he gets really clingy when the power cuts out. needs to hold hands for a bit while you go adventuring… sigh. someone invest in some solar panels, please?
I was promised a vessel and got thrown into a teenager who has their own shit to work through that is not being helped by this situation, and if I ever give up then the world is covered in darkness.
Okay so. I love this finale for existing, only so it can give me closure and have me understand confidently where EVERYTHING went wrong.
I can't and I won't say: “THAT SHIT WAS SO ASS” because- it isnt. At least to me.
Just that I Did Not Like It. And I have 100 criticisms for whatever singular piece of praise I may give it.
I would spend more time writing this like I did Episode 8, but by this point, I am fully tapped out. While I'd be the fattest liar for saying "I don't care anymore" I just don't care in the same WAY
It can and WILL still spark rage, and I still miss the show I was watching before episode 7 SO FUCKING BAD..... I just also have Felt those feelings 100x over for 7 months, and am just not as DRIVEN by those feelings anymore.
Like, I watched it THIS MORNING and I already know how I feel pretty in depthly, this is the same shit as ep 7 and 8 except with no "well MAYBE" attached to it- because “its still not over” and “you NEVER know-!”
NO. WE ARE DONE. That is IT, it said what it came here to say , and I do Not like it.
The show should have been honest with its intentions from the beginning isall. Looking at the pilot, all I can say is “what the hell is this” in comparison.
To the actual episodes credit though, the Jax stuff is genuinely gripping, (if a little long) but only up until the end, where I think they shit themselves when handling his relationship with Pomni. It's not that Jax doesn't deserve help exactly, just that Pomni CANT be the one to provide that.
All I see when looking at them/Jax in general is how much better Bojack Horseman handled all those ideas of Helping someone that is self aware and hates themselves for what they do but just WON'T stop- and all that,,,,,,,,go watch Bojack Horseman.
OMG OMG The one scene between Pomni and Kinger in the way beginning, how they're like YIPPEE lets celebrate pushing aside our own problems in favor of Helping Other People cause THAT'S NICE RIGHT-
I am arguing in bad faith here, I know, I understand the Community element the show is actually going for. But when you pretend that Kinger has no emotions or baggage or trauma whatsoever, its just A PROBLEM. When you go for the "lets help other people!" angle, while having SO MUCH Unsaid Things about your deeply troubled character that actively hides his needs in an act of "staying out of the way" (why didn't he tell anyone about the being in the dark shit, i'll never get over this I will NEVER get over this) then the actual good message of community just falls SOO flat for me and comes across as really disingenuous.
AND and the fact that Pomni could reach out to Abstracted Jax but Kinger couldn't reach out to his own wife????????? like fuuuuuuck offffff..... theres so many loose threads the more the show continues it keeps ADDING SHIT that makes me go "HUH???" Instead of "ohh!" LIKE SERIOUSLY WHAT DID CAINE HAVE AGAINST SWEARING, WHAT STAKE DOES HE HAVE IN CENSORSHIP???????????
omg okay, and them giving all of the people NAMES and STORIES and it's just- I get that the message is the same with or without it, 'What happened before doesn't matter, what matters is the Here and Now'
BUT THAT'S THE THING, WHYYYY WOULD YOU DO THAT??????!??!???!?!?
Why would you put so much time into explaining What Happened and how AWESOME their lives are outside of the circus. If it doesn't MATTER why SHOW IT? It feels like unnecessary fuel for the fandom, and rubbing salt in the wound for the characters.
Hey Guys look at how Good You Have It, if only you didn't Trap Your Consciousness here- I can sense there's some Deeper and Grander message being told here by way of the circus as a metaphor or something, but I just couldn't care less to think about this show even MORE just to meet more dead ends-
Kinger's a dad because ofc he is, because that's ALL HE IS!!!!!!
I don't give a SHIT about these CANON DESIGNS, I've SEEN MUCH BETTER BOOOO 🍅🍅🍅🍅BOOO 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 SCREW GRANT, I WANT JOHN GIVE ME JOHN
I wish I could talk about how badly everyone else got Shafted too, but it's really nothing new. Zooble and Gangle got Hints of something there but its ALL off screen or consists of 2 lines of dialogue (so that Jax can have all the attention yada yada)
Pomni is For Jax not really a main character
uhhh and Ragatha is pretty okay. With her I can't really tell if I'm personally just not interested in her character or if It COULD have actually been handled better to GET me to care or- what. The hug between her and Pomni was Nice though.
........ but okay. Okay.
Absolutely NOTHING is worse for me, than what they did to CAINE. Because of course.
I am so horrifically insulted by how he in particular was handled, even more so than before, and I didn't know that was possible!
Caine was like......... "Cured" almost. All of his autistic traits were lumped in with the bullshit ep 8 pulled so now its ALL gone... And it makes me sad seeing that part so celebrated by a large chunk of the fandom, because he is HAPPY, but he is NOT himself.
I don't want to frame this as me getting on some moral high horse or getting parasocially attached to these characters, I MEAN I AM- but that's besides the point/silly
This is just how I personally feel, and how I feel is VICIOUSLY INSULTED and I'm positive that wasn't intentional, more than anything it just pisses me off how much of a fuck-up his character was, like the fact that THIS was an accident, is almost worse.
CAINE AS AUTISM CODING IS THE WORST MISTAKE THIS SHOW HAS EVER MADE, CHANGE MY MIND
I always thought that Caines "unattainable goal" that Ragatha was talking about in the pilot, was that he was trying to make EVERYONE happy with his creations, but now... like....
Was his unattainable goal for people to love him as he is????? I can tell what they're trying to say morally about Jax, about how you have to help yourself but also support is very necessary, you're not alone, all that stuff- what on EARTH are they trying to say with CAINE??!??
Who he was, was made out to be a MONSTER by episode 8, so him being FIXED feels like an alright conclusion if you just forget EVERY OTHER FUCKING EPISODE
The way he acts after he "learns his lesson" via scrolling instagram (im going to Kill Myself) Is just so heartbreaking.
His little "you can come to the stage whenever you’re ready” is NICE and its POLITE but it's not CAINE. He has been LOBOTOMIZED he is a Hollowed Out Shell of the character I once loved-
who is EASY TO LOVE NOW because of just how well behaved he is- NOW THAT HE FUCKNIGNGG-
SCORLLED INSTAGRAM FOR 5 MINUTES
They didn't have to talk to him, they didn't have to understand him, he just had to GATHER DATA to level up in his Empathy Skill Tree. The way he grows narratively is so PAINFULLY ROBOTIC for a character that acts as ALIVE as he does.
Afterwards, Caine doesn't make anything for himself. What was that line Pomni said about her youtube videos- “Nobody watched them, I just made them for me” what about MAKING THINGS FOR YOURSELF fits in with any of this conclusion. Caine is just HAVIN FUN WITH THEM AND MAKING WHAT THEY WANT AND TEEHEE,
because HE DOESN'T MATTER all that matters is that he is WELL BEHAVED I'M GONNA AHAHDHH
and the worst part- the WORST part about him here is that I could see something like this working, after putting in EFFORT!!!! After they explain to him how they'd like to be treated, and why. After he goes "but I'm just so excited to show you guys what I made-" and they go "we know, but we need a moment" and
UUUUUGGGGHGHHGHGHHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGHHGHGGGNF BUT WE DIDNT HAVE TIME FOR THAT CAUSE WE HAD TO SPEND 20 MINUTES ON #POVYOU'REJAX
......I just feel like I wouldn’t care as much as I do about that aspect if it weren't for the fact that they still treat Caine like a human. Like, he had a lot of traits that neurodivergent people have, and then he Learned How To Be Human and now doesn't have them. He.just.
Acts ""Normal"" Now.
DOESN'T THAT LEAVE A BAD TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH?
Anywho.
As a whole, this show is begging you to care about it, and then turning around and going "why do you care?"
,and I dont liiike that.
Apologize for this being a little scattered and unorganized, I hope it comes across as even slightly coherent and gives people some Words they were searching for, even if its in disagreement with my points
Have fun TADC! After the finale discussion has died down I'm Never Thinking Of You Again! Unless I want to! Which I really don't expect!
also also final last thoughts, I wanna thank @distantmaniacallaugh for helping me with these words, watching these last few episodes with me, and all around being here for all the TADC things in my life :3
What I love especially about the dnd sessions shown here is that Caine isn't the DM and boss like I'd expected, but Gangle is.
Gangle, who always wanted to be a storyteller. Gangle, who was meek and afraid to stand up for herself, gets to be in a position of authority. Gangle, who abused her power in the Spudsy's adventure and made it hell for others and herself, is trusted to create a joyful experience for everyone. And since Caine didn't make her an evil clone, she shall play the villain in her own adventure!
New head cannon that Caine randomly checks in on the others while their sleeping and wakes them up at 2 am to ask them if they're going to abstract, if they're okay, yada yada-
and he does this to evey. Single. Night.
Since the that new AD that Glitch made convinced me that they just wanted to feed us Caine angst fans lol.
People who said that Zooble gonna think that Caine was locked by his parents, you were right. My congratulations!
Isn't it strange that YouTube gave me a true story about a child that was kept by his own parents in a small closet for about six years after I drew this part of the comic? I was terrified. I feel doubly sorry for Caine. It just COULDN't help but affect his mind (I don't care that he's an AI. HE HAS FEELINGS)
Any way, I hc ctrl alt del au Caine having heavy claustrophobia, since, unlike his normal version, he has no control over the space around him.
And Jax is an asshole but that's not a surprise.
This was longer but I wanted to post something before the grand finale; I also felt like it was going nowhere with the rest of the comic so I left it like this, maybe I'll do a second part later, who knows.
(Also if anyone thinks that I should put a trigger warning pls tell me I'll gladly add it.)
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