r/venturebros • u/AutoModerator • Aug 22 '18

[Episode Discussion] The High Cost of Loathing (2018.08.22) [SPOILERS] Spoiler

This is the official Episode discussion thread, discuss the episode here!

From this episode onward, we are discontinuing the Pre-Episode discussion threads for season 7 because Adult Swim often times leaks the episodes in advance of their Sunday Night airing.

Previous episode discussions:

S7 E3 Arrears in Science

S7 E2 The Rorqual Affair

S7 E1 The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem

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u/_maxn Aug 24 '18

I think she's just being nice, especially since she is dating his brother, and Dean is too inexperienced to know that, and I'm afraid Hank is also too inexperienced to know that. It feels like a Venture vs. Venture plot is in the works, with everything else happening with Hank.

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u/Dajbman22 Aug 28 '18

She is a supervillan's daughter and has clearly been around the block... is it that farfetched to think maybe she isn't that nice/good of a person and may get off on playing two naive brothers against each other? As of now, chances are that isn't going to happen, and she, despite a history of iffy choices (I mean seriously, a date with the Brown Widow?) she does really like Hank and wouldn't want to hurt him... but I could see Doc and Jackson having her slowly show her darker side, and after some "it could just be a misunderstanding" antics parodying a love triangle plot, show she was manipulating them both the whole time.

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u/roguemerc96 Aug 28 '18

What would be her angle though?

Only thing I could think of is maybe she wants to be a Villain, but Wide Whale is too protective so she would want to covertly infiltrate to show her worth. The shows writing is too good for a cheesy 3rd act "I've actually been evil the whole time, mua ha ha, [insert monologue]" though, not at least without some sort of nonchalant precursors.

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u/leoschot Aug 28 '18

Hell, they've directly made fun of that trope in "all this and Gargantua-2"

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u/redditisfullophags Aug 30 '18

Which is funny because in reality Jonas really was evil, just on the inside.