he forgit it at home

I feel like I almost never see anyone who criticizes this show address how weird it is that Pomni's relationship with Kinger, a mentally ill man with what is implied to be some form of dementia, is basically "I literally couldn't care less about him unless he's lucid, which is when 'the real Kinger' is here and when he actually matters to me."

I know that's very uncharitable towards Pomni but, considering they only had one moment of bonding in Episode 3, followed by very little interaction between them, the fact that she doesn't push back even a little on the way Jax talks about Kinger in Episode 6, the fact that she mentally debated giving Kinger an access pass in Episode 7 and based her decision on whether or not it would be dark in the console room, and the fact that she reacts to Kinger becoming lucid in Episode 8 as if "the real Kinger" was gone this whole time, It Feels Bad.

I think Kinger could've been an eccentric sillyguy with memory issues without the implication that his presence in the narrative only actually ever matters when the "real Kinger" is present.

Also, the show uses Kinger's presence for inconsequential comedy 95% of the time, and the remaining 5% for angsty moments or exposition dumps, and expects those moments to hit as hard as they would have if this character wasn't played for laughs everywhere else.

Outside of Pomni and Ragatha's interactions with him, he's barely treated like he even exists by the other characters, and when they do acknowledge his existence they have no serious care for him at all. It's not just Jax who writes him off as "the crazy one", Gangle and Zooble don't seem to care too much about him either.

The only person who is consistently nice and close to him even while he's not lucid is Ragatha. But that then begs the question of why Ragatha doesn't know Kinger becomes lucid in darkness? She's been here, with him and Caine as constant presences, for nine years.

And on that note, why doesn't anyone ever hang out with Kinger in his fort? The fort where he's in the darkness? Because the fact that no one else knew Kinger becomes lucid in darkness genuinely just seems to imply no one cares enough about him to get to know him or spend time with him. Like, for instance, Zooble.

Zooble, who is emotionally mature and compassionate enough to tell Gangle that she needs to learn to love herself despite it all, is like "uhh what? Kinger gets sane in darkness? Thats crazyyyy I didnt know that (implication: my care for others only goes so far and I never really gave a shit about him before)."