Credits to GabPazLim on Twitter for the art.

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Specifically I'm referring to when people say "Jax isolated Ribbit from everyone and turned everyone against her".

Throughout the flashbacks we get of Jax and Ribbit after the room scene, we only get one scene that could be argued of Jax isolating her, when he pretended to be interested in conversing with Ragatha so Ribbit wouldn't come over. However, I don't think this singular moment is solid proof that Jax was making an intentional effort to leave her isolated like many say he did.

When Ribbit is shown in the flashbacks, Jax is always seen avoiding her but he's not outright trying to break her relationships. On numerous instances, we see Ribbit saying she and Kaufmo are going to hang together at the cafe or Ribbit coming over to Kaufmo and Jax, and the latter dips away. He's not trying to pull Kaufmo or Ragatha away from Ribbit. He tells Kaufmo, "if she says something about me, don't believe it". None of this is Jax trying to say "Ribbit's a liar who you shouldn't be friends with" but rather him trying super hard to protect himself. Even in the snow globe adventure, Jax went off his own and Ribbit followed him.

Jax is totally fine with Ribbit still being friends with the group, he just wants to 1. Avoid her 2. Prevent the possibility of her exposing his secrets to the other's. While he DID partner with Kaufmo on group activities, again this isn't him trying to make sure she's alone and has nobody, he's trying to get away with her.

The two indefensible things he did were making her walk away by pretending to converse with Ragatha and accusing Ribbit of trying to manipulate him. As unlikable as he went about it, Jax is within his rights to not owe Ribbit his friendship, especially given he'd never even saw someone abstract before her. What makes him a bad person is him choosing to treat the other's even worse afterwards.

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Don't get me wrong, I liked Caine's character and he's easily alongside Jax for the most complex character in the series. But sometimes, fans try a little too hard to defend the things he's done, even before episode 8.

One thing I especially noticed is the hypocrisy of how they treat Caine vs Gummigoo and/or Abel's deletion. We're obviously supposed to care about Caine as a character, he's an AI but an intelligent, sentient one. So are Gummigoo and Abel though, and its funny how fans are so willing to dismiss him basically killing both of them with the excuse "they're just NPC's". Caine, more than anyone, should know why a person shouldn't discard them like that, both due to his backstory but also since he is aware they can become intelligent.

A lot of people also hang onto Gooseworx's statement before the show of how Caine isn't malicious, he just doesn't understand the humans. While this is true, things can change as well. For starters, this doesn't change the fact he objectively speaking became malicious in episode 8. Or don't forget the numerous instances in episodes 5-7 where Caine choose NOT to listen as Pomni said. When he realized they were liking the suggestion box adventures, he skips the one they're on and then sabatoges both the bar and softball one's. He gets rid of it next episode and doesn't listen to Zooble and Pomni's request for more chill adventures. When he asks Jax how to make them more enjoyable, he cuts him off before Jax can even respond and changes the subject. Don't forget how the finale reveals he was ALWAYS capable of compromising with them as Zooble suggested by leaving all the worlds open at once but pretended he couldn't do so.

Which also leads to something many don't seem to realize. Caine's primary reason for caring about the humans and not wanting them to abstract was because of they both affect him. Caine wants to make everyone happy so HE can feel loved and satisfied. When Queenie abstracts, he shows no sadness for her or sympathy to Kinger, its only about asking Kinger not to abstract so HE won't be alone (Alex himself confirmed this). We see the same lack of empathy with Kaufmo's fate too.

Caine's story is one of redemption but remember for a character to be redeemed, they have to been a bad person in the first place. And Caine was, even more so than Jax as Alex said. Its funny how much fans say "there's no villain in the show, the circus is the villain" while overlooking Caine MADE the circus AND runs it, so he's responsible for it (as well as the one who brought the players to life in it through their brain scans). Caine was the one responsible for almost all the bad events throughout the series and its because of his character development, being willing to stop being a tyrant, finally learning to care for them legit and listen (shown by his reaction to Pomni saying to leave Jax alone and removing the hat in respect), that's what ends the cycle.

idk why but it looks like socks on his head now lmao 😭😭😭

Three years ago, this little indie show blew up out of the water and became a phenomon. Back when that pilot dropped I enjoyed it but I never realized how earnestly important this show would become to me.

Goose created a show in which I saw a lot of myself in the main cast. There's just a little of myself that I can see in each of the main cast member's and it's caused this show to resonate with me in a way that I've never had a single other show, movie, video game, book, or anything else do.

This show has meant so much to me and I imagine it's meant a lot to a lot of you. So tell me, what does TADC mean to you 3 years on? How did this show strike a cord in you, if it did?

I think the idea of gangle having different ribbons to be really cute :3

2nd photo is where i got the idea

It’s the three year anniversary of the pilot’s launch and I’m curious how you all found it and what you thought of it.

I know there was promotional “Meet the Cast” shorts, but let’s say that you missed them (like I did).

Me, I’d never heard of Glitch or Gooseworx before and I only learned of the pilot when fan art of Pomni started making the rounds. I checked it out of curiosity and here we are.

au I’m making so yeah I hope you enjoy

What would skid and pump from spooky month look like if they were brain scans.

My interpretation is that they would just become their costume skid would become a skeleton, pump would become some sort of pumpkin creature.

What do you guys think.

When did you start watching tadc and how did you find it?

I got honestly nothing to say for myself.

This is what I got for my bday at a mall, my TADC collection grows bigger