Again, it's very hilarious and ironic since this is literally the exact same mistake Murder Drones made and Nooseworx explicitly said he wanted to avoid making the same mistakes MD did.
But you know how troons are, they say one thing and then immediately do the other.
Basically to give a tl;dr: MD also does a similar thing where it sets up what most people would think are plot threads, but then it never follows up on or elaborates on any of it.
The thing that really baffled me (spoilers for the movie, if you haven't been spoiled yet) is how little we saw of Bubble in the movie. In fact, I don't think he showed up at all.
It seemed like the last episode was setting Bubble up as the big villain. The first AI that maybe Caine had the job of placating or controlling, salvaging his random, crazy output into something coherent ("his purpose" as he put it) you could even make out Bubble taunting Kinger and forcing him to delete Caine in the screencaps.
So it seemed like the setup was that Bubble got rid of Caine and was about to go wild, whether that meant something as grand as warping the circus in his twisted image, or something as small and simple as letting the abstractions out and using light to make them go ballistic.
It seemed like they were setting up Caine's arc to be that Bubble was the devil on his shoulder that was making him do everything wrong, but he was so devoted to his "purpose" that he couldn't get rid of him, and they even seem to play with that by having Caine remove the blue thing from his head and toss it into the void -- but they don't do anything to elaborate on how or why.
But other than Caine pulling a blue marble out of his head and tossing it aside, it doesn't seem like they did anything with what the last episode set up.
Like I get that authors are allowed to have preferences in what characters and things they write about, but there's a big difference between that and just straight up leaving your story unfinished.
Some hamster girl canceled her tickets to tadc, mentions the nega drama, nooseworx's xeets, how nooseworx is friends with vivziepop (who is considered bad because she's friends with Brandon Rogers and proceeds to play a clip of some Brandon Rogers video of him acting like a hood nigger family "which made me laugh) talks about how gameoverse has jshat and arin "nigga" hanson, etc, etc. Just shut up and let the black girl explain n'shieeet before they gets offended.
Also just got to watching the video. Gotta say, the hamster wojak has got to be the most ugliest looking thing I’ve ever seen. Also, her voice is so fucking unbearable, it genuinely made me angry just even listening to her.
the big difference is the "uwu so wholesome chungus" guys used to be the same kind of guys as the racist mario guys before they got their pockets filled. Robotnikclaus with kovach, SMG4 having constant NIGGER, gooseworx being gooseworx... List goes on. it's intriguing because there's such a disconnect between when you see them making jokes similar to what they've always done and then it randomly shifts to "oh no no we'd NEVER say anything like that" and it's supposed to be a seriosu statement and you're supposed to feel bad for the same style of humor they have now being bad just because NIGGER words get uttered or even implied because NEGA is now offensive to these types of sellout bugmen.
Like @Aquarius said, troll's remorse is a hell of a drug. The funny thing is, it's not really all that sincere at all. As we've seen from countless examples over the years, anyone who succumbs to troll's remorse doesn't actually reflect on their behavior and change who they are, they just hide it under a veneer of self-righteousness. They're still the same spiteful, vindictive, petty creatures they were before, they're just directing those negative thoughts towards more "acceptable" targets. They'll apologize for all their "hateful" content where they said a bad word twenty years ago, and then simultaneously try to ruin the lives of anyone they think have wronged them today. Or just be sex perverts, that also.
And yeah, suffice it to say that this sort of mindset is not conducive to making good entertainment. When you're constantly going over everything you write with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that you're only offending the right people, you take away any soul your work might have had.
Basically to give a tl;dr: MD also does a similar thing where it sets up what most people would think are plot threads, but then it never follows up on or elaborates on any of it.
I think what I'm learning from this is that glitch desperately needs someone who will take the autists and wrangle them. Don't just take on good faith that someone who's made a couple of interesting shorts actually knows how to make a who season, get some kind of producer or something that will clean things up and make sure they have a coherent beginning, middle and end.
I mean caine did absorb him in the flashback so technically that's correct but it's not the same thing as self hatred and doubt. He did clearly feel that in response to bubble constantly fucking negging him and getting increasingly out of his control though.
This shit's what pissed me off in terms of just unaddressed shit because yeah when caine starts trying to interrupt kinger you see bubble start inputting commands while kinger's freaking out trying to undo them and then yeah. Like even if bubble wasn't gonna be a twist villain he clearly was involved which makes it more absurd that he just gets completely omitted from this last one outside the blue orb that was previously blatantly meant to be his early state before caine absorbed him and made the circus.
In Australia, then-26-year-old animation studio manager Jasmine Yang, whose egg had cracked in 2019, stuck her first estrogen patch onto her stomach in the break room of her deserted office in Sydney. A burst toilet had flooded her apartment, and strict new lockdown rules introduced on March 31 left her with no other refuge.
It was, she recalls, a moment of “sublime” strangeness. “Yeah, my apartment is flooded; yeah, the world is going through a pandemic; and yeah I’m sleeping on a s****y office couch. But right now, I have what I’ve been waiting 26 years to get, so life is pretty sweet.”
Couldn't have happened to more deserving and hideous slop. Seriously, can we just nuke the western animation industry and start over again in a few years? With better artists at least.
Tbh it would be kinda funny if it started in 2017 and then ended in 2021 not because the events actually spanned that long but because the pc was just powered off for like 3.5 years in the middle and they just werent able to notice at all
I mean caine did absorb him in the flashback so technically that's correct but it's not the same thing as self hatred and doubt. He did clearly feel that in response to bubble constantly fucking negging him and getting increasingly out of his control though.
Pretty sure Caine's VA only got the job at all because he did a funny deltarune meme voice over that Goose enjoyed. Because that's the exact fucking voice he uses for Caine.
Noticed this too, bit difficult to spot because it happens within a second but wth was the purpose of that
Also how does caine have the names of the members? I can see him knowing kingers name bc scratch most likely labelled all the original brain scan files, but how does the headset know the new members names?
Nigga...
Anyway I like to imagine that the original draft was someboy throwing a flashbang at Jax and just fucking murdering him, because that at least would've been funny.
Pretty sure Caine's VA only got the job at all because he did a funny deltarune meme voice over that Goose enjoyed. Because that's the exact fucking voice he uses for Caine.
While the final episode is inconsistent with what was revealed in all other episodes, it's also inconsistent within itself.
One moment, Caine is pulling the blue AI out of his head and giving it a final sendoff: saying he'll miss it, waving goodbye, it disappearing into the void, sad music, etc.
10 minutes later, we see Caine has it trapped inside a cabinet. Why?
I just went back to rewatch that scene and lmao you're right! When Pomni is hugging a hyperventilating internal Jax and telling him to stay with her, his outward abstracted form stumbles backwards from the emotions of what's going on inside. One foot knocks over a few flash grenades randomly lying in the hallway where their rooms are. The grenades explode and internal Jax is now exploding. And that's the end of Jax. He's now a docile dog.
Idk maybe it's not poor writing, maybe the message of random flash grenades lying in a dorm hallway is just so DeEp and mEaNiNgFuL that we shouldn't question it.
While the final episode is inconsistent with what was revealed in all other episodes, it's also inconsistent within itself.
One moment, Caine is pulling the blue AI out of his head and giving it a final sendoff: saying he'll miss it, waving goodbye, it disappearing into the void, sad music, etc.
10 minutes later, we see Caine has it trapped inside a cabinet. Why?
So Caine went from eating his fucking brother like Saturn ate his son, keeping him trapped as a subconscious part of himself for decades, only to finally setting him free and then immediately imprison him again in a cabinet 10 minutes later?
Jesus christ, I feel worse for Abel than I do for the main cast and he isn't even a character. Good job Cooper.
While the final episode is inconsistent with what was revealed in all other episodes, it's also inconsistent within itself.
One moment, Caine is pulling the blue AI out of his head and giving it a final sendoff: saying he'll miss it, waving goodbye, it disappearing into the void, sad music, etc.
10 minutes later, we see Caine has it trapped inside a cabinet. Why?
I just went back to rewatch that scene and lmao you're right! When Pomni is hugging a hyperventilating internal Jax and telling him to stay with her, his abstracted form stumbles backwards from the emotions of what's going on inside. One foot knocks over a few flash grenades randomly lying in the hallway where their rooms are. His foot knocks the flash grenades against each other, they explode, and internal Jax is now exploding. And that's the end of Jax. He's now a docile dog.
Idk maybe it's not poor writing, maybe the message of random flash grenades lying in a dorm hallway is just so DeEp and mEaNiNgFuL that we shouldn't question it.
It's a miracle it hasn't happened already since it's heavily implied that the circus has been running for literal decades with no real pause in its activity.
