Jenny and Ted discuss Tangle 6.8.
Episode Notes:
- Jenny was right about Alec!!
- Will Taylor sell her soul for the ferry?
- Jenny loves Coil........as a character
- Coil is making all his promises contingent on practicality, not virtue
- How much respect does Taylor have for the existing government, really?
- The heroes are already unelected leaders... how else are civics different in this world?
- Ah, the temptation of competent tyranny (and of influence!)
- Coil as a foil of Armsmaster: he's a GOOD manager and a better prepper
- What's Coil hiding behind his snake costume? And what does it meeeeean?
- Coil needs Taylor to provide a better temptation for herself
- The real temptation for us, the readers, are the warehouses full of dogs
- Regent, the 15-year-old with the most backstory ever
- Lisa's the Coil of the Undersiders
- How does Coil's secret plan fit with Lisa's cops and robbers view of the world?
- Okay, but does Coil control everything or not?
- The hubris debate
- Hang on, is this why the Undersiders keep winning?
- Taylor's the real reason Coil's putting his plan in motion right now
- Coil and Tattletale and the question of transparency
- Ted's predictions from his first reading
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