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I would like to add my own two cents as to why this has a bit of an unintended harmful message: the fact that Caine pulls the blue AI from inside of his head.

Prior to this scene, there wasn't really anything to indicate that these two are meant to be two separate beings unless you count the various glitching eye scenes, so up until the part where he pulled the Blue AI from his head: The audience already has the impression internalized that Red had long since assimilated Blue with him, and one cannot exist without the other--a sort of symbiotic relationship.

Creative, and Logical. Two parts of the brain.

So seeing Caine pull out the Blue AI from his head, gave off the impression that he simply needed to let go of the "bad" parts of himself that made him the selfish, egotistical, sociopath; rather than work to balance the good and bad parts of himself.

Yeah, I can get behind the idea of Red letting Blue go, because Blue was the first prisoner, and was never Caine. This is however, a bit hard to believe that they are meant to be separate beings; especially when Blue was speaking in "I", rather than referring to Caine as "we" (speaking as if they're two beings in one body, like Venom in a sense)-- until Caine pulled it out and started to refer to it as "you".

With how the show presented the issue at hand, it made episode 6's messaging null.

Personally, since Red and Blue has co-existed for the last 20+ years, I really would've gone down the path of "equilibrium". Blue does not know how to exist outside of Caine, and does, in fact, consider itself as part of Caine, but it's one that he represses due to guilt and fear. Balance Red with Blue, because one cannot be "pure good".

It ties back to episode 6's messaging:

Gangle: I just wish that... (sighs) How are you supposed to like the part of yourself that just... makes you worse than everyone else?

Zooble: ...'Cause it exists. It's a part of you that's real, and the only "you" that you should care about is the real you. You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural. It's intentional.

Caine would never be able to undo the damage he wrought, especially to his first prisoner, because now that experience has become a part of him, literally and figuratively speaking.

But what he can do, is accept that bad part of him that lashed out, recognize the feeling, and do what he can to make it right; and he can realize that he'd long since possessed humanity. Humans are flawed, but they also need freedom because that's part of what makes them alluring.

Only then, can true healing happen.

But ofc, I'm not Goose. People say pacing is the show's biggest issue, but I'd actually argue that there is another issue present within Goose's writing: narrative inconsistencies that she doesn't think about, like Jax's age not exactly matching up.

Is he 22 when he went in the circus, or is he 22 now? It's never clarified and is even treated like a joke of "shit, I didn't think about that" by Goose.