Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.h. Episode Notes: * Jenny didn’t see it coming but Ted brought receipts * Look, I know you weren
Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.h.
Episode Notes:
Jenny didn’t see it coming but Ted brought receipts
Look, I know you weren’t asking, but the incest math checks out
Amy got her “resenting an unwanted burden” from her mom I guess
Intrusive romantic feelings are deeply tragic
Jenny and Ted do what Assault and Battery simply refuse to do
Amy’s fantasies and fatalism
The category of “healing” never really cohered
Bonesaw kicks Amy across a series of red lines and Amy’s like “guess it’s purge rules for me now YOLO”
Reading between the lines, Amy’s just making excuses
Ted makes a pretty bad analogy to Canary but give him a second he explains it better
Amy’s power is so dangerous to herself and others that the Protectorate really fucked up by not getting to her before Bonesaw
Victoria, sowing: Just use your fucking power on brains already! Victoria, reaping: Well this fucking sucks, I love you, what the fuck
So… would you really handle it any better than Victoria, listeners?
Ted speculates that this was really triggering for Victoria
Calling back to the “bus kiss”
At least we met a more functional lesbian first
“Evil” feelings don’t make you evil, and isn’t everybody kind of fucked up anyway?
Amy craves novelty and lacks empathy… but for pretty okay reasons!!!
What Amy can learn from Bonesaw: the power of a growth mindset
Is Amy’s power a threat to her sense of self in an existential way?
Bonesaw pushes Amy down the slippery slope and it all feels so easy
Is Amy gettable? Nah, but partly because she doesn’t believe in herself
Morality and fellowship seem completely alien to Bonesaw
Wait, how old exactly was Bonesaw when she triggered?
You can be a good scientist without being a good person
Bonesaw would not approve of this podcast’s explicit rating
Are the powers parasites? Tools? Agents?
If the who and what of powers are accidents, is there a why?
Bonesaw scoops Faultline’s thesis project
Yeah, of course all of the bio-manipulators will have major issues!
Ted reveals his pro-Bonesaw bias and Jenny pitches the best Worm adaptation yet
Did Carol leave that letter for Amy to find?
Parenting is necessarily coercive
Ted celebrates a well-constructed tragic plot
Amy’s not learning very good lessons from her no good terrible very bad day
Thinking back to Victoria in Dennis’ chapter
Is Panacea a rogue?
We might be harder on Mark if Carol wasn’t right there in comparison
Ted’s worst date
Fates worse than death
Bonesaw reminds us that the hero / villain arms race is ongoing
Hatchet Face is Michael Myers
Jenny looks in the mirror
Maybe part of Amy’s curse is that her power is too easy to use
The arachnid system
As much as Amy needs a therapist you can’t lead with that, Victoria
Predictions