15.7 - "Not One Of Your Serious Stabbings"
15.7 - "Not One Of Your Serious Stabbings"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Colony 15.7.
Episode Notes:
- Such good procedural stuff in this one
- Bug perception: the secret to pain tolerance
- We want the parahuman medical procedural
- More bug innovations
- The limits of multitasking
- More Skitter philosophy wheeee
- Parian's maturity might be lending some much-needed perspective here
- A questionable hatred
- Does crime pay, Skitter?
- We've found the violence inherent in the system
- If Taylor's gonna be a benevolent dictator, she should be a better one
- Protectorate pipe dreams
- Taylor's still creating rationalizations for why she should get to live the life she wants
- Cape paternalism
- Should the leader also be the army?
- Taylor is a scary person inside a non-scary person inside of a scary person
- This whole novel could just be a Freaks and Geeks remake
- The danger of becoming one of the kids
- It's tough to be a benevolent dictator
- Bryce is not one of his generation's more promising minds
- Really sucks to be a person without powers in a world of capes
- At least Taylor's sense of superiority is based on something??
- Great power, great responsibility...
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