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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