Everyone's fighting about Jax, am I the only one who thought Caine's arc was badly truncated? His whole problem was that he loved the humans as an audience not as people. Having God like power over the circus, he had no need to ever listen to someone else or treat them as an equal. I thought it fell flat that he was able to resolve that just by talking it through to himself. They hinted at the blue AI throughout the show and I was hoping that it would force Caine to confront someone as an equal for the first time but instead it shows up after the character growth and literally just putters off into the sunset. It needed another 20 minutes.

I think I get it. They've watched the show for years and felt part of the fandom and then suddenly the only character they can personally relate to turns out to be something they can't relate to. Kinger isn't relateable to a 16 year old kid.

I understand feeling like that. It's just not a story written for a 16 year old straight cis boy, but with a time period of literal years for the product to be created and released you'd pick up a lot of those people until the reveal at the end and then they feel suddenly spurned.

This is different to if a show is released over a season of 8-12 weeks and then disappears forever. There's a different investment. These straight boys that became emotionally invested in Jax over the period of years that the animation was releasing for (along with fan art community etc) suddenly find themselves unable to relate at the very very end of it and feel a bit lost because of that. Not necessarily because they've got anything against trans people, but because something they invested themselves in for a long time suddenly becomes unrelateable at the end.

It's a problem not with the show or with the straight cis kid posting this imo. It's a problem with the very long development and release process that creates a fandom on social media like this where people are investing themselves in it for multiple years.

I think he uses some shitty wording in some of this but I'm not going to cyber bully a kid for not having great phrasing.

i am once again vindicated for my incredible ability to enjoy something without interacting with The Fandom™ in the slightest

Every trans coming out story is a cis erasure and that's just great.

EDIT: fwiw I hunted down this thread and it turns out that OP actually did some self-crit, which was more positive than I was expecting

Yay, friendship is magic!

Wow cant imagine how it feels to watch a work that doesnt include any ppl from ur demographic /s

I still need to finish the finale and I feel like I just got spoiled lol