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Showtime meme's I made hehehe... I loved making these

I can't find the og post, but I don't really get the sentiment of "Digital Circus' biggest mistake was that it was written as a niche show" like... Shouldn't that mean that it should have a really, REALLY good narrative nonetheless? So that it's a piece of hidden gem that you should share with your friends because it's THAT good?

Hate to break it to ya, but TADC being written as a "niche show that went mainstream accidentally" won't save it from the amount of plot holes, character assassinations, and messaging inconsistencies it has.

Maybe this could've been prevented if Goose kept her mouth shut about answering certain parts of the cast, but still. The finale ruined every episode with a meaningful message in it, and I'll list it down:

"The worst thing you can do in this world is make anyone feel unwanted or unloved", and "I don't want anyone to feel that way"

Caine was made to feel this way by Pomni and friends and wasn't given an apology (double empathy problemmmmm)

" Accept the good and bad parts of you"

Caine ripped out the bad part of himself

"Relationships are a two-way street"

apparently not because Jax still had Pomni and friends.

Not to mention, there's no effort of understanding Caine by the humans' end.

Ragatha barely gets any form of comfort either, before it shifts to another person. Ragatha ALWAYS has to be the one to comfort someone

"Caine is an AI who does not understand humans"

He was torturing them willingly and not willingly at the same time? And welp, guess he just needed the internet and to rip out the blue AI, in order to be perfectly capable of understanding them

The humans are very hypocritical and do not get to change their ways. The circus remains the way it is, the only one who truly changed is Caine. This isn't "finding meaning in a stagnant life", this is "compromising until you've stripped away half of what you are in order to make people accept you"

God, I look like I'm glazing Caine so much, even though I'm trying so hard not to. But everything this show tried to do with Jax, worked a lot better with Caine because of how Goose set the character narrative up to be-- but even with Caine's redemption, it's so lackluster and unsatisfying.

“It doesn’t come to me naturally..”

More of my TOH x TADC AU Showtime!!!

An alternative ending to episode 8

Hmm I wonder who my favourite character is

I love how they make him pose so much he's so dynamic and fun 😭😭😭 I hope I get to the point where I can draw him as expressive as I want him to look because GAAAH

I don’t think we ever heard a genuine laugh from Caine before, it’s always like- exaggerated or for show. (Not complaining, I find it endearing and funny)

That’s what made me think of this idea. It makes sense for this particular Caine to take on more human attributes. :)

Yeah, I know, a little ugly-

Like, "he's an AI, we can't gauge how he thinks" when it comes to understanding him, BUT "why doesn't he just get what we mean??" when they want something from him.

Caine is a sentient/sapient highly intelligent AI, but he still needs clear instructions on some things. His understanding of what "relaxing"/"normal"/"mature" is could be very different from how the humans perceive it. So I consider it unfair when they judge someone who's basically an alien for having problems with comprehending real world concepts. Especially when they don't even try to actually explain it to him in a way that he could understand.

Hell, I'm an autistic human and I struggle with the same thing! If you want me to do something, don't be vague about it. I can't do what you want me to do unless you give me details!

Sure, the issue with Caine is also about him not listening to the others, but up until episode 8 he was still willing to cooperate on some things. He created a separate adventure for Kinger in ep 4, he stopped making horror stuff after Pomni asked him to, he was fixing Gangle's mask without her saying anything, he created games for them (like tennis/badminton stuff), he made a cafe that seems to only be for the humans, etc.