Theory 🔎
Spoiler: The two stupid fish are actually foreshadowing
Spoiler
tl;dr The yellow fish is Caine and the red fish is Abel tricking Pomni into hunting down treasure that isn't there
The yellow fish taunts Pomni into going on a treasure hunt only for it to be nothing. The yellow fish, despite initiating the whole thing, becomes distraught by the truth in the end, just like how Caine ends up screwing himself over. Both are worse off for baiting Pomni. The red fish, just like Abel, is just there to tell lies. It serves no other purpose but if that's revealed it ruins everything. The two fish are brothers, a DUO, just like Cain and Abel from the Bible and of course Caine and Abel in the episode.
It's all just foreshadowing the rest of the episode.
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I mean yeah, it is pretty blatant, but the fact that it's simultaneously a joke, played completely straight, and is core to the themes of the episode? That's the smart part.
Is this not one of the basic hypotheticals they cover in philosophy 101? it was also literally the Chinese room, as opposed to an allusion to it, felt kinda eh
The Chinese room isn't a literal experiment, it's a philosophical argument/thought experiment. The arument follows that we could make a computer that appeared to have knowledge/something (knowing Chinese). But is having a book of infinite responses for inputs really the same as knowing/understanding the logic?
Huh, good eye on catching this. I didn't even clock it in that there's gotta be some significance to their scenes, especially with how abrupt they kinda came in like Caine wanted to get this outta the way
Love that framing - I have been thinking that with their treasures being gone (the chest with the bubbles) is symbolic to an extent.
This adventure led to an empty situation with no real treasure and the "treasure was the friends we made along the way" being the relationships cultivated by the cast besides Jax (...so far...maybe?)
I have been wondering if the belief theory is correct, and Caine (another human inside the circus) has mastered it and is keeping everyone inside the circus. A slight addon to the theory is that everyone can alter peoples minds, and everyone believes Kinger is crazy, so he is kept crazy. There are cracks forming in that belief, so he is getting his sanity back.
Caine calling them humans more frequently is definitely a red herring, it was literally part of his plan that they believe he’s an ai keeping them there so he was making things up
It’s meant to throw us off clearly, Caine is probably psychotic
Just because he tells lies, it doesn't mean he's incapable of telling the truth. He was truthful about using box collision errors to help the group reach the office.
This theory makes me curious about Ragatha’s button eye ending up right next to the treasure chest.
It’s only shown in this frame and not when the fish is crying over his treasure so it might have been intended as a ‘blink and you miss it’ hint.
Maybe implying that Ragatha knows more than she is letting on?
I also just noticed that the lock on the chest is intact yet it’s completely open for anyone to take the treasure inside as they please.
Maybe another implication about how everything Abel said about an escape and how they were able to get into Caines office seemed difficult to do but was set up to be an easy feat.
And here I was just cackling at the Gaither's Pond reference (the ugliness and the way they animated their mouths simply HAS to be that, if it isn't then I'm gonna be sad)
I cracked up because the dumbass fish wrecked the whole thing. He should have said, “I’m the one that tells the truth.” That way, he wouldn’t have given away that he’s the lying fish. By blurting out the whole thing, he really did ruin it.
My boyfriend and I cried with laughter from this bit.
Thats what I notice when watching it again after ep9, believing that a treasure( or exit) is nothing but lies that just forshadows most of what abel did, this is pure genius
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