Jenny and Ted discuss Sentinel 9.1.
Episode Notes:
- Weld doesn't have the trauma to relate to these Wards
- Classic new manager problems
- Piggot and a sink or swim philosophy
- Weld is a character from a different genre of superhero story
- The Wards are going through it
- The question of hope for Brockton Bay
- How does Coil feel about the Merchants?
- Piggot's sympathy for the people of Brockton Bay and good policies around white supremacy
- Piggot might just have a bad personality
- If only the Wards had done those trainings sooner
- Jenny attempts to describe what the categories mean
- But why aren't these categories SCIENTIFIC siiiigh
- Changer vs. shifter vs. shaper
- Have they stopped underestimating Taylor...
- They certainly haven't stopped underestimating Coil
- What would happen if Taylor showed up at Piggot's door and told her about Coil?
- Soft-launching SlugBug
- Weld the smart jock
- Superpowers as a race metaphor
- Maybe Weld's just into ASMR
- Turns out the cops and robbers thing is actually a deliberate strategy
- The Protectorate is all about DEI
- The stigma around capes has been shaping Taylor's story, too
- We want the Director Armstrong story
- A Shadow Stalker interlude??
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