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After episode 9, I really wanted to draw Ragatha actually being happy especially after my last drawing of her. I also used this as practice to draw some more dynamic poses.

Ragatha gets impaled: no pain

Pomni gets thrown out the truck and has to hold onto two vehicles: pain

Kinger gets hit by knives: no pain

Zooble burns their hand on the stove: pain

Jax tortures everyone: pain? no pain? idk but it doesn't matter because Jax can do whatever she wants

EDIT CAUSE I FEEL LIKE THIS ISN’T CLEAR: This is a slight exaggeration lol. It is not the worst show ever, but when it’s flawed, it’s flawed, and that kills me because it is a show with a lot of potential. Bleh

Ragatha is my absolute favorite, and YES, I understand she’s not the main character blah blah blah, but I have never had a favorite side character that has felt so underserved by the writing hooooly smokes

No hate to anyone who likes it, I get it. I like the concept for sure and was hella interested in the plot when I first started, but as a writer, some aspects of the show make me feel like I’m getting hit over the head with a shovel. And I do not have anyone to talk about this with because everyone I know who watches it does like it a lot, and I feel mean criticizing it, so I don’t say anything

i think the original idea was to make it a videogame for kids. that explains the censoring and inability to use profanity, it explains the zany circus setting, it explains why Caine himself is very childish because he was programmed that way, it explains the adventures, the NPCs, the theme song, why random people were able to enter this place through just a computer and a pair of headphones, etc.

but then people started predicting this, and maybe the team thought that the plot twist wouldn't hit if everyone already predicted what was going to happen.

here's the thing though: a predictable twist is always better than a twist that comes out of nowhere. if your audience can predict the big twist, that's a good thing because it means you're writing the story well enough for them to follow.

i remember Steven Universe got clowned on because the Pink Diamond twist was "too predictable". already i don't think that was true because it was just ONE person who predicted that twist. and even if it was predictable, it doesn't matter because the twist lines up with the rest of the story. it makes sense for the plot as a whole.

but not every writer sticks to their plans when they find out that people have predicted the twist. instead, they scrap the original idea and try to create another twist, but end up ruining their own story for the sake of shock value.

probably the biggest example of this is Game of Thrones, where everyone was so upset by the finale, because it completely shits on every character's arc just for the sake of shocking the audience. (i haven't actually watched GoT so this is all just me regurgitating online discourse)

and this is all speculation but i fear that's what Gooseworx has done too. it makes no sense to reveal that the circus was an AI project of a man who had a brain tumor and wanted to transfer his consciousness into a... kid's game-esque circus where they can't cuss or use profanity? and they're sent on adventures everyday where they get tortured? why??

even if the "scary adventures" was solely Caine's creation, i don't really see the point of Scratch wanting to spend the rest of his life in a digital world where the only thing he can do is be a wacky circus character and play games. why wouldn't he broaden the horizon? also why did he program it so that people in this world can feel pain? wasn't the whole point to escape a painful and torturous illness?