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Episode 7: How to gaslight everyone 101

The seventh episode of The Amazing Digital Circus was such an experience. It made me react so much that, even after trying to write my reactions into words, the effect wasn’t there. You had to see my reactions to believe them. So instead of trying to show my reactions part by part, I will talk more about my analysis of this episode, but still talk about my thoughts as we go. 

At the time of writing this, I watched the episode like 4 times fully? So These are not what I noticed just the first time. 

Here is what I’ll talk about:

Zooble and Jax’s conversation(s) 

Caine and his intentions

Jax’s close-call abstraction

Jax and Pomni’s interactions

How it should have been obvious it was an adventure

Caine’s office

The button scene/ Jax’s flashbacks

The ending

Ikko still theorizes

Also I was lowkey half asleep the whole weekend writing this so bear with how bad it is.

Zooble and Jax’s conversations: Zooble and Jax’s conversations in this episode wasn’t something I was really expecting, but it came as a nice surprise. I’ll start with the one at the beach and then the one at the circus grounds. 

So at the beach I think this scene was a great way to show Zooble’s development as a character. They came a long way since the start of the series, and I think having them talk to Jax was great to show the contrast. They grew as a person, learning to accept their body and all the interchangeable pieces that come with it, while Jax is doing everything but resolving his issues. 

Right off the bat, Jax immediately goes in with attacking Zooble, and maybe this is just me not remembering well, but it feels like a more personal attack than usual. I feel like normally he is mean, but doesn’t straight up says the issue someone has but rather make jokes pointing at said issues. Zooble however isn’t bothered and tells him that they learned to accept their body.

But Zooble hits right back, and they find just as easily what was bothering Jax, saying that he isn’t acting as usual, which is causing trouble, implies that they caught on that something was going on. We see that they were right on with Jax’s reactions. In this episode his mask is barely on, we can see his emotions around other characters much more. Zooble also tells Jax that when they have problems, they can talk about them with people they trust and are able to reach out. At that moment, Jax is able to put his mask back up and totally deny having problems, leaving the scene with the same energy he had all the other episodes: Smiling and making jokes. 

For the second conversation, it is the one right after Jax comes back from his “hangout” with Caine. Zooble complains that Jax took too long, and Jax’s answer confuses them. “What’s the rush, you got someone waiting for you outside?” “Don’t you?” 

Those two lines and Jax’s reaction to that brought up a lot of different interpretations in my mind. 

Even if he said yes, the way he said it didn’t feel like he was missing anyone in the real world, so either he maybe has no one waiting for him in the real world, or maybe he did have people waiting for him, but he didn’t want to go back to them, as in people that hurt him to the point where the circus is better than the real world. I think this scene was also hinting at his decision with the buttons. 

Also after hearing Gangle and Zooble talking about being friends in the real world, I think Jax’s reaction can be interpreted in the way that even if he did have people in the real world he knows that his friends, Ribbit and Kaufmo, are not gonna be there since they abstracted.

How do I feel about Caine: 

Throughout the episode I honestly felt pretty bad for Caine, I always liked his character and I just love his reactions when someone shows even an ounce of attention towards him, but now at the end…I have mixed feelings? Like making THAT the adventure was honestly crazy, plus lying to the cast about the mind control. 

Now, I still believe in the theory that the whole thing being an adventure was simply a cover-up that Caine made up on the spot, so then I can’t say “why did he make that an adventure”, and also maybe he truly can’t tell them about the mind control, because how are they supposed to believe him now that they know he can play with minds to some extent. 

And if it was an adventure, did he fake the blue screen for Jax to steal the key?? If he made the adventure, it means he most likely set the whole narrative in place for the adventure. 

Honestly, I think Caine is a very interesting (and funny) character, and I can’t wait to learn more in the future episodes. (Also I watched the like first like minute of the episode in French and in the letter he called them his “chaussettes de l’archiduchesse” which is a reference to like the most(?) popular french tongue-twister and I found that very funny, just wanted to put that out)

Jax’s close-call abstraction: 

That whole scene had me shocked. Also for some context (I made a post about this), but I and many other people got the same loading icon during the part where Ribbit’s hands came ot of the wall, and they stopped as soon as he touched her hand, so I was sure it was something in the actual episode and during that part it made me scream, I was like “No WAY they actually made that part load on purpose, like pleaseeeee”...turns out the premiere was just crashing out. 

Anyways, let’s start from the beginning. I absolutely loved the Polaroid wall, I honestly hope we see more of the pictures, even if I doubt it. Also, it means that the picture of Pomni and Jax that was in the trash (on one of glitch’s community posts) could have been on that wall as well. I wonder if the other pictures are all of Ribbit and Kaufmo or if he has pictures with all the cast. 

Now the hallucination. It was just so scary, having the hands come out like that was so creepy, but I was not expecting what would happen after that. 

When the whole..colors started, I was honestly mind empty. The colors made me kinda stop thinking for that whole scene when I first watched it, that I missed all the details until they were pointed out to me as we were watching. Like, I did not notice that Jax’s overalls were gone, and I didn’t see the faces amongst those colors. I was totally mesmerized by the colors so that scene had an insane effect (I am so curious about the animation process for that segment). 

Also, this is our first real look into the abstraction process, and it is so much more peaceful than what we could have imagined. A lot of people said that abstraction might start similar to Gangle in ep4 or Jax in ep6, but this is so much more interesting and out there. 

It is also insane to think that if Pomni and Ragatha didn't ring the doorbell, the episode would have taken quite the turn, because he would have 100% abstracted if no one was there to stop him. The two girls saved Jax without knowing it. Ragatha might have said she failed Jax during ep6, but she certainly didn’t fail him here.

And not analysis or anything, but Jax’s room is so cute!? Like, can I have that room??

Jax and Pomni’s interactions (a fight aftermath done well):

I absolutely love how those two were seen interacting, I feel that it was very realistic, because it could have gone two different ways: - They could have never said a word to eachother

- Pretend nothing happened

But I am glad we got a perfect mix of the two. During the show, Pomni still tries to talk to Jax normally, still reaching out to him, but Jax, in my opinion, reacts very realistically. He still answers her when he has to, but when he doesn't need to, not a word is said. I was quite surprised when he spoke to Pomni when he came out of his room, and even accepted to follow her. When Pomni tells him he will be okay when he was about to be thrown by Abel, he doesn't respond, but his eyes tell everything. Even after the fight, Pomni wants to make sure Jax is okay, but Jax can't accept that help. Just watching them I was like “This is perfect.” When Pomni reached her hand to hold Jax’s hand I was literally repeating “please don’t take her hand” because if he did, I feel like it would be like ruining the tension of the unresolved conflict between the two, and I couldn’t believe Jax would be able to hold her hand, because even if Pomni most likely forgave him, I don’t think he forgave himself. 

I think it would be interesting to see that same tension between Pomni and Jax through the next episodes, even through the events that will happen going forward. 

How it should have been obvious it was an adventure (If it truly was):

Honestly, I don’t know how I wasn’t able to spot the end plot twist, all the hints were right there. During the whole segment with Abel, I kept saying “This is giving cliché secret mission” and the hints were there: the lore with 2D graphics, the Abel voice over as Jax got the key, the whole reunion with papers scattered on the desk beforehand. It was all set up so narratively for the characters to follow, just like an adventure, yet I was still fooled and believed it was true (I still believe it was true though and Abel is just overdramatic with his mission, but I’ll come back to this. Also, Jax literally called it right off the bat. 

Caine’s office; an architectural (and emotional) masterpiece: 

Caine’s office just looks absolutely stunning. All the adventure orbs gave such a cool atmosphere to the whole room. I also think we got some great scenes from that office. The snow adventure orb from the trailer gave us our first (although inaudible) glimpse into Ribbit’s voice. This was confirmed with the credits that stated the VA for Ribbit’s character. I also saw some people try to decipher what was said during those muffled lines, so here it is 

“You are my best friend” 

“Do you think I care about us?” 

…

“IM NOT” 

Credits to this video because I was not able to hear anything during that scene, so shoutout: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Q2zicbn99o 

Also, I love that the “IM NOT” is right before Jax answers Pomni that he is doing great. Those lines also show that Jax had a very similar argument with Ribbit that he had with Pomni, which gives a whole new turn to the fight in ep6. 

Now let’s talk about the holding hands segment, I had one thought, not that I hated that part, just made me laugh, “Why are they pulling a friendship is magic moment?”. Though, as long as Jax didn’t join in, I think that scene was still in character for the cast .. as awkward as I felt during the start of that part. But I did really like Zooble and Gangle’s talk about the real world. I think it was well-placed for the events that were to come. It showed their hope that they were going to leave the circus and talking about the future awaiting them once they leave, just like Pomni and Abel when she told him she would get him a beer. Everyone was convinced that they would leave the circus (Yes even Jax, seeing his reaction at the end I was sure he also believed in the exit, but didn’t want it.) 

The button scene (and Jax’s flashbacks); a pure adrenaline rush:

Oh, that scene, it really was something. I want to start with analyzing Pomni’s reaction. She didn’t go to the buttons immediately, she even asked Kinger to press it. I think that right off the bat she had the feeling that it wasn’t as easy as it sounded and subconsciously tried to shift the responsibility to someone else. However, that did make her suspicious for the point of view of the others, but let’s say they had a bigger problem right behind them. 

Jax’s flashback sequence caught me so off guard, I was not expecting to see real world pictures in an animated show. Also, these like 3-4 shots sent the fandom into a huge theory spiral, which I’ll come back to later. I was very surprised when I saw him run, fully expecting him to press the blue button after seeing vivid shots of the real world, but after thinking about it, seeing those shots don’t make leaving so appealing. When Jax pressed the button, I still feel like he didn’t think about it or didn’t really want to press it. 

The ending: 

When the screen opened to reveal Caine my jaw was on the floor, as I said it was so predictable that it would be the plot twist, but I was still fully sure that something else would happen, like some kind of reset because of Jax’s choice. This ending, because of Jax’s crashout, brought up a lot of questions. First, Caine finally admitted to being able to control their minds, which Jax had already guessed back in episode 5, which brings up the question: to what extent can he control their minds. Like Pomni said, I do believe that he was the one that made them forget all their names, it would be the most logical explanation, even if he denies it. And Scratch? The first abstraction? Now that’s just a whole can of worms that opened in the last seconds of the episode. Now the thing is, I believe that Caine actually lied about this being an adventure and I think that he simply made that as a last minute cover up, and I’ll explain why in the theories. 

Why did I name this “How to gaslight everyone 101”: 

Now I am not just saying this to make myself feel better about failing all (but one) theories I had written. No, I think that this episode, along with all the teasers, Gooseworx’s tumblr posts, the trailer, were all made to “piss off” the theorists in the fandom, and this might be what would “divide the fandom” (even if I don’t think it was divided at all). First, the trailer was made to look extremely ominous and scary, which yes the episode was intense, but all the shots in the trailer were actually so out of context it was comical. To give a few examples that made me, and other fans, so scared were Zooble seeming disassembled, turns out they were just hiding, Kinger pointing at Pomni, turns out it was him asking if he had to press the buttons, the Chinese room, which was just a bit in the episode, and so on. As for the episode it played into a bunch of theories, what C&A really was, who was Abel and his involvement in the circus, only for it to be an adventure made up by Caine. The exit door at the beach that was..and does anyone know why,NOT IN THE ACTUAL EPISODE???

Anyways, I think this episode was made to lead everyone astray and it worked perfectly on me, making it such a fun experience to see how offtrack I was. 

Theory time! (yes, even after my failure last time):

Here is a list of some theories I have, not very fleshed out, but just some thoughts. 

-First I want to start with a non-theory, but an insane idea I had, which disclaimer, I don’t believe this will happen, I’m just basing this on the ending of the episode (and I might draw a joke comic of this cus ya). So, imagine that next episode, Caine just spawns and the same way he made Abel appear next to him, he makes Jax appear next to him and says “Thanks for playing your role of “annoying antagonist” so well! Now do that little quirk of yours.” Jax turns to the camera and says. “Hey, the viewers, Did I play my role well? Did you draw a lot of art and angsty fanfics? I know you did” and Caine just confetti-snaps him out of existence, leaving the cast absolutely confused. 

Anyway, end of the shower thought. This was not a theory, but I just had to share this goofy idea with the world. 

-Real theory time. As I said, I think that the episode being a cover-up could make sense for a few reasons. First, usually Caine has his whole speech ready for the end of adventures, but this time before leaving he just threw a gift basket and couldn’t even get the joke out right, like he was making it up on the spot. Also, I saw someone here on tumblr (ervikirvi) show that one of the food menu’s at spudsy’s was a hot dog with scratch’s face on it. Now I don't think that Scratch is Abel, but I think that before the locket fell, when we saw Abel look at it, it wasn't the hot dog, but was actually a picture of Scratch and Caine, to cover it up, changed the picture to the hot dog as a bad reference that the cast just wouldn’t get. So I think that the locket was also changed last second. 

- What did Jax’s flashback represent? Now this is something I’m still thinking about, I saw that a popular idea was that Jax actually hit someone with his car and ran away, which was why he didn’t want to go back to the real world, but i think that the flashbacks weren’t the sole reason he clicked the buttons. I think that there were two other factors that came into play. First he knew that since his friends abstracted, leaving the circus means leaving them behind, and second is that Caine was most likely controlling his, mind to some extent. Caine literally said he didn’t plan the blue button, because he knew someone would press the other. Now I think that the only part Caine controlled was the flashbacks that just played as the last drop to make Jax run. I think maybe those shots don’t represent a big part of Jax’s story, maybe it is just a bad day, but not a reason to stay in the circus, but since he was shown that part during a panic attack, the effect was much, much more present.

Anyway, I really rushed through writing this so it isn’t perfect, but I still wanted to post about this episode! If I get any more ideas for theories, I’ll do a follow-up. THANKS FOR READING!!

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[spawnbuddy-kee]

i was talking to my brother and mentioned the freak circus and bro called me childish (as a joke)

i dont think he knows anything about that game 💔

[bombrushblushin]

Oooooo I'd love to know more about your fallout OCs, if you wanna share! Do you mind giving a run-down on them? Red looks so cool :O Love characters with bows!

THANK YOUUU!! ill give info (featuring a few doodles as well) on all of them below the cut!!! beware, a lot of yapping incoming

Red

shes absolutely one of my favorites despite her being my newest and least drawn, she actually just started as a character by me telling my friend id play 76 if he made me an archer ghoul build, which he in fact did

before the war she was a bowhunter living in kentucky, she was going on a hunting trip in a forest in kentuckys appalachian region when the bombs dropped

for a good while she just wandered in ky before deciding to explore more of appalachia in the 2100s 

gradually over this time period she underwent ghoulification (as can probably be seen by her design /j)

she got her pip-boy from a dead vault 76 dweller she found soon after entering west virginia, depending on whether or not i really want 76 to be fully canon to my personal interpretation of the lore she also finds the overseers holotape message you find at the start telling you about the whole silo mission thing

after many years she decides to start making a guide on the newly evolved wildlife in appalachia, moiras wasteland survival guide style

when she finishes appalachias wildlife guide, she decides to journey to other regions of the wasteland to make more guides for each!! theyve taken a long time for whatever reasons, and for the fun of it she happens to be in a region during its main story (so california for 1 + 2, capital wasteland for 3, etc). because of this shes met all my other characters and theyve all had a part in making their regions wildlife guide!! 

the bow and arrow is her only weapon EVER. because i just like archery :] shes drawn with so many arrows because she genuinely keeps a crazy amount of arrows on her. she is NOT running out of arrows. inspired by me really hoarding arrows in 76 to the point of it actually starting to impact my carry weight

she was named after the red tailed hawk (which are common in kentucky!!)

she has been attacked by mothman multiple times. the first time scared the absolute shit out of her (based on whats happened to me in 76)

Kestrel Shepherd

unfortunately i really dont have much information on him or peregrine because i havent played through fallout 1 and 2 as much (because im bad at it 💔💔💔)

he was named after the american kestrel (the coloring reminded me a little bit of the vault jumpsuit)

hes also actually my shortest character because of this at 5'5

kestrel is transmasc!! he finds this out in the middle of looking for the waterchip during some late night conversation with ian and tycho

that was inspired by me originally having him set as female when i started fallout 1 and then how in fallout 2 all mentions of the vault dweller refer to him as male

where does he get hrt in the wasteland??? idk!!! maybe the followers of the apocalypse or something!! 

most stressed man ever. he constantly eyed the reminder of how much time he had to find the chip

despite that, still tried to help out wherever he could

Peregrine Shepherd

like with kestrel i dont have as much for her due to my severe lack of skill, but shes one my favorite designs

named after the peregrine falcon because she has a 10 in agility!! 

most likely focused more on melee fighting

her yellow body art is common in arroyo! its inspired by kestrels vault jumpsuit mostly. the obvious yellow stripe around the neck and down part of the middle of the chest, alongside the right shoulder side having bits resembling the gear notches on vault doors, the left shoulder has curves made to resemble the pauldron from the armored vault suit, and then both arms have marks inspired by the pip-boy (the one on peregrines left arm just gets covered by the actual pip-boy)

she loves to make jewelry! she made all of her allies something usually with blue, yellow, and green beads like her own. goris got little dangly things from his horns, marcus got a large necklace (which he still wears by the time of new vegas!), cassidy got a few bracelets (he acted annoyed by the idea of it which was why he got small bracelets, but secretly he really cherished them), and ill be SO honest i still havent really decided whats made for sulik. this also goes to explain her main party LMAO 

you know that classic promo image with the decorated t-51 helmet? she ABSOLUTELY has that. because of this she also decorated the APA she got from Navarro (which she also kept after the story. id imagine it becomes treated as a very important object like kestrels jumpsuit did)

peregrine had a LOT of doubt in her abilities, especially early on. she barely scraped past the temple of trials and talked cameron out of the final fight, something which she thinks about a lot. she wonders if she really should be the one searching for the geck.

Shiva Corvus

the second ever fallout character i made, one of my funniest moments was me finding out i had actually made my courier the same age as her, to which these messages came to be:

she took after her dad a LOT. she always had an interest in medicine, science, and helping others, so it came as no surprise when the goat test declared her as another vault medical assistant

shiva, especially when younger, would talk about the idea of leaving the vault to offer help to people on the surface. james tried to shoot down that idea VERY fast

as the medical assistant, shiva was actually taught a lot more than she wouldve been at that time as james was trying to set her up with everything she would need to know to hopefully take his place (or be jonas' assistant) when he left the vault

her last name is the genus crows fall under. i ended up associating crows with her because of the "one for sorrow" rhyme, which i found out was actually originally about magpies but i had first heard it as counting crows so the crow theme stuck

while caring a lot for others, she was also very easy to anger, alongside feeling that fighting someone was perfectly fine if they deserved it in her eyes. she got into a lot of fights with butch and his friends when younger, and after project purity was taken held a lot of anger towards the enclave and attacked them whenever she could. while in the vault butch every once in a while would come into the clinic while she was working to mess with her knowing she couldnt do anything back (damn you hippocratic oath and general healthcare code of ethics! /j)

thinking of the enclave, after they come in she immediately got power armor training from the brotherhood, nuked a random enclave patrol, and stole their power armor. she continued using anything stolen from them to the very end of the game. she thought her ass was DONE FOR when she got ambushed by them in vault 87 knowing she was equipped entirely with stolen enclave equipment. 

shiva was the greatest example of being too stubborn to die. she was close to death SO MUCH (probably her 3 luck /j) but would always push through somehow

about that, she keeps the original non-broken steel ending of the game and dies after turning on the purifier (the pitt and point lookout ARE canon for her though, just fall at some point during the main story, most likely between the time after trouble on the homefront and searching vault 87)

Callie Harris

she originated from me wanting to play broken steel but wanting shiva to stay dead in the story 💔💔💔

she grew up in vault 101, amata and shiva were her best friends

her name comes from callie splatoon and the harris' hawk. the callie part is actually because shiva originated as a splatoon character who was an octarian soldier who befriended callie during splatoon 2s story mode, and it was just a silly reference to that. she holds no other connections to callie cuttlefish

she has always been protective, very often also getting into fights with the tunnel snakes while growing up. this also affected her goat outcome and she ended up in vault security

the day shiva had to escape the vault, she tried to lead some security guards on a wild goose chase through the vault to give shiva time to get out. she was also in amatas group wanting to open the vault, and actually stole some gear from the security storage to protect them

after amata became the overseer and the vault was opened, callie left to start exploring the wasteland herself. at some point outside she meets back up with shiva and they travel together for a while

callie joined the brotherhood of steel and started training around the time shiva leaves for shenanigans in the pitt and point lookout. she shows enough potential to be let into the lyons pride too (first pride initiate to not die a horrible death /j)

she was involved in the battle for project purity + spent the two weeks afterwards waiting in the medical unit of the citadel by shiva (but like i said, she dies. skill issue /j) 

she gets promoted to a knight afterwards and then goes on to take the lone wanderers role in broken steel

after maxson becomes the elder it becomes clear that hes taking it in a different direction than elder lyons, of which lyons' was the one callie had joined the brotherhood to support. by the time of fallout 4 callie has left the brotherhood, but kept all of her gear and continues wandering the wasteland to protect anyone she finds

i havent had much time to develop this more but callie, amata, and shiva all had crushes on each other for a long time. nothing ever gets to come of it, NONE of them ever admit any feelings

Cillian Osprey

my very first fallout character!!! she actually originally was a splatoon oc (new agent 3) who i made my courier after a bit of playing as a joke, and now theyre the more developed cillian. whoopsies

as is probably usual for couriers she got some wacky amnesia from benny, she doesnt remember many life events before the delivery. they really dont mind it though for most of the story, until lonesome road aw yeahhh

she used to be skilled with pistols before the head injury, afterwards found them more difficult. they still tried to use guns for a while until the Straight Razor Incident. that was when they got attacked by a random raider outside of nipton, ran out of ammo, and resorted to just rushing them with a random straight razor they had (actual thing that happened to me in game). this was the moment cillian switched to being purely melee for the most part

their main weapon is the super sledge oh, baby!!! after old world blues they also start using christines sniper a lot

mentioning dlcs, in cillians version of the story they all come after the second battle of hoover dam, and VERY different order for the most part. for her it goes main story -> honest hearts -> old world blues -> dead money -> lonesome road

shes also my strongest character with a full 10 strength

her last name is a remnant from her splatoon oc days, i like to say she saw an osprey in a book and thought it and the name was cool and thus decided to make it that 

they sided with the ncr but arent really on any side id say. they dont feel like theyre really fit to lead an independent vegas for example

for a faction they most definitely are allies with, they are with the followers of the apocalypse!! they actually also hold a good amount of medical knowledge (had both a great and terrible time in big mt researching lobotomization) and after the entire story remains a courier with the followers!! 

theyre good friends with all of the companions but especially veronica. veronica taught her most of what she knows about unarmed fighting and they just probably got up to plenty of shenanigans together

Nora Sparrow

ill be so honest she makes the least sense of anyone here probably. my fallout 4 opinions are all over the place and i probably will eventually deviate from canon a LOT as i make more stuff about it

she actually holds a small resemblance to me because i decided to try to make the character look like me at first, but once i was deeper into the main quest i finally decided to just make her into a separate character and tried to change some details. she still has my nose and eye color though 

she isnt a lawyer in my version!! my nora instead also has a military background, first as a sniper and then later becoming a power armor engineer

that plays a lot into how she is after leaving vault 111 too. she mainly uses a sniper rifle (which i named the mind opener) and occasionally anything else on the off chance of running out of ammo for her main weapon 

nora has a hugeee interest in power armor. she has an entire collection in sanctuary hills and tinkers with it a lot (its kinda one of her connections to her old life LMAO)

she actually usually introduces herself as just sparrow (especially as the general of the minutemen) to the point a good amount of people think sparrow is her first name

piper romance. i ❤️ piper 

she joined the brotherhood for a bit. mostly for the free t-60. but she did think they sounded good for a while until eventually thinking "okayyy theyre a little extreme" and basically stopping going to them (outside of occasional prydwen visits for the shop)

despite that she never technically left them. after the minutemen blow up the institute she eventually visited the prydwen again and was immediately called to talk to a very angry maxson. she really did try to keep the relationship between the minutemen + bos stable but was unsuccessful. cue artillery fire on the prydwen 

name wise had the absolute least thought. i kept nora because i think its pretty and sparrow was from when i was playing as basically myself, didnt want to just go with robin, and thought "well sparrow sounds nice too" 

shes also a silver shroud fan. she had a decent amount of fun pretending to be him early on in the quest

probably wouldve added more doodles but i hit the mobile image limit and didnt feel like sending a bunch to myself on a different platform to get past it LMAOOOOO

[ikkothesilly]

Tadc ep 7 trailer analysis pt1:

Hello hello! As promised, here is the in depth analysis of the new TADC trailer that just dropped yesterday:D So obviously spoilers for the trailer

To preface this, take everything I say here with a grain of salt, I’m just going to be saying my theories and reactions more than anything, so don’t expect very profound thoughts. I’m just very excited about this episode to drop, and I think it’ll be absolutely insane!

(if you don’t want to read all this, just go to the end to see a summary of the important theories I put out)

Now let’s go play by play through the video!

Right at the start of the video (until the first glitch happened) I was pretty much just thinking: “No way it’s just the teaser remastered, that was a joke I didn’t want it to happen.” Boy was I wrong.

So I won’t talk about the beach scene repeating over and over again. 

Glitch #1: 

My reaction: “...OH HERE WE GOOOOOO” 

So obviously the mannequin is going to have quite the big role in the next episodes, I mean there wouldn’t have been such a long scene at the end of episode 5 (?) otherwise. So each person has a different speculation about whom this mannequin might be. I heard some people say it might be one of the characters that abstracted (mostly ribbit). I personally think it might be something less obvious. Since the mannequin is the default skin, I think, and follow me with this, that this might be someone from the outside world (like a developer of the circus’ program) that was able to gain partial access to the program. So they are in the game, but not stuck inside of it like the other characters. This would explain why it is a mannequin, as we know that character is the default, which means that it is the perfect costume to hide around adventures. I don't think this character, whoever it may be, is a villain, I think it might just be someone that is there to help the others escape.

Glitch #2:

My reaction: “Oh is it that one leak- (allegedly a post from gooseworx but I don’t know I just saw people talking about it, so I won’t show it here don’t sue me guys)....WHAT IS GOING ON WHAT”

So there is so much yet so little to talk about, I feel like this picture speaks of itself, but let’s take a look around. The first thing that struck me, and I’ll assume everyone else, was Jax’s face. It feels like he is alone in his room, but his face is just not the face of someone alone. It feels like he’s looking at something or someone and just got very scared or noticed something very, very wrong in his room. So I have a few theories as to the reason for his absolute distress. 

1- The key bucket. I’ll come back to it later, but in another glitch, we see a bucket full of keys. I strongly believe that it is Jax’s. If he had said bucket, I would assume that it would be somewhere in his room. So, what if he was just loathing in bed and when he turns around the bucket is simply gone…someone took it, but who? I’ll guess it might be Caine, but we could be surprised. 

2- Hallucinations (digital hallucinations/ref). We see the picture in the back, and I think that from a cinematic point, what if in the episode the camera just spins around and both Ribbit and Kaufmo are standing there. It would make sense for ti to happen, even if it isn’t Jax actually hallucinating. Since the pilot, we know that Caine has all seeing eyes, so during episode 6, even if he was hosting the award ceremony I think it it very likely he still knows about Jax’s panic attack, and at the same time know that he isn’t doing too well currently. We also know that Caine isn’t doing so well right now, so maybe instead of wanting everyone to enjoy themselves he starts going a bit crazy and decides to hurt them on purpose and we know how Jax reacts to the mere mention of Ribbit, so imagine seeing them “alive”. 

3- Someone came to tell him something and it wasn’t such good news. Someone (I don’t really have anyone in mind…maybe Kinger since the room is very dark.) tells him a news that is so bad he can’t even keep up his mask anymore, or he is just too tired to keep the tough guy act on. 

Now depending on when this scene is I have an idea. 

-See how his eyes are white? It might just be the lighting, but there are other instances where his eyes are white in every single shot we currently have of Jax in episode 7. 

Proof: 

In the beach scenes the eyes aren’t white, yet they are less yellow than usual if we look at his gloves in the same shade (compare to first picture), but if we assume that the beach is the very start of the episode and the scene in Jax’s room is happening after, I can put out a theory: the more Jax is stressed the more his eyes lose color. I think it can be a great visual representation of the expression “losing your spark” even if Jax’s character we came to know through the episodes wasn’t the nicest, like at all, that was what made his character. He was the “funny one”, so I think that if in the future episodes his personality changes it can be a great visual representation since the yellow eyes and teeth are a very distinct part of his character. So I think him losing those colors could be the same as gangle’s comedy mask breaking, but want to know the difference?? Gangle’s mask breaks easily, but always comes back, but for Jax it held on so long, I doubt it’ll be back once it’s gone.

(Now this was inspired by people saying his eyes are getting so much whiter since in the other episodes they were the same shade as his gloves, but maybe it really is just the lighting and I might be so wrong, keep this in mind, and you all get a pass to laugh at me if all this part was wrong)

Last part of this one scene (sorry I had way too much to say about Jax, he is my fav so sorry, I never said this would be unbiased analysis (I won’t be bashing any character though, I love all of them)) 

So, the polaroid in the back. Honestly, if episode 6 wasn’t enough to know Jax was just putting on the tough guy act, pretending he didn’t care about anyone, well this sets it in stone. If he actually meant not caring about Kaufmo’s abstraction and just not attending the funeral just tell me why he would have a huge polaroid of him in the back (also can someone explain to me if it just looks like a huge polaroid because of perspective or if it is actually a poster-sized polaroid.) Not only that, but the polaroid shows us more about Jax in other ways. First, this isn’t the first polaroid photo we see that is related to him, if you remember after episode 6, Glitch posted a picture where we see Jax throwing the picture away. I think that this picture makes a lot more sense now then it did before. I think that the fact he threw the picture this time, aside from the argument, is because he doesn’t want to make the same mistakes he did before, he changes the way he acts to not get hurt (doesn’t work very well as we can see, but I digress) and once again (i love visual representations okay) we can visually see the way he acted with his old friends vs with pomni, because he doesn’t want to get hurt by losing her after he lost the other two to abstraction the first he held onto the other he threw away immediately (I'll come back to this). Here is the clearest picture I could get of the picture in the trailer and the one posted after episode 6.

Now a question does come up: How can he get so many pictures if, aside from the huge camera bubble was holding in ep6, no one is ever seen with a polaroid camera. I think that these pictures aren’t real, not that they don't physically exist, but more so in the way that I think Jax made them exist after the event in the picture. Remember in ep6 when Kinger just made up the healing butterfly, well I think that this is the same thing, he wanted pictures so he made them up. 

Honestly I was not expecting him to actually be friends with Kaufmo. I knew he pretended not caring, but I didn’t know he was actually friends with him, but great twist. 

FINALLYY let’s move on (the second glitch took like 2h to write…I have 19 more to do)

Glitch #3:

My reaction: “Oh cool ass door .. oh wait that’s Caine’s office.. Wait why does he need an office?”

So way less to say about this, after some thoughts I think it does make sense for him to have an office, after all he is the one in charge of the whole circus, so even if it is for show it’s understandable why he has one. The only thing I don’t understand is why none of the characters ever mention the office? Maybe it’s new? Or it is meant to be hidden from them.

Glitch #4:

My reaction: “Oh here is the little thing back again”

I think this just comes to follow up my first theory that the cast is being watched by this “NPC” but i think it must be harder for them, since in this adventure there isn’t a single mannequin on the beach so they have to hide. Not much to say except for that.

Glitch #5: 

My reaction: nothing. Just caine.

I literally have nothing to say, it just looks like Caine is being Caine. I think this is very much meant to try to throw us off because I don’t see anything unusual in that small shot. 

So this is super long (almost 1800 words) so I’ll cut it up into parts because I forgot how much of a yapper I truly am.

THEORY RECAP (for the people saying: I aint reading allat)

-the mannequin is a C&A employee; a developer for the digital circus

-Jax’s eyes will keep getting whiter as the episode goes on

-Jax got stolen his bucket of keys from his room

Or

-He starts hallucinating Ribbit and Kaufmo

-Jax can control their reality in the same way Kinger seems to be able (he spawned those two polaroid from above just because)

There is so much more that I said, but these are the notable ones/some of the ones I believe the most.

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