another bunch of things that's kind of bugging me about episode 9 on the smaller less-openly-talked-about scale of things is...the caine and blue ai scene. and the bizarre wifi scene as well.
1) so the blue ai, in episode 8, was established as the more "successful" and "stable" ai, the one that was creating all the "correct" shapes that Caine, the red prototype, was unable to do. and when caine gets locked away for this, out of desperation (?) he breaks out and consumes the "correct" ai, thus making him the main aggressor in that situation.
so....with all that in mind...
why the hell is the blue ai, in episode 9, suddenly redefined as "the thing that's making caine do/think all the evil stuff"? what even IS the blue ai anymore??? how the hell does it make sense for the blue ai to suddenly be the more unstable/aggressive of the two? if there's something going on that we're not seeing here, it's being communicated so piss-poorly that it just makes no friggin sense.
caine having this whole "no....NO!! the evil is fighting for conTROL OVER ME AGAIN!! NOOOO ITS HURTING ME NOOOO" sequence going on while the "other side" of him was suddenly the pinnacle of stability and rationality and kindness and perfection was so ridiculously corny and inconsistent too. ah yes, let's just relegate all the prior complexities of his character down to "nope, apparently he just had to yank out the evil weed in his head the whole time and now he's all good again!" and destroy both characters in the process! no need for things like facing the consequences of his own actions, learning and growing through a naturally progressing character arc along the way, coming to terms with his own flaws and working through them, nope.
2) but to be honest, after the insane shit he did in episode 8? torturing the characters with their worst fears and mutilating them over and over again?? he should've stayed gone; bringing him back was a pretty friggin stupid and cheap cop-out decision.
realistically, if i were stuck in a tiny pocket dimension world with the guy who physically violated me and forced me to re-experience my trauma in realtime, i honestly dont know if i would ever feel truly safe in the same space as him. or at least, i would need some more time to process that shit. i Definitely wouldn't be able to be all happy-sappy funtimes with him and instant flowers and friendship the way the cast apparently seems to in the ending.
but then again, this is abuse apologism the show, i guess! gotta insta-forgive and cuddle all the goose self inserts so she can feel extra special about herself. as long as they show they're super duper sad, everything's immediately okay no matter what!
3) the bizarre wifi and google search thing. i have to talk about the bizarre wifi and google search thing. this whole scene, of course, raises a ton of questions that will, of course, never be answered BUT:
first off, this is a small nitpick i guess, but wifi isn't a finite resource that can be used up. you're either connected to it, or you're not. so idk what that whole "oh no the internet is running out, better hurry!!" thing was lol. or why the wifi was hidden behind 2 firewalls to begin with, but oh well. the whole purpose behind this company and this ai is a complete mystery mess.
secondly, apparently Caine just....didn't know that the humans were humans from their own world, and thought they were just his own creations this whole time???? wow-ee. you know what could have solved this WACKY MISUNDERSTANDING that apparently was allowed to go on for the past 25 or so years while countless people died?? oh, i dunno, maybe KINGER COULD'VE OPENED UP HIS GOB AND COMMUNICATED WITH HIS OWN GOSHDARN CREATION FOR A SECOND. OR MAYBE CAINE COULD'VE LISTENED TO WHAT LITERALLY ANY OF THE CIRCUS MEMBERS TRIED TO TELL HIM IN PLAIN AND SIMPLE TERMS, OR JUST LISTENED IN ON WHAT THEY DISCUSSED ON THEIR DOWNTIME. HOLY SHIT LOL.
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