and when we get to season four and annabeth asks percy to come with her into the labyrinth and instead of saying I'm in, he responds with "you think you had to ask?" in a callback to Season 1, Episode 5... what then?
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and when we get to season four and annabeth asks percy to come with her into the labyrinth and instead of saying I'm in, he responds with "you think you had to ask?" in a callback to Season 1, Episode 5... what then?
I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it
I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.
i love the way "don't gotta scream if you ain't got a mouth" demonstrates the exact reason Caine isn't cooperating well with the rest of the cast, while also being a reference to the show's inspo.
he eliminates a tangible factor that he perceives as causing the issue, but doesn't actually eliminate the root of the problem- he's just preventing himself from seeing the result. "if you don't have a mouth, then you won't need to scream!" but having a mouth isn't what creates the urge to scream. preventing the screaming isn't preventing the need to scream. it's just removing the outlet for whatever causes the screaming in the first place.
he doesn't understand the root of their issues. in real life, it would correlate to people's resistance to having an open mindset and just being plain stubborn so that they don't have to re-evaluate themselves or the way they think. in this case, of course, it's a more literal limit. he's just incapable of understanding the circus members, no matter how they articulate their concerns. if they pander to him, he just sees that as positive reinforcement. if they trudge along but make snide remarks, he gets frustrated that he's still not making them happy. if they lash out at him and say to his face what he's doing wrong, he crashes out. it's physically impossible for him to understand it, as he is.
to him, he's not hearing screaming, if they don't have mouths. therefore, they must not need to scream. it doesn't matter what they really experience, because he's incapable of empathizing that way.
it reminds me a lot of how people treat disabled and neurodivergent people. the way disabilities are understood, even down to diagnostic criteria, rely so heavily on what's perceived by other people. ADHD isn't an attention-deficient disorder, it's an executive functioning disorder. but to neurotypical people, it seems like people with ADHD just can never focus, so that's what they think identifies it. people only think you're autistic if you "look" or "sound" or "act" autistic. even then, the term "disabled" is such a hot button that often times, if you try to tell your loved ones that you're looking for a diagnosis, they'll bend over backwards in denial of it. they think you can't be disabled, because Being Disabled is like some kind of curse that'll destroy you forever. as if you can prevent it so long as you deny it and don't get a diagnosis. it's like having all the symptoms of the flu, and people believing that you can't have the flu unless a doctor tell you that you have the flu. it's like believing you suddenly acquire stage 4 cancer by going to the doctor and them diagnosing you with stage 4 cancer. the illness was already there the entire time.
anyway, that was a tangent. the way TADC relates to aspects of real life will never stop impressing me.
love love love this so much and the way you went on the little tangent into disabilities hit me a bit harder than expected (i’m kinda sorta in the camp of ‘undiagnosed audhd but im pretty sure’… i’ve been meaning to look back into that)
something that i find incredible about episode 8 of the Amazing Digital Circus (yes, another one of these posts) is the scene where the humans minus Kinger gang up against Caine and call him out on his shit…
because the stuff they call him out on, is stuff that applies to their own lives too.
Zooble calls Caine out on having a fragile ego… so he throws them into a sea of the Zooble parts, as if to say ‘but look at you! all of these body parts, you can look any way you want and none of it is good enough for your own self image, you egotist!’
Ragatha mentions how Caine never lets the gang feel like they’re at home or comforted. Caine decides to remind her of how horrific her home life was. He sticks Ragatha in front of her mother, having a tea party as one does with their dolls… their playthings… and Ragatha is impaled over and over. She even shrinks in her seat when put in front of something meant to represent her mother and it’s as if you can hear Caine say ‘you want this? you want THIS comfort?’
Gangle calls out how Caine discourages them from thinking outside the box and doing their own stuff and she’s shown how what was possibly one of the most impactful moments of her life (i’m guessing, considering it probably left her significantly injured) WAS one of those times when she did something her own way.
Jax goes on to yell at Caine for lying to them constantly, and Caine retaliates by showing Jax that he’s doing the exact same thing. He’s hiding everything he thinks and feels under the surface, and exposes him. Jax thinks he’s one way but he’s actually another. Caine has the flesh torn from his avatar to show Jax that he too, is constantly doing the lying, hiding vulnerability under snark and lies.
Pomni finishes him off by claiming that Caine never listens… and yet the sequence to follow? It’s total and complete proof that Caine is always listening. He hears and sees everything even if he doesn’t fully comprehend or understand it.
The tortures, while very much being tortures, are almost Caine’s last ditch effort to give the humans what they want… he’s still trying to pander to them, even now that they are tormenting HIM… or at least this is how i saw it. He still wants to give them what they want to make them care about him, even though he isn’t and never will be, one of them.
e.g Ragatha wants to feel at home? Caine recreates it but it’s almost like he can’t comprehend what it is that he’s doing wrong. Caine recreates it based on how she’s remembering it/has described it before… but can Caine construct a comforting home for Ragatha and put himself into her shoes, when Ragatha’s mind doesn’t have any data for him to work from? She didn’t HAVE a comforting home. So if we assume Caine scans her mind/previous conversations for assets on her home, which wasn’t comforting, can Caine realistically recreate it?
As an AI with a specific function, not being able to understand is Caine’s torment. Even when he’s actively trying to make the humans suffer, he’s still trying to give them what they complain about, and it’s still not good enough and HE is not good enough, and their misery is proof. I like to think in the moments before his deletion that Caine actually accepts/realises that he’s failed. For all he is and all he can do, Caine was never going to be enough, and able to successfully fulfil his function.
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um… so episode 6: they all get guns? if you set the audio track to English (GB) and go to timestamp 2:45… for some reason, Zooble requesting the ability to have sex is no longer censored… or maybe it never was on the GB audio track?
that’s so weird to me. For a hot second, i legit thought Glitch was removing all previously censored swear words now that Caine is gone 😂😭
since caine changed his appearance into his end-credit form during his song, does that mean in addition to having awareness of being an ai, and the world beyond the console that runs his ai and the circus… that he’s aware he’s a character in a show?
i mean Jax has broken the fourth wall a handful of times, but i guess Caine has too… and so has Bubble (episode 3 backwards speech - “i can’t wait for all the children in the audience to get horrible nightmares from the monster”)
thoughts?
without going too far into funnybunny territory (because i can’t decide if i ship them or not - they are cute though), i think it’s genuinely sweet how for a short while there, Pomni and Jax were bonding and close, and it’s so evident in the episodes after 6 that there’s still concern and something there.
like, the fact that Pomni hugged Jax even though she hates physical touch… the fact that Jax enjoyed it before his guard went shooting back up…
the fact that Pomni tried to reassure Jax when he had concerned about being balled up…
the fact that they keep sharing little ‘stolen glances’ moments…
there’s something so special and beautiful about having a person who brings you comfort, that you can be vulnerable around and who brings you a level of comfort and relaxation by just being there with you, and that feels very FunnyBunny.
again, i don’t know if i like them as a relationship, remembering Pomni is canonically 3 years older than Jax, and they both clearly have issues they need to work through, but it’s genuinely sweet how they have moments that are just theirs.
caine apologists think they have it hard rn, but jax fand have to defend this corny ass 😭
it’s almost like jax is more lost than he’s ever been. not only does he not have kaufmo and ribbit, but caine turned on them and he never expected that. he says so himself in episode four.
“caine’s not gonna do anything malicious. it’s not in his nature.”
so not only has he had to face that things that he thought he knew were wrong (so what else is he wrong about?) but he’s also pretty much facing his own mortality too. the god of this world tortured and tormented him (whereas before, caine would be the one getting the humans out of a fix) but the god of this world also just DIED.
Jax is now facing the sobering reality that he’s really trapped. He’s really got to rely on himself and the others for what comes next. He has to shed his archetype because now, the world he believed to have no consequences has birthed significant consequences.
Comfort.
So... episode 8. How are we doing?
I loved that we got more lore and I'm so going to deep dive into it, but I'm also crushed from the amount of pain everyone went through.
thing is, Caine ISN’T just like AM. In IHNMBIMS, AM tortured his humans for the sake of torturing them… No matter which way you look at it, he is the villain of that story.
Caine, on the other hand, is in the right. He DID do everything he could for his humans. He was endlessly fascinated and intrigued by them and wanted to be close and friends and to know all about them. He’s right in that, he was constantly insulted and criticised, and did he go about everything he did in the wrong way? of course… but the humans kept giving him problems and issues that his AI couldn’t begin to understand.
He can only do so much and with things like emotional and psychological issues? Caine can simulate them but he can’t begin to actually understand them. Hearing that they want to leave, when he’d be left with nothing, created with being a program with a purpose? He would lose it. He CAN’T leave. He can’t even begin to perceive of a world beyond his own because it’s the only reality he’s ever known. The humans are trapped but Caine is too.
“i made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they still hate them!”
he’s talking about their avatars. Caine seems to be actively telling us that his program creates a body based off of how the cast see themselves.
Kinger is the smartest and oldest. The king piece is important and strategically used in the endgame of chess.
Ragatha is a people pleaser and struggles to be vulnerable without getting hurt. She’s a ragdoll. Easily destroyed but also quite durable.
Jax is afraid of being vulnerable and open and Rabbits are usually seen as prey, leading them to be cautious and guarded.
Gangle is shy, fragile and used to masking. Her ribbon body shows off her fragility while her sad and happy theatrical masks are her emotions given physical form while also implying that she regularly has to mask her emotions to fit in, being a sensitive person.
Zooble is widely interpreted as having body dysmorphia, and so, feels uncomfortable in their body. This condition is given physical form through their avatar which is made of removable and uncomfortable parts. They bring up a handful of times that they can’t find something that feels good, irritating them despite having the physical ability to build a body to better suit them.
Pomni is more often than not, the main member of the cast that the others confide in. she takes very much of a leader-esque role in certain situations and is very serious about her situation and life in the circus, paralleling her Jester avatar which is very child-like and playful. Furthermore, in medieval times, Jesters were known to cut their ties to the ‘real world’ to enhance their reputation as a detached observer. This again goes against who Pomni is, the newest member of the circus cast who, up until recently, assumed or hoped that eventually she would return to her original life.
In short, the circus cast would hate their avatars because:
Kinger’s body is a reminder of his job, what with Computer Chess being one of the first AI apps in the 1940s/50s and being a reminder of his wife. He’s now a king without a queen.
Ragatha’s body is a reminder of her life as someone’s plaything, rather than their daughter. It’s a reminder of how much abuse she can/has been forced to endure and to a lesser extent, of the wealth she lost, being sent instead from ‘Riches to Rags’.
Jax’s body is a reminder of his vulnerabilities which is why his personality is more that of a predator. He lashes out and attacks others to distract from his own weaknesses.
Gangle’s body is a reminder of her disability, of her fragility and her inability to relieve herself of the masks she’s now been forced to wear.
Zooble’s body is a reminder that their body will never be theirs. Not really. Even faced with a near infinite amount of parts, no form their body can take is good enough for their Dysmorphia.
Pomni’s body is a reminder of her inability to be taken seriously despite her intelligence, emotional and otherwise, but more than that, her body is a reminder that a single decision can make a difference.
…and this all frustrates Caine to no end, because, without actually being human? he can’t/couldn’t begin to actually contemplate or understand these issues.
Sure, he can craft adventures where certain characters may shine, and he can fix Gangle’s mask and create a therapy session for Zooble… but he can’t actually make sense of the issues they feel. He lacks empathy and personal experience so while he can sense there may be a problem, he can only simulate understanding very human problems that he literally cannot fix.
it’s like Jax has been coping this whole time by leaning into ‘i’m a cartoon character. i’ve always been a cartoon character, it’s just that now, the chaos on the outside finally matches the chaos on the inside’ …and when Caine, the god of this world disproves Jax’s arrogant line in episode 4: ‘Caine’s not gonna do anything malicious. It’s… not in his nature.’ It’s almost like Jax finally realises he doesn’t have as much control or immunity to the situations and events happening around him.
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