The Amazing Digital Circus - Western Isekai that probably will become Hazbin Hotel killer

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I just finished watching the TADC finale and I don't think words exist that properly summarize how utterly trite this was. Making Jax a troon who dies by 41%ing itself was an interesting creative choice that's incredibly accurate and cathartic and gave this film a paltry but still non-zero 0.5 out of 10, but a shit film is still a shit film.
 
The Lawgiver said:
I mean I've seen reactions tot he leaks but I haven't seent he scenes like spliced or anything yet. The blank intro is pure edit fodder even with the shitty watermark.


This nigga hasn't even begun to live a stagnant life. My ass has been in stagnant hell for over a decade life wise and it is not even equatable to this fucking "nothing matter they all brain scan!" shit. I am tired of being pushed around by people handed successful lives and being told I'm every negative thing in existence. I am tired of so much shit you would not even believe. "nah bro the message is there's meaning in a stagnant life totally nobodys real and nothing matters that's totally the same thing as being increasingly stressed about a lost future and past!" You NEED to keep trying. Every day is a struggle session and I'm burnt the fuck out of life but I gotta keep fucking trying.

It's always either this false relatable wholesome shit with an underlying current of "give up" from people who see you as their lesser or the fucking shit where they throw away their cushy job and career to do something retarded like try and shoot up a building for reddit clout.
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This gives me feels so badly
 
Mystery Spy said:
I agree with you. In fact I was personally drawn by the horror aspects on top of that.
But considering Goose work said his main theme was "finding meaning in an stagnant life" sadly I think his message was ultimately more hollow than we all expected.
I do agree it's a let down. But that's sadly what it's creator intended.
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"There's meaning to be found in a stagnant life"

I almost can't believe this shit. What a terrible terrible lesson to impart, especially to kids. I'm sure it gives trannies the warm fuzzies, but the "lower your standards until they're already met" brand of self-esteem is just such a depressing, self destructive cope. I know the world seems to be rotting away and meaning is hard to find sometimes, but to declare that the way to find it is to bury your head in the sand and accept that "this is the best it's gonna get" is never going to fix your problems, let alone the issues with society. If everyone had done that, forever, we wouldn't have the technology needed to make the fucking show in the first place, or hell even the tech to mutilate people's genitals enough to convince them to write it. Inspiring people? No! That's so last century! The meaning was within you all along, so do nothing, don't even try, and certainly don't even HOPE for more. There is meaning to be found in doomscrolling on twitter while looking at better, more adjusted, less broken depictions of what you could have been, what you almost are, but aren't. But hey, at least you might get to solve the logistical nightmare of figuring out how to fuck another one of your co-freaks as the credits roll.

What a stupid ending. The pilot wrote a check that could have been cashed in 3 episodes, but instead we got meandering slop that took 3x as long to fail to deliver on any of the intrigue of the initial conceit.
 
Pixy said:
The only definitive connections with Screen Australia seem to be funding Meta Runner's production. After that, they figured out a winning formula of achieving self-funding by producing shows that feature female protagonists the mainly-male audience want to fuck and buy merchandise of. I'd like to rag on Glitch taking Australian money and not doing much for Australian industry, but there's just not much substance to it besides a since early 2019/2020s one-off.
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I do not believe you.
 
The Wise Shaman said:
Thank you Brazil, very cool!
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Besides the show being made by a troon, I was interested in how the show ends. Frankly, I was quite interested in the plight of the characters and wanted to see them out. However, if these leaks are real, then this really shouldn't be how the show ends at all. I could have gone into it, but I really disagree with that direction, to say the least. If it ends up being the case.

Never Trust Troons.
 
I feel like in some world, it could've been possible for this show to have a vaguely interesting existentialist message, considering all of the faux-gnosticism symbolism in it, but that'd require two things.
1.) A creator who isn't a trooned out redditor
2.) An actual story beyond "we all therapy speak at each other and also my self insert oc fucks someone :)"

But I guess it doesn't matter since TADC has probably made enough money to buy five yachts.
 
after watching the full film and sleeping on it, i came to the conclusion that it really is that bad. jax abstracting isn't a bad ending in itself, but it's written atrociously bad - for an ending supposed to be "bold" and "out there", it really does suffer a lot from being entirely non-committal. gooseworx tries to both redeem jax and make him bear the consequences of his actions, which ends up doing neither.

jax both gets forgiven and fucked over. he suffers a lot, but it's also framed as not being that bad. the entire ending feels like an extremely awkward middle ground that fails to give him a real satisfying conclusion.

he doesn't do anything outright terrible, but he never redeems himself either. instead, he has one final mental breakdown, makes some particularly mean jokes, and fucks off. prior episodes hinted at character development, but all of that has been thrown out of the window - episode 1 jax would have done the exact same thing.

we get a scene where jax finally opens up to pomni and shows real emotional vulnerability, but it's too late and he abstracts anyway. instead of rejecting her one final time, he finally comes to terms with who he is and how he has to change, but oops the abstraction form just stepped on a flashbang i guess it's over. the entire scene is structured as a good ending, turning into a failure right at the very end.

the other main characters are saddened by what happened, but everyone else quickly moves on and gets their own good ending. does gangle have a different reaction (maybe even joy?) , given what happened between them? not really, she just looks kinda less sad in one scene and that's it. everyone feels bad for him, but not bad enough to have any real consequences for their own arc. despite being the main character of the final episode and arguably the entire show, his death is rendered irrelevant.

he doesn't get permanently exiled via the cellar, and he doesn't "get better" either. instead, he's being effectively treated as a pet by the group, being put on a leash and given his own little dog-tent. it's too humane to be an outright bad ending, and too depressing and humiliating to be a good ending. you also get the feeling that the whole leash/tent thing was supposed to be a sincere improvement over the cellar, which misses the mark so much it's almost comical.

the show couldn't even commit to the trans thing. he puts on a pretty bow, and it looked like he was going to tell ribbit something really important, but then he decides to just not do that. there's the implication of "transitioning could have saved her", but it never turns into anything concrete & we see real life jax being just happy with being a guy in the real life scene. what was the goal here?

a ton of people expected jax to abstract, but the implication was that he'd abstract at his lowest. he'd do something truly heinous, finally face the music, and be thrown into the cellar for eternity. instead, his arc feels like a "jax survives" ending hastily edited to be a "jax dies" ending. all the buildup leads to nowhere, and all that's left is a tonally inconsistent mess.

could a better writer have pulled this kind of ending off? maybe, but goose is not the guy. he's a writer of an internet animated series for teenagers and manchildren. if there's one common that ties all disaster endings together, it's writers thinking to highly of their abilities, and this is probably one of the clearest examples of it. if gooseworx just stuck to saccharine cliché, nothing of this would have happened.
 
Dear God. I can't wait for this finale to come out proper, and the entire Digital Circus fandom to break out into an all out war

On one side, the main fandom screaming about how disappointed they were about the ending and want Goose's head on a pike
On the other, the white knighting video essayists from the Reddit incident ready to defend Goose with the usual "Artists don't OWE you ANYTHING" and "Reddit and Twitter BULLYING Gooseworx!" and so on.

The sensible few being buried under the rest of them, and all of us here ready to point and laugh at whatever dumb stupid shit comes out of that war. We won and everyone else lost
 
morfent said:
after watching the full film and sleeping on it, i came to the conclusion that it really is that bad. jax abstracting isn't a bad ending in itself, but it's written atrociously bad - for an ending supposed to be "bold" and "out there", it really does suffer a lot from being entirely non-committal. gooseworx tries to both redeem jax and make him bear the consequences of his actions, which ends up doing neither.
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I think you've nailed it. In the beginning, the show makes a promise about Jax that his fate is either redemption or abstracting due to being unable to overcome his vices (if we take a more Shakespearean route). But somehow Gooseworx goes right down the middle, satisfying no-one and somehow breaking a promise that could have been fulfilled in two broad ways. It's almost impressive how he threaded the needle to failure.
 
Is there a copy of this film with subs? I only found one without subs and I don’t speak brown
 
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