WARNING FOR CONTAINING TADC EP 9 SPOILERS!!!
I can't find the og post, but I don't really get the sentiment of "Digital Circus' biggest mistake was that it was written as a niche show" like... Shouldn't that mean that it should have a really, REALLY good narrative nonetheless? So that it's a piece of hidden gem that you should share with your friends because it's THAT good?
Hate to break it to ya, but TADC being written as a "niche show that went mainstream accidentally" won't save it from the amount of plot holes, character assassinations, and messaging inconsistencies it has.
Maybe this could've been prevented if Goose kept her mouth shut about answering certain parts of the cast, but still. The finale ruined every episode with a meaningful message in it, and I'll list it down:
"The worst thing you can do in this world is make anyone feel unwanted or unloved", and "I don't want anyone to feel that way"
Caine was made to feel this way by Pomni and friends and wasn't given an apology (double empathy problemmmmm)
" Accept the good and bad parts of you"
Caine ripped out the bad part of himself
"Relationships are a two-way street"
apparently not because Jax still had Pomni and friends.
Not to mention, there's no effort of understanding Caine by the humans' end.
Ragatha barely gets any form of comfort either, before it shifts to another person. Ragatha ALWAYS has to be the one to comfort someone
"Caine is an AI who does not understand humans"
He was torturing them willingly and not willingly at the same time? And welp, guess he just needed the internet and to rip out the blue AI, in order to be perfectly capable of understanding them
The humans are very hypocritical and do not get to change their ways. The circus remains the way it is, the only one who truly changed is Caine. This isn't "finding meaning in a stagnant life", this is "compromising until you've stripped away half of what you are in order to make people accept you"
God, I look like I'm glazing Caine so much, even though I'm trying so hard not to. But everything this show tried to do with Jax, worked a lot better with Caine because of how Goose set the character narrative up to be-- but even with Caine's redemption, it's so lackluster and unsatisfying.
There are so many contradictory moments in this show that it ends up being a clusterfuck of a narrative conclusion that didn't have enough time and effort to properly straighten out the kinks of what potential contradictions the messaging may have
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