Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.1.

Episode Notes:

• This chapter really hooked us
• Jenny isn't fooled by dreams!
• Jenny's giving up hope of a secret, non-terrible plan
• The many layers of Taylor's daddy issues
• Danny is the best and should have more power(s)
• Taylor's so good at terror, and at compartmentalization
• Why does Coil really want to split the Undersiders up?
• The narrative draw of a Scooby gang
• Jenny doesn't want this to be the dynamic for all of book two of Worm
• Taylor needs a new plan because she's really bad at sucking up to people
• Oops Taylor might be projecting onto Dinah
• And we might be projecting onto Taylor
• Not a lot of sympathy for the Merchants here
• We're in Deadwood now
• Supervillains do such good work in this book
• Jenny realizes that Taylor has even more tunnel vision about Dinah than she thought
• We identify Taylor's true combover
• Revisiting Taylor in the mirror
• Shatterbird is coming for our vision, probably
• No ethical consumption under Coil
• Taylor is not a happy supervillain
• Taylor used to like her character and not her looks. Now...
• Their estrangement is clearly worse for Danny than for Taylor
• Themes of entrapment and violation: they're everywhere!
• Villainizing the villains
• We don't want to go to Skitterland

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-11-infestation-stories-arcs-11/11-01/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow