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[mad-not-disappointed]

Gummigoo after finding out he's an NPC: my whole life was a lie.. what about my mother? my family? my memories? were any of those real? is my only purpose in life to entertain real people while i suffer in this stagnant existence? am i destined to live out the rest of my life with the knowledge that i've never been a real person?

the main cast after finding out they were brain scans and not real people: oh no. anyway

[vialivi]

Kinger and Caine could have had such an intricate relationship…just an idea

Kinger is horrified of, and probably even scared of Caine. He doesn’t understand him and doesn’t know how to approach or “”take care”” of him because, deep down, he feels responsible for both Caine and the trouble he causes for everyone else. Caine isn’t a normal human child. He’s something entirely different, beyond Kinger’s understanding, and Kinger simply doesn’t have the tools to reach him. And the power imbalance doesn’t make things easier.

When I create something and it becomes more than I ever intended, what am I supposed to do? What do I owe the people my creation hurts? And what do I owe the creation itself?

Caine resents Kinger and doesn’t know how to interact with him either. And sucks at “taking care” of him too. Kinger would much rather have other humans to be with.

Instead, it’s just… Caine apparently fucked off to another dimension and left Kinger alone until Ragatha showed up. To the point Kinger forgot his own name. We don’t know Caine’s side of the story so that just looks borderline sadistic and so OOC?? (This makes absolutely no sense. He would not give up on being a ringmaster and making adventures for years, even if there were only one human left. That’s his entire identity). Kinger did nothing wrong ever. So instead of a complicated relationship between two people hurting each other, it’s just Caine being an egoistic evil machine. And he fixes that and achieves redemption by scrolling instagram. CHARACTER DRIVEN SHOW—

[fizzlewizard404]

Raggedy Roan

[squimbini]

Go Ragatha, go!

After episode 9, I really wanted to draw Ragatha actually being happy especially after my last drawing of her. I also used this as practice to draw some more dynamic poses.

(I know that Ragatha was wearing an orange dress, but it looked much better against the background with the OG style)

[mad-not-disappointed]

TADC consistency be like

Ragatha gets impaled: no pain

Pomni gets thrown out the truck and has to hold onto two vehicles: pain

Kinger gets hit by knives: no pain

Zooble burns their hand on the stove: pain

Jax tortures everyone: pain? no pain? idk but it doesn't matter because Jax can do whatever she wants

Caine tortures everyone: PAIN

[viccalderaa]

EDIT CAUSE I FEEL LIKE THIS ISN’T CLEAR: This is a slight exaggeration lol. It is not the worst show ever, but when it’s flawed, it’s flawed, and that kills me because it is a show with a lot of potential. Bleh

Ragatha is my absolute favorite, and YES, I understand she’s not the main character blah blah blah, but I have never had a favorite side character that has felt so underserved by the writing hooooly smokes

No hate to anyone who likes it, I get it. I like the concept for sure and was hella interested in the plot when I first started, but as a writer, some aspects of the show make me feel like I’m getting hit over the head with a shovel. And I do not have anyone to talk about this with because everyone I know who watches it does like it a lot, and I feel mean criticizing it, so I don’t say anything

Ragatha best character. Kinger second best. My goats..

[winterpeta1s]

tadc fans shouldn't be allowed to perceive Ragatha

[kishinera]

drawing my 2 favorite tadc characters :D

I relate to them both quite a bit haha

[vialivi]

I really, really dislike TADC’s writing but I’m so obsessed with the badly written buffoons Ragatha and Caine that they refuse to leave my mind. What does that say about me as a person 😐

[bluequeerio]

I love Ragatha more than I hate Jax btw

[littlevioletart]

love you Ragatha

Hiii, I’m finally free from exams ✌️

[raggadollie]

like what if they were a little self-aware

[garlicnoodle1]

“You were one of the best things to ever happen to me in this circus” Raise your standards, Ragatha.

[saeculacrossing]

I wish Ragatha had been in a better show. It's so painfully clear that the show thought they were being subversive in the idea of a "deconstructing the people pleaser archetype" but the writing is not good enough to carry it through the finish line. And that archetype only works if you have good foils and contrasts again them (Pomni and Jax are neither). Ragatha is a punching bag throughout the show, her feelings and experiences are minimized, people claim that she's insincere because she's not ALWAYS upfront with her feelings like most human beings, and apparently even in the past everyone like Ribbit and Kaufmo favored Jax? And she was in the right to be worried about Pomni's friendship with Jax. ...That doesn't even go into the fact that she was apparently friends with Jax and he was supposedly less of an asshole at some point, neither of which that we see. Her entire character for the last half of the show is unimportant and diminished. She doesn't even get a reaction, good or bad, to knowing that Kinger, one of the people she's closest to had a hand in why all of them are trapped there??? We spend 95% on Jax's nonsense and all I can wonder is how Ragatha didn't abstract? That would've been a tragic yet satisfying follow up to the idea that the worst thing you can do is make someone feel like they're unloved. Jax is not unloved. He's prioritized to the point where it defies reason. His demons are his own. Ragatha has seen multiple people abstract, is the second longest human at the circus and feels constantly isolated and blames herself for it. Such a frustrating lack of conclusion to a character with so much potential.

[mad-not-disappointed]

adding to this, i also want to mention that i think the reveal that the circus was a "creative AI project" was Gooseworx's attempt at subverting expectations, but it failed spectacularly.

i think the original idea was to make it a videogame for kids. that explains the censoring and inability to use profanity, it explains the zany circus setting, it explains why Caine himself is very childish because he was programmed that way, it explains the adventures, the NPCs, the theme song, why random people were able to enter this place through just a computer and a pair of headphones, etc.

but then people started predicting this, and maybe the team thought that the plot twist wouldn't hit if everyone already predicted what was going to happen.

here's the thing though: a predictable twist is always better than a twist that comes out of nowhere. if your audience can predict the big twist, that's a good thing because it means you're writing the story well enough for them to follow.

i remember Steven Universe got clowned on because the Pink Diamond twist was "too predictable". already i don't think that was true because it was just ONE person who predicted that twist. and even if it was predictable, it doesn't matter because the twist lines up with the rest of the story. it makes sense for the plot as a whole.

but not every writer sticks to their plans when they find out that people have predicted the twist. instead, they scrap the original idea and try to create another twist, but end up ruining their own story for the sake of shock value.

probably the biggest example of this is Game of Thrones, where everyone was so upset by the finale, because it completely shits on every character's arc just for the sake of shocking the audience. (i haven't actually watched GoT so this is all just me regurgitating online discourse)

and this is all speculation but i fear that's what Gooseworx has done too. it makes no sense to reveal that the circus was an AI project of a man who had a brain tumor and wanted to transfer his consciousness into a... kid's game-esque circus where they can't cuss or use profanity? and they're sent on adventures everyday where they get tortured? why??

even if the "scary adventures" was solely Caine's creation, i don't really see the point of Scratch wanting to spend the rest of his life in a digital world where the only thing he can do is be a wacky circus character and play games. why wouldn't he broaden the horizon? also why did he program it so that people in this world can feel pain? wasn't the whole point to escape a painful and torturous illness?

and it's fine if we got an answer to any of this. maybe circuses were Scratch's special interest. maybe he was a devout catholic and that's why he didn't want anyone to cuss in this world. but we'll never know any of that because the show doesn't bother to explain.

[garlicnoodle1]

“Guess you get to still hang out with MOMMY after all, right Rags?” KEEP MY WIFE’S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH

[koopazap]

Idc this should’ve been in the show.