TADC EPISODE 8 MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW ‼️
... Caine has been my top favorite. I've always liked the guy since the pilot, but he became very important to me after watching episode 3.
So this episode genuinely hurts me😭 there's just so much I want to say...!
I feel so overwhelmed rn . So, piecing my thoughts together and making it make sense is difficult. So, I hope I make sense here, somewhat.
I just can't accept the fact that Caine is... Evil.
Like. Yeah. What he was doing to everyone in this episode WAS literal torture, and it genuinely shocked me. (Just like he did to Jax)
It might just be me that's having a genuine hard time digesting or just even accepting the fact that Caine isn't what I thought he was like at all.
I thought that this entire time, Caine wasn't capable of feeling hate.
All of this time, I saw Caine as innocent, genuinely trying his best to please the humans. The only reason he's incapable of pleasing them is because of his limitations as an AI. Being the cause of people's abstractions (unintentionally), so that's why I believed that that's the reason as to why Goose called him an antagonist
But clearly, that doesn't seem like it's the case. He's used each one of the humans trauma as a way to torture them. That doesn't tell me that he's oblivious— he knew what he was doing and knew exactly how to harm them. He did this to them on purpose— a revenge!
And when Caine started wanting to have revenge on them and to lash out, beat them up and torture them— It had completely shattered my personification of Caine that I've made up! (ig that's my bad for doing that, though ^^;)
I saw him almost as like... a golden retriever. And ugh, I find using that as an example so unserious, but I can't think of another comparison rn loll.
The point is! I just hope that this isn't truly Caine's end... there were so many layers to him, so much potential, so much that I wanted to learn about him, character growth I wished to see in him. And it just— it's all gone? Just like that?? ;_;
EVEN if Caine has done horrible things, I still find it unfair that this is his ending. He was wrongfully treated— which doesn't excuse his behavior, I'm aware— but I find it unfair that it's ending like this.
Some fans say it seems impossible to redeem him. As an AI, his entire purpose is to learn and grow. But he refuses to learn from them, his ego being in the way. But I genuinely believe that there could've been a way...maybe.
Has anyone EVER tried befriending the guy?! I'm sure there could've been a way to actually talk to him... or get to him.
He was a character who wanted to experience friendship so badly, to form genuine connections, only to die, thinking they genuinely hated him to the point that they wanted him dead. The look of pure dread painted in his eyes as he realizes he's about to die. The pained "wait—" as he vanishes into nothingness.
And I'm genuinely not okay😭. Every time I think about the episode, my stomach hurts! Genuinely😞
I feel so silly for doing this, but I kept imagining my self insert befriending Caine last night before falling asleep. It was the only way I could relax 😭. He just needed one supportive friend... right?? Just one, I believe it! He DIED NOT KNOWING HOW A HUG FEELS LIKE. ITS NOT FAIR. ITS NOT FAIR ITS NOT FAAAIRRR
