12.4 - "Cut!"
12.4 - "Cut!"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Plague 12.4.
Episode Notes:
- Jenny hates the Nine and Ted loves the chapter
- We stop trying to make “Undlers” happen
- Shout-out to biomechanimagical for the new team name!
- How deep into the bench of Worm characters do you have to go to find a certified Tumblr Sexyman?
- The “deal” gambit will unite our herovillains if not all of Brockton Bay
- Taylor and Jenny are sus-Bitch-ous
- Lisa will live to sass another day
- Ted does a close reading on how quickly Taylor can rationalize her emotions
- Taylor gives up control
- Lisa and Taylor push each other around in the best way
- Maybe Taylor’s bugs will be enough to avoid the thing where there’s no way she runs six miles in thirty minutes
- The title drops and we talk a lot about worms and the controlling thereof
- Ok for this segment just imagine if our logo didn’t have eyes
- We don’t exactly feel bad for Cherish but wow, what an ordeal
- Do Cherish and Taylor’s villain gang initiations only vary by extremeness?
- These tests effectively show us how the Nine, and especially Jack, operate
- We consider how Cherish’s situation might be different from the average recruit’s
- The Nine are incredibly acceptable targets
- Jack isn’t optimizing for power, but he did have Bonesaw cook up an artificial brain to punk Cherish
- Don’t bring up that study about how spoilers don’t ruin stories in front of Jack if you value your face
- Powers work as a metaphor for narrative, too
- Jenny bonesees right through Bonesaw
- Don’t bet on Amy
- Faced with the Nine, some people would just choose death
- Alec’s knack for chatting up villains
- Siberian-based tinker-tech
- Odds and ends and predictions
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