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TADC should have been about āThe Double Empathy Problemā and Iāll never SHUT UP about it!!!

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Ragatha I know your pain.
āOh Ragatha reminds me of myself! And apparently sheās one of the main characters š! Canāt wait to see more of her!ā
Why didnāt Caine direct his anger toward his creators?
The first humans to enter the Circus were the C&A programmers who created Caine, including Scratch and Kinger. From Caineās perspective these were the people who brought him into existence, decided he was unstable and then discarded him in favor of a better version. (Of course the programmers had no idea that Caine had become as advanced and self-aware as he is. I am looking at things from his POV)
Episode 8 shows Caine as capable of malice, resentment and yet there is no indication that he ever took revenge on his creators in a similar way. If he had, Kinger likely would have mentioned it.
Scratch is a more complicated case. His abstraction appears to have been accidental rather than something Caine intentionally caused. We also donāt know why Caine was tampering with Scratchās mind in the first place. Still it could be relevant.
So why didnāt Caine target the people who actually hurt him? If he is resentful about being rejected and replaced, directing that anger at his creators would make far more sense than taking it out on the current cast.

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I donāt care what anyone says Caine creating and deleting NPCs without a second thought, locking the abstracted characters away in the cellar without showing any emotion, the entire Intermission sequence, and basically all of Episode 7 were way better than anything Episode 8 had to offer.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR TADC EP 9
No but seriously what do any of them bring to the table
SPOILERS FOR TADC EP 9 UNDER THE CUT
> Has a brain tumor
> Assists in the creation of two extremely advanced AIs
> Creates a headset that can make a perfect digital copy of a person's mind
> Stores those files on the same computer as the two AIs, with the folders placed suspiciously close together
> Refuses to elaborate
> Dies
don't let the water drag you down...
People who draw human Caine as a black man you have earned heaven, no questions asked.

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Having a good time
Having a good time
When two of my irl friends agreed that I am basically Ragatha in human form and I got so flustered I had to hide how happy that made me
TW ED//
Imagine a person with an ED joining the circus and their avatar gimmick is that their digital body changes based on how much they āeatā and how much they move. Something like this toy. The pig feels a little too cruel so pretend itās something else.
TW ED//
Imagine a person with an ED joining the circus and their avatar gimmick is that their digital body changes based on how much they āeatā and how much they move. Something like this toy. The pig feels a little too cruel so pretend itās something else.
SPOILERS FOR TADC EPISODE 9
The more I think about it the more I am sure that Caine being deleted was nothing more than a set up for Jaxās abstraction and the gang finding out about their irl selves through social media ( š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£)
His deletion didnāt have any real effect on the circus (OR EVEN ON CAINE HIMSELF) , the circus is not actively falling apart or anything. Itās grey and lacks color which okay itās a little depressingā¦AT MOST, some parts of the floor are broken but they fix them with conjuring as shown. Everything is okay.
Jaxās dramatic ass āNow we have nothing!ā What ? What donāt you have??? The adventures everyone fucking hated ?? I donāt get it?? You are literally fine, the world is just grey??
I do remember Jax sabotaging the adventures in any way he could, literally turning even the most innocent adventure that could have ended well for everyone into a living hell. Because god forbid Jax takes a passive role in any of the episodes, he always needs to be involved because heās the authorās favorite. Is that what heās sad about? Not having adventures to sabotage??
His last straw was not being able to torture people !???
I donāt get it

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EPISODE 7: Interesting concept that ultimately doesnāt work ā¼ļø SPOLIERS FOR EPISODE 9ā¼ļø
Positives (not really)
- There needed to be something that pushed Caine back into the main antagonist role. For the last few episodes the humans have mostly been angry at each other, while Caine has only seemed frustrated with them at worst.
There also needed to be buildup for his eventual crash-out. Having Caine completely lose it just because of the charactersā awards would have been ridiculous.
And āCaine takes it too far and creates an adventure so emotionally scarring that the humans become angrier at him than they are at each other. Caine thinks the humans are being unfair and ungrateful.ā could have worked really well.
-Caineās non-human way of thinking:
āHumans like realistic adventures, and they want the Exit. Therefore a realistic, immersive adventure about the Exit should win them over.ā
Then thereās his profound need for validation. The āgood endingā being the cast choosing to stay in the circus feels very telling. (Foreshadowing?)
- The NPCs
In this episode, NPC Abel very clearly speaks on Caineās behalf:
āHeās just as much of a prisoner as you are.ā
āHe wonāt be able to leave with us.ā
āI've been watching you. All of you. Every trial. Every moment of joy. Every... abstraction.ā
Heās also unnecessarily shady toward Kinger. Claiming he doesnāt use his knowledge responsibly.
What does that say about the other NPCs?
Caine literally created them. Theyāre products of his mind and his system. Does he āspeakā through NPCs? Would a rewatch reveal him doing the same thing with other NPCs? Could there actually be hidden information there?
-Important information revealed: Scratch being the first abstraction , Caineās Mind altering abilities, Kingerās involvement (kind of obvious), THE NAME THING
Why it doesnāt work and why the negatives erase the positives
-The names? The mind altering abilities? The first abstraction? C&A? Potential bad blood between Kinger and Caine? Oh. That all meant absolutely nothing.
-The NPC stuff never gets brought up again.
-This episode almost feels anti-fandom. Itās like āAll of your theories are wrong.ā but then the ending turns around and uses the single most popular theory and applies it in the worst way possible.
-For a supposed character focused show , with only 9 episodes and a cast that barely gets enough development as it is adding an episode that ultimately amounts to nothing is not a smart decision.
Regarding the last point, even if it was a character focused episode this would have been another Jax-centered episode considering it opens with him almost abstracting. And no amount of character development could have saved the terrible writing in the last episodes.
-The whole Human vs. AI perception angle also ends up meaning nothing because Caineās inability to properly understand humans is completely ignored in the ending. As well as the Chinese room thing,ā¦donāt get me started on the Chinese room thing
-It feels even worse when you realize this entire episode building toward Caineās crash out and deletion which was basically nothing more than setup for Jaxās abstraction and a terrible ending.
-Oh and having the NPC call himself Abel is the dumbest thing ever. The name Abel should never have been mentioned in the show. I have my reasons.
Truly a beach episode.
TADC EP 9 SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT
Post ep 7 I got jumped on twitter for saying that there is something misogynistic and male supremacist about Jaxās treatment of the non-men in the circus and how it is most likely intentionally written that way because āThe only other men in the circus are literally God and a crazy old man!! You are misinterpreting things on purpose!ā
Got called a stupid bitch and delusional and I had to deactivate for a while.
Ohhh well š¤