11.1 - "Daddy Issues"

11.1 - "Daddy Issues"

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Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.1.


Episode Notes:

  • This chapter really hooked us
  • Jenny isn't fooled by dreams!
  • Jenny's giving up hope of a secret, non-terrible plan
  • The many layers of Taylor's daddy issues
  • Danny is the best and should have more power(s)
  • Taylor's so good at terror, and at compartmentalization
  • Why does Coil really want to split the Undersiders up?
  • The narrative draw of a Scooby gang
  • Jenny doesn't want this to be the dynamic for all of book two of Worm
  • Taylor needs a new plan because she's really bad at sucking up to people
  • Oops Taylor might be projecting onto Dinah
  • And we might be projecting onto Taylor
  • Not a lot of sympathy for the Merchants here
  • We're in Deadwood now
  • Supervillains do such good work in this book
  • Jenny realizes that Taylor has even more tunnel vision about Dinah than she thought
  • We identify Taylor's true combover
  • Revisiting Taylor in the mirror
  • Shatterbird is coming for our vision, probably
  • No ethical consumption under Coil
  • Taylor is not a happy supervillain
  • Taylor used to like her character and not her looks. Now...
  • Their estrangement is clearly worse for Danny than for Taylor
  • Themes of entrapment and violation: they're everywhere!
  • Villainizing the villains
  • We don't want to go to Skitterland


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