Fucking dammit. I was genuinely invested in this gay little circus show because I found the characterization charming and the premise interesting. I was willing to overlook the cliches and occasional plot holes or missed narrative opportunities because I just genuinely liked the characters and wanted to see them continue their existential struggles.
This ending though? This bullshit? I wasted my fucking time.
SOMA theory is real. Not even a creative variation of it either. Just straight up "actually we're all AIs lulz" which utterly destroys any meaningfulness to Pomnis shit with Gummigoo in episode 2. Without the contrast of the circus characters being 'real' and the NPCs not the entire uncomfortable dichotomy that made that all feel so meaningful and genuinely heart felt is dead.
Call me a pussy faggot all you want but Pomni's entire arc with Gummigoo got me right in the feels. Caine deleting him with a snap of his fingers may have been to me the single most impactful moment of the series. The unfairness of it after all Pomni did for him was genuinely brilliantly done.
Now? ALL that impact is gone. Replaced instead with gay edgelord irony. "LOL GET IT? THEY WERE ALWAYS BOTH JUST AI! WAT A TWEEST ME R GENUS TROLLLOLOLO" I hate it so fucking much.
I could have dealt with a subversion; maybe they're all on life support IRL, maybe it's the afterlife, maybe it's all someone's fever dream.
Anything would have been better than this. For fucks sake Jax abstracts off fucking screen.
And don't even get me fucking STARTED on the 'blue AI' being the evil one and Caine just...plucking it out of his skull. If you were really going to go that route it'd have genuinely made more sense for Bubble to have turned out to be the blue AI and to absorb Caine or some shit.
This is shit. Utter dogshit from tip to bottom. Nothing is salvageable about this ending.
Yea I'm mad at the internet over my faggoty autistic clussy cartoon. I don't care. I welcome your tophats and puzzle pieces.