8.x - "Too Much Control Is Bad For You"
8.x - "Too Much Control Is Bad For You"
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Jenny and Ted discuss Extermination 8.x.
Episode Notes:
- Merry Inchmas! It’s the first Noelle chapter
- Coil hasn’t won yet but realistically who’s gonna stop him?
- Details of horrible vices left as an exercise for the reader
- Are Coil’s timelines basically a guilt-free personal Westworld?
- Do absolute power fantasies corrupt absolutely fantastically?
- And yet, Coil is unhappy
- While writing these notes, Ted realizes that if he had Coil’s power he wouldn’t mind exercising at all omggggg jealous
- Coil wins the Stanley Cup
- Like with his collection of useful people, Coil has made himself desperate… for control
- The horrors of Noelle and Creep are also left to our imaginations
- We have a lot of questions but not many answers about Noelle
- The way Dinah's odds change just underscores how chaotic the world can be
- Some Undersiders speculation
- Coil learns that he took a bad risk overnight
- Coil’s people are his possessions
- Tattletale’s blind spot re: Coil’s character
- Coil’s (potential) blind spot re: Taylor’s possible desperation
- The potential torments of her future are not left to Dinah’s imagination
- Ted isn’t buying Mr. Pitter’s backstory
- Coil is the evil next door on a couple of levels
- Jenny predicts Coil will win, only to lose later
- Announcement! Inchworm will return with a mailbag episode on 1/6/26
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