stars in song.

TADC THE LAST ACT SPOILER, I AM WARNING YOU NOW

I want indie productions to thrive and be successful. I want that so much, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I just don’t know that this is the right way to do that.

Glitch’s statement that they were pushing for a closer release “for the sake of the fans” or whatever sits a little strangely with me. It solidifies that they did know we’d have a spoiler problem, but were not willing to give up the theater run over it.

The hype on indie projects is largely upheld by their fans. Knowingly throwing many of the fans that made the project so popular and loved in the first place to the wolves (i.e. fans with worse internet manners) is obviously going to make them feel like they’ve been slighted by the very thing they love, and cause them to be wary of other indie works in the future.

TADC’s merch runs have been well-supported. I see merch multiple times a week in physical stores. I’ve even seen a ton of people dream up other merch ideas and get thousands of “yeah, i’d buy that so fast” comments.

How do you release a show on the internet without knowing what the internet is like?

1. still, WHAT.

2. i did feel bad for Caine in his breakdown, but at the same time, he’s insistent that he’s doing his best to do things the humans will enjoy, but then actively refuses to listen to them when they try to tell him what they do want, so… is he really doing everything he thinks he is? is he even actually capable of doing that? is this why he was only deemed “semi-successful”?

3. what tf IS Bubble even?

4. “We have to abandon the idea of getting out” at the beginning, to The Circus actively disintegrating at the end is such a wild set of bookends. This show is written so incredibly well.

5. Jax’s “Oh my god, this is real.” meltdown means that at some point, he genuinely deluded himself into thinking of this whole thing as a game, probably to cope with the previous abstractions. poor bunny.

6. does Kinger getting censored when he cursed about accidentally deleting Caine mean that Caine hasn’t actually been deleted, or that there is some other yet-unseen entity in charge of that (and presumably, other functions of The Circus?