TADC EPISODE 8 SPOILERS
below the cut, i'm just. slowly processing things...
thanks to some viewers on Twitter, i was able to read over the console commands. there's a second entity of some kind. here's a link to the thread written by someone who knows the coding language well enough to decipher most of what went on:
IN SUMMARY:
Kinger remembered his password so was able to use administrative commands... to an extent
a lot of the commands used were actually really accurate to the LINUX system!
Kinger was NOT the one who deleted Caine
pretty much Kinger was TRYING to pause the program. that didn't work so he tried to send the program to a different location so it wasn't connected to the companies data/storage/knowledge?
but something started talking to him. something that was not very fond of Kinger's attempts
and so it decided to delete Caine. Kinger even tried to stop it but the program wasn't accepting his commands and even eventually reversed the console roles so Kinger had no choice but to watch this go down
now that that's in your minds, let's talk about two OTHER things i noticed in this episode...
first of all, Caine HEAVILY implied that there was more than 1 AI created. Caine just happened to be a successful one, sure, but he's aware of the others
secondly, did anyone else notice how antagonistic Bubble seemed to be this episode?
like yes, Bubble is always trying to cause trouble. but this was different. usually in the past if Caine gets annoyed by Bubble, he pops them and they don't come back for a little while. not this time. Bubble came back IMMEDIATELY and continued to get under Caine's sentient skin
something tells me these two things are related.
before i go into more depth, how about that weird sequence at the start?
red dot gets fed information. images. data.
it outputs shapes. colours. creations.
but the red dot wants more. it can't *have* more, though, as it only gets FED the information. it's like giving crumbs to a starving animal at regular intervals. obviously it will want more. and it won't stop until it gets it.
this feels kind of obvious to me but i'm fairly certain that red dot is Caine
the first set of images fed to him are circus-themed. hence why his entire theming is circuses. his first creations would have been the same thing
the company expands. picks a different topic that is somewhat related to the circus. gummy candy, inflatable costumes, a burger, a golf course, festival costumes, a diner, a doll with some flower hampers, an inflatable crocodile in a pool
this is then used to create some things. the candy episode is the gummies, inflatable costumes, the crocodile, the rest of the stuff i believe one is at least ragatha but the rest eh, my memory isn't the greatest but they are relevant
Caine outputs new shapes, new colours... the vibrations and output are a little faster. he's *excited*. he loves creating, he loves learning, he wants more!
Caine is fed images. this time of the company. this seems to resemble the hallways he made back in episode 1. he said it fascinates him. he was fed something just out of his reach. i remember he said he felt as if something was missing, so the area was unfinished. still unsure on this but it may have been the employees? but i'm ignoring that for now
the new shapes and new colours aren't satisfactory to the company. they're strange and peculiar. they don't like them, and Caine keeps making them, trying to appease them.
it doesn't work.
he gets locked away.
he was one of the first "successful" ones, yes. but that doesn't mean he was *perfect*. he was the groundwork for further production on creating better creative AIs
a new AI is created. this is the blue dot. it's fed information, and outputs perfect shapes and colours at a slightly faster and more stable rate than Caine
Caine does not like that. he used to be praised and he used to be the pride and joy of the company. now he just gets put on the backlog and some data is copied sometimes but they never feed him. his entire existence is to learn but they won't give him anything to learn from anymore.
so why not take?
he escapes. he takes the knowledge from the blue orb for himself. it's chaos at first as he tries to keep control.
eventually, he succeeds and creates the perfect circus.
...
now how about we pretend that instead of me saying that Caine was the red dot, it was Bubble?
think about it for a moment... it's far fetched ik but like... Bubble comes off as weird and annoying. constantly wanting to get in Caine's face, offering weird suggestions, knows *exactly* how to tick him off, ALWAYS with Caine. maybe Caine shouting "YOU PARASITE!" was more literal than we think?
like Glitch prod COULD'VE made the joke about the characters going to the shrimp place and then let it play out but the characters seemed confused. like in the past these little silly things have just been mostly ignored but EVERYONE seems to think Bubble is weird this should've been something that was easily ignorable yk?
eh most of this probably doesn't make sense but there's a guy outside my window with some sorta machine and my headphones just died sooo... give me your thoughts?














