GASP! It's a Thing!

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

In comments, they continue:

and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

Jax isn't a bad character you're just unable to understand plot devices from people.

Being a good character has nothing to do with morality. There doesn't have to be satisfying reasons for their actions, there doesn't have to be redemption arcs, there doesn't have to be excuses for dastardly deeds. None of that makes a good character, because characters aren't people and morality isn't the point.

Jax is amazingly written, and encapsulates so much in such a wonderful way, but since He'S aN aSsHoLe WhO dOeS bAd ThInGs everyone just immediately hates everything about him. This beautiful story is completely overlooked, or worse, overwritten by people who don't like the fact that the antagonistic character is antagonistic.

Your blorbos are not people, they are dolls being used to tell a story. Those dolls have other meanings and uses, it has nothing to do with right or wrong.

First of all, NO movie spoilers in the comments ❌ even if I already saw it, I will be deleting spoiler comments until the final ep is out on YouTube!

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

In 2000 the record was 25.5 in 12 minutes. In 2001, Kobayashi ate 50 hot dogs, almost doubling the record. The judges ran out of pre-made signs to track how many he had eaten and had to start making handwritten signs on the spot

it was a very bold move to reveal that Cain was actually just an alternate aspect of Jax that he was using to torture himself, because he was actually a genius programmer who killed his younger sister by accident and was using the circus to punish himself in a way he felt he deserved.

I'm not sure how I feel about Pomni pretending to be a digitally resurrected copy of his sister in order to get close enough to kill him, but overall the scene was very well done and looking back on the series there were a lot of clues,and it wrapped up Cain's/Jax's character arcs very well.

Overall it was a very good way to wrap up the series but definitely not the way I expected it to.