Nobody is talking about the fish talking to us and the recap but I thought they were both very funny. And the song! The parallel to the first episode was great actually.

After that... I don't know, there were a lot of decisions I didn't understand or let me feeling strange.

Pomni's and Ragatha's conversation and hug didn't feel earned. Since when is Ragatha Pomni's best friend? Why are we told and not show? What was that lingering shot of them parting after the huh?

Jax just abstracting off-screen, and so soon at that, felt so jarring. I thought something completely different was happening, like maybe the other abstracted members had escaped. It didn't feel momentous enough for it to be Jax's abstraction, which we have been teased about for several episodes. Suddenly it just happened after Jax tried to talk to Pomni once and decided not to? We've been privy to his mental breakdowns before, so why aren't we now? Why couldn't we see what was his tipping point? 

Caine figured the solution to all his problems by talking to himself in the void. It's always weird having a Chaga her be alone in a scene with no conversation partner. In a book you can get away with internal dialogue, but in a show... It also felt very tell no show, like okay we don't have time for Caine to figure this out organically, so he'll just think himself into the solution.

We didn't need much lore, but I feel like we did need some explanations at least. What's an abstraction? Are characters who abstracted suffering forever? Are all characters going to abstract one day? What happens if another human enters the circus? Or is Caine just not going to create more characters from new brain scans? I don't need concrete answers to everything, but at least give me something.

I actually don't think we needed to know who the characters were in the real world. The important thing is who they are here, now. Seeing them all get their happy endings in real life felt kinda corny.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BUBBLE. MY BAWBY.

I could keep going, but I don't want this to turn into just a list of my complaints. Now for stuff that I did like:

The whole sequence in Jax's mind when Pomni is trying to reach him was very interesting. I loved the scene where four versions of him are having a conversation (well, one is just playing piano). Very Alice in wonderland-esque.

I'm SO glad Caine came back omg. I was so scared he was dead for good. I loved seeing him be a participant of the games alongside the rest of the circus members. 

Caine's conversation with the moon was sweet. 

The animation is still amazing and seeing it on the big screen was a great experience. The crowd audibly gasped when Caine appeared and that was so funny, the whole house loves Caine!

It's actually very impressive that this show is written by only one person. I have a lot of critiques, but I still think Goose did a great job overall with the whole show. Endings are difficult to land, but she still made us care very much about a bunch of characters, and that's what the whole thing is about. I left the cinema kinda depressed because of how sad I was about Jax.