So the entire cast were just based off brain scans, there were no headsets, and Kinger and Scratch fucked up and did a whoopsy ethics violation by not deleting the files.
Turns out, Kinger only figured out how to use a delete key after he got stuck in the digital circus.
I like how Cooper pranced around online saying, "Nuh uhhhh you guys totally haven't figured out the plot all your theories are WRONG WRONG WRONG" just for said theories to be the exact fucking plot of the finale. This was the milk promised to me by my ancestors 3,000 years ago. All-ham-delilah or whatever the mudslimes say.
if Jax had to abstract to fix things in a way. He seemed to both not want to go and also to say it was too late at the end, and his "hate" of Pomni reads more as regret since he's crying. Then the others pull Pomni out at the last minute and she is glitchy at the end because she was near abstracted Jax.
I'm not entirely sure why abstracting would be necessary, maybe it unfucks the circus in some way or brings back Caine so he can fix it. I guess it could be ending more like the IHNMAIMS video game where one character had to sacrifice themselves to get the best ending, instead of the book where the only escape was death and the last guy got turned into the blob to suffer forever.
Admittedly it would kind of be funnier if abstracting is just what happens when you leave the game, and Jax was the only one who could. His punishment was to go outside and touch grass and get a job instead of playing with his soma copy acquaintances. Like your AI waifu telling you it's time to grow up and take a shower.
If your friend had you put on a head set as a joke then 1 year later he tells you that he actually took a brain scan of you and put it in a game as a furry character as he tortures him, what would you do ?
I like how guy pranced around online saying, "Nuh uhhhh you guys totally haven't figured out the plot all your theories are WRONG WRONG WRONG" just for said theories to be the exact fucking plot of the finale.
This whole leak fiasco is going to be what happened with the final Harry Potter book all over again isn't it. Can't wait for Plainrock124 to drive up to movie theaters to yell out "JAX ABSTRACTS! CAIN COMES BACK TO LIFE! THERE WERE NO HEADSETS! JUST BRAIN SCANS!" through a megaphone at all the people waiting outside at the premiere and flooring it before a violent trans person runs after his car.
I know i sound sarcastic when i praise Goose for having the balls to stuff no one would do. I do mean sometimes it's a bit of a back handed compliment, in the sense that you need a lot of courage that confidently write something that most people would call retarded.
And i think Goose... has a lot of courage. Cause if this releases on theater there is a chance someone might pull a gun on themselves at the first 10 minutes.
You can probably tell the context of the situation from looking (this show is not subtle) but there 2 things that you need to know portuguese to understand so i'll say to those interested.
14:10
The first is the explanation of what they are. After the intro Kinger straight up says it. I'll translate and post a tl;dr:
Kinger: I don't know what happened, the ground opened and...
Jax: How convenient!
Pomni: Jax-
Jax: WAT? Are we supposed to forgive him! He did the biggest shit EVER! We have nothing! You got anything else to say! -What, he is the one who fucked up and it's on his side that you will all be?! Kinger: Brain scans.
Kinger: Scratch was trying to create a brain scanner and i thought it didn't work. The files were so small considering... I saw a file full of them so... i think he made it work.
Ragatha: Does that mean...
Jax: I know what that means. CONGRATS ZOOBLE! I guess you really will leave your mark on the world! Awesome!
Ragatha: JAX!
Jax: I guess in the end you are still stuck with your mommy aint you ragatha?
Ragatha: SHUT UP!
Jax: And i guess i am still...
Ragatha: I know... I think deep inside i always knew... For some reason... It still hurts so much to hear it.
Pomni: I know it hurts but we are still together! We are still... Together...
*everyone cries and walk away*
Pomni offers to help kinger try to fix shit. She cries and feels bad for failing everyone. Kinger says she did her best and was very good, cant solve everything but we must try etc, you know what to expect. Eventually the others join her.
Hey kiwis, do yall remember your theories? THE SOMA GUYS WON! weeeee! And they tell you less than 2 minutes in!
The second thing is about Jax around 8 minutes in. I'll translate
The crew starts working together to fix the circus. Jax walks to pomni as if to say something then says forget it. We hear pomni voice saying "I should've insisted harder. I forgot how much worse it could get" and we cut to her staring at an abstraction.
That abstraction is Jax. He dies 8 minutes into the movie.(I admit, goose sucessfully shocked me)
Ragatha: What do we do now?
Zooble: What can we do!? Of course he would freak out! This is soooo... damn it jax!
Gangle: Sorry
Zooble: Why? ... It wasn't your fault.
Gangle: Why can't i cry for him? ( L M A O imagine being one of the shippers)
Pomni: I think we should develop a plan to contain Jax.
Ragatha: Okay... I always thought it should have been me.
Pomni: Dont say that.
Ragatha: We were friends before. Well, as much as one can be friends with Jax. We could talk. But then something happened... I can't remember it... Something on snow mountain... I can't remember it... But something happened between him and her *cries*, Ribbit, her name was ribbit.
Pomni: Yeah, i think i remember you mentioning that person.
Ragatha: I shouldn't talk about this... After ribbit left i tried to console him... He told me to never say her name, he made me promise.
Anyways, i think you get why i said goose is a brave fellow, but i'm afraid many people are going to call goose a generational fraud writer.
I am sorry goose, i am not sure i understand your show. I'm kinda confused on why you hyped lore so much to deliver a twist 1 minute in the final episode that buries your story so hard it feels like you never planned anything at all??? But you had a vision thats for sure.
I hope he at least gets to the episode where the noseless corpse-wearing robot possesed by an eldritch abomination that speaks like GLaDOS first appears. She's Liam's favorite character in the show.
She doesn't appear until like... Episode 6 or 7 I think? Yeah no fucking way they'll get that far.
The show is such a schizophrenic trip I doubt they'll past episode 2 or 3 at the most.
I still kind of wonder what Jax's state in the real world was. So he's a copy. Is he trans? Did he run over a child? Did he get into a horrible car accident and is crippled?
I guess it is the kind of brain scan where their real selves just continued on, then? So they had character development, but it was just of copies and maybe they all committed suicide IRL.
Except Pomni. She just continued to run her 30 viewer youtube channel.
I guess most of the movie is about running away and trying to contain Abstraction Jax?
If your friend had you put on a head set as a joke then 1 year later he tells you that he actually took a brain scan of you and put it in a game as a furry character as he tortures him, what would you do ?
I find it really funny that Glitch put out a comment after a theater said they couldn’t get the film essentially saying “Look, we’re trying to be careful about what theaters we give the film to to avoid leaks” and the fandom to pitch a fit and scream about how unfair they were being and how they just don’t care about their fans…
And then part of the episode leaks.
Only for the fandom to mock Glitch and say they deserved it.
I hope the episode is just every character telling the fans to fuck off individually by name.
"Hey, THT, get into 'insert name of X popular show of the time' "
"Nah, it will probably become shit and disappointing"
"Lol, you're cringe. Its awesome and you have shit taste"
If your friend had you put on a head set as a joke then 1 year later he tells you that he actually took a brain scan of you and put it in a game as a furry character as he tortures him, what would you do ?
This whole leak fiasco is going to be what happened with the final Harry Potter book all over again isn't it. Can't wait for Plainrock124 to drive up to movie theaters to yell out "JAX ABSTRACTS! CAIN COMES BACK TO LIFE! THERE WERE NO HEADSETS! JUST BRAIN SCANS!" through a megaphone at all the people waiting outside at the premiere and flooring it before a violent trans person runs after his car.
We will never have a "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE" type of situation ever again. Why? Because that would now happen in the boring ass online world instead of some funny recorded IRL freakout.
