13.x - "They Could Work Together"
13.x - "They Could Work Together"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Snare 13.x.
Episode Notes:
- Even before the summary we are discussing whether Emily War Crimes is a villain, in several senses of the word
- Evil ends vs. evil means
- Given what else we’ve read, it’s tough to say she’s just being paranoid
- Can she control you?
- The kind of “hero” Taylor has come to expect
- Emily’s career so far must cast a shadow on her present feelings
- The (we hope) PR hit from obvious war crimes
- Parapolitical theory
- Why can’t we all just get along?
- Self-justifying ends
- Do they need to beat the Nine or just survive them?
- Emily’s plan is so bad and self-aggrandizing we compare her to Colin
- Emily prefers inhuman technology to all-too-human capes
- Metaphor blindness
- The plan is doomed if only because it was fully explained
- Mid-episode predictions
- LGBT = Legend Gay Blue Triumvirate
- At least Legend feels guilty when he’s bad
- Alexandria, Siberian, Clockblocker, and who or what gets to be most invulnerable
- A world without Hero
- Everything’s coming up Siberian
- We’re gonna see Ol’ Jackie Slash wriggle his way out of this jam
- Battery will be depleted, er, defeated
- No plague (Bonesaw had her chance in Arc 12 anyway)
- Training montage!
- A grab bag of smaller topics
- Emily sings “Little Capes”
- The Wards need a youth pastor
- Emily doesn’t mind other normals
- Oh so the system that gives someone apparently unaccountable power is leading to this sort of thing, huh?
- Emily bears witness
- Is having people that matter to you fertile ground for cultivating ethics?
- What’s her backstory??
- Emily sees the live possibility of a sudden heroic sacrifice
- The purpose of government
- The irony of Emily not being a cape
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