Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation1.1.
Episode Notes:
- What does it mean to be a cape in this world?
- A close reading of the first two lines of Worm
- A tiny scrap of cape lore and a big mass of bugs
- Everyone loves a powerful underdog
- Taylor’s power hasn’t solved her problems
- The theme of control
- Taylor is that jaded, loner kid who is still insecure
- Will cape society be just like high school?
- Worm’s YA setting
- Bug proprioception
- Taylor makes it worse
- Cape justice
- Taylor’s passivity: she feels she is moral for what she does not do
- Jenny suggests how Taylor might retaliate against these awful bullies
- Predictions corner
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