Dragon?
The status quo seems to be shifting quite dramatically every few years
The female victim as a horror trope (i.e. Ted poorly glosses Men, Women, and Chain Saws (1992))
It’s tea time in Philosophy Block
Ted ships it
A few more morsels from the Birdcage
Taylor sees Dinah as a MacGuffin
Why don’t the Endbringers hang out with each other???
Oh no are there children in the Birdcage
Dragon sees Colin through Kid Win colored classes
We gotta let Dragon be bad to really believe she’s good

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