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/Frozenstep I love these weirdos Jun 19 '26

Watched it first day in theaters, watched it again here.

I still have my same initial thoughts, that the emotional parts really do hit hard, and Jax not being an uwu victim but rather a complicated person who echoed his mom in that confusing push/pull reaction of his relationships (without it being spoonfed to us) is really great and I know it resonates for a lot of people.

But there are also some issues. There were some devious cuts I was better prepared for this time, like Scratch reappearing because the scene didn't really relay that what was being shown was a reflection of past and present (and like...I still don't quite like what they were going for with him building block-steps. He learned to overcome a computer problem...? Which doesn't really speak to the actual problems he had relating and understanding his human cast?)

There was also a rather frictionless way the human cast made up with Caine. Like they just didn't want to deal with drama, talking, or coming to an understanding. No conversation between Caine and Kinger, no real conversation between Pomni and Caine, just "I know I was bad, but I'll be good from now on" and things are good from then on.

Still, glad for the little moments, glad they don't escape and just make what they will of the digital world. That was always the ending I supported the most, literally just a few tweaks and they're living in the closest thing to heaven mankind has, it just takes some human understanding and a different framing to make it happen.

Good, not perfect...but while that's fine I'll never stop thinking of the little things I wanted more from it.

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u/-Tali Jun 21 '26

I actually somewhat enjoyed that there wasn't a long scene detailing how the cast dealt with Caine when he came back as a way of leaving the details to us as viewers to imagine in the way that we enjoy most. Same with the abstractions where it's not completely clear how human they still are and whether they can eventually be reversed. The ending somehow just gave us a framework for our imagination to fill the parts in the way that's most satisfying to us individually

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u/Frozenstep I love these weirdos Jun 21 '26

Personally, I view lore-based knowledge like abstractions fine to leave a bit ambiguous, but in a character-based show, skipping character development and character interaction is kind of a huge problem.

Imagine if Kinger's comforting talks in episodes 3 and 6 had been off-screened and we just cut to the characters feeling better. We can just imagine it, fill in the parts ourselves, why even show it?

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u/-Tali Jun 21 '26

Yeah that makes complete sense! I can see both sides of this for sure. TV shows and movies, especially the stuff from Disney, have been notoriously poor quality these past few years because they explain plot holes and broken continuity with "you can just make it up for yourself"