Inchworm

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.y.

Episode Notes:
The chapter was dark, but Legend weirdly wasn't
Legend had way more illusions about Cauldron than we did
Why do the Case 53s get released in the first place?
Reasons for stirring the Cauldron
Creating a Legend
Ah, rationalizations
The tragedy of a wasted charge
Legend vs. Piggot
Taylor was so right about the heroes
Gay headcanons
There's no es-caping trauma
We demand Dragonmaster vs. Cauldron
A big thumbs down to Alexandria and Eidolon
We see why Legend is legendary
Who is motivated to hamper Endbringer preparedness?
We ponder condemnation
We <3 Kid Win
Ocean resonance
Oh right, other realities
Endbringers as Nine... or vice versa...
Cape authority as a metaphor for nationalism
Redemption for Battery?

Links:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/interlude-14-5-bonus-interlude/
https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.x.

Episode Notes:
Taylor picks Skitter’s next target
Skitter takes her minion’s loyalty for granted
Can Taylor work around the Noelle problem?
Would Coil even be threatened if he knew they were turning on him?
Taylor has her friends back and Skitter has notoriety
The last two arcs have basically been a season of 24
It’s like Skitter’s back from the dead
Skitter thinks she’s scary enough that she can bluff… and she’s probably right?
Ted wishes for slightly less acceptable targets
Bryce sucks but Sierra might be tough to have as an older sister
Three girls that differ in powers and trauma
O’dalys? More like O’daycares!
“It’s (not) okay”
Anarchy in Skitterland
Is it how Sierra sees herself or how she sees her role?
Sierra’s only recently not a kid herself
She couldn’t handle knowing Skitter isn’t coming back
Taylor takes team loyalty for granted
Skitter’s moral concern ends at the city limits
Brockton Bay’s literal sunk cost
There hasn’t been any time for Skitter to grieve Skitterland
Why didn’t Charlotte leave the city again?
Skitter can dish out violence better these days because she can control the difference between “hurt” and “kill”
Is Taylor breaking bad?

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

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