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The TADC finale made me more angry than any show or movie I have ever watched in my life. Let's talk about that.

This blog is for discussions and criticisms related to TADC. It is not for Gooseworx, fans of Gooseworx, or super stans of TADC. If you can't be normal about people having negative opinions about a piece of media you like, DNI, this blog is not for you.

I'll be posting my own analysis and opinion pieces as well as reblogging stuff I agree with or find funny.

Disclaimer: I'm not really interesting in arguing about the pronouns of a fictional purple rabbit, so I'll just consider Jax's pronouns to be context-dependent. In my own posts, I'll mostly be using he/him pronouns for Jax because those are the pronouns that are used in the show.

#pinned intro

I don't wanna hear that "being kind of NPCs" is a defining trait of Pomni's when she literally laughed while Jax was mauling Evil Jax in episode 5.

#tadc critical #I guess simping for Jax overrides that huh #Wish the show had the bravery to pit Jax and Gummigoo against each other #maybe if Pomni saw Jax bullying a man she'd actually care

Watching a youtube video about jax that boils all the jax hate down to "people who are too dumb to realize jax is a trans woman" and "people who hate complex characters"

Instead of engaging with actual critiques like the show (show! Not even the character!) being misogynistic

You cant say people who dislike jax are media illiterate and then dismiss their actual ANALYSIS because it makes for a bad strawman...

#tadc critical #the video legitimately boiled my blood #like seriously #my own personal take on the show is that I actually don't hate Jax's arc #it is everything SURROUNDING Jax that is awful #Jax would not be a problem if the narrative didn't ignore its other characters and the ones he abused!#that's why people call it “abuse apologia”#it's far too quick to give context to the actions of Jax and Caine compared to doing the bare minimum for any other characters they hurt #so defending Jax's arc means NOTHING actually #Jax could be the best written character in our lifetime and it wouldn't change the fact #that the show threw its entire cast (primarily the female characters and Zooble) under the bus to get there #oh the youtuber also majorly downplayed the racism allegations #like “erm if you really think using a black man's song is racist then you've lost the plot”#my guy I dare you to say that to the face of the black fans who are upset by this #also of course he didn't address the out of show allegations

tadcsalt

I honestly think it would fix a lot of problems if ribbit was scrapped and the person jax opened up in the past was ragatha. If they were former close friends that drifted apart, it would give weight to the weird tension/animosity between them that was pretty much scrapped by episode 7. Not to mention

It would give importance to their parallels of parental abuse

It would make jax's actions less heinous if he didn't drive two of their friends to suicide (kaufmo was more carelessness than outright malice anyway)

Ragatha could have a less than pleased reaction at jax badly injuring her mother and it would feed into her belief that she's not allowed to express any negative emotions if she want to keep her friends. Making so the both of them trigger each other's parental abuse traumas.

It would make the emotional moment between pomni and ragatha (jax's current and former bird) more powerful

It would generally tie the jax/pomni/ragatha subplot together a satisfying way

Having strict, religious parents fit with ragatha's character

Jesus, jax doesn't need three people to project their mommy issues onto

And if you think "why would you want to erase a nonbinary fem character?", ribbit is barely a character so it would be beneficial to take their role to flesh out a character who need it.

What are your thoughts?

#completely agree #would also solve the problem of Ribbit never being brought up until halfway through the show #the fact that Ribbit was first mentioned in episode 5 is so weird to me #considering how important she is to Jax's story #tadc critical

sunandmoonseisai

I think gummigoo was killed off because he's too much of a chad and made jax look worse in comparison. He's a big, strong, kind man who love his family and respect women, but still has an angsty side that made you want to comfort him. Imagine keeping the scenes pomni simping for chudjax's toxic ass when this yummygummy is right there 🤤

#you're so right for that #justice for Gummigoo he deserved to be in a better show #tadc critical

blogfamousturtlecollector

We will confirm Jax's transgenderism on the social network!

We will show Ragatha and Kinger's room in merch!

Let's reveal Caine's attitude to abstraction in advertising!

You will see Queenie's name only in tumbler or wikipedia!

Amazing digital disclosure anywhere but the fucking show.

#tadc critical

I love Gummigoo but he should NOT have been in this show. For how limited the overall runtime is, why are we spending like 15 minutes developing Pomni's relationship with a character who immediately dies and/or forgets everything? Why not someone like Gangle? Ragatha? Zooble? You know? The actual main cast who get comparatively very few one-on-one scenes with Pomni compared to Jax and Kinger?

It also makes it seem like "sentient NPCs" is going to be an important ongoing plot when it never matters again...

#tadc critical #it feels like a remnant of a previous draft #where NPCs actually DID matter #but with the show we actually got it's just so out of place

People calling Jax's misogyny "internalized" like he didn't "externalize" it every chance he got 😭

#tadc critical

tadcsalt

Ragatha: *accidentally trauma dump about her abusive mom*

Everyone: "(ー_ー;)..........yikes."

Ragatha: "oh my gosh I'm so sorry I made you uncomfortable with my feelings I was just being silly, teehee!

Jax: "*explain in vague details how his mom was bad* anyway I shoved her to the ground and left her to die"

Ribbit: "oh my gosh you poor baby, I'm sure you didn't hurt her that bad and even if you did she probably deserved it btw can I suck your dick?"

Jax: "fuck you bitch, you ruined my tough guy persona I hope you kill yourself"

Pomni, after witnessing this and more: "I didn't know you played the piano 🥹"

Jax: "leave me alone foid"

#I'M CRYING WHY IS THAT LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED #the double standard is insane #Jax WOULD say “foid”#tadc critical

spookycriticalblog

I posted this on my other social medias so why not post it here

#tadc critical #yeah....

garlicnoodle1

“You were one of the best things to ever happen to me in this circus” Raise your standards, Ragatha.

#tadc critical

onemore2morrow

The last thing I’ll say on this is the confirmation that abstraction = suicide means that Ragatha watched Jax engage in a predatory cycle of getting close to people and then driving them to suicide, rightly assumed Jax was trying to do the same to Pomni (because Ragatha had no context for ANYTHING because Jax WOULDN’T TALK TO HER),

And when she called Jax out on it and said “I know what you’re trying to do!” both Jax and THE SHOW tried to gaslight us into thinking RAGATHA is the crazy, overbearing one

And you still have fans claiming RAGATHA is the problem

#she was so right!#like the show framed her as being kind of delusional in that scene #but after the finale that's LITERALLY what happened #Ragatha you deserved so much better #tadc critical

blogfamousturtlecollector

Jax gave Gangle her name, as soon as she got into the circus, immediately depriving her of her choice, literally from the first minutes of acquaintance insulted, humiliated, blackmailed, made her feel like an inferior person, took advantage of the fact that she could not stand up for herself, intimidated, never apologized or felt guilty, and literally was not against taking advantage of her sexually.

Gangle in the finale: grieving for him :/

#literally T_T #tadc critical

The show really does not engage with Kinger being a creator of the circus at all. Bro made Caine. He is partially responsible for them being trapped there. I don’t expect the show to give him a guilt tour or anything, but it’s just bizarre from a writing standpoint to not bring it up at all. There’s so much potential for conflict, growth, lore dropping…what a wasted potential.

#like nobody cares?#at all?#does Caine care?#you'd think Jax might bring it up when he's calling out Kinger for deleting Caine #but not even there!#tadc critical

mazieinthestars

Quick thoughts before I get to work on some analysis:

I'm literally not even mad Jax is abusive. If I were to write the story I'd make Jax more antagonist actually. I'm just incredibly upset at how tone deaf it is.

And that's part of why I made that post earlier about how another character should have been a direct parallel to Jax. Like. Jax's story kind of falls flat but that would make it better

#tadc critical

My thoughts on the finale exactly, Zooble

#tadc critical #this was running through my head for days after I saw the finale #you said it best

n0nexistent-m0th

Another one of TADC's biggest problems is that it's not what it presented itself as.

At the beginning, we were introduced to six main characters, with Pomni being the most central of them - we entered this world through her perspective. So, naturally, many of us assumed that all six characters would receive focus and development over time; episode 4, which centered on Gangle, seemed to reinforce this expectation.

However after that, the show became more and more centered around Jax. We kept waiting for episodes that would give characters like Ragatha more attention, only to get more Jax. Then, when people criticized this imbalance, the response was essentially that Actually! Jax, alongside Pomni, is the central main character too. If TADC had been marketed from the start as a story primarily about Pomni and Jax, many viewers would have approached it with different expectations. Some people would have been completely fine with that. Others, myself included, might have realized earlier that the show simply wasn't what we were looking for. I wouldn't have been so disappointed! The only group who is happy with this situation is people who like Jax.

We started watching "The Amazing Digital Circus" and ended up with "Jax and Pomni show". Of course many people are upset; we were told to expect an ensemble cast and then told later that those expectations were wrong.

ough.

#tadc critical #u right #I 100% think people would not be as mad at the end of the show if it had shown what is was about properly from the beginning #I know I wouldn't have!#instead I got invested and now I feel like I wasted my time...

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