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Happy gay month to my fellow gays. Been doing some pride doodles.

A lot of people have been saying how much they don't like how the SOMA theory turned out to be canon and I myself have been kinda mildly dissatisfied with it, just a bit, and also thinking "how could you kill two birds with one stone: both have the idea of finding peace in stagnant life (with it being the point of og tadc) and also having soma-esk story or something that wouldn't be using people in pods thing" and I came to the conclusion that characters should have been digitized versions of themself. Like, their minds literally being transfered into a digital space and physical bodies destroyed. This would also be imo kinda interesting with characters having different reasons as to why they ended up in a circus (terminal illness, dissatisfaction with life, search for adventure, yearning for immortality and etc).

Another thing I would personally correct is the abstraction as a concept. It is so... Unclear to me and what it exactly represents. Is it going insane? Is it suicide? Is it something else? This is one of the key concepts that goes unexplained in the show and I think the explanation for it could have been very easy, actually. Abstraction as literal corruption. A person going beyond the code in some way that leads to them abstracting which would include actual physical conditions like Scratch's brain tumor and weird thinking that lead to him corrupting himself (that could also explain as to why Kinger did not abstract btw! Because he described himself as having very "in the box" thinking that he could have retained even after going a bit nuts). Or even just many big mental breakdowns that would corrupt a person into abstracting (like with Kaufmo). Also could explain as to why someone like Caine, pure ai, could not possibly abstract. Because he never was based on a human mind and since immune to abstraction since he cannot go beyond the program that much.

Both these things kinda require more time to explore I think but this is a character driven show ffs and it would add to as to WHY people are in the circus exactly.

This could also give validity to Caine who saw C&A employees abstracting so he started messing with the memories of the newer cast members and deleting parts of their memories (names and maybe reasons why they are here) so they wouldn't be miserable the entire time here. I believe that at the end of the day, despite Caine being flawed, he cared for the circus cast and would do something like that.

A very quick redesign/rewrite idea I had for Caine. May or may not do others but I probably won't. Other ramblings under cut.

1. Holy shit ep 7 does not need to be this anti-fandom. It could be a simple switch into characters coming to the decision that they want to escape, then they somehow end up in a dark room and the ep ends on a cliffhanger with Kinger saying "guys wtf are you talking about we ain't leaving fr"

2. Less focus on Jax. Pomni should be the POV character and she can stay fairly boring/plain (not a bad thing!) and episodes can be her having an interaction with each cast member and getting to bond with them. Kinda like the Scary Mansion and the Guns episodes.

3. Personal thing (but also popular opinion) but all the characters do read as white. More cultural references would be nice. Worst part is honestly how even white characters read as too white. Give Ragatha some farmer/cowgirl/country flare, she can stay white but also why would you not want her country background to shine through. But for non-white folks: I'm sure there are indian references to be made in Gangle (I'm kinda a sucker for indian culture I'll be real and this is baffling to me how she is leaning into the eurocentric opera stuff). I'm sure there is also black culture that can be incorporated into Zooble (not sure about design but they could 100% use more AAVE). Like, come on.

4. Remove Caine claiming the characters are human. This would lean into him being clueless/a bit dumb instead of straight up malicious and his phrase of "I wouldn't be able to tell humans n ais apart" would make sense. Because "humans" and "npcs" do not REALLY have that much differences between each other. Also fuuck give him a better redemption arc.

5. Ok personal thing but maybe a character who is indeed an ai NOT based on a real person? Would be interesting to explore. Like, an ai Caine created and who slipped through the cracks.

It's just so rich of Goose to say how she specifically chose 9 episodes bc she didn't want to do any lollygagging or stretch out the series but she managed to cram in this massive 30 minute nothing burger of an episode.

It is also a "it was all a dream" type episode. While I don't think that it is always a bad trope, 99% of the time it's absolute DOGSHIT and ep 7 did not pull it off.