no order i’m rambling i just watched it 5 minutes ago
the abstragedy end credits made me cackle
uhhhh i thought that the whole they can make what they want but remain in the circus ending was the one they would do…and i was right !! i like that as the ending and think it makes sense
jax oh boy uhhhhh LOVE trans jax confirmed, love that gooseworks packaged a trans fem character in a tumblr sexyman to force ppl to pay attention to her love that
i don’t know how to feel about jax being abstracted forever. on the one hand, she was awful to pretty much everyone (especially gangle), and shouldn’t have just been redeemed but also like…caine did awful things too? and was just…redeemed? i think ultimately the character redemptions / debates on redemptions were hurt by the runtime.
i don’t think jax’s abstraction happened offscreen as some people are saying, i think that moment she had with pomni was the abstraction
i fully thought they were gonna circumvent abstraction through the power of friendship ngl
i don’t like that the abstracted were put in a viewing aquarium. maybe i just wanted caine to be like yeah i figured out how to unabstract people guys dw
i’m just sad jax is dead essentially :( like that’s gore :( that’s gore of my (morally questionable) comfort character :(
also like…jax being suicidal and dying at the end i don’t know if i like that? i feel like the message of the show is to learn to live in bad circumstances and rely of the people around you to get through them. i guess jax could be an example of a person who doesn’t let people in, and that’s ultimately her downfall but that feels unsatisfying as a character ark. so she didn’t grow? she didn’t learn to trust? and that’s it? she literally says at the end that she didn’t want to go, and she was hugging pomni, and excepting comfort from her. i feel like that could’ve been a moment to show that people could come back from abstraction. i think that would’ve been more satisfying. and then jax would’ve had to, y’know, atone for what she did to others. and apologise. and earn forgiveness. and change as a person. to have some of her last words be “i know im a bad person” feels a little underwhelming. like okay? that’s step one to becoming a better person, but she can never do that because she’s dead?
also, caine being alive! i’m neutral. on the one hand, i like caine so it’s cool he’s here. also think it’s more satisfying to have him apologise and get integrated into the group and learn and grow (could’ve been cool to do that with someone else idk). but it also feel like his death was sort of pointless.
everyone else? didn’t really do anything? except pomni obviously. i like that pomni got a moment to breakdown she deserved that. i love her and kinger’s dynamic.
one thought about the jax mind doors scene. i’ve seen some people say that it’s prof that jax fantasies about doing horrible things to the others, but i saw those ‘funerals’ as just more defense mechanisms she had to stop pomni seeing the ‘real her’ - pomni literally asks “where’s the real jax” because she knows that those doors weren’t the real jax, but part of that character she has - it makes me think of the “you are my playthings” speech - like obviously that’s an exaggeration / front to hide her true vulnerabilities, which is how i interpret the different jax’s behind the doors
uhhh yeah it was pretty good 7/10
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