Are you planning on making an analysis on how Ragatha and relationships were handled in ep9? Or maybe a post about her in general, now that the show has ended?
"It should have been me" Ragatha said, like I wouldn't have dropped the show immediately if something had happened to her. And don't get me started on Ribbit. Jax has done so many bad things that the longer I think about him the more I hate him and that probably wasn't the intention for the rabbit
The way all the female or female presenting characters act about Jax is something so confusing to me.
Like, with Ragatha, we know she hates herself so her blaming herself for what happens, feeling responsible and saying it should have been her is in character but the way nobody checked on Jax before he abstracted is so weird, because if this is the version of Ragatha youre giving me then that is something she would do. And she would offer to join in with Pomni in trying to keep him under control or bring him back. Cause in ep 7 and 8 they were all about not letting him isolate and teaming all up together... just ooc for plot movement reasons.
Now about Ribbit and Pomni thats what confuses me. I watched the flashback bits, Ribbit gets attached to Jax quite quickly, brings him with them everywhere and makes Jax join in the friendship with Kaufmo (Ragatha is nowhere to be seen ofc even though shes supposedly around their age and the only other person there is Kinger and there are no hints that she has any issues or beef with anybody but yk). Right, so, there's nothing about "recently joined Jax" that makes me go ohh Ribbit likes him for a reason. The show tells you that he didn't laugh or smile at all until Ribbit managed to get him to. He wasn't opening up. Then in the scenes of their friendship, Jax simply doesn't come across as likeable even there, they're in Ribbit's room, things get deep, first thing Jax does is avoid the topic with some dialogue "you know i dont do deep stuff".
Ribbit is pouring her heart out and he's trying very hard to keep things superficial (though i have issues with the convo itself not being as deep as it wants to come across), thats how he was already treating them BEFORE he revealed his own vulnerabilities and started pushing Ribbit away, he was already all about not taking what's serious seriously and dismissing what Ribbit wanted to say.
There's nothing that they've showed me about Jax that makes me understand why all these characters get so affected by him or by not having him.
So he pushes Ribbit away, we get a whole long segment of Ribbit trying very hard to keep the friendship going only for her to get rejected time and time again. There's a big argument where Jax is ultra paranoid and accuses her of a lot of stuff when she brought up the topic of their friendship. But after all that it still takes a while for Ribbit to really abstract.
Ribbit abstracted because Jax pushed them away. Ribbit had friends, had Kaufmo and seemed to get along with Ragatha in that crumb of a second we saw. And there was nothing about Jax implying that he was a wonderful friend.
And yet, not having Jax was enough for her to get so depressed she abstracted. Which okay, could be a good depression isolation metaphor if you want to believe that
But then we go to Pomni. She knew Jax for a few weeks by ep 6. Everything she saw about Jax was him acting at his worst.
(Ragatha sort of implies in ep 5 that he didn't use to be this way, though thats funny cause even in the flashback he wasn't that much better, just tamer)
Early eps Pomni saw Jax as a bully and didn't like him much but only when he was bullying her specifically. by ep 5 she sees a "softer" side of him and starts finding him funny and by ep 6 she confronts him about not admitting that "he actually cares about her and they have a real deep friendship" (why. whyy. you dont know this person)
Pomni gets very affected by the whole i don't care about you thing that Jax says. She asks him if her abstraction would affect him. They don't know each other like that. But Jax is clearly not that inhumane. She probably reminds him of Ribbit. He says he wouldn't care but backtracks saying its a joke.
From then on, despite the confrontation, there is no Jax and Pomni tension. She's set on saving him, on being his savior. And Jax portrays her in his mind as an exaggerated version of that.
Pomni's final and only role is putting all of her effort in trying to save Jax, that's what shes there for, that's what she's become. She cries for him. Ragatha cries for him. Gangle cries.
And though i do like Jax or the concept and potential of how he could've been; all these characters (unless they're all desperate to not be alone and blame themselves for everything like Ragatha does) loving him like that make no sense to me
If Ragatha abstracted, everyone in that circus would implode, from Jax to Pomni and even Kinger.
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without Ragatha in ep 1, Pomni wouldn't have lasted this long. Imagine you're Pomni stuck in this "videogame", lost and confused, and your first and only company are Jax, Kinger, Gangle, Zooble and Caine. They're cool but they're also all too in their own heads to try to help you get used to the place, or remember that you need help. And Caine is Caine. Ragatha does a lot of the heavy lifting in the circus AND narratively for the story
