Jenny and Ted and Tanner discuss Hive 5.2.

Episode Notes:

• Welcome to guest host Moose/Tanner!
• Tanner immediately justifies the existence of the Inchworm podcast. It was worth it!!
• Wait, Taylor is actually the heart of the group??
• Rachel and Taylor are the most moral Undersiders
• Brian probably shouldn’t get a dog, or at least one that he has to train
• Has Grue already made up his mind about Bitch?
• Grue and Tattletale both talk down to Bitch
• Why the closing moments of this chapter were so significant to Tanner
• Taylor won’t have any problem betraying the Undersiders and becoming a villain, because she’ll definitely also change her whole personality to be braver and cooler at the same time!
• What it means that Taylor didn’t choose to try to be a Ward (with minor Scholomance spoilers, you can skip ahead 30 seconds)
• So just how delusional is Taylor about how this betrayal would feel?
• The BirdCage is in B.C. (#BuCketTruth)
• We check in with blissed out Alec
• Hookwolf’s ambush was probably planned
• Kaiser? More like DIE-ser, we hope! Note that this joke doesn’t work with German pronunciation
• Some Coil chat
• Not having powers would suck (except maybe for Taylor in Tilt? Ted hasn’t read it but it’s well reviewed on Discord)
• We check with Tanner about his decision to read ahead of the podcast
• Having succeeded at getting Tanner to read Worm, Ted tries to get Tanner to read Seek
• We wrap up with some speculation about whether Jenny will enjoy the end of the story
• Predictions and a plug from Tanner

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-5-hive/5-02/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow