Leafy's Silly Comic Space

I’ll probably take a bit more time before doing a full breakdown of Episode 7. You know, I have some things I need to deal with in rl. So for now, I want to briefly talk about what I think is the most important scene. This scene really confused me at first, so I’ll try to explain it the way I personally understand it.

So, in one of the final scenes, we see the moment where Jax presses a button tied to a choice: the characters can either leave the Digital Circus or stay in it. In the end, Jax presses the red button, which means everyone stays in the circus.

And I believe this choice was not entirely his own.

I’ve already made a post about this topic, but I’ll say it again: I’m convinced that Caine can influence the players’ consciousness within the framework of the adventures. And this episode clearly supports that idea.

If we look closely at the scene, we can see that Jax is in an extremely vulnerable state, basically, a panic attack. In that condition, a person’s mind is much easier to manipulate. And what’s important is that Caine has done this before. For example, the moment when Jax became a vegan he didn’t even notice it himself. That tells us Caine already knows that Jax is very susceptible to suggestion and instructions.

We see Caine start showing Jax strange fragments of memories. Honestly, I still can’t fully make sense of them. We see a road, a car, a dark forest, possibly memories from his real life. But the exact details aren’t the main point. What matters is that Caine is deliberately influencing Jax’s subconscious, pushing him toward the decision Caine wants.

As a result, Jax presses the button.

And the key moment is his reaction right after the adventure ends. He turns to the others and clearly doesn’t understand why he did it at all. This reaction is almost identical to the one he had after the vegan situation. In other words, the realization only comes once the adventure is over and Caine’s influence stops.

That’s exactly why Jax later says to Caine that he can react to their subconscious. He doesn’t say this randomly, he says it because he didn’t want to press that button. The understanding came only afterward.

So this is the conclusion I draw:

Caine really can affect the characters’ subconscious inside the adventures, using certain “codes” or triggers, but outside of them, he can’t directly change their minds. I actually talked about this in one of my previous posts and thank you so much to everyone who discussed it, I really appreciated it!!

Now, briefly about a few other points.

At the very end, Kinger mentions the first character who abstracted. And Caine’s reaction to that is very strange. I assume that the first abstracted character was under Caine’s influence. Caine is an AI, which learns through tests, mistakes, and observation. It’s possible that this character was used to understand what abstraction actually is, whether such a person poses a threat to others, and what should be done with them afterward.

I also think it’s pretty obvious that Abel was a planted element of Caine’s adventure, that was clear from the very beginning. Even in the pilot episode, we were shown that Caine has literally all-seeing surveillance. His office, the “eyes,” the cameras, it all looks like the characters are living under thousands of surveillance cameras controlled by Caine alone. They’re being watched constantly. So the idea that the adventures are fully controlled, and that escaping the circus is almost impossible, was clear from the start.

I also want to add one more thing:

If these adventures are merely Caine’s imagination, then that means he has already figured out what all the circus characters are capable of. Or maybe he wanted to see how far they would go for a chance to escape.