This entire series has been such an exercise in why the "Story By" credit exists. It's one thing to come up with a premise and a general plot outline, but if you can't pull off any of the other required script elements, it's best to let someone else take the reigns. I've wanted to like TADC so bad, but the writing can't support any of its ambitions. The pacing is sluggish, the characters are too stock for psychological drama, and the tone is too serious for a whacky comedy. The fact that multiple posters in here as well as the showrunner himself all have vastly different ideas of who the fucking protagonist is demonstrates the sloppiness of the writing.
While this drama is all the product of concentrated autism, it's honestly restored the minuscule amount of faith I have in fans. I'm so used to people slavishly clamoring around an IP just because it exists that seeing any level of critical assessment is a huge improvement to me.
Here's the sad truth about many indie creators, and Goose is no exception. Most of their "stories" are just blatant vanity projects that fall apart because the creator doesn't really know how to write a story, and thus they have no sense of direction.
They have watched a lot of movies and shows, and might even read some books, but that's not enough knowledge to write a story yourself.
If anything, they treat their stories more like a blog you would find on Tumblr or Twitter.
What's worse, they can't commit to any of their ideas.
Remember that the series' initial idea was that Pomi was trapped in this virtual world and was trying to find a way out. The problem is that she has only tried to do that in episodes 1 and 7 (Fuck, that episode was a waste of time). Thus, the rest of the series pretty much devolves into "wackey" episodic stories about the cast and their melodrama, and what made this whole thing so much worse was that Gooseworx himself confirmed that.
So it's not hard to see why fans were angry when most of the episodes were focused on Jax, because there was nothing to indicate or, at very least, clearly build up that he was going to be the main character.
"Oh, but their rooms are opposite to each other, that totally makes them the main characters." That's not enough! You need to have the two interact a bit more early on. They don't have to like each other, but we do more of a back-and-forth between the two.
And it made a lot worse when you realise Ragatha herself is so painfully undercooked in this show, made worse when you realise she too was supposed to be one of the main characters, yes, really.
You can even see this when Reddit itself mentions the problem.
You can find a bit more detail from Aye Lamo, a fan of the series (so take his opinions with a grain of salt), but the point still stands.
The Amazing Digital Circus does not know how to manage its own cast, and the fact that there are only two episodes left just further shows Gooswrox's inability to plan ahead in time.
How the hell does he even expect to end the series with unresolved plot points and characters that were wasted?
