I LOVE the little detail of TADC creating it's own rules for Caine and then breaking them at the end for max effect on the audience
What do I mean?
In the entire show, Caine is always shown 'teleporting' by swirling around himself and then slowly getting smaller until he disappears fully, accompanied by a sound effect
This is shown to us a crazy amount of times in ep8 alone: FIVE, which is way more than usual
1: After he talks to Kinger in the flashback
2: After Ragatha arrives
3: After his banger musical number
4: After he brings Kinger back to the group
5: And after he torments the others
The show does this in order to get us used to this mechanic of Caine's 'powers', to let us know that this is how he works when he wants to disappear
Why?
To make this moment as uncanny and uncomfortable as possible
Suddenly, Caine is just gone. No swirl, no gradual change in size, no sound effect, nothing. Silence. He's just gone.
The show creates its own rules, establishes it's own way of working, and then just abandons them all at once
It makes the audience uncomfortable. It allows us to have an emotional response when the norms that have been established are broken
It's just really great. I'm probably not explaining this well, but I love when media does things like this
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Also read my analysis on why I DON'T blame Caine for ep8!
