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Ok so tadc final episode bingo:

• transfem Jax canon

• gang finds out there's no way to escape for realsies

• Caine comeback (in a way)

• Kinger's role is revealed to be somewhat morally ambiguous

• characters' backstories are revealed in full

Yeah more i don't have rn but I'm sure I'll come up with something until June

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Score 3/5

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Wait villaneve is kind of lawlight if it was peak

[meii061]

It’ll be lonely, won’t it?

You and I will be parting ways soon.

[starburned-and-unkissed]

the thing is, I can entertain a lot of ships in my imagination, but not all of them in longterm sustainable romantic relationships

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Villanelle is so funny but in a threatening way

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Hmm I'd really like bet season 2

[kuttenberg-gauntlets]

the 3 rules of enjoying Any fandom are 1. follow everyone who you find funny 2. block everyone who you find annoying 3. when you like someone's art tell them

[tadctheories]

Movie spoilers

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Digging deeper, I realized that I don't hate the movie for what we got, I'm disapointed for what we didn't get.

I genuinely don't think the ending would have been much different if Jax didn't abstract, yet a good chunk of the movie was presented at the very end. To be honest, since Jax really did just end up being a traumatized person that stumbled into the circus and not anyone special, they should have given us some of his, Ribbit, and Kaufmo's background a lot earlier in the series.

Half the movie belonged to Jax, yet he didn't really get a proper resolution, and the other characters got largely sidelined again. I'd be fine if Jax's showed us something bigger. Maybe a bigger lore drop? Or at least implying that abstraction could be reversed?

Lore wise, I have a million questions and it feels like nothing makes sense.

1.) What's up with Dr. Football? Caine doesn't like letting NPCs run in the circus? Was that just an oversight?

2.) What year was the circus created? Is it only a couple of years old or something? All of the humans seemed to be approximately the same age as the cast when they entered the circus.

3.) Why is the computer that TADC is running on still working? Is everyone going to get unplugged one day or what?

4.) Why was Caine trained with circus images?

5.) Why did Jax have a bunch of working AND non-working keys? I get the manifestation element of the circus, but they put so much emphasis on Jax's keys and then didn't really elaborate on that?

6.) Why did they rebuild the circus as the circus when it literally could have been anything? Why didn't they alter their bodies how they pleased? Why did they keep their circus names?

7.) Why was Caine so cagey about the exit when he always knew that there was no way out? Part of his meltdown in episode 8 circulated around his fear that the cast members would leave him...but that was never an option.

8.) What is abstraction code-wise? Why can't it be reversed? Why does it largely affect their physical body? Why do all abstractions look the same? Why does their mind stay largely intact?

9.) Why did care about the humans being out in the void? Why did he mention that he didn't want Pomni to get "totally spoiled?" As I see it, it's just a recycle bin or something like that, so why was it so taboo to go out there?

10.) Ragatha was a realtor that got her brain scanned seemingly with a group of other agents. Why wasn't the building sold? Is the building still for sale?

11.) Is there anyone on the outside that knows about the circus at all? Can they contact anybody on the outside?

12.) What does C&A actually stand for? It seems like Caine just made up Caine and Abel.

I definitely have more questions than that but you all get the gist.

There were absolutely some beautiful, very human moments in the film and I don't want to take that away from Goose's writing, but I really wish there was more.

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Yess all of these, the finale didn't really answer shit if you think about it. Like we gotta face the reality that tadc built up a lot of things that it just didn't resolve at all which is just not very good writing. Overall the show managed to follow through on its core themes and had really interesting concepts and all but it didn't deliver lore-wise and left most of the characters' arcs kind of incomplete.

Seems like show writers these days are forgetting the ancient art of not just letting shit happen for no reason.

[demilypyro]

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

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Tadc finale spoilers.

Not taking responsibility if you click and get spoiled you have been warned.

Ok I already posted my thoughts but deleted again but I changed my mind I wanna post them.

I think that Jax being (strongly implicitly) confirmed to be transfem is a huge thing because you can tell she is a well thought-out character that was written with compassion. But I do take issue with how her arc is completed overall, because essentially, she just died. She died taking this big, suffocating secret about herself into her grave, knowing that the only person who knew about it (Ribbit) died because Jax pushed her away. Pomni knows now I think but I doubt she'll ever tell anyone since she's not a shitty person, but considering all this, Jax's arc as being transfem should have been more explicit in my opinion because now a lot of viewers will not register her story as the tragedy it is because they do not read her as transfem, and through that a big part of the story's themes is lost because you cannot call it a happy ending if a suffering character died while suffering.

I am glad that everyone else coped relatively well with their fates of being trapped in the circus forever (though that was resolved more quickly than I thought it would be) that was very #hopecore also considering that caine is now more on eye-level with them. But yeah Jax's story wasn't resolved very well and lots of questions weren't completely answered so as for my raw, unfiltered thoughts right now, the finale didn't really live up to my expectations but didn't completely suck ass either.

[saltoncity]

girl is that a knife in your hand or are you jerking off your sharp detachable penis in my stomach

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Very intrigued by the way Konstantin and Carolyn are just quadruple crossing everyone all the time like what is their end goal. Do they even know

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I'm kinda glad killing eve is not a horror series cuz ik villanelle would be killing her victims in a lot more gory way and I don't like seeing that

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Villanelle crashing out because she thinks eve isn't obsessed with her anymore 😭

[kaurwreck]

you know it's like. really a testament to fukuzawa's faith in kunikida that multiple people high key died in osamu dazai's entrance exam, one of whom dazai shot himself, another of whom was a minor, and fukuzawa just. accepted kunikida's endorsement of dazai. like if you say so, kunikida.

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I watched like 2 episodes of euphoria ever but I've been keeping up with the plot roughly through memes on social media and I'm like. So sad that rue died actually. My girl she deserved so much better

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Help I've been reading posts in villanelle's voice Russian accent and all 😭😭