I don’t think they’re trying for that. Glitch has notoriously low budgets for their stuff and I think this is what they paid for.
That Knight’s of Gwenn show for instance was barely animated at all
I don’t think they’re trying for that. Glitch has notoriously low budgets for their stuff and I think this is what they paid for.
That Knight’s of Gwenn show for instance was barely animated at all
So, Bubble isn't even there, the previous members of the circus don't matter, the creators know they have a largely child audience (yet still have an implied sex scene at the end), None of the characters matter, there's no real twist, no action, Kinger puts his dead black wife into a zoo, Jax goes into the zoo (why can't he at least reconnect with abstraced Ribbit and be implied to have some kind of happiness?), nothing from the past is truly explored, no GummyGoo...man.
If Cain could be recovered, why can't the other characters they have met be recovered? Undelete Gummy & Co. and bring back their old memories. Kinger is a programmer, could've undone the virus that fucked up Scratch, introduce him, lore dump, team up with Kinger to undo more abstractions, Jax is infected by the blue orb that fucks up cain that they have to contain while Jax goes apshit, get things solved, bring everyone back with intense action, then maybe uncover locked files hidden by the blue orb that lets the members know who they used to be.
None of these characters we met ever even mattered. They never led up to anything. Gummy was just brought back to scare Pomni, the Queen, Abel, Bubble; none of them mattered in the end.
I see people talk often about how Over the Garden Wall is one of the best animated series in modern-day, and they are right. It has a small cast of characters who all connect to each other. They serve a purpose from start to finish. Limited episodes, limited cast, etc and it has great character development and plot.
TADC ending is disappointing. One season and no character development. I'm about to start making a counter. If only they could hire writers who could actually fucking brainstorm and offer ideas instead of letting creators make whatever stupid and unsatisfying ending they want.
You can have a sad/unsatisfying ending for a series, don't get me wrong (See Saw franchise), but TADC didn't have the writing or reasoning to back it up the same way Saw did. The ending sucked just so it could suck. Maybe Gooseworx really did just change the ending to be bad like he said he would?
The fact that they could conjure shit with their minds was also so underutilized and with a little planning could have make for a more interesting climax.
Picture this: they discover that they are mind scans, everyone tries to cope like we see in the film, they learn how to use their new admin powers but Jax can't take it, he starts abstracting but because he's an admin his abstraction starts fucking up the whole program. The others in an involuntary move save themselves and Jax by containing each "active player" on their own separated "carpet" or "savefile" where they can pretty much create their own little world. Pomni wakes up in her file, a realistic city where all the previous NPCs she met live, confused and without her admin privileges she resigns to live for a time here until she eventually mets the mayor of the city, which is no other than Cain or a least a copy of him as she liked to remember who explains all of the above. She then resolves to try to see how the others are doing, with the warning by Cain that by leaving her file she will permanenly deleted it she can conjure all the npcs again but obviously won't be the same ones with their actual memories you know the deal.
She still does it, and she goes through each file where she sees the others version of their perfect circus (cuz' some desperately needed more screen time), she convinces them to come with her and finally get into Jax's world where it's just the normal circus but all the npcs are the previously abstracted characters or at least copies of them, lots of emotional moments and it's by talking with Rabbit that we the audience know what truly happened (or at least Jax's memory of it), but in doing so npc Ribbit remembered that she abstracted and the whole thing starts falling apart, Jax appears and is now angry because they ruined his perfect world, he start spergin', tries to kill the others and when that fails, he starts abstracting again, Pomni does the talking-no-jutsu and he repents but he can't still live with the memories of his past life while having also those of Jax, so in an heroic(?)/narcistic move and in order to stop himself from abstracting he basically uses his admin powers to lobotomize himself thus becoming the character he always played as.
Pomni wakes up again, she's with Jax or at least an npc that looks like him but to him its the first time that they meet, he asks her what on her mind, and then she explains that because time runs different inside the game, the simulation has run for so long the all the other players have in some way achieved a form of enlightenment over what they call their "reality", all except for her who still clings to some of the memories of the previous circus while the new resembles almost nothing at all, nowadays she is busy herself with sleeping and dreaming, and tells this new Jax of various dreams she has even one where she was a real girl in the real world, or maybe the other way around. Jax doesn't understand but thinks she's funny and he wants to be friends with her, she agreeds and then Jax leaves for some errands with his other friends Ribbit and Kaufmo.
They said their goobye and Pomni falls sleep again.
THE END
There, I know that it's now possible to tell all of that with the current runtime or the way the previous episodes were told and it's not perfect for that matter but I think at least this can do something with the scenario rather than what we ended up in the final version.
Thank you NegaMan.