Ok I haven't seen the tadc leaks but from what people are saying online it really sounds like they wanted to do End of Evangelion but can't because Jax isn't Shinji, the circus doesn't have a parallel to instrumentality/ the hedgehogs dilemma, and unlike Shinji, Jax doesn't get called out for how he treats the women in his life.
Anyways, since the movie isn't out yet, I think I'll go through what I hope they do to tie everything up. Some minor spoilers, but I put warnings before talking about any of the leaks:
I hope Jax apologizes to everyone and Gangle gets to go "omg are you kidding??? I was really scared of you." forcing him to deal with the effects his bullying has had on Gangle and making her feel comfortable enough to call him out. He tells himself she likes it when he's mean and that he's just messing around but she gets genuinely anxious about how he treats her!!! To me, it feels like she puts up with him because of low self esteem. She tells herself it's okay for him to do this because whatever, she doesn't like herself either. Then having him apologize can make her realize WAIT!!!! THAT'S AN OPTION? YOU'RE SAYING I ACTUALLY *DON'T* DESERVE TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS?? and she can chew him out :3
Ragatha throughout the entire show has continued to try and try and try to be the peacemaker and be positive- way beyond what anyone else would be able to do. She's also torn apart every adventure. I really thought we'd get a moment where someone else saves her. Maybe Pomni, maybe Kinger, just like. She always tries to be supportive, she deserves to have someone else support her/ stand up for her for once in her life. It would be a good bookend to her insecurities around wanting everyone to like her and to be happy- she feels like she keeps fucking up, and this would be confirmation that she doesn't need to be constantly positive to deserve respect and comfort from others.
Lowkey I thought Kinger was going to join his wife, whatever that looks like. The merch has fairly consistently been implying this- the socks for example, that have abstraction eyeballs all over them come in purple and red- Kinger and Queenie's colors. Also did we ever get confirmation on Queenies role at the company? Did she work for C&A or was the company just doing a demo for the worker's families? I'll be really sad if we don't see more Queenie ever.
PLEASE tell me Kinger and Caine talk. Caine is so weird about Kinger and aside from some Implications about how Caine sees him, we never get to see them having a sane conversation together. Caine do you want his approval? Do you blame him for making the second AI? He made Kinger that bull riding solo adventure, but was totally fine leaving Kinger out of the Abel adventure with no bonus distraction. Did he lobotomize Kinger to make him more agreeable? Or to make sure he wouldn't abstract? If it was so he wouldn't abstract, was it done out of loneliness with Kinger as his last human or sentimentality because he was Caine's favorite programmer? I need more sauce pls.
More Pomni backstory...... pls..... did she try to unionize at her previous job..... has she been taken advantage of by her friends before because she keeps trying to help even when they don't respect her or her energy.... is she not taken seriously irl and has Issues around being treated as incompetent...... we get all these good characterization moments that point towards possible backstory stuff, but nothing is confirmed yet :(
Ok I wanna talk about Ragatha again because she makes me insane. She's been here the longest after Kinger. She's seen soooo many people abstract. She wasn't part of the Ribbit-Jax-Kaufmo trio, she's told Kinger she feels left out by Gangle and Zooble, she's not close with anyoneeee. Probably because her positivity mask pushes everyone else away. (SPOILERS- SKIP TO THE END OF THE PARENTHESIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE: When they make the abstraction mural it only has characters that the currently alive players loved. There isn't anyone we don't recognize, so she definitely wasn't close to any of the abstracted people we don't see either. Girl has been on coworker-level friendship with everyone the entire time she's been here. She wasn't even close enough to Kinger to know about the darkness thing!) They always get sick of her but she doesn't stop! She's still trying every fucking day. How many times has she tried to get close to the newest person (like with Pomni) and watched as they eventually get sick of her and leave? And she thinks to herself that its happening again. Augh I need her to learn she doesn't need to put up a mask and she won't be immediately abandoned if she shows one (1) negative emotion :(
Did Zooble fix their body dismorphia off-screen? Or does the torture scene imply otherwise? Also, they have the most scenes with Caine, so I hope we get some sort of reconciliation between the two where he finally listens to them. They've been trying to hardest out of the crew to explain to him how everyone feels.
I wasn't gonna make a bullet point about Jax because I'm sure the show will deal with him, but uh. I really hate it when (SPOILERS? MAYBE? I'M LOWKEY HOPING THE LEAKS AREN'T TRUE.) the suicidal character ends up killing themselves. I fucking despise that troupe. I don't know why its been showing up so much recently- Eleven, the entire Umbrella academy, it never lands. You didn't redeem shit- you just died!! I like Jax as a character, but if they pull this cop-out so that they don't have to deal with any of his actions I'm gonna lose it :(
I love Caine- immediately after Kinger deleted him I was like "control Z what are you doing." I assume they're gonna free him from the recycling bin, and I'm just hoping they do it early enough in the movie that we get to see some actual reconciliation between everyone. I think pre-episode 8 he's a lot more aware about how the players felt about his adventures than he let on- he's petty and he wants everyone to appreciate his art. Even if he wasn't consciously thinking about it, episode 8 fit in too well with what he knew the players wanted to be explained away as just another adventure- he felt petty and wanted reassurance that they'd stay. He always sticks to a bit though, and with the callback to the chinese room thought experiment I think he literally can't communicate like how a human can. It would be interesting to see him without his god-powers, and maybe some bit/framing that allows for more honesty. Also I want more Scratch angst pls, what kind of relationship did they have? How much of Caine "Going wrong" was because he was a prototype vs Scratch intervening to get help for his brain tumor?
But yeah that's my list :3 maybe I'll make a bingo sheet hehe.
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