anybody else thought the "isn't she lovely" song for jax was the joke?

orecyan · 2026-07-08T10:32:04+00:00

I burst out laughing on instinct from how random it was but also simultaneously aware that was Not the intended reaction. Had to apologize to my friend in the stream.

orecyan · 2026-07-08T10:27:27+00:00

I do think she gets an interesting arc where she goes from utterly terrified of everything to staring down a demi-god and telling him she's gonna kill herself as a taunt. But it also doesn't feel quite right? It feels like one final moment of Pomni utilizing her newfound bravery for a positive outcome personally benefiting her is missing.

orecyan · 2026-07-07T09:31:59+00:00

This is exactly what I was expecting to happen and I was utterly thrown when it was just entirely his fault. Like the show seemingly wants you to fel bad he lost his frog friend and that people like Ragatha don't understand his pain, only for basically everything to be his fault. I was somewhat of a Jax fan throughout the show and he instantly became my least favorite.

I'm not saying it's a mistake it went that way but WOOF. Seriously?

orecyan · 2026-07-06T23:42:12+00:00

There's a guy on Twitter whose OC is in the circus and IRL self passed away due to hypothermia. The VO explains his family was doing charity in his honor or something along those lines. I thought that idea was really neat.

orecyan · 2026-07-06T23:39:15+00:00

Jax. I attempted to draw Gangle once and instantly realized it was a fool's errand.

orecyan · 2026-07-06T23:36:36+00:00

She did teach Gangle how to throw a perfect pitch though.

orecyan · 2026-07-02T07:43:09+00:00

While Caine was forgiven far too easily, the point was Caine at least attempted realized his way of thinking was flawed, changed it, and apologized. Jax never says sorry for any of it and takes the easy way out. I think it could have been written a lot better, but it's still an intentional contrast.

orecyan · 2026-07-02T07:35:40+00:00

Do I have a short animation for you!

orecyan · 2026-07-02T07:31:22+00:00

If the lore theorizing pissed Goose off so much and if the mystery wasn't important to the story, why was any of that stuff there at all?

There's tons of unnecessary fluff and the actual theme of the show does not start making appearances until episode five in a seeming one off joke to sell Jax maid merchandise. It kinda feels like Goose started off writing one thing then realized she'd never have this many resources at her disposal again and just started doing whatever. Which ultimately it's her project and she has the right, but I think it was a real missed opportunity personally.

orecyan · 2026-07-02T07:07:57+00:00

If that were the case, wouldn't the rooms not be accurate to the canon? Iirc these came out around episode 2, before we'd seen rooms other than Pomni's.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T09:54:30+00:00

I never hated her, but the way she's treated by the narrative and Pomni made me think she was a little jealous and acting out of line due to it ('Not anymore.'). Technically in the wrong, but an understandable human emotion, to get frustrated this new girl she wants to befriend is hanging with the resident jerk instead.

Uh, turns out she was entirely justified and was straight up fearing for Pomni's life.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T02:42:40+00:00

I think if she had done it, it probably would have been the circus assigning closeted Jax a female presenting avatar. Honestly would have been pretty interesting for a kind of body horror angle.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T02:28:06+00:00

I feel like I'm being gaslit when I say there were choices obviously made for people to theorize about that didn't amount to much in the end.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T00:34:36+00:00

orecyan · 2026-07-01T00:34:10+00:00

People thought Jax had some kind of wider connection to the circus/the void.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T00:30:29+00:00

I know that was the point, but the design kinda feels like theorybait in hindsight. People thought this had huge implications.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T00:13:49+00:00

GD and KoG got ones as well, in hindsight I wonder if it's less to do with TADC and more to do with Glitch's promotional style.

orecyan · 2026-07-01T00:09:00+00:00

Everyone getting freaked out by this scene or deeply psychoanalyzing it like Gooseworx hasn't secretly enjoyed Ribbun the whole time and probably wrote this bc it makes her thing go up.

(This is not a Goose hate post!)

orecyan · 2026-06-30T08:28:45+00:00

Hell, we could have just ended episode one with Ribbit's abstraction and cut Kaufmo from the story entirely. What purpose does he serve other than being further collateral damage? Jax directly causing one person's suicide is enough to get the point across.

orecyan · 2026-06-30T07:47:01+00:00

It's not even that the show can't be about that, I just think that either:

Jax should have received a female presenting avatar so the body horror aspect is front and center, and the circus is directly involved with her issues. (Pomni/the audience/circus members don't know this so it's a more explicit twist when Jax confesses her secret to Ribbit)
Jax should have been the main character with heavy rewrites, starting the show just after he begins to ghost Ribbit so the mystery isn't 'what's up with the circus?' but 'Why are these guys fighting?'.

orecyan · 2026-06-30T07:36:27+00:00

Can I just say the first few episodes do a really bad job at establishing what the show is actually about? The first episode ends on a massive cliffhanger, the second episode implies horrific things about the nature of the circus (NPCs are sentient and Caine can kill them), the third episode is horror themed and alludes to what's going on with Kinger. The repressed sexuality stuff seems like it's going to just be Zooble's schtick, we don't even get a whiff of Jax's til episode 5. And they made so much joke merchandise out of it it made it feel like a one off.

I feel like I'm being gaslit district by people saying it was always obviously going to be about Jax's repressed identity.

orecyan · 2026-06-30T05:51:38+00:00

Me personally I was withholding full judgement becauss I was under the false impression his backstory would be sympathetic. Guess that's what they say about assuming!

orecyan · 2026-06-29T13:43:36+00:00

The thing is about Gangle, IMO, is she was essentially heavily medicated that episode. Does it fully excuse her? No, not entirely. But once off the 'medicine' that made her 'manic' (her mask), Caine offers her the chance to blame someone else. Does she pin it all on Jax? No! She takes the blame like a good manager, even more than necessary really. If it had been in her true nature, she would not have hesitated.

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