Inchworm

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.11.

Episode Notes:
Mailbag episode incoming, get your questions in!
The most sapphic chapter so far
Jenny isn't locked in on a particular Taylor ship yet but we discuss the potential options
Taylor-Siberian parallels
Taylor and Lisa as bookends
Is Lisa a good friend if you aren't Taylor?
Brian got kiss-blocked
The particular trauma of this miasma for Brian
Why kissing, though? Is it because of Taylor's [REDACTED]?
Is it queerbaiting? (no)
We try to count the remaining Nine
Fates worse than death
The Nine arguably lost but Jack definitely won
Hookwolf, we love to see you go
Did Amy follow through?
Lisa scored the only real victory against Jack
Taylor's gonna kind of have to save the world
Causes and symptoms
Taylor's learning to trust herself
...even when Jack tests her
Lisa's really capturing the themes here
Amy causes girls to kiss, but not to kiss her
The motifs for Bonesaw's Brockton Bay art project
The Nine just want to make people over in their own image
Spoilers for Animorphs 22
Taylor's glorious future as a leader
But she's gotta stop being so hard on herself
And also take Statistics
Yum, bugs

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/prey-14-11/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.10.

Episode Notes:
An unlikely Undersider tier list
Xenia High
If this is basically the status quo by the end of the arc… where do things go from here?
How fast acting is the cure?
What if Alec is the only other one who remembers things?
Who exactly escapes with Jack and Bonesaw?
Ted raises a mystery that didn’t come up in Jenny’s summary of the chapter
Miasma High
We don’t really know Marquis well enough yet to know if Jack is right about him
Does Jack do any better against Panacea than he did against Skitter?
Jack’s talent for exploiting daddy issues
Jenny is still a Cronesaw truther
What’s Jack actually good at? Manipulation? Leadership? Fighting?
Thinker Jack
Is it time for a montage?
Themes of human, animal, and monster in Book 2
The troubling nature of Gory Girl
Amy faces a Skitter who doesn’t remember her
Skitter faces a familiar choice
All these amazing manipulators out here just telling people to do what they want to do anyway
Jack’s pitch to Amy and her possible fate
Odds and ends

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/prey-14-10/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.9.

Episode Notes:
We're really confronting the themes of the work in this arc
Jack aaaaalmost manages to stop underestimating Skitter
A big L for Jack
Twangin’ that bowstring
Her key? Stoned.
Women and children first for Taylor?
Cherish isn't good ~~at manipulation~~, actually
Consensus-based decision making among the Undersiders
The Skitter-supervillain seesaw
Taylor's actually the worst person to try to isolate and defeat like this
Regret vs. grief
The perils of a narrative that could do anything
Coil, buddy. Be more paranoid, and also figure out what gangrene looks like
Latin, Cherish? Vere?
Self-fulfilling prophecy territory
Jenny's death list
Bonesaw, the repeated knife block
Miasma gothic (she was great in Pearlescent!)
(A) Battery (of) questions
Good job on the intuition, Taylor
Brockton Bay: the newest member of the 9?
Hot- vs. cold-blooded killing
Will the real Tattletale please show up?

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/prey-14-9/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.8.

Episode Notes:
A delicious cliffhanger
The (tattle-)tell-tale signs of deception that Jenny (bone-)saw
Why do they want Cherish?
The art of being subtly out of character
What are Bonesaw’s favorite tropes?
Arc 1 Taylor wasn’t easy prey, either
Jack forces the issue
Major theme alert
When you can’t beat ‘em, plague ‘em
Was the water warning a bluff?
It’s not like the city has the infrastructure in place to distribute a cure efficiently, even if it’s just Gloracea
Do the Unravelers have enough plot armor to get through this?
Lonely is as much a Sundancer thing as a Travelers thing
Me, myself, and miasma
Is going after Skitter personal for Jack and Bonesaw?
Is the miasma revealing anything about parahuman nature?
Maybe Legend doesn’t suck as much as we thought
It’s bad but our girl is coping
Do final girls get better, or just keep going?
WE’VE GOT TITLE
The joys and sorrows of agnosia
Skitter gets a taste of her own medicine
A very specific prediction about when Taylor figures out who she’s with
TTTrickster’s paternalism
The eagles can save us!
Ends, odds, and predictions

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.7.

Episode Notes:
Why isn't Legend letting the Unravelers play anymore?
They say they've killed Crawler...
Emily might be good at something after all
(But not everything)
Legend: honest to a fault
Taylor coming full-circle with Legend
Mercy killings
Legend and the inscrutable plan
Swan thoughts
Did Jack and Bonesaw know about Siberian before today?
The challenges of having a real body
Undersider chain of command difficulties
Love a good failed plan
Lisa would not be a great therapist
Hero feelings and actions vs. identity
Taylor's hearing is improving!
Psychosomatic darkness
The true pronunciation of Legend
We miss Bakuda
Management can really reduce your impact as an individual contributor

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/prey-14-7/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow