The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 5

I mean yeah but I see some of the issues from Ragatha also on Pomni, Pomni is also overly positive and never gets mad with anyone no matter what they do, for some reason in Ragatha seems a bit fake and not in pomni, I wonder why. All of them have like stereotypical things like Jax is the asshole who seems to have no feelings, Ragatha seems cool and fake, Zooble is the weirdo almost emo like, Kingler is the crazy guy, Gangle seems like the depressed one who gets bullied at school, it's interesting cause all of them have this personality of a different group like inside a society or university or whatever it is, so they seem to belong to whole different worlds when mixed together, I don't really see any of them like having a duo or friendship, each is kinda by themselves and for themselves. You can't say oh look Zooble and Gangle are always together, it's like it ever happens. Interesting.

When Ragatha says that Jax doesn’t have friends anymore, is it possible that he was friends with the people that abstracted? In episode 1, the pictures on some of the doors to the dorm rooms had red X’s on them.

Fun Story, when you get to the Softball game, if you change the language you are listening to it in, the anthem changes at the beginning to the country the language is from.

I love all the rapid fire adventures in this episode. The bar is also my favorite. Just fyi though- zooble’s pronouns are they/them

This is an episode that plants some seeds for the second half of the series. It also starts to hint at some darker implications of being in the Circus and what Caine can and can’t do to them.

No matter how many times I see this episode I laugh aloud each time the disappearing guy is about to sing the national anthem. 🤣🤣🤣

I’ll talk about it in future reactions but this show reminds me of two different things

watching the shorts is something you need to do

I think Jax displays quite a bit of toxic masculinity in this one. He hates anything feminine, he hates anything that makes him seem soft or feminine, his distress at being put in that maid outfit is really telling. At the same time, I think he genuinely likes Pomni and has no idea how to express it in a healthy way, so he tries to make her more like him. Jax isn't a very nice person. This is pretty explicitly illustrated by the fact that "evil Jax" is pretty much just a nice guy. I've known people like Jax. I had a friend in my teens who was almost exactly like him. Said the meanest things to the people around him, including me. I refused to let him push me away and just kind of stuck around him. It all clearly came from a place of deep insecurity and I think Jax is the same. I feel bad for him, but I also think he should have to face some consequences for his actions.