12.4 - "Cut!"

Jenny and Ted discuss Plague 12.4.

Episode Notes:

• Jenny hates the Nine and Ted loves the chapter
• We stop trying to make “Undlers” happen
• Shout-out to biomechanimagical for the new team name!
• How deep into the bench of Worm characters do you have to go to find a certified Tumblr Sexyman?
• The “deal” gambit will unite our herovillains if not all of Brockton Bay
• Taylor and Jenny are sus-Bitch-ous
• Lisa will live to sass another day
• Ted does a close reading on how quickly Taylor can rationalize her emotions
• Taylor gives up control
• Lisa and Taylor push each other around in the best way
• Maybe Taylor’s bugs will be enough to avoid the thing where there’s no way she runs six miles in thirty minutes
• The title drops and we talk a lot about worms and the controlling thereof
• Ok for this segment just imagine if our logo didn’t have eyes
• We don’t exactly feel bad for Cherish but wow, what an ordeal
• Do Cherish and Taylor’s villain gang initiations only vary by extremeness?
• These tests effectively show us how the Nine, and especially Jack, operate
• We consider how Cherish’s situation might be different from the average recruit’s
• The Nine are incredibly acceptable targets
• Jack isn’t optimizing for power, but he did have Bonesaw cook up an artificial brain to punk Cherish
• Don’t bring up that study about how spoilers don’t ruin stories in front of Jack if you value your face
• Powers work as a metaphor for narrative, too
• Jenny bonesees right through Bonesaw
• Don’t bet on Amy
• Faced with the Nine, some people would just choose death
• Alec’s knack for chatting up villains
• Siberian-based tinker-tech
• Odds and ends and predictions

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/plague-12-4/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow