13.8 - "Installation Piece"
13.8 - "Installation Piece"
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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
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