Fun fact:"Pomni" means "Remember" in russian. Since there is an official russian dub and forgetting your past life and losing yourself are big themes in this Pilot i highly doubt thats a coincidence
Also Glitch has another series called “Murder Drones” and one of the characters “Doll” speaks in Russian, so the people creating the story are definitely bilingual and did it intentionally
Really curious to see how Pomni’s trip into the void effects her long term, as well as how her and Ragatha’s relationship pans out. That silence between them at the end was loaded, to say the least.
I’m obsessed with the emotional potential of “I don’t actually harbor ill will because thinking through the scenario I think your actions are valid but the place in my heart where I store all leftover resentment is FILLED TO BURSTING AND IT MAKES ME HATE MYSELF THAT IT IS NOT DRAINING AT THE MOMENT”
It was worryingly so, but Ragatha wouldn't necessarily know she stopped looking for Cain. And Ragatha''s the one who glitched Pomni, so I don't think she can be criticised too much.
I think the reason Pomni and Ragatha had tension was cause Ragatha was glitching and in pain, she needed immediate help, but Pomni instead decided to ditch the find Caine mission for her escape the digital circus goal. We dont know how much time passed between going inside the first exit and finally being picked by Caine in the void, a few minutes... an hour? Imagen the pain Ragatha must've felt by herself waiting for Pomni to get help, but she never came and actually completely forgot about her... Eventually Ragatha had to DRAG herself to Caine because nobody else was gonna help her... So yeah that's my theory on why there was tension between Ragatha and Pomni, she was glitching and needed help but was instead ditched and left for dead for who knows how long.
This is already a series, it doesn't need to be "greenlit" because Glitch's "pilots" are usually just what they title the first episode, this is their fourth show and theyve done it every time. The same thing happened with Murder Drones, actually. The reason it took so long Between the Pilot and Episode 2 was because Glitch was already working on wrapping up the final season of their other show Meta Runner. So the only question is how long we'll have to wait before the next one! Glitch's whole goal was to create shows by people that usually would have to go to a big streaming service etc to make a show, only for it to not be exactly what they wanted from having to change too much, or possibly get cancelled because of how those corporations work, Glitch reached out to indie animator Gooseworx to ask them if they had a show they wanted to make, and they do everything themselves at Glitch Prod, so it's definitely gonna have more episodes. 1:04 Actually Gooseworx uploaded a video of the main theme for TADC on their own channel, and it starts similar to this, but right as the title is coming in, little bubbles with "play" "options" & "quit" pop up below it, a gloved hand clicks on play, and then it zooms into the tent. kinda wish they wouldve kept that in this version it adds to that 90s computer game aesthetic
They probably didn’t want to give the impression that the players have the option to quit because that would give some people the wrong impression when watching.
They do have to secure more funding for the show with merch sales, hence why this one is in pilot stage rn, they will likely get the funds given the popularity so unless something happens to Glitch as a whole... more is coming and I would expect 8 month- year wait if we use the same timeline MD had between pilot and its 2nd ep
There was one small show that had a pilot that wasn't green lit or was supposed to just be one episode, and that was ultra jump mania a spin off of meta runner about an alternate cartridge of theo
About the chess piece doors I think it was on purpose, the one that was crossed off was a black queen piece, while Kinger is a white king piece obv. This could mean that maybe he and the queen were close which would explain why he is so unstable now that whoever the queen was is gone.
i've got a hunch that Kinger was one of the original developers of this place. It's a crack theory, but what if he's the C and the queen was the A in that strange C&A logo we see during Pomni's exit adventure
“Oh Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence!” That line indicates a kind of Meta-Awareness, it’s literally only there for when the camera cuts to him, that’s the joke. I’m curious how aware he is.
@@jervisangelopitao7118 no I mean aware that they’re in a cartoon show on the internet not just being aware that they’re in a game. Aware that they’re in a series, that they’re fictional characters.
@@noname-cx7yz I'm still kinda on the fence about Jax. I think he just pretends to know there's more to it all- acting like you're more in control than you really are can be a comfort in helpless situations.
Well, he knows there's something out there watching, hence the opening song. He knows it's a show, and is aware of the "cameras,' but is still confined within his understanding of the game files.
I might point out, for all his assholery, Jax actively seemed to be trying to *_protect_* the much more vulnerable Gangle and Kinger from Abstracted Kaufmo. By knocking them into the hole the way he did, he ensured the two most vulnerable, defenseless, unstable, and easily harmed people there were well out of the way of the beast. Some part of me thinks he had actually suspected what had happened to Kaufmo the whole time and he sent Kinger and Gangle off after Zooble and the Gloinks specifically to get them out of the way of the imminent danger... he WAS after all the one who split up the teams. And he had a key to Kaufmo's room ready to go, as if he expected Kaufmo not to be in a state to open his door himself. Not to mention when he sprinted off, he stopped fleeing as soon as he found Kinger and Gangle, implying he was _actually looking for them as fast as he could, not running away at all._ With that in mind, Jax is starting to give off Big Brother vibes to me. He messes with everyone, but in a pinch nobody messes with them but HIM, and while he'll play it off with snark, he actually CARES.
Exactly! I’d notice it was more beneficial going into the hole than actually staying up there. Although he seems more a-hole jerk who has a heart of gold deep down than “Big Brother” (especially since technically I heard he’s like the youngest).
that was essentially my impression the first time I saw it. He seems to be snarky and making fun of the current situation all the time to try and make comedy all the time as a means of helping people cope a bit, too (since Caine doesn't get it, but Jax is human originally my guess is he knows that comedy distracts from seriousness and recontextualizes it to a less harsh tone). Honestly if they make a series, there almost definitely would be an episode where Jax just can't be there (likely a falling out with everyone fed up with him), and then they realize how much he's been helping out through his hijinks and weirdly specific form of redirection. It's kinda interesting how few people I've seen bring that up.
I also noticed that he wanted Pomni to go look for Kaufmo with him and Ragatha even though the adventure was specifically made for her. I kinda see this as him giving her a chance to slow down and acclimate to her new environment instead of having her jump straight into a crazy adventure. Might just be me, but it’s something I noticed
Also when he say one of the little Gloink things glitching out he looked strange like a slight freakout and this theory makes sense that in that moment he was worried Kinger and Gangle might be in trouble if the abstraction made it down there
I couldn’t figure it out at first, but you know who Jax reminds me EXACTLY of? Alberto Scorfano. From Luca. The big bros with a mean streak who won’t let anyone else be mean to their little brothers/sisters except for them, dammit! Idk what else to say, they have the EXACT same energy imo (but that doesn’t make Jax a knockoff or ripoff of Alberto at all, before anyone thinks that’s what I’m trying to say lol)
12:18 I think the door with the X that looks like Kinger was a character that turned into a abstract, maybe even Kinger’s wife, since it looks like a queen chess piece.
Yes it is his wife, I saw lot of people saying that Queenie (what people think may be her name) abstracted in front of him and thats why his the most insane in there
He doesn’t appear to feed off of their misery as he actively leaves them alone to a little adventure and he chooses to fix glitches and bugs that are negative for the gang. Caine might genuinely just be trying to keep them safe and happy which is hard considering they’re in a terrible terrible place
@@itsturniptime3699unfortunately if they do break, Caine can’t just fix them as they’re gone mentally. He could fix the body but he can’t fix the mind, so he’s been forced to just lock up literally every who lost it.
@@itsturniptime3699 Maybe even Caine is a little insane, even though he is an AI, he seems to have a fairly developed personality. Taking into account that he created that maze of offices, it is likely that he took inspiration from the little he knows about reality, the company that created him.
@AscendtionArc well as an AI he probably doesn't know what "Sane" really means. He's an entertainer and he probably thinks by entertaining them they'll stay sane.
In the computer room, when Pomni goes through all the exit doors, there were a total of 5 monitors. I don't know if I'm over analyzing things, but there are also currently 5 (semi) sane characters being held captive. 4 of which were already lit up, possibly representing Gangle, Zooble, Kinger, and Jax, and the final one which lights up at the end of the episode could parallel Pomni's recent addition.
@@penntopaper9305while that's true the final monitor lighting up at the end alongside the focus on it while Pomni was rushing around still links her to it so the theory holds some weight
Jax being such a Jackass (a Jaxass if you will) seems like an act to me. We see another side of him shine through every now and again when he enconunters signs of abstractions, his smile dissapears and his pupils get really small, he looks kinda worried like this. My theory is that someone close to him got abstracted (or he knows something the others dont) and he has developed this bugs bunny esque carmic trickster attitude as a sort of coping mechanism to not loose himself... But thats honestly just a guess on my part.
Honestly I agree with this so much. There’s a chance that his personality is somewhat like that anyway but that he uses being a little shit as a general coping mechanism for everything. Causing chaos and being a jerk to people? Yeah he seems to love that, but I think he only ran away from Koufmo without the girls because he figured they would be able to take care of themselves. Gangle and Kinger are a little more oblivious, so Jax could have SO EASILY just ran past them and jumped in the hole to hide, but instead he chose to knock them in first and send them to safety disguised as a jerky prank. He legit gives off a sort of Jack Sparrow vibe to me
@@N3RDYG0GGLES Agree. Very Jack Sparrow-ish. A person is entirely capable of being an ass without lacking morality entirely. He's just aware that he's been dealt a bad hand and is happy to take every advantage he comes across. He saw that Koufmo abstracted and did the sensible thing- bailed. But he didn't do it without keeping up his ineffable persona. We can see that he does indeed get nervous, but only when he feels like things are going out of his control.
The abstractions mean final death, while caine the entertainer doesn't create anything that can actually hurt them (or not permanently at least) because they are fun little minigame adventures
@@adrianadonis4558but that can also probably explain why the chess king is a bit unstable because it literally lost its queen possibly due to the same reason at the ones that get all glitch over and everything, kinda dark if you think about it and sad to
I love this show. Kinger and Jax are my favorites so far. It's interesting to see a cgi show where glitches and no clips are intentional. I really hope Pomni can keep her sanity.
i think the aesthetic they are going for is more early 2000s cgi graphics than horror specifically. this reminds me of in particular using early windows softwares as well as watching childrens shows like dibbo the gift dragon, magic roundabout and others. honestly really surreal nostalgic, and i have to admit this show feels like what it would feel like if you were stuck inside those dreamlike shows
12:23 thats actually a separate character all together! My friend has a theory that this is a queen piece, and possibly came in the same time with our totally stable king a long time ago
On the one thought I suspect either Caine or a higher program knew Koufmo had "abstracted" based on the fact the newbie (Pomni) is a jester and we seem to only have one of each of a set of children's show character types, yet the crossed out doors have multiples of each type *multiple clowns, dolls, wackadoos, animals, chess, and theatricals*, so what if when one gets abstracted (or otherwise is gone) the program selects that the next person to end up there becomes their replacement. That said getting some Digimon Adventure 2 meets Don't Hug Me I'm scared vibes, like they enter through the screen to the digital world, but also that we are on an island/isolated area designed to look like a children's show and engage the individuals there as one but is fully synthetic and the "victims" are forced to play along; but at least these are more aware of themselves than Don't Hug Me I'm Scared's cast. I am also mulling over the potential based on a sneaky trailer that this could even be a case of neural clones (where the characters think they are the person who put on the headset but the program just copied their memories and personalities *for the most part*. So many theories just from this one episode with everything going on it.
From one 13 years old boy who was making dumb Mario videos in his bedroom for 12 years (and beyond) to a full fletched production company. Glitch truly is saving indie animation. They will live on forever until the sun explodes
I've been a fan of Gooseworx for a long time, so I've been looking forward to this since it was announced however long ago. Something about the juxtaposition of psychological dark comedy with bright cheerful colors and wacky characters appeals to me. There's a theory about the C&A logo that if the C is for Caine, there's no way the A isn't Abel. What relevance this could possibly have is unknown.
This is the VERY FIRST episode and Pomni looks ready to cry, scream, and laugh all at the same time. Our little jester is in for a rough time at this rate. XD
Considering her last scene at the table I beleive we're going to see her adopt a different personality to cope with her situation. She is a jester after all so her personality may change to fit that look
I swear its theme song and all the music they play at the beginning and end that brought me to this show. The plot and everything as well...I LOVE how it started... Cant wait to see more...and you as well Zamber!😊❤❤😊
16:12 I spent a couple minutes looking at this, too, and I believe the door that's marked is the Queen chess piece. That's why Kinger's is fine. It's definitely easy to confuse the two.
Btw guys, the X,s on the doors means there no longer there and they have gone insane, the king guy is still there, but the queen piece isn't there anymore, you can tell by the different color and the different head peace, like there chess pieces, also i dont think there is actually an exit, because at the end cane even said the Exit door is just something that he put there because he doesn't know what else to create, its weird how the exit door moves on purpose, it moves close to Pomni and she would have seen it but it appeared there, that's why she was confused at first. Its like murder drone vibes with Pomni, how she started to loose it and her sharp teeth started showing, like the Exit door is trying to make her go insane, also they might have been workers at some place as we can see from some rooms, we can see the computer and the headset that she put on, the equipment looks old so its probably been in storage somewhere and Pomni took it out to check it out, where she got dragged into the place, Cane is probably the one that created or the very first one that got trapped, OR an Ai of some sort from the system itself trying to help them reasons why he can control the whole area except for their minds. Cane seems to try and help them from going mentally insane and loosing themselves, that's why he tries to cover the fact of an "exit", he wants them to have fun and try and be themselves. Another think about the end of the ep, the reason why the door went to the void is because he didn't finish it.....also there isn't a exit because cane said "I know how yall really wanted one", and she realized that and is going to go insane. Sorry for alot of the text!
Interesting note for C&A. There's some religious figures known as Caine and Abel, two brothers. Considering that our ringmaster and head of the circus is named after one half of them, I presume there's definitely an Abel somewhere.
@@lasagna3289 yeah, this plus the fact that bubble is canonically male also made me think this. I'm unsure though, since it seems like that would be a bit boring.
Ayyy Glitch is hitting gold once again with this pilot, Pomni is adorable and i'm so glad Lizzie is once again voicing one of my favorite female characters
For the Abstraction, its (said to be) when you reach your mental breaking point, probably when you lose your sense of self (since they are essentially game characters)
23:29 is a running gag from gooseworks (show runner) previous animations, more specifically little runmo and Elaine the bounty hunter, in both the protagonists at one point get eaten than have to participate in a game show, you should watch them if you like the character designs, gooseworks style is very unique
Yeah, just wanna give you a quick hint about the vibe this series is probably gonna have and say; this entire show is directly based on the story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Ahhh, I thought so! Recognized the similarities pretty quickly. That being said, so far from what we’ve seen if I had to choose between the two I’d go for the Digital Circus in a minute.
The art style for this show is a cocktail of cameos and references to the early digital era and old tv shows, video games. Close up face of Pomni on the door at is from sponge bob When Jax took Zobel's arm and was choked, was invader Zim.
When the character are walking through the area where all the rooms are you can see there are many crossed out doors and the one you saw was actually a queen piece. Also fun fact Pomni means Remember
Probably been explained somewhere in the comments but the crossed off Kinger door was probably the Black King like in chess! ^^ Sadly that implies that Kinger might have had a friend before? (;___; )
The shape of the head on that one is actually different, implying they're a different piece. Most likely a Queen, Kinger may have lost a wife in here at some point.
I'd just like to point out that every single time we see Pomni grab onto the handle to open an 'Exit' door, she always does so with her non-glitching hand.
My theory is that the digital circus is a old computer game and maybe the humans that are stuck there are characters that we the player made, got to a level and left the game, got older. I think that if pomni touched the computer, they would have been able to go home. I think that their real name might be the key to getting out. Like a windows administrator username like we used to see. I can see them having a fake name in the game, and them being full aware of their human life, sao like.
If anyone wanting to know the gist of this plot. I think this is HEAVILY based on "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison. This is a some sort of post-apocalyptic science fiction and is set in a future where an all-powerful supercomputer, AM, has exterminated all of humanity except for five individuals, whom it torments endlessly, both physically and psychologically, as a form of sadistic punishment. The story also delves into themes of human suffering, fatal flaws of each characters, insanity, paranoia, consciousness, and the limits of artificial intelligence. I think in this case, they are trying to showcase a bit on the issues of mental health issues, way of their coping mechanism, paranoia, and insanity. I can't wait to see more!
This pilot sure was interesting. This is giving me Popee The Performer vibes. the new jester character kinda reminds me of Tac from The Princess And The Cobbler! The ragdoll character looks like something from the "Caroline" universe but instead only lost one eye instead of 2. The rabbit character reminds me of Max from Max and Daxter but purple and taller. And that whole eye monster kinda reminds me of the glitches from "Learning With Pibby'"!
EXPLAINATION FOR YOU BESTIE❤❤ The “kinger”that was crossed off was prob kingers wife, im pretty sure her name is queener, she def abstracted tho, thank yiu for reading.
Yeah there were two different doors with chess piece characters on them, the one that was crossed out was a queen and the non-crossed out one was Kinger. The other character was probably related to him somehow but we really don't know, at least not yet
Digital circus is basically digital hell where you lose your grip to reality and stuck in this colorful world well maybe this is all i got from watching the pilot
35:35 as he said before, when naming Pomni, one of the few things he doesn't have control over are their minds, they are utterly out of his control. I'm pretty sure the glitching is damage to their physical (digital?) forms, which Caine can easily tamper with to fix, but full-on abstraction is (or, well, seems to be) the mental breakdown of an individual to such a degree that they simply can't recover. Something permanent happens. I suspect they might vanish completely, leaving a VR avatar with no pilot. It goes on a rampage before, during, after its physical attributes degrade to such a degree that it becomes a glitchy black mass covered in multicolored eyes. At this point, there isn't even a mind to the body that could be saved, if Caine were to snap is fingers and make Kaufmo back into a Kaufmo shape, it'd probably have the same violent tendencies, and no ability to understand anything around it, and I bet it'd just degrade back into an abstraction again. And so it is safer to just take the mindless shell and stuff it into a closet with all the other proverbial skeletons.
And so, Ragatha had an intact (enough) mind, but a fractured glitching body, which could be fixed. Pomni had a minor glitch stuck to her hand, also fixable. Kaufmo, however, was a broken body which was solely due to his broken (or presumably completely absent) mind. There's no point to fixing that, other than majorly creeping out everyone else. Presumably.
It seems like this show might be a big hit that I hope it get green light for a series 😄 also during the hallway scene. You ask about the doors. I heard that there being 28 characters and the ones with Cross out are dead either Turned into a monster. So if the series get green light, we might see more character coming in this show and being more story building
C & A???? I think C&A very well could stand for Caine and Abel! It is a slightly different spelling with the ‘e’ added to the end of Cain, but I wonder if this has any sort of parallel to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. According to Wikipedia, In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain by condemning him to a life of wandering. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod (or also known as the land of wandering) where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch. I’m possibly seeing a dark story of two brothers attempting to create the next big technology entertainment system, only for Abel to be somehow favored by the higher ups, resulting in jealousy with Caine. Caine then causes his brothers death, whether it was purposeful or not, before ending up in the land of wandering (AKA, the digital circus), becoming something seen as AI, and building his wacky city while trying to ignore the guilt he may feel for causing his brothers demise. However, if it is to be believed that Caine is fully an AI entity, then it’s possible to make the connection in thinking that two different AI’s were created. Caine and Abel were then tasked to create something for their creator, or ‘god’, only for the creator to favor Abel’s AI over Caines. Caine was then condemned to the land of wandering (AKA, the digital circus), after possibly causing Abel’s demise/corruption out of Jealousy. It could also be possible for the AI to be based off of real brothers within this universe. I only say that bc of the C&A logo. It would kind of make more sense for a company to be named after real people rather than AI. Idk, this show could go in so many directions, and I’m just excited to see if this Cain and Abel theory holds any weight as HOPEFULLY more episodes release 😁
It is greenlit and is a series by Gooseworx! Only Caine and Bubble, The Gloinks and Gloink Queen are Artificial Intelligence! That Black Chess Piece is confirmed to be Queenie! The censorship with the swearing is caused by Caine.
it's like modern jumanji where, players get stuck in a game (or in this instance a show) and they take the form of the readily available characters. Which should explain why Pomni has a room of her own already. If it just manifested in the day she appeared then there would be no need to cross out the other rooms that have been left out after the denizens of those rooms abtstracted and keep it there, it should've just dissapeared after they got put in the cellar.
About the "another chess piece looking person" That's a character who has been recently revealed to be named Queenie And since she's the queen chess piece, people are making the connections that her and Kinger may have been a couple and she sadly has been abstracted, it's obvious that she's been abstracted, but it's not implied nor said if she had a connection with kinger or if they just so happen to have been chess pieces just because the game they're trapped choose for it to be like that
After doing some searching I found what kinger was referencing when asking zooble about the game show. It’s a reference to an old animation one of the animators did called little runmo
Not shure how intentional, but "Pomni" (Помни) means "remember" in russian. Though, I'm pretty shure that it is intentional since there's official rus. dub of the episod
The crossed of chesspiece one seems to not be kinger but someone else, the piece looked to be a black queen chesspiece, where Kinger is a white king piece. Whoever this was has likely been abstracted quite a while ago... I think Kinger is avoiding abstruction by way of not having a self to loose anymore, the guy seems barely aware of whats going on and frequently just spaces out.
I'm pretty sure the "humans" physically get sucked into the game so their "bodies" would not die in the real world eventually while they're in the game as the computer the program is running on has that "weird headset" Pomni was talking about, but there's no body around for whoever was wearing it.
i dont normally like the smug asshole characters but jax is pretty good. and i can see why someone in this situation would end up like that (if he wasnt always like that?) being stuck in this incomprehensible place for years it's probably easier to just stop caring
yeah, i really can't blame him. if i was well aware that the people around me could literally never die, only feel a hallucination of pain at the worst, i think i'd be a bit of a jerk, too. also we have to consider that physical pain (or whatever echoes they have of it) is probably very mild in comparison to their mental pain...
I vaguely remember a tiktok behind the scenes and showing progress of this pilot, and all i remember is the comments telling them to make Pomni's puples bigger, and how to design the bubble assistant that gets popped offten
I have watched this a couple times and watched many people react to it at this point... surprised no one ever mentions the fact no one can swear but Zooble can say "Shut Up" and "Fuck Off" though her middle finger to the others is censored. and not her mouth which is how I can tell as well the "game" didn't censor "fuck" though it had censored the finger. just interesting
Hi from north Dakota and I'm native American and I say that your always looking beautiful ❤️😊and I just came back from this pow wow the other day I couldn't wait to come back home to watch your vids and I like the amazing digital circus 🎪 cause I love animation and I hopefully that the amazing digital circus episode 2 happens
Fun fact:"Pomni" means "Remember" in russian. Since there is an official russian dub and forgetting your past life and losing yourself are big themes in this Pilot i highly doubt thats a coincidence
Good research maybe that'll be useful in the next episode
I'm honestly wondering if the fact that it's Russian has specific significance, just because the other stuff is obvious lol.
Ohhhh that’s cool!
Also Glitch has another series called “Murder Drones” and one of the characters “Doll” speaks in Russian, so the people creating the story are definitely bilingual and did it intentionally
@@burningfox4974Murder Drones? I gotta check it out
Really curious to see how Pomni’s trip into the void effects her long term, as well as how her and Ragatha’s relationship pans out. That silence between them at the end was loaded, to say the least.
I’m obsessed with the emotional potential of “I don’t actually harbor ill will because thinking through the scenario I think your actions are valid but the place in my heart where I store all leftover resentment is FILLED TO BURSTING AND IT MAKES ME HATE MYSELF THAT IT IS NOT DRAINING AT THE MOMENT”
It was worryingly so, but Ragatha wouldn't necessarily know she stopped looking for Cain.
And Ragatha''s the one who glitched Pomni, so I don't think she can be criticised too much.
“The void is ever-present”
I think the reason Pomni and Ragatha had tension was cause Ragatha was glitching and in pain, she needed immediate help, but Pomni instead decided to ditch the find Caine mission for her escape the digital circus goal.
We dont know how much time passed between going inside the first exit and finally being picked by Caine in the void, a few minutes... an hour?
Imagen the pain Ragatha must've felt by herself waiting for Pomni to get help, but she never came and actually completely forgot about her...
Eventually Ragatha had to DRAG herself to Caine because nobody else was gonna help her...
So yeah that's my theory on why there was tension between Ragatha and Pomni, she was glitching and needed help but was instead ditched and left for dead for who knows how long.
I hope they make up and become girlfriends 🥺
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"Unnecessarily horny moon"
Congratulations on being the first person to ever say those words together
Actually second, if you know about ENA then you’d understand
@@cripwalker665 Third, if you're a watched old SMOSH videos
Wow there's alot more horny moons in media than I originally thought...
"We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but because I am hard" -JFK probably
@@jacobg6628Clone High
I can respect Kinger; he realized that sometimes the best way to hold on to your sanity is to go crazy.
I mean, who could blame him, either, considering Queenie's Abstraction.
Is that like fighting fire with fire?
We call that "The Brook Strategy"
*Starts singing a demented version of Bink's Sake*@@KingVasuki
@@KingVasukiYOHOHOHOHO
This is already a series, it doesn't need to be "greenlit" because Glitch's "pilots" are usually just what they title the first episode, this is their fourth show and theyve done it every time.
The same thing happened with Murder Drones, actually. The reason it took so long Between the Pilot and Episode 2 was because Glitch was already working on wrapping up the final season of their other show Meta Runner. So the only question is how long we'll have to wait before the next one!
Glitch's whole goal was to create shows by people that usually would have to go to a big streaming service etc to make a show, only for it to not be exactly what they wanted from having to change too much, or possibly get cancelled because of how those corporations work, Glitch reached out to indie animator Gooseworx to ask them if they had a show they wanted to make, and they do everything themselves at Glitch Prod, so it's definitely gonna have more episodes.
1:04 Actually Gooseworx uploaded a video of the main theme for TADC on their own channel, and it starts similar to this, but right as the title is coming in, little bubbles with "play" "options" & "quit" pop up below it, a gloved hand clicks on play, and then it zooms into the tent. kinda wish they wouldve kept that in this version it adds to that 90s computer game aesthetic
They probably didn’t want to give the impression that the players have the option to quit because that would give some people the wrong impression when watching.
for that they'd have to be able to even get back to a main menu to be able to reach any options, which they already don't
They do have to secure more funding for the show with merch sales, hence why this one is in pilot stage rn, they will likely get the funds given the popularity so unless something happens to Glitch as a whole... more is coming and I would expect 8 month- year wait if we use the same timeline MD had between pilot and its 2nd ep
@@smolmuffinexactly! :) hence why I stressed buying the merch at the start video!
There was one small show that had a pilot that wasn't green lit or was supposed to just be one episode, and that was ultra jump mania a spin off of meta runner about an alternate cartridge of theo
About the chess piece doors I think it was on purpose, the one that was crossed off was a black queen piece, while Kinger is a white king piece obv. This could mean that maybe he and the queen were close which would explain why he is so unstable now that whoever the queen was is gone.
Damn, losing your wife to insanity seems bad.
i've got a hunch that Kinger was one of the original developers of this place. It's a crack theory, but what if he's the C and the queen was the A in that strange C&A logo we see during Pomni's exit adventure
I feel bad for kinger
@@Failuigi41the c&a bit is crack yes
but the fact hes always talking about insect collections "bugs" and how he knows so much about the digital world
@@Failuigi41C&A means Caine and Able from the bible since there are many many biblical refernces
“Oh Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence!” That line indicates a kind of Meta-Awareness, it’s literally only there for when the camera cuts to him, that’s the joke. I’m curious how aware he is.
They're all aware, wdym?
@@jervisangelopitao7118 no I mean aware that they’re in a cartoon show on the internet not just being aware that they’re in a game. Aware that they’re in a series, that they’re fictional characters.
also the scene where Jax looks at the camera and Ragatha thinks it's at her (probably, i saw someone say it on twt)
@@noname-cx7yz I'm still kinda on the fence about Jax. I think he just pretends to know there's more to it all- acting like you're more in control than you really are can be a comfort in helpless situations.
Well, he knows there's something out there watching, hence the opening song. He knows it's a show, and is aware of the "cameras,' but is still confined within his understanding of the game files.
I might point out, for all his assholery, Jax actively seemed to be trying to *_protect_* the much more vulnerable Gangle and Kinger from Abstracted Kaufmo. By knocking them into the hole the way he did, he ensured the two most vulnerable, defenseless, unstable, and easily harmed people there were well out of the way of the beast.
Some part of me thinks he had actually suspected what had happened to Kaufmo the whole time and he sent Kinger and Gangle off after Zooble and the Gloinks specifically to get them out of the way of the imminent danger... he WAS after all the one who split up the teams. And he had a key to Kaufmo's room ready to go, as if he expected Kaufmo not to be in a state to open his door himself. Not to mention when he sprinted off, he stopped fleeing as soon as he found Kinger and Gangle, implying he was _actually looking for them as fast as he could, not running away at all._
With that in mind, Jax is starting to give off Big Brother vibes to me. He messes with everyone, but in a pinch nobody messes with them but HIM, and while he'll play it off with snark, he actually CARES.
Exactly! I’d notice it was more beneficial going into the hole than actually staying up there.
Although he seems more a-hole jerk who has a heart of gold deep down than “Big Brother” (especially since technically I heard he’s like the youngest).
that was essentially my impression the first time I saw it.
He seems to be snarky and making fun of the current situation all the time to try and make comedy all the time as a means of helping people cope a bit, too (since Caine doesn't get it, but Jax is human originally my guess is he knows that comedy distracts from seriousness and recontextualizes it to a less harsh tone).
Honestly if they make a series, there almost definitely would be an episode where Jax just can't be there (likely a falling out with everyone fed up with him), and then they realize how much he's been helping out through his hijinks and weirdly specific form of redirection.
It's kinda interesting how few people I've seen bring that up.
I also noticed that he wanted Pomni to go look for Kaufmo with him and Ragatha even though the adventure was specifically made for her. I kinda see this as him giving her a chance to slow down and acclimate to her new environment instead of having her jump straight into a crazy adventure. Might just be me, but it’s something I noticed
Also when he say one of the little Gloink things glitching out he looked strange like a slight freakout and this theory makes sense that in that moment he was worried Kinger and Gangle might be in trouble if the abstraction made it down there
I couldn’t figure it out at first, but you know who Jax reminds me EXACTLY of?
Alberto Scorfano. From Luca. The big bros with a mean streak who won’t let anyone else be mean to their little brothers/sisters except for them, dammit!
Idk what else to say, they have the EXACT same energy imo (but that doesn’t make Jax a knockoff or ripoff of Alberto at all, before anyone thinks that’s what I’m trying to say lol)
12:18 I think the door with the X that looks like Kinger was a character that turned into a abstract, maybe even Kinger’s wife, since it looks like a queen chess piece.
Yes it is his wife, I saw lot of people saying that Queenie (what people think may be her name) abstracted in front of him and thats why his the most insane in there
Caine is seems to be trying to keep as many people as sane as possible to try and help them
He doesn’t appear to feed off of their misery as he actively leaves them alone to a little adventure and he chooses to fix glitches and bugs that are negative for the gang. Caine might genuinely just be trying to keep them safe and happy which is hard considering they’re in a terrible terrible place
@@itsturniptime3699unfortunately if they do break, Caine can’t just fix them as they’re gone mentally. He could fix the body but he can’t fix the mind, so he’s been forced to just lock up literally every who lost it.
@@itsturniptime3699 Maybe even Caine is a little insane, even though he is an AI, he seems to have a fairly developed personality.
Taking into account that he created that maze of offices, it is likely that he took inspiration from the little he knows about reality, the company that created him.
@@itsturniptime3699I heard some say the creator said he's genuinely trying to help them stay sane, though that doesn't mean he's entirely honest.
@AscendtionArc well as an AI he probably doesn't know what "Sane" really means. He's an entertainer and he probably thinks by entertaining them they'll stay sane.
In the computer room, when Pomni goes through all the exit doors, there were a total of 5 monitors. I don't know if I'm over analyzing things, but there are also currently 5 (semi) sane characters being held captive. 4 of which were already lit up, possibly representing Gangle, Zooble, Kinger, and Jax, and the final one which lights up at the end of the episode could parallel Pomni's recent addition.
nice theory but you forgot ragatha LMFAOO
@@penntopaper9305while that's true the final monitor lighting up at the end alongside the focus on it while Pomni was rushing around still links her to it so the theory holds some weight
There actually might be 6 monitors in there, with one being shown from behind. If you count the desk chairs carefully, there are 6 of them.
Jax being such a Jackass (a Jaxass if you will) seems like an act to me.
We see another side of him shine through every now and again when he enconunters signs of abstractions, his smile dissapears and his pupils get really small, he looks kinda worried like this.
My theory is that someone close to him got abstracted (or he knows something the others dont) and he has developed this bugs bunny esque carmic trickster attitude as a sort of coping mechanism to not loose himself...
But thats honestly just a guess on my part.
Honestly I agree with this so much. There’s a chance that his personality is somewhat like that anyway but that he uses being a little shit as a general coping mechanism for everything. Causing chaos and being a jerk to people? Yeah he seems to love that, but I think he only ran away from Koufmo without the girls because he figured they would be able to take care of themselves. Gangle and Kinger are a little more oblivious, so Jax could have SO EASILY just ran past them and jumped in the hole to hide, but instead he chose to knock them in first and send them to safety disguised as a jerky prank. He legit gives off a sort of Jack Sparrow vibe to me
@@N3RDYG0GGLES Agree. Very Jack Sparrow-ish. A person is entirely capable of being an ass without lacking morality entirely. He's just aware that he's been dealt a bad hand and is happy to take every advantage he comes across. He saw that Koufmo abstracted and did the sensible thing- bailed. But he didn't do it without keeping up his ineffable persona. We can see that he does indeed get nervous, but only when he feels like things are going out of his control.
The abstractions mean final death, while caine the entertainer doesn't create anything that can actually hurt them (or not permanently at least) because they are fun little minigame adventures
Kinger's door wasn't crossed off. He's a white chess king, the crossed off door had a picture of a black chess king.
If you look closely, you can see it's actually a black chess queen.
@@binko2809 You're right, I didn't notice.
@@binko2809QUEENER !?!?!
@@adrianadonis4558but that can also probably explain why the chess king is a bit unstable because it literally lost its queen possibly due to the same reason at the ones that get all glitch over and everything, kinda dark if you think about it and sad to
And the hole cast was human except for Caine, Bubble, The Glonxe and The Glonxe Queen are AI with Caine being the head AI.
I love this show. Kinger and Jax are my favorites so far. It's interesting to see a cgi show where glitches and no clips are intentional. I really hope Pomni can keep her sanity.
Same
Agreed
Jax’s Voice actor is Gene from aphmau if you watched her Older videos.
@@chyennebaurhenn6303huh? do you mean micheal kovach? because micheal is the official voice actor for jax
@@lovely-oc7us yes he was genes voice actor. That’s mostly why people enjoy his voice so much.
I feel like Jax is a mixture of Angel Dust and Bugs Bunny
Basically, the ultimate sarcastic a-hole
I’m pretty sure he also has the same VA that Angledust had in the hazbin hotel pilot
@@BucketnettaYep
Understandable
he's way more of an asshole than angle honestly LMFAOOOO
i think the aesthetic they are going for is more early 2000s cgi graphics than horror specifically.
this reminds me of in particular using early windows softwares as well as watching childrens shows like dibbo the gift dragon, magic roundabout and others.
honestly really surreal nostalgic, and i have to admit this show feels like what it would feel like if you were stuck inside those dreamlike shows
it's giving like a combination between ena and welcome home
12:23 thats actually a separate character all together! My friend has a theory that this is a queen piece, and possibly came in the same time with our totally stable king a long time ago
Makes sense
Was His wife
On the one thought I suspect either Caine or a higher program knew Koufmo had "abstracted" based on the fact the newbie (Pomni) is a jester and we seem to only have one of each of a set of children's show character types, yet the crossed out doors have multiples of each type *multiple clowns, dolls, wackadoos, animals, chess, and theatricals*, so what if when one gets abstracted (or otherwise is gone) the program selects that the next person to end up there becomes their replacement. That said getting some Digimon Adventure 2 meets Don't Hug Me I'm scared vibes, like they enter through the screen to the digital world, but also that we are on an island/isolated area designed to look like a children's show and engage the individuals there as one but is fully synthetic and the "victims" are forced to play along; but at least these are more aware of themselves than Don't Hug Me I'm Scared's cast. I am also mulling over the potential based on a sneaky trailer that this could even be a case of neural clones (where the characters think they are the person who put on the headset but the program just copied their memories and personalities *for the most part*. So many theories just from this one episode with everything going on it.
From one 13 years old boy who was making dumb Mario videos in his bedroom for 12 years (and beyond) to a full fletched production company. Glitch truly is saving indie animation. They will live on forever until the sun explodes
Amen
From what I can tell so far from this pilot, pomni is going to "enjoy" this place
Oh no…
this gonna be so much fun to watch lol 😂
I've been a fan of Gooseworx for a long time, so I've been looking forward to this since it was announced however long ago. Something about the juxtaposition of psychological dark comedy with bright cheerful colors and wacky characters appeals to me.
There's a theory about the C&A logo that if the C is for Caine, there's no way the A isn't Abel. What relevance this could possibly have is unknown.
Kinger's question to Zooble about a gameshow in the Gloink queen is a refrence to Little Runmo, an animated video also made by Gooseworx
This is the VERY FIRST episode and Pomni looks ready to cry, scream, and laugh all at the same time.
Our little jester is in for a rough time at this rate. XD
Considering her last scene at the table I beleive we're going to see her adopt a different personality to cope with her situation. She is a jester after all so her personality may change to fit that look
@@ReiseLukasepisode 3 and that still dont happen.
@@robertoaballay5029 I don't beleive it will happen anymore. Episode 2 and 3 changed my perspective.
“The labyrinth contains all doors and infinite possibilities, if the path you require exists, it lies within”
I swear its theme song and all the music they play at the beginning and end that brought me to this show. The plot and everything as well...I LOVE how it started...
Cant wait to see more...and you as well Zamber!😊❤❤😊
Same, i cannot wait until they drop the ost, i could listen to that ending music (both ending credits and scene) for forever
If you haven’t already then you should check out more of gooseworx music! :D
16:12 I spent a couple minutes looking at this, too, and I believe the door that's marked is the Queen chess piece. That's why Kinger's is fine. It's definitely easy to confuse the two.
Think that's exactly why they chose a black piece with red robe to be more distinct
16:05 If you look closer you'll see it's the black queen piece
Queen piece
@@matthewminer1504 oops, my mistake
I love the concept of insanity and this shows just hits all the right spots. Im curious how far Pomni will fall.
Btw guys, the X,s on the doors means there no longer there and they have gone insane, the king guy is still there, but the queen piece isn't there anymore, you can tell by the different color and the different head peace, like there chess pieces, also i dont think there is actually an exit, because at the end cane even said the Exit door is just something that he put there because he doesn't know what else to create, its weird how the exit door moves on purpose, it moves close to Pomni and she would have seen it but it appeared there, that's why she was confused at first.
Its like murder drone vibes with Pomni, how she started to loose it and her sharp teeth started showing, like the Exit door is trying to make her go insane, also they might have been workers at some place as we can see from some rooms, we can see the computer and the headset that she put on, the equipment looks old so its probably been in storage somewhere and Pomni took it out to check it out, where she got dragged into the place, Cane is probably the one that created or the very first one that got trapped, OR an Ai of some sort from the system itself trying to help them reasons why he can control the whole area except for their minds.
Cane seems to try and help them from going mentally insane and loosing themselves, that's why he tries to cover the fact of an "exit", he wants them to have fun and try and be themselves.
Another think about the end of the ep, the reason why the door went to the void is because he didn't finish it.....also there isn't a exit because cane said "I know how yall really wanted one", and she realized that and is going to go insane.
Sorry for alot of the text!
DOORS
Interesting note for C&A. There's some religious figures known as Caine and Abel, two brothers. Considering that our ringmaster and head of the circus is named after one half of them, I presume there's definitely an Abel somewhere.
If they follow the source material, there's not an Abel anymore.
@@ericjohnson6120"Bubble" does sound kind of like "Abel," and Cain does kill Bubble a lot
@@lasagna3289 yeah, this plus the fact that bubble is canonically male also made me think this. I'm unsure though, since it seems like that would be a bit boring.
Ayyy Glitch is hitting gold once again with this pilot, Pomni is adorable and i'm so glad Lizzie is once again voicing one of my favorite female characters
Caine(from what I understand) isn't a human like the others, but an AI in this simulation, designed to keep the other (characters) in check
For the Abstraction, its (said to be) when you reach your mental breaking point, probably when you lose your sense of self (since they are essentially game characters)
The style gives me early 2000s 3d animation mixed with those children mouse click games
Given the previews I think Ragitha is a pain magnet who blows it off as no big deal despite it hurting.
23:29 is a running gag from gooseworks (show runner) previous animations, more specifically little runmo and Elaine the bounty hunter, in both the protagonists at one point get eaten than have to participate in a game show, you should watch them if you like the character designs, gooseworks style is very unique
Yeah, just wanna give you a quick hint about the vibe this series is probably gonna have and say; this entire show is directly based on the story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Ahhh, I thought so! Recognized the similarities pretty quickly. That being said, so far from what we’ve seen if I had to choose between the two I’d go for the Digital Circus in a minute.
………how?
@@DragonScythe64 Both TADC and IHNMaIMS involve a group of humans trapped within a computer and psychologically tormented by an AI.
@@RavenStarMedia honestly forgot
the only difference is one is made for comedy while the other instills tragedy
The art style for this show is a cocktail of cameos and references to the early digital era and old tv shows, video games.
Close up face of Pomni on the door at is from sponge bob
When Jax took Zobel's arm and was choked, was invader Zim.
“C&A” might stand for Caine and Abel
"Do you like Angel Fruit Cake?
Zamber- "I do, thank you"
"... *YOU PARASITE!"*
XD perfect timing.
Pomni should've been suspicious when it became evident that the exit doors had exit signs on _both sides._
Or the fact that the drawing of the man and the arrow was going away from the door instead of towards it like normal exit doors
When the character are walking through the area where all the rooms are you can see there are many crossed out doors and the one you saw was actually a queen piece. Also fun fact Pomni means Remember
Probably been explained somewhere in the comments but the crossed off Kinger door was probably the Black King like in chess! ^^ Sadly that implies that Kinger might have had a friend before? (;___; )
The shape of the head on that one is actually different, implying they're a different piece. Most likely a Queen, Kinger may have lost a wife in here at some point.
I'd just like to point out that every single time we see Pomni grab onto the handle to open an 'Exit' door, she always does so with her non-glitching hand.
that's an... interesting observation
Well if you had a broken hand wouldn’t you rather use your non-broken hand to do things instead?
WHAT!?!? I didn’t realize it wasn’t green lit yet! I wasn’t going to buy merch before, but I definitely am now!
20:08. I don't know why, but the screaming face and the scream it makes just honestly makes me burst out belly laughing 😂!
30:34 its been a while since ive seen any loony toons stuff but Jax gives me loony toons vibes.
Specifically a cross between bugs & daffy
nah just Bugs Bunny
Interesting fact, in Russian voice acting “pomni”, translated like “remember”. Nice play on words )
My theory is that the digital circus is a old computer game and maybe the humans that are stuck there are characters that we the player made, got to a level and left the game, got older. I think that if pomni touched the computer, they would have been able to go home. I think that their real name might be the key to getting out. Like a windows administrator username like we used to see. I can see them having a fake name in the game, and them being full aware of their human life, sao like.
The Brown piece is a Queen Piece so maybe there was a queen piece before.
I was waiting for you to watch this, glad you are now watching it! I can’t wait to see this unfold and really love the characters
The chess piece that was crossed off on the door wasn't the King. It was the Queen, which is quite dark when you think about the implications.
not weird, it was a different person, a black queen chess piece, kinger is a white king
If anyone wanting to know the gist of this plot. I think this is HEAVILY based on "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison. This is a some sort of post-apocalyptic science fiction and is set in a future where an all-powerful supercomputer, AM, has exterminated all of humanity except for five individuals, whom it torments endlessly, both physically and psychologically, as a form of sadistic punishment. The story also delves into themes of human suffering, fatal flaws of each characters, insanity, paranoia, consciousness, and the limits of artificial intelligence. I think in this case, they are trying to showcase a bit on the issues of mental health issues, way of their coping mechanism, paranoia, and insanity. I can't wait to see more!
Honestly I just want to give pomni a hug she needs one
If you look at the clown's painting you will see a painting fron the office maze and a painting that's very similar to when they found he's abstracted
This pilot sure was interesting.
This is giving me Popee The Performer vibes.
the new jester character kinda reminds me of Tac from The Princess And The Cobbler!
The ragdoll character looks like something from the "Caroline" universe but instead only lost one eye instead of 2.
The rabbit character reminds me of Max from Max and Daxter but purple and taller.
And that whole eye monster kinda reminds me of the glitches from "Learning With Pibby'"!
Ragatha is more inspired from raggedy Ann from what I heard
Jax's shares the same voice actor as Angel dust,N, and Rocky
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The “kinger”that was crossed off was prob kingers wife, im pretty sure her name is queener, she def abstracted tho, thank yiu for reading.
The first chess piece room thats crossed off is from a pink robe Queen piece with female looking eyes, probably someone else than kinger
The game show joke refers to the two (or maybe more, but I’m not aware of them) game shows inside stomachs that Gooseworx did.
Judging from the door pictures, I think the crossed out king piece is the black king while Kinger is the white king piece
Must be his twin brother....
It’s a black queen so maybe a sister or wife?
Yeah there were two different doors with chess piece characters on them, the one that was crossed out was a queen and the non-crossed out one was Kinger. The other character was probably related to him somehow but we really don't know, at least not yet
It’s not an animation error. King wasn’t the only chess piece. Supposedly he had a Queen.
"Unnecessarily horny moon" is not a phrase I expected to hear today, but here we are.
Digital circus is basically digital hell where you lose your grip to reality and stuck in this colorful world well maybe this is all i got from watching the pilot
35:35 as he said before, when naming Pomni, one of the few things he doesn't have control over are their minds, they are utterly out of his control. I'm pretty sure the glitching is damage to their physical (digital?) forms, which Caine can easily tamper with to fix, but full-on abstraction is (or, well, seems to be) the mental breakdown of an individual to such a degree that they simply can't recover. Something permanent happens. I suspect they might vanish completely, leaving a VR avatar with no pilot. It goes on a rampage before, during, after its physical attributes degrade to such a degree that it becomes a glitchy black mass covered in multicolored eyes. At this point, there isn't even a mind to the body that could be saved, if Caine were to snap is fingers and make Kaufmo back into a Kaufmo shape, it'd probably have the same violent tendencies, and no ability to understand anything around it, and I bet it'd just degrade back into an abstraction again. And so it is safer to just take the mindless shell and stuff it into a closet with all the other proverbial skeletons.
And so, Ragatha had an intact (enough) mind, but a fractured glitching body, which could be fixed. Pomni had a minor glitch stuck to her hand, also fixable. Kaufmo, however, was a broken body which was solely due to his broken (or presumably completely absent) mind. There's no point to fixing that, other than majorly creeping out everyone else. Presumably.
Zamber i am LOVING the glitter hair, you're lookin fantastic.
I wish only the best for Pomni. I hope she’s happy in the future
It seems like this show might be a big hit that I hope it get green light for a series 😄 also during the hallway scene. You ask about the doors. I heard that there being 28 characters and the ones with Cross out are dead either Turned into a monster. So if the series get green light, we might see more character coming in this show and being more story building
I Really hope that they make a full series of this
By the way I love the sparkles in you hair it is beautiful
C & A????
I think C&A very well could stand for Caine and Abel!
It is a slightly different spelling with the ‘e’ added to the end of Cain, but I wonder if this has any sort of parallel to the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
According to Wikipedia, In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain by condemning him to a life of wandering. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod (or also known as the land of wandering) where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch.
I’m possibly seeing a dark story of two brothers attempting to create the next big technology entertainment system, only for Abel to be somehow favored by the higher ups, resulting in jealousy with Caine. Caine then causes his brothers death, whether it was purposeful or not, before ending up in the land of wandering (AKA, the digital circus), becoming something seen as AI, and building his wacky city while trying to ignore the guilt he may feel for causing his brothers demise.
However, if it is to be believed that Caine is fully an AI entity, then it’s possible to make the connection in thinking that two different AI’s were created. Caine and Abel were then tasked to create something for their creator, or ‘god’, only for the creator to favor Abel’s AI over Caines. Caine was then condemned to the land of wandering (AKA, the digital circus), after possibly causing Abel’s demise/corruption out of Jealousy.
It could also be possible for the AI to be based off of real brothers within this universe. I only say that bc of the C&A logo. It would kind of make more sense for a company to be named after real people rather than AI.
Idk, this show could go in so many directions, and I’m just excited to see if this Cain and Abel theory holds any weight as HOPEFULLY more episodes release 😁
I have no idea what I just looked at for the past 30 minutes, I think I might have actually gone blind
It is greenlit and is a series by Gooseworx!
Only Caine and Bubble, The Gloinks and Gloink Queen are Artificial Intelligence! That Black Chess Piece is confirmed to be Queenie! The censorship with the swearing is caused by Caine.
it's like modern jumanji where, players get stuck in a game (or in this instance a show) and they take the form of the readily available characters. Which should explain why Pomni has a room of her own already. If it just manifested in the day she appeared then there would be no need to cross out the other rooms that have been left out after the denizens of those rooms abtstracted and keep it there, it should've just dissapeared after they got put in the cellar.
About the "another chess piece looking person"
That's a character who has been recently revealed to be named Queenie
And since she's the queen chess piece, people are making the connections that her and Kinger may have been a couple and she sadly has been abstracted, it's obvious that she's been abstracted, but it's not implied nor said if she had a connection with kinger or if they just so happen to have been chess pieces just because the game they're trapped choose for it to be like that
The chess piece that was crossed off was a queen piece, so there used to be a queen chess character like Kinger
After doing some searching I found what kinger was referencing when asking zooble about the game show. It’s a reference to an old animation one of the animators did called little runmo
THANK you! I was SO confused about the reference.
The crossed off “Kinger” around 12:20 looks like a, “Queen” piece. Also looks darker so maybe black chess piece?
Wait a sec...
C and A...if there is a Cain...
Could there be an Abel?
Pomni’s been here less than a day and she’s already loosing it
Shit's about to be wild
And I don’t just mean for Pomni!
Poor Zamnber is now in on the ride now too!
I love this pilot! My favorite characters are jax and gangle and I am a big fan of Michael Kovach!
Not shure how intentional, but "Pomni" (Помни) means "remember" in russian.
Though, I'm pretty shure that it is intentional since there's official rus. dub of the episod
FYI it's not "obstructed."
It's "Abstracted" as in they've become utterly abstract to the world around them and given up on living.
Technically, the word "Drown" can also mean "To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid."
There was a female chess piece crossed off the darker colored one, King and Queen.
I wonder how long it will take until Matpat is picking up on this.
The crossed of chesspiece one seems to not be kinger but someone else, the piece looked to be a black queen chesspiece, where Kinger is a white king piece.
Whoever this was has likely been abstracted quite a while ago...
I think Kinger is avoiding abstruction by way of not having a self to loose anymore, the guy seems barely aware of whats going on and frequently just spaces out.
I think the coat on the one chess piece door was red. So either it was a different one before Kinger, or if was like maybe the Queen chess piece.?
I loved the jingle jangle/click clacking in the background cause it sounds like zoobles parts are clacking together as she tries to cross the table.😂
I dig how the artstyle resembles a bit of the stuff done from the amiga computers era, but in high definition and smoother framerate.
I'm pretty sure the "humans" physically get sucked into the game so their "bodies" would not die in the real world eventually while they're in the game as the computer the program is running on has that "weird headset" Pomni was talking about, but there's no body around for whoever was wearing it.
i love how zamber called the gloinks "zoobles" LOOOL
11:39 Kinger tweaking is so funny to me I don’t know why😭
i dont normally like the smug asshole characters but jax is pretty good. and i can see why someone in this situation would end up like that (if he wasnt always like that?) being stuck in this incomprehensible place for years it's probably easier to just stop caring
yeah, i really can't blame him. if i was well aware that the people around me could literally never die, only feel a hallucination of pain at the worst, i think i'd be a bit of a jerk, too.
also we have to consider that physical pain (or whatever echoes they have of it) is probably very mild in comparison to their mental pain...
I vaguely remember a tiktok behind the scenes and showing progress of this pilot, and all i remember is the comments telling them to make Pomni's puples bigger, and how to design the bubble assistant that gets popped offten
I have watched this a couple times and watched many people react to it at this point... surprised no one ever mentions the fact no one can swear but Zooble can say "Shut Up" and "Fuck Off"
though her middle finger to the others is censored. and not her mouth which is how I can tell as well the "game" didn't censor "fuck" though it had censored the finger.
just interesting
Hi from north Dakota and I'm native American and I say that your always looking beautiful ❤️😊and I just came back from this pow wow the other day I couldn't wait to come back home to watch your vids and I like the amazing digital circus 🎪 cause I love animation and I hopefully that the amazing digital circus episode 2 happens
It’s basically if Bill cypher was chiller and ran the first level in spy kids 3, I love this show