Jenny and Ted discuss Parasite 10.6.

Episode Notes:

• We forgot about Dauntless again RIP :(
• Jenny brings down the hammer on Taylor’s foolishness
• Is Taylor taking the same kind of deal Kayden did?
• Ted tries to shore up Jenny’s secret takedown theory
• The real problem with Taylor’s request is that she’s no threat to Coil
• Why save the world when you can save one girl?
• Maybe this is night eight of Coil trying crazier and crazier schemes to get his hands on this data
• If Jack brings the end, he’s gonna need some Endbringers
• We get another set of story-defining stakes laid out here
• Interpreting Taylor’s apparent foolishness psychologically vs. narratively
• At podcast speed you might drown in narrative tension
• Do we only cut Taylor slack to the extent that she’s narratively dominating?
• Look, at least Regent isn’t controlling Shadow Stalker, Vista, AND Kid Win
• Is it fucked up or does it just look fucked up?
• Would you rather experience one Regent-sized bad day or one hundred Sophia-sized bad days?
• Bad things will certainly happen if Sophia doesn’t just slink away
• Taylor dominates Bitch: heartless or “the heart”?
• Good or bad, this seems pretty easy for Taylor
• The Undersiders have no real opposition left in Brockton Bay
• Shatterbird, uh, controls spiders?
• Violence is sticky
• And a coping mechanism
• Ted defends Rachel’s betrayal
• What Taylor says may be obscured by how she says it
• How do the rest of the Undersiders see Skitter?
• Coil gets his Dr. Claw on
• Predictions for the next two interludes

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/%c2%ad-arc-10-parasite/10-6/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow