15.z - "Our Parents Are Imperfect"
15.z - "Our Parents Are Imperfect"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Colony 15.z.
Episode Notes:
- Coil is the Doctor’s very special boy
- Cauldron appears to be… benevolently unethical?
- They’re really trying to solve the world’s problems, but they’re also making a few of their own
- Campaign staffer Rebecca sighs with relief that her beeper is on silent when President-elect Griffin sees Behemoth and pages Alexandria
- Can we label Alexandria and co. heroes or villains or monsters?
- How many Siberians can you countenance to save the world?
- Doctor who?
- Victoria chose death
- Is Doormaker Cauldron’s “pet”?
- Can we really believe the Doctor is being truthful with Alexandria?
- Ooh, a real psychic?
- Ugh, packing to move between Earths would be so annoying
- The role Rebecca constructed for herself, by herself
- The existential horror of a slow, nearly inevitable death
- Does Alexandria stop being a hero when she stops seeing herself as truly invulnerable? Or does she just become more human?
- The Lightness Of Being Alexandria
- Are all of the powers actually finite, and it’s the strongest capes who are being affected first?
- How old is Alexandria and for how long?
- Every parent is Alexandria to their kids (except Rebecca’s mom, here)
- Alexandria is genuine about putting life above all things and comfortable with the idea that it makes her a hero
- Hey if your plan is so good then why does Brockton Bay suck so bad?
- The doctor was the mother after all!
- It’s fitting that we have a skeptical teen to save us from the Deep State Daddies
- This isn’t Kim Stanley Robinson’s Parahumans
- Come on, Ted, do you really trust normal people with this kind of thing?
- We take a brief detour into Wordpress metadata
- On the other hand, what could justify being so careless with the people they dose?
- Maybe access to powers commands a high price merely for leverage
- Why doesn’t Alexandria simply prevent all trauma that could lead to villainy?
- Scrat’s Endbringer powerset
- Why did Behemoth first show up in Iran?
- Can Alexandria and Jenny optimize Scion?
- Parallels to Taylor
- Rebecca never got to play again
- She should know as well as anyone that life is pain
- The Doctor, like Tattletale, always knew it was gonna be Plan B
- For all the Doctor says she’s letting Rebecca choose, she seems very willing to put her thumb on the scales as much as she can
- Her Dark Suit Materials
- Where’s my Hero / Eidolon Chicago origin story fic?
- Non-Reagan era politics
- Rebecca is using her time better than Clark
- Speculation on some of the mysteries
- Details and metaphor
- Scraps of Manton’s backstory
- Sure, set Victoria free, Amy! It’s just a few alterations to her body and memories. You’ll fit right in here at Cauldron.
- And look, the whole Case 53 thing is just really really despicable!
- So what did we learn about where the story is going? (Warning, Animorphs end of series spoilers!)
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