The Amazing Digital Circus EPISODE 7

There was going to be more to the show, but Gooseworx (who voices bubble) did an Ask Me Anything on reddit shortly after the release of episode 2 or 3, and when asked "who are the main characters" goose said jax and pomni are. The reddit fans are what i call the shipping fans, the fans who have a need to invest a large amount of mental faculties into the fictional shows they watch, and pair characters together. The shipping fans literally attacked Gooseworx over this information and famously said "the fans made me not want to touch this universe ever again with a ten foot pole". As a result, goose cancelled any future projects with Digital Circus ending the show with the season 1 finale. I imagine there may be Shorts and content distributed by the actors, The show has become the defacto face of GLiTCH, sort of like how spongebob is the face of nickelodeon.

Next episode is a trip and I feel like it really plays well in setting up the finale, which is apparently going to be in theaters early. I'm super excited for it!

Ive had this theory for a while, and I think this episode is good evidence for it. There is no escape, and there are no answers. The way the episode is structured, with lore being dropped only for it all to be revealed as a fake is a statement of that. In fact, I believe that is the entire point if the show. The world is meaningless, and the only thing we can do is find purpose by connecting with those we love.

Episode 9 will come to the (select few) cinemas on June 4th. I'm so happy it's coming to my country, too! As an indie production it wasn't certain it would but this is truly AMAZING! 😉 But Tim is not allowed to go see it in the cinema because he must watch it here with us after June 19th! 😝 In the mean time, those couple of Saturdays, maybe we could do the Helluva shorts? I'm also up for the new series from Glitch (Gameoverse). I haven't watched the pilot yet.

Okay.... I've held back comments on this show because others have such great insights into it. But this episode I have some thoughts on... The whole scene with Jax was him starting to abstract. He was only saved and pulled back from the edge by the dooorbell on his room. Check his eyes when he came back, they were almost exactly like the eyes you see on the Abstractions. Pomni saved his life (if Abstracting is death, and you can't recover from that) Characters from the Chinese room are all real, the three Cain slides only has one visible: 蛋 (egg). The three that come back only two are visible: 痛 (pain) and 帮 (help). Also the Chinese Room is a reference to an experiment (one of the first) into AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room The cube collisions was seen in the Candy Kingdom adventure with Gummigoo and the trucks. It's an old problem with 3D video games, where overlapping geometry collisions can cause chaotic and wild physics reactions. Hence the bouncing out of the game world. The red and blue buttons are a Matrix reference, just reversed, as the red pill is what freed Neo, and the blue pill would have returned him to the simulation. Lastly, this proves that Caine *can* mess with their minds... The vegan stuff, the stupid sauce, the loss of their real name, the rules of the trust exercise just given to Jax in a second, Pomni getting possessed by evil spirits, even Gangle's Masks, which seem to have a direct effect on her mind. Caine has been lying/underselling what he can do, and Kinger's mention of Scratch, the first abstraction, and Caine's reaction further proves it. It also is likely Kinger's going dumb in the light is Caine's doing. Speaking of, you seem to have missed that in the dark, Kinger's mind becomes more lucid and more his normal self. Light effects him by making him stupid and manic. This is likely something Caine did to protect himself, as Kinger has said he was part of the original dev team.

so the sign i got that this was a trick was right before Pomni jumped into the air balloon. Abel did a classic NPC thing where when an important NPC in a game runs out of important dialog, it repeats a very generic catchphrase. When Abel finished his speech with Pomni he says 'make the right choice.' and then when Pomni offers him a beer, Abel repeats the phrase 'make the right choice.' like he couldn't say anything more of dialog. That doesn't mean that the information they were using wasn't real, but it does lead me to think nothing would have actually happened had they picked the 'wrong ending'

I literally screamed at the TV when Jax hit the button. I think it was along the lines of ‘GOD DAMMIT JAX!’ Also, Jax’s eyes when he awakes from his psychedelic trip are identical to the eyes on abstracted beings. If Pomni hadn’t knocked….

This episode threw everyone a curveball. I would recommend watching "Gameoverse". I haven't watched it yet, but I'm planning to watch it. I bet it is going to be good.

I feel the series was at least in part by the Star Trek Voyager episode where they get trapped by in a circusesque computer program run by an AI who needs sentient thoughts to survive so won't allow people to leave and get the same feeling from Caine and the circus. Plus this episode has a very Stanley Parable feel to it with the idea of control. Additionally episode 9 will be an hour and be on the big screen before coming to youtube

So that shark is the magnificent Zach Hadel! You gotta Smiling Friends now, it’s official. He’s definitely got a one of a kind voice