I think it was great in terms of characterization and exposition!! Now please, please let me rant for a while :3
Jax's character, as much as I hate him and want to hit him with a truck, was shown greatly here, I guess you can call it a theory, but... All that he does is a coping mechanism. You can deal with stress in two ways: deal with the situation or deal with your feelings about it. Since he's pretty much stuck in a digital place ruled by an unstable AI, he can't do much, so he can change his feelings.
Possibly, he was approachable at first. With Ragatha saying, "she'll fail Pomni just like she failed Jax," I think it's possible that he was friends with everyone, but something happened that had a great impact on him. That frog guy? I think he abstracted, and Jax was friends with him. To deal with it, he decided to distance himself emotionally. He tries to be as detached emotionally as possible, calling everyone cartoon characters and thinking they're just character archetypes. He made them up to not think of anyone as a person. He didn't go to the funeral because it felt too real-life-y and didn't fit his cartoon vision. He multiple times gets pissed when someone tries to be honest with him or tries to be friends with him. It's impossible, because if he became, for example, Pomni's friend, it would require a level of vulnerability from both sides, which would humanize his friend in his eyes, making him devastated again when they abstract.
Yeah, I think the character archetypes were perfect because Jax presented them, and later on, they were subverted.
"Ragatha's the cheerful one," we were later shown Ragatha being miserable in the Loser Corner while talking to Kinger about Pomni. "Gangle's the sad one," another time, Gangle was quite literally laughing while trying to shoot Jax and Pomni. "Kinger's the crazy one," going back to Kinger's conversation with Ragatha, he was very considerate, and even Ragatha pointed out how he was very different from his usual... way of being. "Zooble's the grumpy one," Zooble's conversation with Gangle was the opposite of that; again, Zooble was very considerate while comforting Gangle "And I'm the funny one!" his literal breakdown later uh yeah no
That's why he wanted Pomni to get a character archetype too, so he can dehumanize her and view her as a cartoon character that he will have no emotional connection with.
Doesn't change the fact that I want to throw him under a bus, but the point stands
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I think it was great in terms of characterization and exposition!! Now please, please let me rant for a while :3
Jax's character, as much as I hate him and want to hit him with a truck, was shown greatly here, I guess you can call it a theory, but... All that he does is a coping mechanism. You can deal with stress in two ways: deal with the situation or deal with your feelings about it. Since he's pretty much stuck in a digital place ruled by an unstable AI, he can't do much, so he can change his feelings.
Possibly, he was approachable at first. With Ragatha saying, "she'll fail Pomni just like she failed Jax," I think it's possible that he was friends with everyone, but something happened that had a great impact on him. That frog guy? I think he abstracted, and Jax was friends with him. To deal with it, he decided to distance himself emotionally. He tries to be as detached emotionally as possible, calling everyone cartoon characters and thinking they're just character archetypes. He made them up to not think of anyone as a person. He didn't go to the funeral because it felt too real-life-y and didn't fit his cartoon vision. He multiple times gets pissed when someone tries to be honest with him or tries to be friends with him. It's impossible, because if he became, for example, Pomni's friend, it would require a level of vulnerability from both sides, which would humanize his friend in his eyes, making him devastated again when they abstract.
Yeah, I think the character archetypes were perfect because Jax presented them, and later on, they were subverted.
"Ragatha's the cheerful one," we were later shown Ragatha being miserable in the Loser Corner while talking to Kinger about Pomni.
"Gangle's the sad one," another time, Gangle was quite literally laughing while trying to shoot Jax and Pomni.
"Kinger's the crazy one," going back to Kinger's conversation with Ragatha, he was very considerate, and even Ragatha pointed out how he was very different from his usual... way of being.
"Zooble's the grumpy one," Zooble's conversation with Gangle was the opposite of that; again, Zooble was very considerate while comforting Gangle
"And I'm the funny one!" his literal breakdown later uh yeah no
That's why he wanted Pomni to get a character archetype too, so he can dehumanize her and view her as a cartoon character that he will have no emotional connection with.
Doesn't change the fact that I want to throw him under a bus, but the point stands
I LOVE THIS YESSSS I agree w everything you said except I love Jax with my whole heart but that ok 👍 anyway thank you for your words of wisdom
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