The Amazing Digital Circus General Discussion Thread [Spoilers]

I watched the movie yesterday. I have similar attitudes to it as to SvtFoE. It’s not great, it is fairly good and I can see the intent and message behind it, but it really huge flaws. When I originally watched it I thought it was peak, but after thinking about it problems are too much to ignore.

First of all wth was that Jax abstraction. I know that the message is that suic*de is one day man is here, another one he is not. But we were literally building it up for three episodes.

Secondly, message about “he chose to not be saved” and “we should be all together” gets undermined by the fact that he DID start talking to Pomni but then backed down and Pomni literally had no reaction. She is supposed to be leader uniting everyone, she is supposed to know Jax the best, she reads him like a book in ep 6, but here she just… walks away? What? It also makes the fault partially on her for failing to be a good leader. Especially since everyone else already got united. I’d get it if it was when they were all broken, but she literally got things and other members going well.

Also, contrast between Jax and Caine kills me. Honestly, I’m one of those who like Caine’s redemption despite it being rushed. But Caine was objectively worse. He tortured cast for a week, lied to everyone, does not have psychological problems unlike Jax for most of the time, and indirectly led to many abstractions. Caine getting a redemption while Jax is punished makes no sense.

Even without contrast to Caine, hints of him being able to change and doing so slowly only for him to freaking die is so stupid and unsatisfying. Also, did they genuinely put him on a leash and basically turn him into a big circus pet? This is probably as humiliating disrespect to a human being as it can get. Especially since there IS a fully sentient human inside, which I will elaborate on later.

Jax’s death can also send a really bad message. After Pomni leaves his mind, we are shown how happy everyone was. Regardless of whether you like Jax or not, there are tons of people who sympathize with him and genuinely related to him. The ending can easily be interpreted as “see, suic*dal jerk with issues finally kys, and everyone got happier”, and “everything would be better if I was not there” is a common suic*dal thought. So yeah, not a good picture.

And lastly, how the heck does abstraction work. I thought abstraction was mind totally breaking down, a person going fully insane and all that. Caine logically would be unable to fix that since it’s too much of a destruction of mind and even if he could theoretically, he wouldn’t practically since he screwed up Scratch’s mind for whatever reason (likely trying to fix tumor). But it’s revealed that the memories are totally fine and there is actual conscious human inside? It’s just on outside it’s a beast but he’s fully sentient and aware inside? What? Why can’t Caine just reset the body or drag out those mind files and create a new body for it? Genuinely makes no sense.

So, yeah.

Yes

I mean, from what I understand, he regenned because he got thrown into trash bin which is the void, and he can return from there. So it’s kind of Regen but also self-BFR.

Really hope that Jax is the male character so I can imagine him still being non-abstracted in another timeline

The characters still call Jax he/him after the abstraction and his human counterpart still goes by he/him, so we could assume that he's still he/him