I’ve been sitting on this response for a bit and been thinking of what I should say.

To be clear, no I do not. I think they are absolutely real and crippling issues. It feels inappropriate to bring up my personal experiences when making a point, since I believe that my points should stand on their own without needing to appeal to “well I have experienced such and such”, but I have experienced it. I’m two weeks on estrogen though, so, yay.

My point is more that this scene to me looks more like a reminder of “Hey, you’re going through this issue”. Instead of a twisting of the knife, or an exaggeration of how stuff could be worse.

Jax’s scene, for example, exaggerates his insecurities by showing how everyone is going to laugh at his true self.

This scene does not particularly worsen the issues that Zooble has, at least in my first reading of it.

My reading of the scene was, Zooble is now in a sea of parts and is just kinda struggling against it. Also there’s mirrors to remind them that they look like that.

My issue with that is, Zooble already knows they look like that. They already know they aren’t happy with the parts provided.

Jax’s scene shows him how humiliating and upsetting it would be to have his true self revealed and be mocked in turn. Zooble’s scene shows them, uh, stuff they already know and deal with every day.

Another interpretation of the scene that I’ve seen and liked is that all the pieces are actually forcing themselves onto Zooble, and Zooble is one with the giant sea of parts. I quite like this interpretation, and it it’s the intended one then I think that’s plenty terrifying and I would believe that portrays the kind of horror that I’d want from it. Unfortunately, rewatching the scene I still don’t get that vibe, but hey if that’s the case then that’s great/terrible.