TADC didnāt click with me from the beginning, but I figured I should binge it now that itās all mostly out and. I want to just say āthis is a reminder to make the most interesting character in your story the main character of that story,ā but that feels so reductive. A storyās POV and a storyās main character can be two different people, Sherlock Holmes did that after all, but comparing TADC to Sherlock Holmes is even more reductive.
So I try to step away from the problem of who the show focuses on and try to think about what it focuses on to understand it from that angle, but then I run face first into the fact that itās just⦠a worse Ride the Cyclone? Like spoilers for the leaked version I guess but it gives all the characterās a happy ending outside the circus in traditionally fulfilling lives. And I get what itās going for! Never kill yourself, life gets better, which is true! But it also kinda contradicts with the shows stated theme that a stagnant life can still be a good life right? Ride the Cyclone has a very similar message, that whatever life you have is valuable even if itās short and not traditionally fulfilling. Which I guess is what the characterās lives in the circus are supposed to represent? But theyāre⦠not that. Maybe the morals arenāt supposed to be similar at all, maybe Iām just making an unflattering comparison but I canāt stop dwelling on it.
Anyway canāt wait for the spoiler ban to lift so I can see people with less scattered brains discuss this thing because currently itās just the people who already hated the show and thatās just. Not a super useful perspective to me?