The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 3 Reaction

Some fun facts/details (this show is full of them!): With the lore that kinger's mind/memories are better in the dark, we can realize a few things: reason for his pillow fort, which we've seen since the pilot. It blocks out the constant brightness of the circus around him, easing his thoughts, stabilizing his sanity. In episode 2, Kinger had a bucket on his head for parts of the candy adventure, like during his scene with Ragatha where he spoke of remembering how hard her introduction to the circus was. He was using the bucket to shield himself from the daylight. And in this episode, his line: "You know, I'm starting to think..." where it feels like he trails off mid sentence- he didn't trail off, that was the whole sentence! As their surroundings got dimmer he literally started being able to think!!! At the beginning when Bubble seemingly says some nonsense after Caine introduces the adventure, if you play this part backwards you can hear that bubble is saying: "I can't wait for all the children in the audience to get horrible nightmares from the monster!" Last fun fact: now that we know Zooble has a box of interchangeable parts, you'll notice that in every episode (even since the pilot), they swap out what parts they have on, so every episode they look a little different

Oh yehhh get ready for more emotional depth and great character writing in future episodes: it's one of the things I like best about indie shows- they usually have very unique, well-written, and therefore more relatable characters, which is really important for being able to feel a connection with a piece of art or media. Whereas most big animation corporations water down all their characters for mass public appeal. Also don't listen to that YouTuber, (affectionately) this show was MEANT for over-analyzing and finding personal meaning in the different characters and their struggles. *Bangs fists on table* The CHARACTER writing in this show, THE CHARACTER WRITING!!! I'm fine

I love the scene of Kinger comforting Pomni so much. He’s so painfully sincere, and you can tell that Pomni took it to heart. I honestly think she has some of the best character growth of the cast

You've mentioned doing re-watches before. I think since Helluva Season 3 is next, doing a rewatch of Helluva Boss with you would be awesome. After The Amazing Digital Circus of course

This episode is what made me really fall in love with TADC. Also when I like to ask people, ‘Who is your favorite character and why is it Kinger?

I feel like Pomni grows a little bit in every episode. Like she's learning how to empathize with others and finding greater peace in that rather than just focusing on her own frustrations. I really think that's what makes life bearable. My Dad is also going through memory loss that is getting worse since the stroke. But he started playing guitar today and I wanted to cry.

The human mind can do weird things. I had an aunt who had a lot of memory loss because of dementia. But when a hymn was played at a wedding we attended, she knew all the words and sang it perfectly. It was wild. It’s sweet that Kinger lets Pomni know that as long as she remembers everything that happened, then that’s good enough. The idea that people and events live on as long as someone remembers also shows up in Pixar’s Coco and Disturbed’s Hold on to Memories.

My granddad also had vascular dementia. He was the same, with the music. We'd play him his favourite songs or sing to him and he's be himself again (even though he couldn't talk anymore toward the end). Music is so powerful like that. Kinger I think is my favourite character, actually. Him and Jax. He's very interesting and just gets more interesting as it goes on. I don't understand why people watch reactors and then say "just watch the show" instead of wanting to hear their thoughts. What's the point of that? I watch reactors who make like two hour long videos about a single episode of a show because they stop to yap or geek out about animation or music or plot or whatever, and I love that. You could yap more and I wouldn't complain at all. Keep sharing your thoughts, it's what we're here for! What I'm here for, anyways. The announcement trailer for season 3 of Helluva Boss is supposed to debut at LVLUP next weekend. After that we'll know when it comes out. That's what I've heard, anyway.

There is going to be a Season 3 Helluva Boss trailer within the next week or two.

The darkness really let's Kinger's mind shine.... I'll see myself out

This show gets deeper with every episode, Gooseworx has said that she didn't want to waste viewers time, so everything is important. :) And Kinger getting lucid in the dark is such a nice note.

Kinger is one of my favourite characters! The scene where he looked into the angel monster's mouth and saw the eyes in there and said "you look beautiful, honey", it's because that reminded him of his abstracted wife. So tragic and sad... I love it! 😅