I think my only actual gripe with TADC is how some scenes work fine on their own, but when you put them in the context of the series or even just with other scenes in the episode they don’t really… fit together perfectly?
My main example of this is the scene in the finale where JAX approaches Pomni, but pulls away. And Pomni doesn’t pursue it any further. This genuinely doesn’t make sense to me. Because. Pomni?? Pomni lets Jax walk off after being approached??
Pomni, who like 5 minutes before CRIED because all she wanted to do was uplift and help people??? Pomni, who in the episode prior, said “BE here later,” implying she was aware that Jax wasn’t well? Who even after their fight, still checked on Jax all throughout episode 7??? Why at THIS moment, when Jax is seemingly struggling to reach out, would Pomni suddenly not think anything of it? You’re telling me she wouldn’t immediately jump at even the slightest hint that she could get her foot in the door??
“I wish I pried a little more” doesn’t make sense when she isn’t shown prying at all. “I somehow forgot” doesn’t feel like a satisfying justification to me when she (and Zooble) have been shown to check up on Jax for arguably less. [See: once things kick off in Episode 7] [[Additionally see: how they interact with Jax in Episode 8]
It especially feels off to me because throughout 8 and 9, they really hammer in the whole “Together We are TADC ” angle. You have them all saying lines about being in all this together, about Jax still being one of them despite everything- you have Kinger saying “you’ve become someone they can trust, and they’ll need someone like you in times like these” to Pomni, and then… she doesn’t really do anything with this??? (This goes without saying Pomni almost never interacts with Gangle or Zooble so HOW they’ve come to trust her who knows) ((The only person that you can argue she is able to successfully support in the finale is Ragatha))
On its own, the scene of Jax almost reaching out then pulling back again is fine, because like… that happens- and I think it’s consistent for Jax. But for it to work, you have to forget Pomni’s prior behavior when it comes to Jax. It’s almost baffling to me.
This is the example I’m using because it’s the most fresh, but I feel like there’s points where the show SAYS one thing, but then doesn’t really have anything that illustrates it.
Other smaller examples are like. Pomni saying “Make sure the others are okay, they’re gonna need you” to Ragatha and then that not being elaborated on at all, or Caine saying “I don’t have as much power as before,” but there’s no obvious change in his abilities. Or even Pomni saying “I think we should give up on leaving the circus,” but prior to episode 7 and aside from the 1st episode, there isn’t much focus on them actively trying to leave.
[Is this me saying Pomni was responsible for everything because she didn’t press further? HELL NO. I am talking about what I see as a genuinely frustrating inconsistency. This is from a writing standpoint, not necessarily from a theming/character standpoint]
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