The Amazing Digital Circus: EPISODE 2
I feel like we got the moral of the show in this episode (a.k.a.) "Life is pretty unbearable, the only way to get through it is together" ... or at least something like that. Is that what you're getting also? The show is getting deeper by the second! What did you think? Let me know in the comments! Beautiful musical underscoring also.
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The scene with the truck glitching through the map, always reminds me of playing Skyrim and when the horse glitches through the mountain.
Skyrim! I’m still debating if I think Crimson Desert will be competitive with it, Im about 15 hours in now. Controls on CD are insanely complex!
In addition to the Mad Max parallel someone else mentioned, I think Gummigoo and the others had Australian accents because they're crocodiles and crocodiles are often associated with Australia (Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter, etc.). To me, this show mostly feels like it's about mental illness. I think the main cast kind of represent a bunch of different neurodivergences, personality disorders and so on. I mean, it's about other things too, obviously, there's a lot of social commentary, but that was my immediate takeaway watching through it for the first time. Like Gangle's bipolar, Pomni has anxiety, Kinger kind of represents dementia, Zooble displays body dysmorphia... I guess it's a pretty surface level reading and I know nothing about the show's creator or any of its development so it's purely based on watching the show once.
Fun fact: Gummigoo’s flavor (according to the creator) is Pineapple Lime. On one hand, I never thought I’d be devastated by the demise of a gummy. On the other hand, I want them to come out with gummy bandit gummies for me to eat.
I think you were looking down using the piano when it happened, Tim--but I think the most important part of the end of this episode is you see Pomni think back to her dream earlier as she is falling into the dark, but this time three hands reach out and catch hers (Ragatha's, Gangle's, and Zooble's). Speaks to the bonds of people being the counter to nihilism i think. Jax's hand doesn’t appear in that scene... 😥
Yess this was an important moment! 👆 good catch
Oh my gosh I would 100% be down with you checking out the fan songs with the actual voice actors in them, they are so good
That Fudge Monster was hilarious! “Is it really murder if it’s delicious?” Well, considering that all of the townspeople were faceless art mannequins, maybe. Yeah, I guess this show is going to be an emotional roller coaster ride. I went from laughing about the Monster raiding the village to being shocked by Caine’s quick and callous removal of Gummigoo. At least Pomni didn’t stay upset for long - that in her dream, someone grabs her hand to stop her from falling.
Did you notice how the Princess called Caine "god"? Foreshadowing... Gummigoo became a very likable character and then Caine popped him out of existence. 😭
The Australian accent is because the adventure is basically an homage to Mad Max which takes place in Australia. Also Gumigoo's sudden erasure just makes me think of how you can have all kinds of emotional investment in a person and suddenly without warning they're just gone from your life.
Just a fair warning next episode is considered the "horror" episode and I really enjoy your insights on the meanings of the episodes. As for Jax we do get a little more insight into him much later
Episode 2: the diabetes inducing existential crisis 😳 RIP Gummi🐊
The score of the show overall is top tier in my humble opinion. Each episode you think it can’t get better, and then it does. Gooseworx is an absolute genius and I hope they get their flowers