Jenny and Ted discuss Parasite 10.x (bonus).

Episode Notes:

• A crack ship is born mid-summary
• We count the ways we love Dragon
• The way she is written clearly shows that Dragon is a full person
• Dragon’s romantic prospects
• We trust Dragon with power more than anyone we’ve met so far but leaders with good personalities do not necessarily create good legacies
• Was Richter a Bad Dad or just your average God?
• Is Dragon’s unfairly limited “body” the very thing that makes us see her as a person?
• Dragon the teenager
• We start into “should Dragon-like AI have rights” discourse but then steer ourselves back to Worm proper 
• Dragon’s techno-optimism and Ted’s need for speed limits
• To be clear, all glory to God Empress Dragon
• To show off her rapid intelligence, Dragon quickly skimmed all of Worm so far and basically only missed Coil
• Is Dragon the reasonable hero friend Taylor deserves?
• A digression about rooting against a Taylor glow-up in any adaptation
• We were sorta surprised at how much we felt for Colin in captivity
• Colin owns some of his flaws, but not the Skitter-related ones
• How Dragon’s gender identity affects the way we view her and her relationships
• Wait, is the Birdcage younger than Dragon?
• The status quo seems to be shifting quite dramatically every few years
• The female victim as a horror trope (i.e. Ted poorly glosses Men, Women, and Chain Saws (1992))
• It’s tea time in Philosophy Block
• Ted ships it
• A few more morsels from the Birdcage
• Taylor sees Dinah as a MacGuffin
• Why don’t the Endbringers hang out with each other???
• Oh no are there children in the Birdcage
• Dragon sees Colin through Kid Win colored classes
• We gotta let Dragon be bad to really believe she’s good

Links:

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