Jenny and Ted discuss Hive5.4.
Episode Notes:
- Jenny’s worst chapter
- When school is everything
- Will any institution in Worm do better than Taylor’s high school?
- Perhaps worst of all, these failings are so grounded and real
- Does Alan achieve Emma-levels of bullying in this chapter, or merely Taylor-levels of planning and strategy?
- Does Madison achieve any levels of strength or relevance at all? No, of course not!
- Jenny hopes that Sophia will eventually somehow work with Taylor against the story’s true villain… Emma
- Taylor picked defensive righteousness over maximizing her odds of success (even though her maximum odds were probably quite low)
- The selfish reason why the principal won’t transfer Taylor
- Jenny requests some reassurance from Ted about what’s in store
- We still love Danny and think he’d be a great cape Dad (though it’s up to Taylor)
- Oh no, are we older than Danny?
- If Jenny can’t get a happy ending, she will accept Taylor (and Amy?!?) going on a rampage
- Capes are just people, but people can be villains
- We wind down by circling back to the school’s failure, and some particularly bad actors within the school
- Predictions on how Taylor can win the arc
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