I started it joking to my friends like "I hope everyone dies" but like
I kind of think that would've been better than this? /hj
I don't know, it sort of felt hollow. We've now established that Jax has multiple victims, who never got nearly enough time to be explored in a meaningful way, we know that Jax themself was dealing with a lot of issues, and I have sympathy for that, but we learned it when it was too late to do anything. Basically, it's a double problem where I have sympathy for both Jax and the people they hurt, but the bulk of it has now been introduced when they're already essentially dead.
Jax being trans is now essentially canon. If someone denies that, there's no way they watched the same show I just did. I'll use gender neutral pronouns for them because we don't know what their actual preference would've been, but yeah, it's pretty glaringly obvious. I'm glad that it's canon, but I also feel like the time at which we heard any of this is weird, and it doesn't sit with me right.
Abstraction seems to be an allegory for suicide. It's what makes the most sense with the points at which different characters abstract, and the reasons that trigger it. With that said, Jax is essentially a victim of suicide, and I feel really weird about everything that went on around it. They essentially keep Jax like a dog in abstracted state, everyone seems to be unambiguously happier when Jax isn't around. They address so many personal parts of Jax when they're already gone. I was thinking when Pomni went into Jax's mind(?) to speak to them one last time that she was going to pull them out somehow, that they would get a second chance at addressing some of their mistakes, but that just straight up doesn't happen.
I may be pessimistic, but it sort of just feels like a story about a trans person struggling with mental illness, genuinely hurting people, and killing themselves, with not very much weight given to their absence?
I don't want to shame people who liked this finale. Please, if you did like it, give your opinions or counter my points because I want to hear what everyone else is thinking. I just personally left it with a bit of unease and dissatisfaction.
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