the "dehumanization through cartoon bodily harm" themes in this episode is making me soooo crazy. its always been there throughout the show of course but the disfigurement has never been used before to explicitly torture the characters with the purpose of making them feel small and powerless.
caine shredded kinger for no reason. pomni disappeared and came back impaled for no reason. using jax as floss is crazy when he could've manifested floss or a toothpick. he's disintegrated them, impaled them blown them up, flayed them and physically silenced them, but gets angry when the cast tells caine they hate he doesn't treat them with respect 💀
each character's torture method is personalized to their trauma but the central theme of being trapped in inhuman bodies that caine can control at will remains the same. despite caring for the humans and everything he does being for them, caine doesn't actually treat them like they are humans and its evident in the way he treats their bodies
