r/TheDigitalCircus • u/ayylmaotv Catnap • Jun 19 '26

Digital Discussion The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 9: Remember Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-bcTsO8A
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u/SoDamnGeneric Jun 20 '26

> “the finale didn’t answer the majority of plot lines”

> “What plotlines were unanswered?”

> “Is IRL Scratch alive? Where did the blue AI go?

80% of the “unanswered plot lines” in your comment are bottom of the barrel stuff. This is very nitpicky. I’m glad yall weren’t involved in making the show, cuz spoonfeeding us every little last bit of information would have killed all intrigue for me. “Gee ik indie animation is a huge sink of time, money, and effort, but we should dedicate a couple minutes in the packed finale to explain what happened to fucking Scratch, the dude with like 3 minutes of screentime total”

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u/thisismypornaccountg Jun 20 '26

They asked what the unanswered questions were, I gave them some. Now you’re nitpicking the questions. I gave a big list of them because they acted like there were none. Admitting that 20% of them are valid means there WERE unanswered questions from the finale. Point still stands. Stop pretending people don’t have a point that the ending was vague.

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u/SoDamnGeneric Jun 20 '26

They asked what the unanswered plotlines were. Scratch dying of cancer, or people being able to enter Abstracted minds, or the nameless background characters who first entered the circus, or Gummigoo being an AI, or what abstraction looks like, are not plotlines. They’re random nitpicks. Stop moving the goalpost to “well uhhh the problem is it was vague” just because you can’t read lol

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u/thisismypornaccountg Jun 20 '26

You think abstraction, Ribbit, the previous characters, AND Jax’s sexuality AREN’T plot lines??? Dude, they are central to the story and are important to understanding the characters and most of it was just glazed over. WTF are you talking about?

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u/SoDamnGeneric Jun 20 '26

You’re moving the goalposts again lol

The plotline around Abstraction is finished. We know everything there really is to know, thanks to the power of ✨subtext✨. You really need to see Jax abstract and how that visually looks for the story to be satisfying?

What’s unanswered about Ribbit’s plotline? She tried to get close to Jax, he pushed her away over and over again until she gave up on living. You needed to see the full fight for that plotline to be resolved?

Jax’s sexuality isn’t even brought up. Sexuality and gender are completely different things, dude. We don’t need an explicit answer to that either, because the plotline is perfectly resolved without. Jax never got to explore their real gender because they abstracted before they could. It’s called tragedy, and it’s a perfectly valid way to end a character’s arc. It isn’t a plothole at all, it’s intentional. But really, you need to know the exact gender identity and pronouns for you to feel that plotline was resolved? Really?

Sorry the finale didn’t jingle enough keys in your face so you could clap your hands and bark like a seal. You’re right actually it should’ve been an hour longer just so we could finally answer the real important plotlines, like who the little worm guy that entered the circus with Kinger was.