Jenny and Ted discuss Snare 13.8.

Episode Notes:

• Boy are they ever ensnared!
• Jenny is cautiously optimistic. But maybe not about Grue
• Alert! We have body horror!
• Jenny's list of options for who's about to show up
• Oops no one knows they're there
• The Nine are just too adaptable
• Faultline vs. sheaths
• Maybe she can kill Mannequin already
• One Leviathan event per story, please!
• A meditation on fridging
• Who would be the one to kill Grue?
• Taylor killing Brian might make Bitch feel more at home in the group
• Who would be the one to save Grue?
• Jenny's controversial opinions on Bonesaw's moral fiber
• Bonesaw is too good and it's a problem
• Why hasn't Scion dealt with the Nine already?
• This is the scenario Coil chose to keep
• What would it do to Taylor if Brian dies?
• Was Taylor's heroism in this chapter disastrous or not?
• Taylor's utilitarianism and her sense of control
• Distrust of the Travelers
• Sundancer's moral lines vs. Taylor's
• Is the decision about Grue the worst thing Taylor has done in the story so far? Jenny doesn't think so
• Grue is a statement from Mannequin
• The nerves as a metaphor
• The power of first names
• Chekhov's pocket sand
• Taylor has trouble sitting with the negative consequences of her choices and accepting loss, for solid character-based reasons
• The most controversial twist in all of Worm!
• Taylor vs. Trickster's brand of chaos
• Taylor's pathological need to save people
• RIP Parian
• Oh no the decoys
• Ted loves Bonesaw and wants her to die
• Wildbow doesn't censor his art, either
• Precedents for mercy killings

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/snare-13-8/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow