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i think it definitely would’ve been hard with nine episodes, firstly. i’m not sure if any series with this much emphasis on lore and in-depth characters could fit into 9 episodes.

firstly, i feel like there needs be a specific way jax’s behavior is treated by the story. some of her actions feel like they’re being played off as jokes, while others we’re clearly meant to take seriously. i feel as if that cheapens the arc. maybe that is just me though. i think goose was trying to go for “silly series that gets more serious over time”, but i don’t think that works with 9 very short episodes. like, take over the garden wall vs adventure time. over the garden wall was short, and had to be serious pretty much right away to convey the themes they were going for, but adventure time had time to build up towards the heavy-hitting episodes.

i think that given the nine episodes, i would’ve given her only one episode with implying the finale and then let her abstraction in the finale be where we learn about jax’s history. and i also feel like, perhaps, making her internalized feelings more subtle until that episode. make her only talk to kinger and caine, make her only vaguely rude to other female cast members until she snaps in her episode and says something extremely messed up, then is isolated until her abstraction. again, given time constraints i am not sure how well even this’ll work.

why’re we making a transfem character abusive and heavily implying that they sexually abuse gangle in some way and also a raging misogynist? what reason do we have for that? the entire character feels like a poorly disguised fetish (ie, it reads like goose is using jax’s character and abuse of other female characters to get off) instead of a well-constructed critque on toxic masculinity and the specific effects it has on queer people.

i’d like to imagine that, if given more time, TADC could’ve worked. the stories could’ve hit better and it wouldn’t just perpetuate the already rampant stereotypes about trans woman. but unfortunately, we don’t live in that universe, and now i’ve got this nauseating feeling that once this finale releases we’re going to have a whole new wave of transphobia.