Episode Notes:

• Even before the summary we are discussing whether Emily War Crimes is a villain, in several senses of the word
• Evil ends vs. evil means
• Given what else we’ve read, it’s tough to say she’s just being paranoid
• Can she control you?
• The kind of “hero” Taylor has come to expect
• Emily’s career so far must cast a shadow on her present feelings
• The (we hope) PR hit from obvious war crimes
• Parapolitical theory
• Why can’t we all just get along?
• Self-justifying ends
• Do they need to beat the Nine or just survive them?
• Emily’s plan is so bad and self-aggrandizing we compare her to Colin
• Emily prefers inhuman technology to all-too-human capes
• Metaphor blindness
• The plan is doomed if only because it was fully explained
• Mid-episode predictions
• LGBT = Legend Gay Blue Triumvirate
• At least Legend feels guilty when he’s bad
• Alexandria, Siberian, Clockblocker, and who or what gets to be most invulnerable
• A world without Hero
• Everything’s coming up Siberian
• We’re gonna see Ol’ Jackie Slash wriggle his way out of this jam
• Battery will be depleted, er, defeated
• No plague (Bonesaw had her chance in Arc 12 anyway)
• Training montage!
• A grab bag of smaller topics
• Emily sings “Little Capes”
• The Wards need a youth pastor
• Emily doesn’t mind other normals
• Oh so the system that gives someone apparently unaccountable power is leading to this sort of thing, huh?
• Emily bears witness
• Is having people that matter to you fertile ground for cultivating ethics?
• What’s her backstory??
• Emily sees the live possibility of a sudden heroic sacrifice
• The purpose of government
• The irony of Emily not being a cape

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/interlude-13/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow