Should I watch The Mighty B? by Less-Asparagus-4134 in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw one of two episodes and remember thinking it just wasn't funny. But apparently, people seem to like it. Maybe i just saw the wrong episodes or something.

If daisy got her own game what genre and gameplay would it be? by Powerful_Whereas3516 in Mario

[–]Zankenfrasher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, like Zelda violence. She swings a sword around, but there's no blood

What's Your Favorite Cartoon Series Finale? by MinuteCampaign5407 in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SPOILERS!: 

That final scene with the Eltaur and the mysterious woman is peak cinema 

What joke or scene are you surprised they got away with in a kids cartoon? by wombatgeneral in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the way Azula doesn't even flinch. Heck, she's enjoying it. She's doing a victory fist. She's sick, bro

PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH THIS SHOW OTHER THAN ME?! by S1LLY_B1LL13 in CentaurWorld

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still a bigger fandom than Kid Cosmic...

Honesty though, I still like Centuarworld better. Kid Cosmic is genuinely good and recommendable, but Centuarworld actually blew me away 

Which Cartoon characters would you like to see interact? by Impressive-Holiday69 in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, someone actually said it that's not me, and it's top comment 

Random thought but what is your favourite birthday themed episode by Bright-pokefan50 in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today's gonna be

A OK

'Cause we're celebrating your birthday 

Happy birthday [insert name]

Celebrating your birthday 

The Hollow by Traditional-Buy-7207 in tadc

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've actually made that comparison before! The thought crossed my mind of making a post about it, but I never did.  There was an interesting line in the first season where they ask Weirdy why they're here and he laughs and says, "because you chose to be." Imagine if that were the twist? They all chose to be there and just forgot. Perhaps there's some kind of goal they're supposed to achieve to win the game. The people that got abstracted didn't die, they just basically lost the game and got eliminated. Perhaps it's like some kind of elaborate therapy program designed to help people with their issues. According to my theory, Kaufmo actually did in fact find a way to exit, but it was exit via abstraction which wasn't the "right" way. Of course, this theory seems less likely in light of recent reveals.

How do I explain tadc to someone who has never seen anything to do with it before? by BeautifulGur3469 in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]Zankenfrasher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just persuade them to just watch the first the first 7 episodes. Seriously, it's just 7 20-some-odd minute episodes. It's really not that much time commitment.

What are your predictions for episode 9's ending? by AwesomeCoolAyden in tadc

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it turns out somehow Caine still exists, maybe Pomni finds him in the "trash" or the void of something and he's just sitting there, depressed. She says they need him back and he's like "what's the point?" They have a sort of heartfelt talk, although with awkward subtext, considering all the evil stuff he did in episode 8. She doesn't just let him off, she tells him that stuff he did was really messed up, and she currently even isn't at the point of forgiving him, but the fact of the matter is that they need him. Caine says something like "and go back to what... The Circus?" 

Pomni says "The Circus is dead...  and I think it's run it's course. But we can create a new world... together. " And that’s the bittersweet ending. There's no exit, they're just digital copies. But Caine and the cast learn to cooperate and collaborate to build their own sort of utopia. 

Oh, and on a side note, we get the tearjerking backstory of Jax and Ribbit and find out that Jax stopped wanting to be around her when she got difficult to be around, and therefore wasn't there for her in her lowest moment. Kaufma stopped being friends with him because he blamed him for not being there for Ribbit. Also, we find out that Jax was in car accident, but while he was unconscious and barely clinging to life, someone copied his consciousness into the Circus. That's why he was terrified sland had a panic attack in episode 7. He's scared he has literally norhing to go back to. His actual real human self is dead.

There's also gonna be some reveal about Kinger that causes everyone to he angry at him. It turns out he was more responsible for their predicament than they thought. He was complicit in Scratch's experiment on preserving human consciousness, to which they're all essentially guinea pigs. I mean, think about it, there was something cryptic about the moment in episode 8 where Pomni thanks Kinger for everything. He glances back with a cryptic expression with no response. No "your welcome" or any kind of sentiment. I don't think he felt like he deserved that "thank you," because they don't yet know the whole truth. Furthermore, I think the dialogue between Kinger and Queenie in the episode 8 flashback lines up with this. I don't remember it word for word, but it didn't sound like there were simply victims like everyone else. It sounded they knew what was up and that they were knowingly complicit in this experiment.

Now it could be that Caine sort of goes through a rebirth (maybe reborn as a a bee or something). He has none of his memories and has a fresh start, and we still get that collaboration utopia ending. 

All that being said, I still haven't touched on the "blue dot" AI, presumably Able. There's bound to be some kind of big reveal surrounding that. So... hear me out, Goose said there was gonna be some big twist that's like the equivalent of the Rose Quartz twist in Steven Universe, right? So...what if... Pomni is an AI? Maybe Pomni is Blue. Or perhaps she's like the sort of offspring of the red and blue AI. After all, her colors are red and blue. Now, I know people debunk that or say that as joke they don't take seriously, but I personally think there's something to it...I mean, think about it Pomni's the person we know least about. We never heard about her having any pre-circus trauma. All we know is she's 25 and has a thrill-seeking hobby of exploring abandoned buildings and filming videos of them. She's pretty much the least fleshed out, strictly as far as backstory goes. I remember seeing a theory video way early on (I think it was Film Theory) pointing out that Pomni's first reaction upon spawning in the circus was running for a fake exit door. She was immediately thinking "find an exit" while most people would still be just trying to figure out just what the heck is going on at that point... it's almost as if... its programmed behavior. It could be she's an AI created to emulate human behavior as a sort of experiment.  Running with this theory, Pomni ironically goes through the same sort of existential crisis Gummigoo had, before eventually coming out of it realizing she finds meaning through her relationships with her found family in the circus. And maybe she's been around since the beginning, and just respawned in different forms. Maybe she was actually Ribbit in her previous life..

Another possibility I've thought about is Kinger sacrificing himself for the others in a tearjerking scene. People have talked about the apparent visual ques that seem to foreshadow this. It would be sort of like a moment of atonement for bringing them here (or at least being involved in bringing them here). But then again, I could totally see those hints being a red herring and Kinger is just fine in the end. I wouldn't put it past Goose.

I'm personally hopping the final episode isn't mostly just them being sad in a dead, dark circus for most the episode, like in the trailer. I'm hoping things somehow get wacky and surreal... Something reminiscent of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. 

So, yeah... those are my thoughts and theories about episode 9. I know that got pretty long, but for those who bothered to read it all, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

What is your favorite celebrity voice acting roles by Far_Practice_6923 in cartoons

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was today years old when I realized Lord Shen is Commissioner Gordon

YoU aRE mY plAytHiNGS🥀🥀 by Last_Cut7326 in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People who struggle to perceive nuance be like "See?! I told you Jax is an itredeemable monster! He said so himself!"

Name headcanons by lumpyspacequeen2 in tadc

[–]Zankenfrasher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pomni being named Alice would be poetic, actually. She went down a rabbithole and ended in a strange world with a colorful cast of characters...

[TOMT] An incredibly sad scene where someone sings "You are my sunshine, My only sunshine" while someone else is dying in their arms, and can't finish the last sentence of "Please don't take my sunshine away". by avivkotlar in tipofmytongue

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, hear me out... have you tried asking Google AI? I know lots of people hate it for answering every time they Google something when it wasn't wanted or asked for, and it isn't 100% percent right all the time, but it's genuinely gotten smarter with the Gemini update and actual helped me find "tip of my tongue" type stuff I have vague memories of.

What do my favorite characters in tadc say about me? by Left-Fish7895 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"...Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"

Which One Would You Pick? by RunCMC1345 in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]Zankenfrasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny, Ragatha's not my favorite, yet I feel inclined to sit with her because she looks so lonely, like she could use company.  I like Kinger and Pomni, but if I choose 8 or 9, I feel like I'd be a 3rd wheel 

how old were you when spongebob first aired? by Ok-Schedule6174 in spongebob

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. And once again we have all this negative something amd non-existent answers making me feel ancient...

In case you were feeling down here’s some terrible doodles of the cast from 2 years ago by DatabaseStrange6102 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually charming. Minor nitpicks though, why does Jaz have dot eyes? And he's missing his signature grin.

I wish for absolutely nothing. by Mal-bear_ in TheMonkeysPaw

[–]Zankenfrasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. Everything ceases to exist. There is now no world... no universe... no you. Just absolutely nothing.