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In episode 5, Ragatha speaks about her mother's verbal abuse, and everyone except Jax stares at her. Even Pomni, who is supposed to be her best friend, stares in silence instead of comforting her. In episode 6, Ragatha is the only one bothered by Pomni’s friendship with Jax—she feels jealous and worries about Pomni's well-being while the other members don’t care. Pomni befriends Jax and indulges him, which should’ve become a bigger issue because she overlooks his abusive behavior since it doesn’t directly affect her. In the following episode, Jax is the only one affected by his fight with Pomni; he nearly abstracts over it, yet the show never mentions this significant moment again.

In episode 8, Zooble is the only one who cares about Jax pushing the red button and wanting to keep them trapped forever in the circus. However, Gangle and Pomni quickly quell their anger, acting as if being angry at him is “pointless” and insisting that sticking together matters more than ever. In the finale, when Jax mocks Ragatha’s abuse, Pomni comforts her, but she and no one else calls him out on his hateful remark. When Pomni enters Jax’s mind, she reacts little to his fantasies of strangling her, sexually harassing Gangle, and his confession of possibly committing matricide; she ignores all this and still tries to save him regardless.

Instead of spending 36 minutes on Jax's angst, Goose could’ve shown us more of the cast's pasts as a whole and about Scratch, the first abstraction, whom Caine possibly modified. The finale reveals nothing about C&A, such as what happened to the company and their plans with Caine and the circus, which somehow still runs, implying someone maintains it, or else everything would’ve permanently fallen apart. If Goose hadn’t made the blue AI the source of Caine’s problems, his glitching and aggressive behavior could’ve caused by decaying software instead. Rather than having the cast try to reverse abstraction, Goose turns the abstractions into aquarium exhibits. We also never learn what Jax meant by people being "unpleasant" before abstraction because Ribbit and Kaufmo isolated themselves before they went.

Goose leaves certain situations unresolved, sweeping them under the rug. In episode 4, Gangle confesses to Pomni that it’s difficult to determine when Ragatha is sincere, but the show never elaborates further on this situation. In episode 6, Ragatha claims Jax is “corrupting” Pomni and Gangle tells Zooble how afraid she is of Jax and how his abuse dehumanizes her, yet Goose never expands on either of these issues.