Ig all I do on here is just ramble about Caine now
Why I don't blame Caine AT ALL for what happened in episode 8
I know, CRAZY take, but just hear me out...
People say that Caine is selfish, that he's a narcissist, that he only pretends to care about the humans because he wants to 'stroke his own fragile ego' and get validation about his adventures
Most of this is true, BUT, that doesn't make him evil
Because that isn't his fault.
Caine is an AI, an AI programed ONLY to create things, ideas, environments, etc for humans. He was NOT programed to understand, comprehend, or feel human emotions
Whenever Caine feels an intense human emotion, or is confronted with an intense human emotion by one of the cast, he breaks
He glitches out, the Circus begins to deteriorate around him, until it seems that his AI resets itself and he seems to have no recollection of the events that caused him to buffer
This may also be why he can't remember Zooble's dislike of their own body in ep3, or why he forgets about the suggestion box in ep4
Zooble talking about their insecurities to him and the group suggesting more human adventures might have triggered one of these buffers, as we are explicitly shown that Caine is unable to comprehend or feel human emotion for too long before breaking and awakening to amnesia
This is what happened in ep8, he succumbed to his negative intrusive thoughts (shown through Bubble) and has an angry emotional breakdown, before his AI resets again, and he's back to his normal self before the cast berates him and he sings his musical number
Caine is an AI, programed only to create, not to feel. Not to comprehend
He doesn't understand that he made a mistake with his adventure in ep7, he doesn’t understand why everyone is angry at him, why they antagonize him, why no one seems to appreciate all of the work that he puts into genuinely trying to make them happy
That's why I can't blame him for ep8.
He didn't ask to be created, or hated, or tormented, or misunderstood. He was created for a different purpose than what the everyone wants from him
Literally everything that he does for them is hated
He doesn't know how to appeal to them or how to do anything human because he physically cannot understand or give the cast's desires to them
He can't even try to understand.
He isn't allowed by his programming to understand.
gummygunk
germansingergirl
romaincrisis
dededos
annaxmalina
janainaart
areudirty
origamiaround
