The Amazing Digital Circus isnât a lore-based show. It isnât a psychological thriller or horror. The Amazing Digital Circus isnât about the game or the AI running it. It isnât about âforgiving your abusers.â It isnât about the environment.
The Amazing Digital Circus is about acceptance.
Every character in this show, in some way, had to learn to accept themselves.
Pomni learned to accept her surroundings and circumstances. Kinger learned to accept his shortcomings and loss. Gangle learned to accept her emotions and âtrueâ self even if that self isnât âpleasantâ for everyone. Zooble learned to accept their body/gender expression. Ragatha learned to accept that she canât make everyone happy and fix everything. Caine learned he isnât perfect, he doesnât know everything, and he alone canât fix everything either. The only one who never learned? Jax. And what happened to Jax? Denial caught up with him and it killed him.
Jax denied reality, his emotions, the emotions of others, his surroundings, his friendships, his gender identity, his trauma, his fears, everything. Jax denied and ran from everything like his life depended on it, ran like the prey animal he was depicted as, and hid like a bunny in a burrow from everything that ever came close to making him feel. In the end, when he couldnât run anymore, mentally and physically exhausted, instead of trying to turn around and change, accept, he gave up.
Jaxâs story isnât about âbe an asshole then kill yourself and everyone will love you now that youâre gone.â Jaxâs story isnât about âlook how bad transgender people are.â Jaxâs story isnât about excusing your poor actions because you were traumatized. Jaxâs story is about how denial will kill you in the end if you choose to let it chase you, while everyone elseâs is how acceptance can heal you.
Zooble and Jax butted heads so hard because they were opposites of the spectrum. Zooble hated their body and didnât know how to express their identity, in the end they learned to love who they are from the support of a âfriendâ and embraced their identity and ended up with a happy life. Jax hated his body too and didnât know how to express his identity either, instead of going Zoobleâs route he pushed his only friends away and denied he ever felt anything ever about the topic and ran until he died. Thatâs why they were always together. They could have been wonderful friends, they were so similar it was blinding, yet Jax forever pushed their advances away, another point of how hard he always ran.
The Amazing Digital Circus movie did leave much to be desired in terms of the lore, yes I understand, so many loose ends that may never be tied up were left in this finale, so much lore now wasted, however the main point of this show since the pilot was told, the main narrative was shown, the point of the story was closed; Acceptance.
The reason why so many of you hate this show is because you donât understand the themes it has because half of you are too young to be watching it anyway. It isnât about the lore, itâs about life.
âThe worst thing you can ever do, is make someone feel unloved or unwelcome.â Isnât a remembered quote because âJax is dead and itâs your fault because you didnât try hard enough to save him.â the quote is there because it includes doing those things to yourself as well. The worst thing you can do to someone around you that you care about is to not try for them and not love them, yes, but the worst thing you can do to YOURSELF is to not accept and love who YOU truly are.
It goes both ways. Itâs this crazy thing called âDouble Nuance.â You guys should look it up sometime.
