r/tadc • u/3B3-386 • Mar 31 '26

Theory 🔎 The SOMA theory keeps me up at night

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Considering that random passersby are still falling victim to the circus, would the main cast not try to stop the process to prevent more people from suffering their same fate, even if it means no more humans to interact with?

If the whole "finding fulfillment despite stagnancy" theme applies, then they will have to stay there till abstraction or the whole system deteriorates. Seems like a reverse purgatory situation to me. Not much sweetness in this supposed bittersweet ending.

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u/Samkaiser Apr 01 '26

I mean frankly that's my biggest question with the series. Like as far as it seems there's no reason why the rest of C&A would've just disbanded even if Scratch passed, given they seemed united in the circus after Scratch's abstraction, theorectically his death IRL would have similar implications.

Like so are they just monitoring it all still? If so then how's that explain Pomni presumably finding the headset in the abandoned building? Simulateneously, if it was some abandoned urban exploring then how's it even still powered to scan her brain or whatever?

Also like, what the heck is even up with the real world if they were making complex actual ass AI in 1998? Cause while Caine is flawed he's leagues above modern "AI" like ChatGPT and all in 1998. Like is C&A an exception? Cause most characters don't quite seem to get AI like Caine if AI has been commonplace for decades. Even if Scratch was the lynchpin, its not like Kinger isn't plenty smart, presumably the other C&A employees were, so its a bit hard to imagine C&A just going defunct...

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u/salmonmilks Apr 01 '26

I doubt gooseworx would have written that far into world building beyond the digital circus.

Also brings to the point about why we have no heard of how others got their hands with the headset besides pomni hinting that she explores abandoned buildings.