#tadc rant

The way people are speaking about Jax and saying she deserved to abstract, that she ruined everything for everyone and that she was "a grown ass man treating people like that" really speaks volumes to how they would treat someone in their life with a mental illness who makes them unlikeable.

What Jax did was not okay, don't get me wrong, but it seems like a pretty normal self-defence mechanism, however awful it is. Pushing Ribbit away was both self-defense and self-harm, she isolated herself from the only person who truly knew her because she wasn't ready to be known. Ribbit did what she could to bridge that gap, and it failed because Jax wasn't ready, I'm not saying she could've/should've done anything different in that regard, but I don't think it's fair to villainize Jax for reacting like she did.

I mean, home girl literally thought she had killed her mother after coming out, I think her fear was pretty valid, even if unreasonable. Jax is a deeply troubled character who needed a support, both inside and outside the circus, that she didn't get Not forget she was also homeless, which I can't imagine did any good to her mental health.

Mentally ill people should be held accountable for their actions, yes. Your mental illness is not an excuse. But they don't deserve to DIE because their mental illness makes them do (or not do) things they regret. They deserve the opportunity to make up for their mistakes. Jax didn't take that chance and chose to repent by leaving the people she hurt to heal without her, and that makes sense narratively, but it irks me to see the way people jump to hate on her character and say she was an awful person (we don't really see her BEFORE this, and she seemed pretty normal with kaufmo and Ribbit) and she deserved to die.

His refusal to open up to others mixes very badly with his tendancy to rant about his vision of life. That makes him such an annoying edgelord. What do you mean you so obviously avoid the topic of your backstory at the bar by making joke references, but you're so plainly projecting on Gangle in the same episode during the stargazing part, and you explain aaall your beliefs to Pomni in episode 6? Pick a side.

The story bends to be about him even when he's not more interesting than the others...? "He's a complex human trapped in a digital circus and he developped bad coping mechanisms to be able to live through that" The others do that too??? Thematically they should all be in the same page about it and all show equally what they are made of, but we've been focusing mainly on him and that's so annoying... I'm more interested in discovering the different aspects of characters like Ragatha or Zooble who look after the others while dealing with the whole situation, tbh

He's grieving Kaufmo and Ribbit, sure. But the others should be grieving too. Their lives, the people they lost, the people who abstracted (apart from the scene in the end of episode 2, it feels like they forgot about Kaufmo)... Kinger went through his grief, but I'm sorry, the others should have their anguish too.

His friendship with Pomni is so stupid I'm sorry- wdym the main character who went so far as to relate with a NPC is now deciding to force a friendship with someone as frustrating and crual as Jax? Why? What do you think you'll get out of that...? The fact Pomni doesn't even try to befriend Zooble even though they would be the perfect candidate to have a solid friendship with her is absurd.

I'm sorry but "male character who lost his closed ones and became an asshole and makes everybody around him suffer but it's because he's emotionally repressed and sad :(" is an archetype you see ALL THE TIME and I'm so sick of it. Fridging characters just to develop your asshole male character won't make me sympathize for him. Actually, everything I learn about Jax makes me sympathize less for him.

Walk with me here:

First we see what looks to be normal GummiGoo, then he turns and shows his face.

Here we see a face that’s more like an actual crocodile, not the kid-friendly version of a crocodile that GummiGoo is. He is, quite literally, turning on her and showing his “real” side.

Then we see Gummigoo and his gang attack Pomni, tearing her apart like the apex predators they are in real life. In this moment, they are literally showing their true nature.

You have one side of GummiGoo that Pomni is friends with, the toothless PG version made to appeal to children. Then you see a “real” version of GummiGoo, one that will hurt you without a second thought.

Now put this together with her relationship with Ragatha and Jax. She tells Ragatha she’s not a child and begins to mistrust her after Gangle says it’s hard to tell when she’s being genuine, she is hurt by Jax when he says he was only friends with her because he thought it would be funny. There’s this theme that keeps coming around; people befriending her to humor her while hiding their real intentions/opinions.

And the cherry on top would be this interaction in episode 2:

People need to grow up and realize that disliking the show’s ending doesn’t make them illiterate and too “stupid” to understand the show’s “good writing”

AND

People who loved the show’s ending are not complete “morons” who don’t understand what “good” media is.

All of this is just pure logical fallacy it’s ALL AD HOMINEM (AND YES I DID HAVE TO LOOK UP THAT UP BECAUSE I COULDN’T REMEMBER IT’S NAME! FUCK YOU)

I absolutely hated that ending, I thought it was badly written and horribly paced, and I honestly wish I liked it, just so I wouldn’t be so pissy about it right now, but I can’t lie to myself and say it’s like mana sent from heaven. Regardless, you don’t see me going around saying everyone is an idiot or gooseworx is an idiot or whatever stupid crap I hear online. People liked it, if it made them feel something, made them look at the world differently or— I don’t know, just made. Them. Happy. What is the fucking point in going after those people?!

You despised the ending? Great! Let’s rant about its terribleness together! You adored that ending? FANTASTIC! I’m GLAD that you felt good and satisfied with it! That’s spectacular, and it’s beautiful that this piece of media touched you so deeply it was able to draw even a fraction of positive emotion from you.

We don’t criticize people we criticize their opinion because sometimes their opinions are dog shit, but I’m sure they’re a nice, capable, person