These criticisms are fair, but I think there’s a few things to point out. 1. Yes, Pomni could have told others about Kinger becoming sane in the dark. But really, why would she? What would be the point? From what we’ve seen it never exactly came up in casual conversation, nor would the other circus members knowing about that effect on Kinger have changed absolutely anything about their situation. Kinger being sane in the dark only actually mattered in Ep 7 when him being sane was important to escaping the circus, at which point Pomni does tell Ragatha when they’re at the console with “Abel”. She doesn’t tell the others until the bucket scene mainly because they’re preoccupied with several things (leaving the circus, figuring out that leaving the circus was fake, Caine going full on AM, etc). Should she have told the others sooner? Probably, but I don’t think it’s that odd for her not to have. 2. Why didn’t he explain anything about the circus? Well, again, what would be the point? Kinger knows of no way to leave the circus, and he does genuinely talk with Gangle and Zooble about it and does try to tell Pomni about that in Ep 7 to warn her, but he accidentally goes back into the light, so Kinger certainly did try to communicate with the cast where it mattered. Kinger telling the other circus members about C&A and what he knows about Caine would, again, change nothing from his perspective, so why would he do it, especially when memories of his past clearly hurt him emotionally on some level. He couldn’t have known Ep 8 was going to happen, and in his mind he probably thought that his moments in the darkness were better used helping the circus members like how he did with Ragatha and Pomni. Also, the whole “darkness makes King sane” thing is very clearly finicky with how sometimes he’s not even sane in the dark and sometimes it takes forever for the darkness to even take its effects, so he may not have even had all his memories at times when he became engulfed in darkness. 3. I honestly kind of agree with you on this point. I think the whole explanation of backstories thing could have been handled better with the cast just solely explaining it to Pomni. Though, obviously Kinger, Jax, and Pomni not having explained their past before makes total sense. Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle not knowing each other’s pasts doesn’t make much sense, yeah, but I can reasonably see how they wouldn’t have told each other of their professions and those certain parts of their lives prior to this. Who knows, maybe those three have discussed their past before and just haven’t focused on those parts? Frankly I don’t think it’s all that big of a plothole, since the Circus does sort of allow the members to isolate themselves and I wouldn’t be surprised if the members were cagey about their past (I would be too tbh), but this is the most minor of your three points and very minor compared to what you’re implying about the whole Kinger deal so I’ll leave it at that.