8.3 - "What Can One Girl Do?"
8.3 - "What Can One Girl Do?"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Extermination 8.3.
Episode Notes:
- Welp, it sure was a down chapter
- Not to be all Taylor about it but why is this the best the heroes can do?
- What does Taylor think she's going to be able to do?
- "So... we good now, Clockblocker?"
- The action is out of scale with our hero. What does that mean for the narrative going forward?
- Some of the losses are starting to hurt
- Compartmentalization keeps her going
- This battle feels like a waste of powers
- Reluctantly handing it to Armsmaster
- Jenny's new theory connecting the source of powers to the Endbringers
- What's this Leviathan guy thinking?
- Somebody give Faultline the Manton effect override cheatcode already!
- Mourning Shielder and Dauntless and the suffering of children
- Bastion juuuuust missed the "dying a hero" window
- Ruthless Taylor expands her inventory and does medicine
- The heroes should take some cues from Taylor's utilitarianism
- This chapter is a microcosm of Taylor's growth across the first seven arcs
- Some good procedural details
- This was a really well-handled action sequence
Links:
- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-8-extermination/8-3/
- https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow